Welcome to my website!
I am a political scientist with research interests in comparative politics, political behaviour, and political methodology. In the first two areas I focus on electoral behaviour, political attitudes and behaviour in Germany, the relation between social structure and politics, and on political knowledge and political sophistication. My methodological research interests focus on the spatial modelling of party manifestos, survey research methodology in general, computational statistics and on ecological inference. On this website you will find links to publications and working papers that emerged from these research interests. You will also find some add-on packages I wrote for R, the excellent open-source software package and programming language for data analysis and graphics.
Currently, I work as a DAAD lecturer at the Department of Government at the University of Essex, where I teach European Politics and German Politics.