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Current Research Projects

Critical Junctures and the Survival of Dictatorships. Explaining the Stability of Autocratic Regimes
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
Alexander Schmotz, Prof. Christoph Stefes , PhD, Johannes Gerschewski, Dag Tanneberg
2011-2014
German Research Foundation (DGF)
Democracy Barometer
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Prof. Dr. Daniel Bochsler (Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau)
PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Heiko Giebler, Marc Bühlmann (Universität Bern)
2005-
NCCR Demokratie, University of Zurich, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
The Political Sociology of Cosmopolitanism and Communitarianism
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Prof. Dr. Ruud Koopmans, Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Dr. Onawa Promise Lacewell, Dr. Céline Teney, Dr. Pieter de Wilde
2010-2014
WZB
Varieties of Democracy/Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
November 2007 - November 2012
Federal/Initiative for excellence
European Social Survey Round 6
Dr. Sonia Alonso, PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Hanspeter Kriesi (University of Zurich), Leonardo Morlino (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane), Pedro Maglhaes (Universidade de Lisboa), Mónica Ferrín (European University Institute), Mark Franklin (European University Institute), Mariano Torcal (Pompeu Fabra University), Braulio Gómez (Institute for Advanced Social Sciences), Alexander Trechsel (European University Institute), Radek Markowski (Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities), Todd Landmann (University of Essex)
July 2010 - September 2013
ESS
GLES German Longitudinal Election Study, 2009-2017
PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Aiko Wagner, Heiko Giebler
January 2009 - December 2017
German Research Foundation (DFG)
PIREDEU Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union
PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Heiko Giebler
Januar 2008 - Dezember 2011
FP7 European Union
The Manifesto Project
Dr. Andrea Volkens
Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Dr. Onawa Promise Lacewell, Pola Lehmann, Sven Regel, Henrike Schultze, Annika Werner, Student assistants: Verena Kröss, Nicolas Merz, Benjamin Restle
October 1979 - unlimited
WZB since October 1989 and DFG since October 2009
Post-electoral Study of the Bundestag Elections 1998, 2002, 2005, and 2009
PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Herrmann Schmitt (Universität Mannheim, 1998-2005); seit 2009 im Rahmen von GLES
1998 - unlimited
WZB and German Research Foundation (DFG)
Regional Manifestos Project. Extending the Manifesto Dataset to Sub-national Elections (the Case of Spain)
Dr. Sonia Alonso, Braulio Gómez (IESA-CSIC)
2008-2012
Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados de Andalucía (IESA-CSIC) and Ministry of Science and Innovation of Spain
Bringing the Right back in. The Right and Democracy in Contemporary Latin America
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Juan Pablo Luna
2011
Fritz Thyssen Foundation

Completed Research Projects

The Ambivalence of Populism: Threat or Corrective for Democracy?
Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Cas Mudde
2010
VolkswagenStiftung
Crafting Ethnicity: Ethnic Political Mobilisation in Western Parliamentary Democracies and its Consequences for Democratic Accountability
Dr. Sonia Alonso
September 2005 - Summer 2008
WZB
The Denationalization of Problem Perceptions and the Assignment of Responsibility to Political Institutions
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels
September 2007 - December 2008
WZB
The Challenge of Integration. Cultural Heterogeneity and Democracy in European Metropolises
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
Christian Henkes, Álvaro Morcillo-Laiz, Anne Stuhler
January 2005 - March 2008
German Research Foundation (DFG)
A European Economic and Social Model?
Dr. Alexander Petring
July 2005 - May 2006
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
Dritte Wege: Europa als Handlungsraum für sozialdemokratische Parteien und Regierungen
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Dr. Alexander Petring, Christian Henkes
July 2005 - May 2006
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Members of Parliament Study 2003
PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels
April 2003 - March 2004
WZB
Berlin Lectures on Democracy
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
2008-2009
A German and a British publishing house
Democratic Innovation: Theoretical and Practical Challenges of Evaluation
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
2008
Fritz Thyssen Stiftung/WZB
English version and Chinese translation of "Die Reformfähigkeit der Sozialdemokratie"
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Dr. Alexander Petring, Christian Henkes
2007 - September 2008
Routledge/Institute of World Socialism, Bejing, China
War and Democratization: Legality, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Sonja Grimm
2007-2008
Taylor & Francis Group
Constitution Change in the Multi-level System
Dr. Sascha Kneip
June 2007 - April 2008
WZB
The Future of Representative Democracies
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Dr. Sonia Alonso
December 2007
European Science Foundation (ESF)
Systemtransformation (Croatian edition)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
June 2005 - December 2007
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Defekte Demokratien (Deficient democracies)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel
April 2004 - March 2006
The Consolidation of Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
PD Dr. Bernhard Weßels, Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Edeltraud Roller
January 1998 - July 2003
German Research Foundation (DFG)

Doctoral Theses

Immigrant Mobilisation in German Elections
March 2005 - December 2009
Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal
Externe Demokratisierung nach militärischer Intervention
Sonja Grimm
March 2004 - December 2008
WZB
Die Reformfähigkeit von Mehrheits- und Konsensdemokratien
Dr. Alexander Petring
September 2005 - September 2008
WZB
Verfassungsgerichte als demokratische Akteure
Dr. Sascha Kneip
April 2004 - February 2008
WZB
Rechtspopulismus - Gefahr oder Erneuerungsanlass für die Demokratie? Auswirkungen auf Regierungssystem und Migrationspolitik in Frankreich und Österreich
Tanja Binder
April 2004 - December 2007
WZB