10/03/2014 New journal article conditionally accepted! Our paper “Moral Politics: The Religious Factor in Referenda Voting” (together with Carolin Rapp, Markus Freitag & Adrian Vatter) has been conditionally accepted for publication in Politics and Religion. Here is the abstract: This article combines the research strands of moral politics and political behavior by focusing on the effect... View Article
27/01/2014 Job Offer Accepted: Assistant Professor in Empirical Democracy Research I have just formally accepted the job offer for an Assistant Professorship (W1-Juniorprofessor) in Empirical Democracy Research at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. I will take up this new position in October 2014.
15/12/2013 Talk at Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) This coming Wednesday, I am invited to the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) to give a talk on “Changing Religious Regulation in Europe, 1990-2011” for the Research Unit Migration, Integration, Transnationalization. Where? WZB, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin, room B002. When? December 18th, 11:00.
04/12/2013 Workshop on Hierarchical/Multilevel Models This Friday and Saturday I will give a two day introduction to hierarchical/multilevel models at the University of Duisburg/Essen.
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