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Das Institut für Politikwissenschaft bzw. das Zentrum für Demokratieforschung (ZDEMO) beschäftigt sich mit der Analyse demokratischer Strukturen und Prozesse in Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Umwelt. Kernthema der Forschung sind Fragen von Legitimität und Leistungsfähigkeit der Demokratien im 21. Jahrhunert. Das Institut/das Zentrum erforscht diese unter drei wesentlichen Gesichtspunkten: 1. Wertewandel und Human Empowerment; 2. Parteienregierung und institutioneller Wandel sowie 3. Beteiligung und öffentliche Politik. Neben der Forschung engagiert sich das Institut/das Zentrum aktiv in der wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchsförderung sowie der internationalen und regionalen Vernetzung von Einrichtungen und Personen der Demokratieforschung.

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  1. Journal articles › Research › Peer-reviewed
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    Party, Coalition, Premiership: The Role of Silvio Berlusconi in Coalition Dynamics and its Determinants.

    Vercesi, M., 12.2013, In: Contemporary Italian Politics . 5, 3, p. 292-308 17 p.

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    Party Euroscepticism and the Conditions for Its Success: Conceptualization and Explanation

    Salvati, E. & Vercesi, M., 10.2019, In: Quaderni di scienza politica . 26, 2, p. 299-328 29 p.

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    Party Organizations and Legislative Turnover: Signals of an Unstable Parliamentary Class?

    Salvati, E. & Vercesi, M., 07.2018, In: Italian Political Science. 13, 1, p. 82-94 13 p.

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    Personal Values and Political Activism: A Cross-national Study

    Vecchione, M., Schwartz, S. H., Caprara, G. V., Schoen, H., Cieciuch, J., Silvester, J., Bain, P., Bianchi, G., Kirmanoglu, H., Baslevent, C., Mamali, C., Manzi, J., Pavlopoulos, V., Posnova, T., Torres, C., Verkasalo, M., Lönnqvist, J. E., Vondráková, E., Welzel, C. & Alessandri, G., 01.02.2015, In: British Journal of Psychology. 106, 1, p. 84-106 23 p.

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    Pitfalls in the Study of Democratization: Testing the Emancipatory Theory of Democracy

    Welzel, C., Inglehart, R. & Kruse, S., 01.04.2017, In: British Journal of Political Science. 47, 2, p. 463-472 10 p.

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    Political Careers in Multi-Level Systems: Regional Chief Executives in Italy, 1970-2015

    Grimaldi, S. & Vercesi, M., 15.03.2018, In: Regional & Federal Studies. 28, 2, p. 125-149 25 p.

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    Political institutions and policy performance: a comparative analysis of Central and Eastern Europe

    Jahn, D. & Müller-Rommel, F., 04.2010, In: Journal of Public Policy. 30, 1, p. 23-44 22 p.

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    Politicized Transnationalism: The Visegrád Countries in the Refugee Crisis

    Koß, M. & Séville, A., 13.02.2020, In: Politics and Governance. 8, 1, p. 95-106 12 p.

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    Politikwissenschaft: "Ein Fach mit Ausstrahlung"

    Müller-Rommel, F., 2017, In: Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft. 27, 1, p. 75-77 3 p.

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    Potent executives: the electoral strength of prime ministers in Central Eastern Europe

    Berz, J. G., 02.10.2019, In: East European Politics. 35, 4, p. 517-537 21 p.

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    Praising the leader: personalist legitimation strategies and the deterioration of executive constraints

    Brunkert, L. & von Soest, C., 01.03.2023, In: Democratization. 30, 3, p. 419-439 21 p.

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    Prime Ministerial Careers in the European Union: Does gender make a difference?

    Müller-Rommel, F. & Vercesi, M., 03.04.2017, In: European Politics and Society. 18, 2, p. 245-262 18 p.

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    Prosociality in Business: A Human Empowerment Framework

    Brieger, S. A., Terjesen, S. A., Hechavarría, D. M. & Welzel, C., 01.10.2019, In: Journal of Business Ethics. 159, 2, p. 361-380 20 p.

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    Radical right populism and religion: mapping parties’ religious communication in Western Europe

    Schwörer, J. & Romero-Vidal, X., 24.01.2020, In: Religion, State and Society. 48, 1, p. 4-21 18 p.

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    Rahmenbedingungen von Zuwanderung und interkulturellem Zusammenleben in den ostdeutschen Bundesländern: eine Bestandsaufnahme

    Münch, S., 30.06.2013, In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung. 71, 3, p. 261-271 11 p.

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    Rechtspopulistische Parteien und diskursive Möglichkeiten während Covid-19. Populistische Schuldzuweisungen in Zeiten der Krise

    Schwörer, J. & Fernández-García, B., 11.2022, In: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. 16, 3, p. 545-570 26 p.

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    Regional engagement of German Higher Education Institutions: coincidence or governance

    Schulze, N. & Hufnagl, M., 11.2012, In: Regional Insights. 3, 2, p. 18-20 4 p.

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    Regional powers and the politics of scale

    Prys-Hansen, M., Burilkov, A. & Kolmaš, M., 02.2024, In: International Politics. 61, 1, p. 13-39 27 p.

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    Religion on the rise again? A longitudinal analysis of religious dimensions in election manifestos of Western European parties

    Schwörer, J. & Fernández-García, B., 11.2021, In: Party Politics. 27, 6, p. 1160-1171 12 p.

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    Resistance to international democracy promotion in Morocco and Tunisia

    van Hüllen, V., 2017, In: Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal. 2, 5, p. 637-657 21 p.

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    Rethinking Measurement Equivalence in Comparative Political Research

    Zhirkov, K. & Welzel, C., 23.03.2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Political Research Quarterly. 17 p.

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    Right-wing populist parties as defender of Christianity? The case of the Italian Northern League

    Schwörer, J., 26.09.2018, In: Zeitschrift für Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik. 2, 2, p. 387-413 27 p.

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    Ritual ohne Engagement: Die dritte Direktwahl zum Europäischen Parlament

    Müller-Rommel, F., 1989, In: Gegenwartskunde : Zeitschrift für Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Bildung. 38, 3, p. 341-345 5 p.

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    RITUAL WITHOUT COMMITMENT - THE 3RD DIRECT EUROPEAN-PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS

    Müller-Rommel, F., 1989, In: Gegenwartskunde : Zeitschrift für Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Bildung. 38, 3, p. 341-345 5 p.

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    Scattered Attacks: The Collective Dynamics of Lone-Actor Terrorism

    Malthaner, S., O'Connor, F. & Lindekilde, L., 11.12.2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Perspectives on Politics. 18 p.

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    Schwache Regierungschefs? Politische Erfahrung und Amtsdauer von Premierministern in Mittel- und Osteuropa

    Grotz, F. & Müller-Rommel, F., 2015, In: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen. 46, 2, p. 310-327 18 p.

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    Social-Movements and the greens: New internal politics in Germany

    Müller-Rommel, F., 01.03.1985, In: European Journal of Political Research. 13, 1, p. 53-67 15 p.

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    Society and territory: making sense of Italian populism from a historical perspective

    Vercesi, M., 02.2023, In: Journal of Contemporary European Studies. 31, 1, p. 111-131 21 p.

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    Staat und Gewissen. Ein Beitrag zum Grundrecht auf Kriegsdienstverweigerung

    Schultzgerstein, H-G., 1987, In: Beiträge zur Konfliktforschung. 17, 4, p. 37-52 16 p.

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    State-Building and the European Union's Fight against Corruption in the Southern Caucasus: Why Legitimacy Matters

    Börzel, T. A. & van Hüllen, V., 10.2014, In: Governance. An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions . 27, 4, p. 613-634 22 p.

