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 Research interests
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My are research interests in the 
following areas:

- Political behaviour, in particular electoral behaviour and its relation
  with social structure. More specifically:

  - class voting
  - religious voting
  - long term change
  - the influence of parties' (changing) positions
  - with a focus on Germany
  - with a focus on (Western) Europe

- Reconstructing the political positions of parties
- Quantitative methods of the social sciences

  - Multilevel modelling
  - Modelling of qualitative/categorical dependent variables
  - Cross-level inference