Dr. Anna-Sophie Kurella

MZES Fellow and project director
anna.kurella [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2852
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+49-621-181-2845
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+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:211
68159  Mannheim

Projects

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.1855
Spatial Models of Party Competition Applied

B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions

B2.2004
Issue Evolution in Multiparty Systems

RP8 B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance

RP8
Formal Model of Party Competition in Multiparty Systems with Group-Specific Weighting of Policy Dimensions

Publications

Monographs

Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2021): Parteienwettbewerb und Wählerverhalten im deutschen Mischwahlsystem. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. [Wahlen und politische Einstellungen] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2017): Issue Voting and Party Competition. The Impact of Cleavage Lines on German Elections between 1980-1994. Cham: Springer. [Contributions to Political Science] more

Journal Articles

Kurella, Anna-Sophie, and Milena Rapp (2024): Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation. Electoral Studies, 87, (article no. 102734), pp. 12. more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, Nathalie Giger and Jan Rosset (2024): Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?. Electoral Studies, 89, (article no. 102790), pp. 11. more
Jankowski, Michael, Anna-Sophie Kurella, Christian Stecker, Andreas Blätte, Thomas Bräuninger, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Susanne Pickel (2022): Die Positionen der Parteien zur Bundestagswahl 2021: Ergebnisse des Open Expert Surveys. Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly, 63, pp. 53-72. more
Rosset, Jan, and Anna-Sophie Kurella (2021): The electoral roots of unequal representation. A spatial modelling approach to party systems and voting in Western Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 60, issue 4, pp. 785-806. more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Franz Urban Pappi and Anna-Sophie Kurella (2020): Ja. Die Mehrheitswahlkomponente sollte gestärkt werden. Eine Replik. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 61, issue 1, pp. 1-14. more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2019): Die Etablierung neuer Parlamentsparteien. Wählerpräferenzen als Erfolgsfaktor für die Alternative für Deutschland 2017 und die Grünen 1986. PVS Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 60, issue 2, pp. 273-298. more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, Thomas Bräuninger and Franz Urban Pappi (2018): Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in mixed-member proportional systems. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 30, issue 3, pp. 306-334. more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, and Jan Rosset (2018): The Rise of Cultural Issues as an Opportunity for the Right? Insights from the 2015 Swiss Election. Swiss Political Science Review, 24, issue 4, pp. 381-399. more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2018): Die Beurteilung von Parteien und Kanzlerkandidaten vor den Bundestagswahlen von 1961 bis 2013. Stabilität der Konfliktstruktur bei wechselnder Attraktivität der Parteien und Kanzlerkandidaten. Informationsdienst Soziale Indikatoren (ISI) : Sonderheft ; Wählerverhalten und Parteiensystem im Wandel - 40 Jahre Politbarometer, issue 60, pp. 20-28. more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, and Jan Rosset (2017): Blind spots in the party system: Spatial voting and issue salience if voters face scarce choices. Electoral Studies, 49, issue October, pp. 1-16. more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2017): Erststimmen generierende Merkmale der Direktkandidaten bei Bundestagswahlen. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 27, issue 3, pp. 305-326. more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, and Franz Urban Pappi (2015): Combining ideological and policy distances for a model of party competition in Germany 2009. Journal of Theoretical Politics, 27, issue 1, pp. 86-107. more

Book Chapters

Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2018): Die Politikpräferenzen der Wähler und die Wahrnehmung von Parteipositionen als Bedingungen für den Parteienwettbewerb um Wählerstimmen. Pp. 1-30 in: Evelyn Bytzek, Markus Steinbrecher, Ulrich Rosar (Eds.) Wahrnehmung - Persönlichkeit - Einstellung. Psychologische Theorien und Methoden in der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2016): Hätten Direktkandidaten der AfD über die 5 %-Hürde verholfen? Eine Untersuchung des Kontaminationseffekts im Mischwahlsystem. Pp. 205-222 in: Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels (Eds.) Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2013. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Schofield, Norman, and Anna-Sophie Kurella (2015): Party activists in the 2009 German federal election. Pp. 293-311 in: Norman Schofield, