08/01/2015 In the Media: Interview on Islamist Terror Germany´s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle asked me to comment on yesterday´s terrorist attack in Paris.
01/12/2014 New Article on “Modeling Latent Information” Out Now! My joint article with Andreas Murr and Jeff Gill “Modeling Latent Information in Voting Data with Dirichlet Process Priors” has been published online first with Political Analysis.
06/11/2014 New Study on “Religious Diversity, Social Capital and Social Cohesion” Out Now! My study “Religiöse Vielfalt, Sozialkapital und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt” which was commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation has been published. The study is the first to present empirical data on religious bridging in social networks in Germany and ten other democracies, including the US, Canada, five European countries as well as Israel,... View Article
25/10/2014 Talk on the “New Politics of Religion” Next week, I will give a talk on “A New Politics of Religion: How European Democracies React to Growing Religious Diversity” in the Empirical Research Colloquium at Goethe University Frankfurt. When? Tuesday 28.10.14, 16.00-18.00 h. Where? PEG Gebäude, 2.G121.
22/10/2014 In the Media: Interview on Religion and Politics The Open Religious Policy Forum (FOR) interviewed me on changes in religious policy in Europe, religious discrimination in Germany as well as on the social effects of state support of religion and growing religious diversity. Founded in 2011, the FOR is the only German institution advocating religious freedom for adherents... View Article
02/10/2014 Article on Bayesian Non-parametrics Accepted in PA! My paper with Jeff Gill and Andreas Murr on “Modeling Latent Information in Voting Data Using Dirichlet Process Priors” has just been accepted for publication in Political Analysis. Yeah, baby!
23/09/2014 Talk on “Concept Uncertainty and Robustness of Findings on Religious Regulation” This week, I will give a talk on “Concept Uncertainty and Robustness of Findings on Religious Regulation” at the workshop “Robustness Testing and the Empirical Analysis of Observational Data” organized by Thomas Plümper and Eric Neumeyer. When? 27.09.14 at 10.00h. Where? Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, Gottfried-Keller-Straße 6, 50931 Cologne.
12/09/2014 Short Course on “Religion and Democracy” Next week, I will give a short course on “Religion and Democracy” at the University of Berne. The course takes a strictly empirical-analytical perspective and covers a range of topics, including changes in religious demography, religion and social capital, Islamic culture and democracy, religion and voting behavior, de jure religious... View Article
16/07/2014 New Journal Article on Religious Policy Out Now! My article on the dynamics of religious policy in European democracies has just been published: Traunmüller, Richard (2014): Nationale Pfadabhängigkeit oder internationale Konvergenz? Eine quantitativ-vergleichende Analyse religionspolitischer Entwicklungen in 31 europäischen Demokratien, 1990-2011. Zeitschrift für Politik 62(2): 160-181.
07/07/2014 Talk at MPI Göttingen Next week I will give a talk on “A New Politics of Religion? Changing Religious Regulation in 30 European Democracies 1990-2011” at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. Where? MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, 37073 Göttingen. When? July... View Article