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Research Methods & Sociology of Knowledge
Before becoming professor of German Politics and Political Sociology, I was professor of Empirical Political Science, which sounded much more cool and comprehensive. I’m still very interested in all aspects of collecting and analysing data, i.e. research methods. For old times’ sake, I also regularly teach an advanced stats/methods class for Master’s students (in German).
In more recent work, we study (together with teams in Amsterdam, Leeds and Nice) the effect of local living conditions on anti-immigrant attitudes, populism, and radical right-wing voting.
Some of my very early work is on the adequate measurement of value orientations and on improving the response rate in mail panel surveys (that was before the internet).