Further languages: Hungarian, Romanian

• Political parties and protest (comparative perspective)
• Programmatic structure
• Economic crises
• East/West differences
• Eastern Europe (Hungary, Romania, Poland)
• Elections
• Democracy
• Conflict structures

• Domestic policy
• Electoral studies
• Political parties
• Interest groups
• Motivation of first-time voters and non-voters
• Political system
• Social inequality

• Election research
• Election campaigns
• Political communication
• Political parties
• Elections

• Social movements
• Protest
• Political parties
• Right-wing populism
• Civil society
• Europe

• Federalism
• Coalitions
• Parliamentarism
• Europeanization
• German policy toward eastern Europe

• 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

• 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

• social inequality
• voting behavior
• social policy

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Election campaigns (USA, Germany, EU)
• Political campaigns and election campaign strategies
• Politicians and parties on social media
• (Self-)portrayal and evaluation of politicians
• Images in politics
• Gender and politics

• 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

• 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