Curriculum Vitae

Feb.-April 2017

Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra

Chair of Comparative Politics

Director/Vice-Director (alternating with Co-Director) of the Düsseldorf Party Research Institute (PRuF)

Research Associate (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at the Research Unit for Societal Developments, University of Mannheim, directed by Prof. Dr. Rudolf Wildenmann
Winter term 1989/90 part-time lecturer, University of Stuttgart

2008 - 2014

Europarteien auf Ostkurs. Der Einfluss der Europarteien auf osteuropäische Parteien und Parteiensysteme (Europarties going East. The Influence of Europarties on Parties and Party Systems in Eastern Europe)

Project at The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
(DFG Grant No. DE 630/10-1)
Project Co-Director and Co-Applicant

2008 - 2010

Party Patronage
German country study of a 17-nation study coordinated by Dr. Petr Kopecký, Leiden University and Prof. Peter Mair, EUI
(grant by the German Research Foundation DFG)
Principal Applicant

2003 - 2006

The Europeanisation of National Political Parties
15-Nation-Study (ESRC Grant No. R000 23 9793)
Principal Applicant

2001 - 2006

Parteien und Demokratie in der Europäischen Union. Euro-Parteien als neue demokratische Vermittlerinstanzen in der EU? (Parties and Democracy in the European Union: Euro-Parties as New Democratic Intermediaries?)

Project at The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
(DFG Grant No. DE 630/10-1)
Project Co-Director and Co-Applicant (with Jan van Deth)

2001 - 2002

The Presidentialization of German Politics
(Research Grant by The British Academy, grant no. SG-32843)
Applicant/Sole Investigator

1997 - 1999

The Development of Organizational Linkages between Parties and Society in Western Europe (1960-1989)(Grants PO 370/6-1 and PO 370/6-2 by the German Research Foundation)
Applicant/Sole Investigator

1993 - 1996

Environment, Performance, and Leadership as Factors in Party Change, 1950 - 1990
4-nation-study directed by Prof. Kenneth Janda, Northwestern University and Prof. Robert Harmel, Texas A&M University
(Grant SES-9112357 by the National Science Foundation, USA)
Project Consultant for Germany

1987 - 1994

Party Organization and Organizational Adapation, 1960 - 1990
12 nation study directed by Prof. Richard S. Katz, Johns-Hopkins University and Prof. Peter Mair, University of Leiden, NL
(Grants SES-8818439 by the National Science Foundation, USA and 4859/90 by the German Research Foundation)
Applicant/Project Director for German sub-project

1989 - 1991

1988 - 1989

The Future of the German Catch-All Parties
Research Unit for Societal Developments, University of Mannheim
Project Coordinator

1987 - 1988

Acceptance of New Technology in Western Democracies
Research Unit for Societal Developments, University of Mannheim
Project Researcher

2015 -

2009 -

2009

2008

2006 -

2005 -

2003 - 2010

2003

Co-Convenor of Section on 'Challenger Parties in Government' at ECPR General Conference, Marburg (with Jan Sundberg)

2001 -

Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim

2001 -

Member of the Editorial Board of Party Politics

2000 - 2003

Member of ,Executive Council' of the organized section on ,Political Organizations and Parties' (POP) American Political Science Association (APSA)

2000

Co-Director of the workshop' From Aggregation to Diffusion? Parties in Individualistic Society' (with Kay Lawson, San Francisco State University), joint meeting of the Standing Group on Political Parties Section of the ECPR and the Workgroup for Parties and Elections of the CPS (IPSA and ISA), Copenhagen 14 April

2000

Co-Director of the workshop on 'The Presidentialization of Parliamentary Democracies?' (with Paul Webb, Brunel University), 28th Joint Sessions of Workshop, Copenhagen, 14 - 19 April 2000)

1999 - 2003

Convenor of the Standing Group on Political Parties of the ECPR

1994

Co-Director of the workshop on 'Anti-Party Sentiment' (with Susan Scarrow, University of Houston, Texas), 22nd Joint Sessions of Workshops, Madrid, 17 - 22 April 1994

1992 - 2000

Member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Politics

1999

Habilitation at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mann­heim

Title of the Habilitation Thesis: Stabilität und Wandel. Die Entwick­lung der organisatorischen Verbindungen von Parteien und Bürgern in Westeuropa (1960 - 89)

(Stability and Change. The Development of Organizational Linkages between Parties and Citizens in Western Europe (1960 - 89)

1989

Ph.D. awarded by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence
Title of Dissertation: An Alternative Politics? The German Green Party in a Comparative Context

1985

Participation at the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection

1983 - 1987

1983 - 1987 Ph.D. student at the European University Institute, Florence (Scholarship by the DAAD and the European University Institute)

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ian Budge, European University Institute and University of Essex

1983

1982 - 1983

London School of Economics and Political Science

(Course: The Politics and Government of Western Europe; Scholar­ship by King Edward VII British-German Foundation)

1979 - 1982

Universität Stuttgart

Courses: History/Political Science

1979

Abitur Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium Esslingen

2005 - 2006

Director of the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham

2000 - 2005

Research Director, SPIRE, Keele University