23/01/2020 New Working Paper: The Political Consequences of Wartime Sexual Violence Belen Gonzalez and I just finished our working paper which presents the first systematic study into the political effects of wartime sexual violence, connecting unobtrusive measures from a list experiment to individual survivors’ political action.
02/01/2020 Featuring Our Study on Wartime Sexual Violence Our study on wartime sexual violence using a list experiment is featured in the latest Peace Science Digest: Uncovering the Extent and Nature of Sexual Violence in Wartime Sri Lanka
16/11/2019 New Working Paper: Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Matthias Revers and I finished our working paper on the state of free speech and political viewpoint diversity on university campus. It presents some of the results that have already been picked up by the media (FAZ).
15/10/2019 Lecture on Bayesian Statistics at GESS Summer School This Friday, I will give a short lecture on “Bayesian Statistics for Social Scientists” at the GESS Summer School on Empirical & Quantitative Methods.
29/07/2019 Two Blog Posts on Data Vis! The new blog of the MZES Social Science Data Lab features two posts on my course in data visualization and visual inference: https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialsciencedatalab/article/datavis/ https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialsciencedatalab/article/visinference/ Thanks Cosima!
02/07/2019 Teaching at EITM 2019 Starting tomorrow, I will be teaching a course on “Survey Experiments: Design, Analysis and Applications” at the EITM Summer Institute in Torino!
02/07/2019 Elected Spokesperson of the DVPW Methods Section I have been elected as spokesperson of the Methods Section of the German Association for Political Science and look forward to this challenge. Thank you everybody!
13/06/2019 Papers at EPSA 2019 I will present the following two papers at the annual EPSA meeting in Belfast next week: The Political Consequences of Wartime Sexual Violence: Evidence from a List Experiment (with B. Gonzalez)CF6, Jun 21st 19, 9:30 – 11:10, Location: PFC/03/011 The Effect of Hate Speech Regulation on Preference Falsification (with S.... View Article
06/05/2019 In the Media: Our Free Speech Survey! Some key results of our free speech survey among social science students in Frankfurt got picked up by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. […] “Wer die Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Umfrage unter Politologie- und Soziologie-Studenten des vergangenen Sommers an der Goethe-Universität zur Kenntnis nimmt, wird darüber nicht überrascht sein. Der Soziologe und... View Article
30/04/2019 Research Project Funded by DFG! My research project with Marc Helbling “Immigration, Integration and Naturalization: Policy Decisions and Citizens’ Response” has been accepted for funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG).