Fields of Work
Fields of Work and Research Interests
- Democracy Research, Political Socialization, Civic Education, Political Attitudes and Behaviour, particularly with a focus on Social Inequality and Gender Gap
- Methods of Empirical Social Research
Memberships
- American Political Science Association
- German Political Science Association
- Lorenz-von-Stein-Gesellschaft (Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung)
Review Activities
- American Sociological Review
- Acta politica
- European Journal for Political Research
- International Journal for Political Science Review
- Young
- Comparative Education Review
- International Journal of Intercultural Relations
- Political Studies
- Political Psychology
- Politische Vierteljahresschrift
- Bertelsmann-Stiftung
- OeAD (Österreichische Austauschdienst)-Gesellschaft, „Sparkling Science“
- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- Israeli Science Foundation
Other
- Chair of the Workshop "New Directions of Political Socialization Research", ECPR Joint Sessions, Münster 2010
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Journal "Politische Psychologie"
- Board Member of the ECPR Standing Group "Citizenship"
- Panel Convenor "Children and Politics", IPSA World Congress, Montréal, Juli 2014
- Chair and Discussant of numerous international Conferences
- External Faculty Examiner, PhD-Committee of Sofia Sohl, Örebro-University, Sweden 25.09.2014