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PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels

Portrait PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels (Photo: David Ausserhofer)
Research Fields
  • Interest intermediation, and comparative studies on political representation
  • Research on elections and political attitudes
  • Comparative politics
  • Comparative political behavior
Contact
fon: +49 30 25491 315
fax: +49 30 25491 345
mail: wessels [at] wzb [dot] eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
Research Fellow of the Research Unit
Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges
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since 2003
Senior research rellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges"

since 2008
Faculty member, Berlin Graduate School of the Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Privatdozent at the Institute for Social Sciences

2000-2008
Privatdozent at Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences

1989- 2003
Senior research fellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Institutions and Social Change"

1983-1989
Research fellow, Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Freie Universität Berlin


Selected Publications
  • Weßels, Bernhard (2010): "An Electorate on the Move. Explaining Vote Choice in the 2009 Federal Election". In: Silvia Bolgherini/Florian Grotz (Eds.): Germany after the Grand Coalition. Governance and Politics in a Turbulent Environment. Europe in Transition : the NYU European Studies Series. Basingstoke/New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, S. 125-143
  • Schroeder, Wolfgang/Weßels, Bernhard (Hg.) (2010): Handbuch Arbeitgeber- und Wirtschaftsverbände in Deutschland. Ein Handbuch. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 552 S.
  • Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Weßels, Bernhard (2009): "How Voters Cope with the Complexity of Their Political Environment. Differentiation of Political Supply, Effectiveness of Electoral Institutions and the Calculus of Voting". In: Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Ed.): The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Oxford/New York, NY: Oxford University Press, S. 237-265
  • Weßels, Bernhard/Franklin, Mark N. (2009): "Turning Out or Turning Off. Do Mobilization and Attitudes Account for Turnout Differences Between New and Established Member Sates at the 2004 EP Elections?". In: Journal of European Integration, Vol. 31, No. 5, S. 609-626.
  • Gabriel, Oscar W./Weßels, Bernhard/Falter, Jürgen W. (Hg.) (2009): Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2005. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 627 S.
  • Weßels, Bernhard/Schmitt, Hermann (2008): "Meaningful Choices, Political Supply, and Institutional Effectiveness". In: Electoral Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1, S. 19-30.
Projects

2009-2017
German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Participating scientists: Bernhard Weßels, Aiko Wagner, Heiko Giebler
In cooperation with: Hans Rattinger (University of Mannheim), Sigrid Roßteutscher (University Frankfurt am Main), Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (University of Mannheim)

2008-2011
PIREDEU - Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union, FP7 Project, funded by the European Commission; study component "European Candidate Study"
Participating Scientists: Bernhard Weßels, Heiko Giebler
In cooperation with: European University Institute, Florenz; Mannheimer Zentrum für europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), University of  Mannheim

since 2005
Democracy Barometer, NCCR Democracy, University of Zurich, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Project leaders:  Wolfgang Merkel, Daniel Bochsler (Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau)
Participating scientists: Marc Bühlmann (University of Berne), Heiko Giebler, Bernhard Weßels
Doctoral student: Lisa Müller (Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau)

since 1998
Post-electoral studies to the German federal elections in 1998, 2002, 2005, and 2009,
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems - German part,
in cooperation with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
cooperative project with electoral study teams in 36 countries.
Funding: WZB and German Research Foundation (DFG)
Participating scientists: Bernhard Weßels, Herrmann Schmitt (University of Mannheim, 1998-2005); since 2009 the project ist pursued in the framework of GLES.
Downloads from the project