27/11/2013 New Journal Article on “Religious Diversity and Social Integration” out now! My article on religious diversity and social integration in a cross-cultural comparison has been published: R. Traunmüller (2013): Religiöse Diversität und Sozialintegration im internationalen Vergleich. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 65: 437-465. Abstract Following Robert D. Putnam’s (2007) thesis that ethnic diversity weakens social cohesion, this study addresses the social... View Article
05/11/2013 In the Media: Our Map of Social Trust in Germany Just recently the ZEIT Magazin featured a map of regional levels of social trust in Germany. This map is based on the results of our 2008 study “Sozialkapitalwelten in Deutschland” (together with Markus Freitag).
16/10/2013 Article on Catholics, Curves, and Contexts Accepted for Publication The first result of an ongoing research project lovingly and aptly called “Catholics, Curves, and Contexts” (together with Kathrin Ackermann) has been accepted for publication in the Politische Viertelsjahresschrift (PVS).
30/09/2013 New Position at the University of Essex I just started my new position as Postdoctoral Fellow/Senior Research Officer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. Yeah!
08/08/2013 New journal article in early view The article “Beyond Generalised Trust: Norms of Reciprocity as an Alternative Form of Social Capital in an Assimilationist Integration Regime” (with Birte Gundelach) has finally been published online first with Political Studies. See here.
19/06/2013 Two Talks at the Annual Conference of the EPSA in Barcelona This friday and saturday I will give two talks, one on “Modeling Latent Information in Voting Data using Dirichlet Process Priors” (joint paper with Jeff Gill and Andreas Murr) and one on “Changes in Religious Regulation in 31 European Democracies, 1990-2011”. Here are the abstracts: Modeling Latent Information in Voting... View Article
10/04/2013 Talk at the Annual Conference of the MPSA This friday I will give a talk on “The Dynamics of Social Context on Political Preferences in Germany” at the annual conference of the MPSA in Chicago. Here’s the abstract: The paper investigates how geographically defined social contexts impact on political preferences over time. Berelson et al. 1954 argue in their... View Article
18/02/2013 Article on “Religious Diversity and Religious Vitality” accepted for publication! The article “Religious Diversity and Religious Vitality: New Measuring Strategies and Empirical Evidence” (joint work with Volkhard Krech, Markus Hero, Stefan Huber, and Kimmo Ketola) has been accepted for publication in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. Here´s the abstract and some results: Quantitative studies of the conditions and... View Article
04/02/2013 Talk on “Religious Diversity and Social Integration in Cross-National Comparison” This week I will give a talk on “Religious Diversity and Social Integration in Cross-National Comparison.” This paper was invited for the special issue “Religion and Society” of the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie and the talk will be given as part of the authors´ workshop. When? February 8th,... View Article
11/01/2013 Talk on “Institutional Determinants of the Discrimination of Religious Minorities in the EU” Next week I will give a talk on the “Institutional Determinants of the Discrimination of Religious Minorities. A Bayesian Multilevel Analysis of 26 EU Member States” at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt/Main. When? January 14th, 14:00-15:15h Where? Institute of Political Science, Goethe-University of Frankfurt/M., AfE-Turm, Room 2302. Results from a (preliminary)... View Article