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    Subverting Autocracy: Emancipative Mass Values in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes

    Zavadskaya, M. & Welzel, C., 19.09.2015, In: Democratization. 22, 6, p. 1105-1130 26 p.

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    Survey Response and Observed Behavior: Emancipative and Secular Values Predict Prosocial Behaviors

    Kistler, D., Thoni, C. & Welzel, C., 01.05.2017, In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 48, 4, p. 461-489 29 p.

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    Taking animals seriously: Interpreting and institutionalizing human-animal relations in modern democracies

    Saretzki, T., 2015, In: Historical Social Research. 40, 4, p. 47 - 54 8 p.

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    The Asian Values Thesis Revisited: Evidence from the World Values Surveys

    Welzel, C., 04.2011, In: Japanese Journal of Political Science. 12, 1, p. 1-31 31 p.

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    The Cabinet: A Viable Definition and its Composition in View of a Comparative Analysis

    Barbieri, C. & Vercesi, M., 10.2013, In: Government and Opposition. 48, 4, p. 526-547 22 p.

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    The centre of government in West Germany: Changing patterns under 14 legislatures (1949-1987)

    Müller-Rommel, F., 01.03.1988, In: European Journal of Political Research. 16, 2, p. 171-190 20 p.

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    The comparative study of governments and ministers: Jean Blondel’s legacy

    Müller-Rommel, F. & Vercesi, M., 31.01.2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Political Science. 11 p.

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    The Diffusion of Values among Democracies and Autocracies

    Deutsch, F. & Welzel, C., 01.11.2016, In: Global Policy. 7, 4, p. 563-570 8 p.

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    The “distinctiveness of cities” and distinctions in cities: Boundaries of belonging in comparative perspective

    Barbehön, M. & Münch, S., 02.01.2016, In: Urban Research and Practice. 9, 1, p. 37-55 19 p.

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    The effect of voters’ economic perception, Brexit and campaigns on the evaluation of party leaders over time

    Berz, J., 01.05.2020, In: British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 22, 2, p. 202-219 18 p.

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    The german greens in the 1980s: Short-term cyclical protest or indicator of transformation?

    Müller-Rommel, F., 01.03.1989, In: Political Studies. 37, 1, p. 114-122 9 p.

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    The greens in western europe: Similar But Different

    Müller-Rommel, F., 01.10.1985, In: International Political Science Review. 6, 4, p. 483-498 16 p.

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    The impact of genes, geography, and educational opportunities on national cognitive achievement

    Minkov, M., Welzel, C. P. & Bond, M. H., 01.04.2016, In: Learning and Individual Differences. 47, p. 236-243 8 p.

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    The legacy of war: The effect of militias on postwar repression

    Carey, S. C. & González, B., 05.2021, In: Conflict Management and Peace Science. 38, 3, p. 247-269 23 p.

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    The Legitimation of International Organizations: Introducing a New Dataset

    Schmidtke, H., Krösche, N., Schirmer, S. & Lenz, T., 01.02.2024, In: International Studies Perspectives. 25, 1, p. 86-110 25 p., ekad008.

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    The lifespan and the political performance of Green parties in Western Europe

    Müller-Rommel, F., 01.03.2002, In: Environmental Politics. 11, 1, p. 1-16 16 p.

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    The Myth of Asian Exceptionalism: Response to Bomhoff and Gu

    Welzel, C., 10.2012, In: Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 43, 7, p. 1039-1054 16 p.

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    The new challengers: greens and right-wing populist parties in western Europe

    Muller-Rommel, F., 01.05.1998, In: European Review. 6, 2, p. 191-202 12 p.

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    The Origins of Legitimation Strategies in International Organizations: Agents, Audiences and Environments

    Lenz, T. & Söderbaum, F., 01.05.2023, In: International Affairs. 99, 3, p. 899–920 22 p.

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