Dr. Andrea Volkens

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

• Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith (2013): "Presidential versus Parliamentary Representation. Extending the Manifesto Estimates to Latin America". In: Andrea Volkens/Judith Bara/Ian Budge/Michael D. McDonald/Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Eds.): Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts III. Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, S. 277-298.
• 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/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Budge, Ian/Macdonald, Michael (2006): Mapping Policy Preferences II: Estimates for Parties, Electors and Governments in Central and Eastern Europe, European Union and OECD 1990-2003. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Volkens, Andrea (2004): "Policy Changes of European Social Democrats". In: Guiliano Bonoli/Martin Powell (Eds.): Social Democratic Party PoliciesRoutledge, S. 21-42.
• Budge, Ian/Klingemann, Hans-Dieter/Volkens, Andrea/Bara, Judith/Tanenbaum, Eric (2001): Mapping Policy Preferences. Estimates for Parties, Electors, and Governments 1945-1998. Oxford: Oxford University Press.