Institute of Political Sciences
Organisational unit: Institute
- Junior Professorship of Security Policy and Peace
- Professorship for Comparative Politics
- Professorship for Political Didactics
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Political Economy
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Political Theory
- Professorship for Political Science, in particular Public Policy and Law
- Professorship for Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU
- Professorship for Research of Political Culture
- Professorship of International Relations
Organisation profile
The Institute of Political Science (IPW) is responsible for all matters related to research, teaching and the study of political science. As part of the School of Public Affairs, the IPW's main objective is to consistently offer high-quality teaching course for various degree programs. Moreover, the Department promotes research as well as internationally visible publications across a broad range of topics. The research activities of the Institute’s members are documented on the webpage of the Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD). For updates on public lectures and conferences, please consult the CSD`s website ZDEMO.
Main research areas
Die Forschungsaktivitäten der IPW Mitarbeiter*innen sind dabei am Zentrum für Demokratieforschung (ZDEMO) konzentriert. Aktuelle Hinweise auf Vorträge und Konferenzen in den Teilbereichen der Politikwissenschaft finden sich daher auf den Seiten des ZDEMO.
Im "Tuesday Seminar" stellen Mitglieder des Instituts und von auswärts geladene Gäste ihre aktuellen Forschungs- oder Buchprojekte vor und stellen sie zur kritischen, aber fairen Diskussion unter Kolleginnen und Kollegen. Studierende sind herzlich dazu eingeladen!
Teaching
- PHD-Summerschool
- Politikberatung
- External workshops, courses, seminars
Verbraucherpolitik jenseits des Otto Normalverbrauchers
Leipold, A. (Speaker)
10.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Working in the French Colonial Archives
Hakelberg, L. (Organiser) & Woker, M. (Speaker)
21.05.2025Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop ‚Berufspolitik und Demokratie: Analysen zur politischen Professionalisierung‘ der Nachwuchsgruppe ‚Politik als Beruf - 2004
Reiser, M. (Speaker)
19.03.2004 → 21.03.2004Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop "Demokratie und Wissen, Zwischen Expertokratie und Populismus" 2020
Séville, A. (Organiser) & Münkler, L. (Organiser)
27.01.2020 → 28.01.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop „Different Worlds of Political Party Development. Comparative Analysis of the Institutionalization of Political Parties“
Vercesi, M. (Speaker)
24.07.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop für die Autor:innen des Handbooks on the Politics of Taxation 2019
Hakelberg, L. (Organiser)
10.10.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop "Inequality and political behaviour: Voters, parties, and policies" 2023
Engler, S. (Organiser)
20.06.2023 → 21.06.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop, International Academy Berlin: Qualitative Content Analysis
Wach, L. (Participant)
03.03.2016 → 04.03.2016Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop on Gender Responsive Policy Making - 2015
Kronfeldt, M. (Organiser)
21.10.2015 → 22.10.2015Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop on Integrity in Non-medical Research
Saretzki, T. (Participant)
03.04.2017 → 04.04.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop: Representative Democracy in the 21st Century 2012
Friedrich, D. (Speaker)
10.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Workshop "Sektorale und regionale ökonomische Bewertung" Umweltbundesamt 2012
Ebermann, V. (Participant)
19.01.2012Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
- Guest lectures
Against the Tide: The Resilience of Liberal Norms in Regional Organizations
Lenz, T. (Oral presentation)
31.03.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Against the Tide: The Resilience of Liberal Norms in Regional Organizations
Lenz, T. (Oral presentation)
01.04.2025Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“Assessing Representative Democracy, the Democratic Deficit and Institutional Reform
Grotz, F. (Lecturer)
25.11.2011 → 26.11.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
A Theory of International Organization
Lenz, T. (Coauthor) & Hooghe, L. (Speaker)
29.01.2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Autocratic Adaptation, Autocratic Legacies and Fundamentalist Islam in Niger
Elischer, S. (Lecturer)
03.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Behind Red Doors. Geflüchtete am britischen Wohnungsmarkt
Münch, S. (Oral presentation)
15.04.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Launch: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)
02.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Presenation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)
04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)
04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)
04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Book Presentation: "Freedom Rising: Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation"
Welzel, C. (Oral presentation)
03.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Budgetdruck und/oder Parteipolitik? Verwaltungsstrukturreformen in den deutschen Ländern
Grotz, F. (Speaker)
04.07.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Can China Escape the Emancipatory Impulse of Modernization?
Welzel, C. (Speaker)
12.12.2014 → 13.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Center for Voting and Parties
Reiser, M. (Speaker)
18.06.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Cities in the governance of deportation: do they still open pathways to local membership?
Münch, S. (Oral presentation)
27.04.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Civic invocations: Contemporary codes of conduct in liberal democracy
Séville, A. (Speaker)
2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium an der Higher School of Economics
Welzel, C. (Lecturer)
15.10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium Presentation at the Political Science Department, Georg-August-University, Goettingen
Welzel, C. (presenter)
11.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Colloquium Presentation: "How Civilization Turned into Human Empowerment"
Welzel, C. (Speaker)
10.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Coming to terms with the European refugee crisis
Zaun, N. (Speaker)
12.03.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Coming to Terms with the Imperial Presidency? Constitutional Reform in Kenya
Elischer, S. (Oral presentation)
27.09.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Community and Diversity in Urban Neighbourhoods. SFB 923 Bedrohte Ordnungen
Münch, S. (Speaker)
03.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Comparative Politics and Political Economy Research Seminar, University of Konstanz
Engler, S. (Speaker)
29.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Containing and Accomodating Salafism in the Sahel: Insights and Lessons from Niger
Elischer, S. (Oral presentation)
12.12.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
“Corruption and Trust: A Model Design”
Kubbe, I. (Lecturer)
26.01.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Corruption in Comparative Perspective
Kubbe, I. (Oral presentation)
02.12.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Cultural Evolution and Subjective Wellbeing: Rising Individualism Rewires Happiness from Religion to Subjective Freedom
Welzel, C. (Speaker)
12.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das deutsche Wahlsystem auf dem Prüfstand
Grotz, F. (Speaker)
01.12.2010Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Declining Trust in Institutions: Why We Should Not Worry
Welzel, C. (Speaker)
10.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Demokratieexport? Dilemmata externer Demokratieförderung
van Hüllen, V. (Lecturer)
01.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Demokratie im Umbruch – Perspektiven einer Wahlrechtsreform
Grotz, F. (Speaker)
09.10.2008Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
"Der aktuelle Stand der Didaktik im Fach Politik"
Oeftering, T. (Lecturer)
30.11.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Designed to fail?: Regional human rights institutions in the Middle East and North Africa and the 'Arab Spring'
van Hüllen, V. (Oral presentation)
25.11.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Bedeutung politischer Institutionen in den jungen Demokratien Ostmitteleuropas
Grotz, F. (Lecturer)
10.07.2000Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die Entwicklung politisch-administrativer Mehrebenensysteme in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Regionalisierung durch Europäisierung
Grotz, F. (Speaker)
14.02.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Die „Europäische Verfassung“: Entstehung, Inhalte, Konsequenzen
Grotz, F. (Speaker)
24.02.2005Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Direkte Demokratie in der Kritik: Emanzipatorische Perspektiven in Zeiten des Rechtspopulismus
Heeß, K. (Speaker)
04.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Ehrenamt durch Qualifizierung stärken. Eine empirische Bedarfsanalyse.
Oeftering, T. (Speaker)
13.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education