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 About Martin Elff
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I am a political scientist with research interests in political sociology,
political behaviour, comparative politics, 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 ecological inference. On
these topics I have published a monograph, a variety of book chapters as well as
research articles in *Acta Politica*, *Electoral Studies*, the *European Journal
of Political Research*, *German Politics*, *Perspectives on Politics*, and
*Political Analysis*.

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   On this website you will find links to `publications <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.

I hold a doctorate in social sciences (Dr.rer.soc.) from the *University of
Mannheim* and a *venia legendi* in Political Science at the *University of
Konstanz*.  Since February 2015 I am a professor of political sociology at
`Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen <http://www.zu.de>`__ (`overview in
English <http://www.zeppelin-university.com/university/index.php>`__).  I
started my academic career as a researcher (*wissenschaftlicher
Mitarbeiter*) at `Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
<http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de>`__ in 1998. From 2000 to 2004 I worked as
*wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter* and from 2004 to 2009 as a
*wissenschaftlicher Assistent* (assistant professor) at Jan van Deth's Chair
for Policical Science and International Comparative Research, `Faculty of
Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim
<http://home.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/english_new/>`__. Then I moved to England
for three years to work from 2009 to 2012 as a as a DAAD lecturer at the
`Department of Government <http://www.essex.ac.uk/government/>`__ of the
`University of Essex <http://www.essex.ac.uk/>`__. In 2012 I returned to
Germany to work from 2012 to 2015 as a 'akademischer Rat' at the `Department
of Political and Administrative Science
<http://www.polver.uni-konstanz.de/>`__ of the `University of Konstanz
<http://www.uni-konstanz.de/>`__.


A full CV can be found as an PDF file `here </pdf/ElffCV-public.pdf>`__.

Contact
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      | Professor Dr Martin Elff
      | Chair of Political Sociology
      | Zeppelin University

      | *Postal address:*
      | Zeppelin University
      | Am Seemooser Horn 20
      | 88045 Friedrichshafen
      | Germany

      | *Visiting address:*
      | Zeppelin University
      | Fallenbrunnen 3 \| Room 1.81
      | 88045 Friedrichshafen
      | Germany

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      | *Phone:*    +49 7541 6009-1369   
      | *Fax:*      +49 7541 6009-3009   
      | *EMail:* :email:`martin.elff@zu.de`

      | `@melff.bsky.social <https://bsky.app/profile/melff.bsky.social>`__
      | `@martin_elff@science.social <https://sciences.social/@martin_elff>`__ 
      | `@elff@fosstodon.org <https://fosstodon.org/@elff>`__ 
      | *Twitter:* `@martin\_elff <https://twitter.com/martin_elff>`__
      | *GitHub:* http://github.com/melff
      | *ORCID:* |ORCID ID icon| `0000-0001-9032-9739 <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9032-9739>`__
      | *Web of Science:* `J-1604-2019 <https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/J-1604-2019>`__


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.. |R| replace:: *R*
.. _R: http://www.r-project.org                           

.. |editorial board of Electoral Studies| replace:: editorial board of *Electoral Studies*
.. _`editorial board of Electoral Studies`: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/electoral-studies/editorial-board/

.. _DGfW: http://www.dgfw.eu
.. |DGfW| replace:: *Deutsche Gesellschaft für Wahlforschung* (DGfW - German Association for Electoral Research)

.. _GLES: http://www.gles.eu
.. |GLES| replace:: German Longitudinal ElectionStudy (GLES)

.. _AKWahlen: http://www.politik.uni-mainz.de/dvpw-wahlen/
.. |AKWahlen| replace:: *AK Wahlen und politische Einstellungen*

.. _DVPW: http://www.dvpw.de
.. |DVPW| replace:: *Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft* - DVPW