Alexander Schmotz
mail: schmotz [at] wzb [dot] eu
D-10785 Berlin
since January 2010
Research fellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges"
since 2008
Doctoral scholarship, Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS)
April 2008 to December 2008
Parliamentary assistant in the European Parliament in Brussels
2008
Diploma in social sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
2000-2008
Study of social science, political science, and sociology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain, and University of Potsdam
2011-2014
Critical Junctures and the Survival of Dictatorships. Explaining the Stability of Autocratic Regimes, funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG)
Participating scientists: Wolfgang Merkel, Christoph Stefes, Alexander Schmotz, Johannes Gerschewski, Dag Tanneberg