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
- Guest lectures
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
Einblicke in Parteienwettbewerb im Kontext politischen Misstrauens
Engler, S. (Speaker)
11.11.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Einmal AstEI, immer AstEI
van Hüllen, V. (Panel participant)
03.07.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Einwanderungsland Europa - Was kann politische Bildung?
Oeftering, T. (Panel participant)
23.02.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Entwicklung der niedersächsichen Strategie zur Anpassung an den Klimawandel
Ebermann, V. (Oral presentation)
30.10.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsstrategien auf Länderebene: ein Fallstudienvergleich
Ebermann, V. (Oral presentation)
21.11.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Entwicklung von Klimaanpassungsstrategien in föderalen Politiksystemen: der Fall Niedersachsen
Ebermann, V. (Oral presentation)
17.05.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Etablierte und Außenseiter revisited: Zusammenleben und Integration in Zeiten von „superdiversity“ im deutsch-britischen Vergleich
Münch, S. (Oral presentation)
15.06.2016Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Europa-Union, Kreisverband Hamburg-Harburg
Friedrich, D. (Speaker)
2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Experimentelle Politik?
Saretzki, T. (Speaker)
21.02.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Experiments in Social Sciences: Method School
Kubbe, I. (Lecturer)
10.04.2015 → 11.04.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Extremistische Parteien im Spannungsfeld zwischen Parteienverbot und Versammlungsrecht
Grotz, F. (Speaker)
29.06.2011Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
"Fees must fall" - South African Student Protests in the Context of (informal) Citizenship Education."
Oeftering, T. (Speaker)
06.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Food and Political Science: A mutually enlightening relationship?
Seha, E. M. (Oral presentation)
06.08.2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Fortschritt bis zum Kollaps: Wie Zivilisationen an ökologischen Grenzen scheitern können
Kronfeldt, M. (Lecturer)
10.12.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Fracking comes to Germany: Interpreting societal conflicts, the politics of expertise and strategies for conflict resolution in a federal system: with Basil Bornemann
Saretzki, T. (Oral presentation)
03.07.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research