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