(2024):
Party campaign statements and portfolio allocation in coalition governments.
West European Politics, 47, issue 1, pp. 216-227.
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Dr. Alejandro Ecker
Former Project Director
Phone:
+49-621-181-2842Profile/Career
Projects
B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions
Publications
(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)
Journal Articles
Bauer, Paul C., Alejandro Ecker, Michael Imre, Camille Landesvatter and Sonja Malich
(2023):
Who tweets, and how freely? Evidence from an elite survey among German politicians.
Research & Politics, 10, issue 1, (e-only).
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Ecker, Alejandro, Marcelo Jenny, Wolfgang C. Müller and Katrin Praprotnik
(2022):
How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: a comparative analysis of the ‘left–right’and the ‘European integration’ dimensions.
Party Politics, 28, issue 3, pp. 528-540.
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Plescia, Carolina, Alejandro Ecker and Thomas M. Meyer
(2022):
Do party supporters accept policy compromises in coalition governments?.
European Journal of Political Research, 61, issue 1, pp. 214-229.
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Ecker, Alejandro, and Thomas M. Meyer
(2020):
Coalition bargaining duration in multiparty democracies.
British Journal of Political Science, 50, issue 1, pp. 261-280.
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Ecker, Alejandro, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik and Martin Haselmayer
(2020):
Gender Bias in Asylum Adjudications: Evidence for Leniency toward Token Women.
Sex Roles: a Journal of Research, 82, issue 1, pp. 117-126.
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Ecker, Alejandro, and Thomas M. Meyer
(2019):
Fairness and qualitative portfolio allocation in multiparty governments.
Public Choice, 181, issue 3-4, pp. 309–330.
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Book Chapters
Debus, Marc, Holger Döring and Alejandro Ecker
(2021):
Germany: From Stable Coalition Camps to New Complexity.
Pp. 247-283 in:
Torbjörn Bergman, Hanna Bäck, Johan Hellström
(Eds.)
Coalition Governments in Western Europe.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
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Müller, Wolfgang C., Marcelo Jenny, Alejandro Ecker, Nikolaus Eder and Isabella Skrivanek
(2010):
Der Elite–Public Gap in der europäischen Integration. Ein europäischer Vergleich.
Pp. 115–130 in:
Roman Pfefferle, Nadja Schmidt, Gerd Valchars
(Eds.)
Europa als Prozess: 15 Jahre Europäische Union und Österreich. Festschrift für Peter Gerlich.
Vienna:
LIT Verlag.
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Thesis
Ecker, Alejandro
(2016):
The party foundations of coalition politics in European parliamentary democracies.
Vienna:
University of Vienna.
[Department of Government, University of Vienna; Dr. phil.]
(cumulative)
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Conference Presentations
Däubler, Thomas, Marc Debus and Alejandro Ecker
(2021):
The impact of party campaign statements on portfolio allocation in coalition governments.
[Workshop “Coalition Dynamics: Advances in the Study of the Coalition Life-Cycle”, Wien, November 12th to November 13th, 2021]
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Imre, Michael, and Alejandro Ecker
(2020):
Measuring policy positions using 280 characters (or less) – Introducing a new data set on intra-party preference heterogeneity.
[10th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, (virtual conference), June 18th to June 19th, 2020]
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Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer and Wolfgang C. Müller
(2019):
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands: coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies.
[ECPR General Conference, Wrocław, September 04th to September 07th, 2019]
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Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer and Wolfgang C. Müller
(2019):
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands: coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies.
[3-Länder-Tagung DVPW, ÖGPW, SVPW, Zürich, February 14th to February 16th, 2019]
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Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer and Wolfgang C. Müller
(2019):
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands: coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies.
[9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Belfast, June 20th to June 22nd, 2019]
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Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer and Wolfgang C. Müller
(2019):
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands: coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies.
[Summer School of ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Lisbon, July 23rd to August 02nd, 2019]
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Däubler, Thomas, Alejandro Ecker and Martin Schröder
(2018):
Unravelling Parties' Frequent Call for Welfare State Expansion.
[Manifesto Project Corpus Conference, WZB, Berlin, February 01st to February 02nd, 2018]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2018):
Policy pay-offs in European multiparty governments.
[Invited talk at the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, November 15th, 2018]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2018):
Portfolio allocation at the local level in Germany.
[27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, September 25th to September 28th, 2018]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2018):
Qualitative portfolio allocation in European multiparty governments.
[114th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Boston, MA, August 30th to September 02nd, 2018]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2018):
The effect of electoral coordination on voting behavior.
[8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 21st to June 23rd, 2018]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2017):
Coalition Governance and Cabinet Duration.
[75th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 06th to April 09th, 2017]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2017):
Fairness and Portfolio Allocation in Multiparty Governments.
[7th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Milan, June 22nd to June 24th, 2017]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2017):
Refugee Roulette on Crooked Tables? Examining Structural Biases in Austrian Asylum Adjudications.
[11th ECPR General Conference, Oslo, September 06th to September 09th, 2017]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2017):
The Architecture of Coalition Governance.
[1st Regional Research and Networking Conference, Heidelberg, January 27th, 2017]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2016):
Coalition bargaining duration in multiparty democracies.
[6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Brussels, June 23rd to June 25th, 2016]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2016):
Coalition bargaining duration in multiparty democracies.
[New Developments in Cabinet Coalition Research, Rome, April 29th to April 30th, 2016]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2016):
Data on portfolio design - An overview of existing indicators and perspectives on future research.
[The Politics of Portfolio Design, Vienna, March 10th to March 12th, 2016]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2016):
The Architecture of Coalition Governance.
[ECPR General Conference, Charles University, Prague, September 07th to September 10th, 2016]
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Ecker, Alejandro
(2016):
The Architecture of Coalition Governance.
[Coalition government in the new millennium, Vienna, December 16th, 2016]
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