03/12/2015 Two Blog Posts on CPS Paper Two political science blogs have featured our recent CPS piece: “Religious Threat and the Re-re-thinking of Secularism: Why Citizens Fear Muslim Immigration” at the EPSA blog The Plot. (Thanks, Andi!) “Führen Kruzifixe im Schulzimmer zu einer ablehnenden Einstellung gegenüber Muslimen?” at the Swiss political science blog DeFacto. (Thanks, Sarah!) ... View Article
23/11/2015 New Article on Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants Out Now! My article “How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Sub-national Comparison” (together with Marc Helbling) has just been published online first with Comparative Political Studies.
14/09/2015 Talk on “Innovative Data Visualization” at GIGA This coming wednesday, I will give a talk on “Innovative Data Visualization” at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg. When? Wednesday 16.09.15, 2.00 pm Where? GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 20354 Hamburg
03/09/2015 Talk at the 2015 APSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco Today, I will give a talk on “I Just Plotted Two Million Regressions. Data Visualization for Sensitivity Analysis in the Social Sciences” at the APSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. When? 2.00-3.45pm Where? Hilton, Union Square 5-6, San Francisco.
27/08/2015 Article Accepted for Publication in CPS! My article “How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Sub-national Comparison” (together with Marc Helbling, Bamberg/WZB) has just been accepted for publication in Comparative Political Studies. Sweet.
24/08/2015 Two Talks at 2015 ECPR General Conference in Montreal This week, I will give two talks at the 2015 ECPR General Conference in Montreal: “Zero the Hero: Upgrading Targeted Surveys to Case-Control Designs” (together with Katka Vrablikova, Mannheim) “Aunt Sue and Pal Al Travel Around the World: Attitudinal Correlates of Religious Bridging and Bonding Social Networks in Eleven Democracies”... View Article
27/07/2015 Essex Summer School I am currently in lovely Essex and teaching a two weeks course on “Model Specification, Estimation and Visualization” for this year’s Essex Summer School in Socal Science Data Analysis.
09/07/2015 New Article on Social Context and Voting Behavior Out Now! Part of my ongoing work on religious cleavage voting (together with Kathrin Ackermann) has just been published in the Politische Vierteljahresschrift: The New Relevance of Social Context for Voting Behavior. Response to Franz Urban Pappi Abstract: We respond to the critique of our article (Ackermann and Traunmüller 2014) and argue that... View Article
18/06/2015 Talk at the 5th Annual Conference of the EPSA Next week I will present my joint paper with Thomas Plümper “We Could Have Estimated 5 Billion Regressions (But We Didn´t). The Logic of Meta-analytical Sensitivity Tests” at the 5th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA) in Vienna. When? Friday June 26th, 10.30h. Where? Schloss Schönbrunn Apothekerstrakt,... View Article
14/03/2015 Religious Regulation and Muslim Immigrants My working paper with Marc Helbling on the connection of religious regulation and attitudes toward Muslim immigrants got some attention. The Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) had a press release and a German synopsis of our study in the March issue of the WZB-Mitteilungen.