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New PhD student as research associate recruited to start in April 2012: Florian Rabuza (February 2012)
The “Cicero” article about our results on Benford’s law and German electoral results that had been written in May 2011 by Christoph Seils was the most viewed article in the online version of the magazine for all of 2011 (January 2012).
Overview article on non-institutionalised political participation of older people published in a new French volume “La politique au fil de l’âge” edited by Anne Muxel (December 2011).
Edited volume with Pieter Vanhuysse “Aging Populations in Post-industrial Democracies: Comparative Studies of Politics and Policies” out. See here (October 2011).
New job started (October 2011): Two German civil servants (Beamte) are meeting in the hallway between their offices in the middle of the day. One says to the other: you can’t sleep, either?
New working paper on corporate donations to German political parties between 1984 and 2005 with Martin Höpner (September 2011) presented at APSA in Seattle. See work in progress.
Article with Katrin Prinzen on measurement of welfare attitudes accepted for Social Indicators Research (August 2011). See publications. This is the second published paper from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation grant on the demand for social Policy in ageing democracies.
Work with Guido Tiemann on the parental right to vote for Children quoted from extensively in a large study “Welt im Wandel. Gesellschaftsvertrag für eine große Transformation” by the German government’s scientific advisory council on glocal environmental change (pp. 228-9) (July 2011).
Video presentation for the conference “Social Status Changes of the Aged People and Ageism Reconsidered” in Seoul, Korea, 24-25 June available as a livestream (July 2011).
Article with Miriam Allam on public support for the Euro in Eastern and Central Europe forthcoming with Europe-Asia Studies.
Article with Markus Tepe on public childcare preferences accepted by Journal of Social Policy (June 2011).
Article with Christian Breunig on electoral irregularities in the counting process of post-unification Germany accepted for Electoral Studies (March 2011). See final text version here.

Article discussed in the May edition of Cicero, the German monthly political magazine. Online here.
Article discussed in the Bundestag during Government Question Time on 11 May 2011. See minutes here, on page 12280.
Feature on MDR radio (4:53 min). See here.

Final manuscript of edited volume with Pieter Vanhuysse submitted. Publication date with Routledge: September 2011. (March 2011).
Paper with Katrin Prinzen on the fruitful combination of qualitative and quantitative methods in individual-level social science analysis accepted by Quality & Quantity. See publications for the article (Nov 2010). This is the first published paper from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation grant on the demand for social Policy in ageing democracies.
My work is quoted from in Dagens Nyheter, the most popular Swedish morning paper, because of the kind references made by Peter Esaiasson from Gothenburg University. Please check here and here (August 2010).
Interview bits quoted from in Tagesspiegel. Please check here (July 2010).
Full-time parental leave for half a year, summer semester 2010 (April 2010)
Successfully obtained Habilitation for political science. you do not know what a Habilitation is? Please check here. (Jan 2010)
Paper on the social norm of voting participation in Europe accepted for publication for Politische Vierteljahresschrift (Jan 2010).
First book review out in Czech Sociological Review. Please check here (Jan 2010).
Paper on intergenerational solidarity and the welfare state (with Markus Tepe) accepted for publication for European Journal of Political Research (Dec 2009).
Work on children’s right to vote “stellvertretendes Elternwahlrecht” with Guido Tiemann, Vienna, quoted in Handelsblatt (May 2009).
Successful teaching event with 10-12 year olds at the University of Cologne (April 2009): ought children be allowed to vote?. See handout here. My favourite quote (paraphrased):

A: “If children had the right to vote, politicians would explain things in a more simple manner.”

B: “But in that case, they would talk even longer than they do already.”

See also the website of the Kölner KinderUni

For older news see my CV