Research interests¶

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