Teaching

Advanced Methods for The Rest of Us

Causal inference and 'advanced' quantitative methods made replicable for ordinary students: DAGs, experiments, RDD, IV, panel and multilevel models.

Quantitative Methoden der Politikwissenschaft in R

Anwendungsorientierte Einführung in die quantitative Politikwissenschaft mit R, ohne statistische Vorkenntnisse.

Politische Psychologie: Theorien und Anwendungen

Persönlichkeit, Emotionen und Gruppenidentitäten als grundlegende Mechanismen politischer Meinungsbildung, nicht als Fehler rationalen Denkens.

Wer wählt wen? Wahlverhalten in Deutschland und im Vergleich

Einführung in die politikwissenschaftliche Forschung am Beispiel der Unterstützung (rechts-)populistischer Parteien.

Quantitative Parlamentsforschung mit R

Quantitative Analyse mit R am Beispiel der Parlamentsforschung, explizit auch für Studierende ohne quantitative Vorkenntnisse.

Sozialpolitik in Deutschland im internationalen Vergleich

Geschichte und Entwicklung der deutschen Sozialpolitik im internationalen Vergleich: Grundbegriffe, historische Wurzeln, aktuelle Entwicklungen, Wirkungen.

Theory and Applications of Political Psychology

What links personality, values, and ideology to political attitudes and behavior, and how can these connections be analyzed empirically? Theory seminar with hands-on statistical analysis.

Techniques of Empirical Parliamentary Analysis in R

Quantitative analysis in R taught through parliamentary data, aimed explicitly at students without prior access to quantitative political science.

The Politics of Social Inequalities

Political Perceptions in Times of Crisis: Theories and Applications in Survey Research

Survey research from theory to practice: how socio-demographics, perceptions, and political behavior connect, and how to analyze demoscopic data.

Who Votes for Whom? Populist Party Affinity in Germany and Beyond

Two-semester project course in which students develop and run their own quantitative studies of populist party support.

Data Literacy: Acquisition and Instruction

Lies, damned lies, and statistics: building political data competency for reading, judging, and producing quantitative claims.

Introduction to the German Political System

Comparative Institutional Analysis: The Case of Germany

Theories of institutions and institutional change, from the three New Institutionalisms to critical junctures and gradual change, applied to the German case.

The German Political System in Comparative Perspective

German political institutions (parliament, electoral and party system) in international comparison, combined with foundational research skills.

Mixed Methods

The logics of quantitative and qualitative methods, with emphasis on designs that combine both.

Quantitative Methods

Introduction to quantitative methods up to logistic regression, applied in Stata.