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Dr. Andrea Volkens

Portrait Dr. Andrea Volkens (Foto: David Ausserhofer)
Research Fields
  • Comparative studies of parties, elections, and governments
Contact
fon: +49 30 25491 314
fax: +49 30 25491 345
mail: volkens [at] wzb [dot] eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Research Fellow of the Research Unit
Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges
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since 10 2009
Project director, research project "MARPOR Manifesto Research on Political Representation"

1996
Dr. phil. in political science, Freien Universität Berlin (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans-Dieter Klingemann)

since 10 1989
Research fellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB); 1989-2003 in the research unit "Institutiones and Social Change"; since 2003 in the research unit "Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges"

1988-1989
Teaching und research assistant, Virginia Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg

1982-1989
Research fellow resp. visiting scholar, Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung (ZI 6), Freie Universität Berlin

1982  
M.A. in sociology, psychology, and European ethnology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Franz Urban Pappi)

1978-1982 
Student teaching and research assistant, Institut für Soziologie, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel


Selected Publications
  • Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Budge, Ian (2009): "Data Quality in Content Analysis. The Case of the Comparative Manifestos Project". In: Historical Social Research - Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 34, No. 1, S. 234-251.
  • Volkens, Andrea (2007): "Strengths and Weakness of Approaches to Measuring Policy Positions of Parties". In: Electoral Studies, Vol. 26, No. 1, S. 108-120.

Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Andrea Volkens/Judith Bara/Ian Budge/Michael Macdonald (Eds.) (2006): Mapping Policy Preferences II: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments in Central and Eastern Europe, European Union and OECD 1990-2003, incl. CD-ROM with MRG/CMP data for 51 countries 1990-2003, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Volkens, Andrea (2004): Policy Changes of European Social Democrats, 1945-1998, in: Guiliano Bonoli/Martin Powell (Eds.): Social Democratic Party Policies in Contemporary Europe, London: Routledge, pp. 21-42.

Budge, Ian/Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Tanenbaum, Eric sowie Fording, Richard C./Hearl, Derek J./Kim, Hee Min/McDonald, Michael/Mendez, Silvia (Eds.) (2001): Mapping Policy Preferences: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments 1945-1998, Oxford: Oxford University Press, incl. CD-ROM with data collection.

Projects

2009-2021
Project director
MARPOR – Manifesto Research Projekt on Political Representation
Funding: German Research Foundation (DFG)
Participating scientists: Andrea Volkens, Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Wolfgang Merkel, Onawa Promise Lacewell, Pola Lehmann, Sven Regel, Henrike Schultze, Annika Werner
In cooperation with: Judith Bara (Queen Mary University of London), Ian Budge (University of Essex), Vera Tröger (University of Essex)

1989-2009
Organisor of the Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP)

1984-1989
Member of the Manifesto Research Group (MRG)