Political Parties
Dr. Endre Borbáth
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Research Unit Political Sociology
Garystr. 55, 14195 Berlin
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Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian
Areas of Expertise
- Political parties and protest (comparative perspective)
- Programmatic structure
- Economic crises
- East/West differences
- Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Poland)
- Elections
- Democracy
- Conflict structures
Dr. Nils Diederich
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Empirical Political Sociology / Otto Stammer Center
Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Home)
Areas of Expertise
- Domestic policy
- Electoral studies
- Political parties
- Interest groups
- Motivation of first-time voters and non-voters
- Political system
- Social inequality
Dr. Thorsten Faas
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Political Sociology of the Federal Republic of Germany
Ihnestr.21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Areas of Expertise
- Election research
- Election campaigns
- Political communication
- Political parties
- Elections
Dr. Swen Hutter
Professor of Political Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Sociology
Political Sociology
Garystrasse 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social movements
- Protest
- Political parties
- Right-wing populism
- Civil society
- Europe
Dr. Sabine Kropp
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Insitute of Political Science
Ihnestraße 22, 14195 Berlin
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Areas of Expertise
- Federalism
- Coalitions
- Parliamentarism
- Europeanization
- German policy toward eastern Europe
Dr. Mirco Liefke
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Department of Communication Policy and Media Economics
Garystraße 55, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Public service broadcasting
- Transformation processes of digitalization
- Structural change of the public sphere
- New forms of the public sphere
- Journalism
- News journalism
- Television news
- crisis and conflict reporting
- cultural transformation
- Media change
- Innovative forms of journalism
- Interpretative methods of social research
- Ethnography
Dr. Gero Neugebauer
Professor of Political Sociology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Center for Empirical Political Sociology
Ihnestraße 21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Home)
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Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- German political parties and party systems before and after 1990, especially the SPD and the Left
- Elections
- Voting behavior
- Political system of Germany, including GDR
Ph.D. Christoph Nguyen
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Chair of German Politics
Ihnestr. 22, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- social inequality
- voting behavior
- social policy
Dr. Paul Nolte
Professor of Modern History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Friedrich Meinecke Institute
Modern History
Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Contemporary German history
- German society and politics in historical and contemporary dimensions
- Democracy, past and present
- Transformation of the political party system, elections, and social milieus
Dr. Julia Reuschenbach
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Center for Political Sociology of Germany
Ihnestraße 21, Berlin 14195
Areas of Expertise
- Election and party research
- Political communication and political culture
- German contemporary history after 1945
- politics of history and culture of memory
- political science teaching at universities
Dr. Klaus Schroeder
Professor of Political Science
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
Forschungsverbund SED-Staat (Research Association on the SED State)
Koserstr. 21, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- History of divided Germany, 1945-1990
- Germany after reunification
- Development of extremism in divided Germany and reunited Germany
- Unification process
- Transformation processes in East German companies
- Germany after reunification
- Similarities and differences between the Germans in East and West
- Failure of reunification policy and future prospects of Germany after the election
- Changes in the political landscape after reunification
- NPD and PDS / Die Linke (political parties)
- Right and left wings in the SPD
Dr. Joachim Trebbe
Professor of Media Analysis
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
Division of Media Analysis / Research Methods
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- The use of media and its effects (campaigns, advertising, change of attitude)
- Media content (television, Internet, press): program structures, media mechanisms, news selection, celebrity reporting
- Media, political communication, election campaigns, scandals
- The media and migration (the use of media by immigrants; representation of immigrants in the media)
- Religion in the media
Dr. Jochen Töpfer
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Division of Sociology
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Social, political, and economic aspects of the transformation processes in Eastern Europe
- Emphasis on southeastern Europe / former Yugoslavia / Albania
- Privatization
- Informality and neo-feudalism
- Parties and political elites
- Sociology of religion: structures, actors, processes
- Religion and society
- Religion and politics
- Religion and conflict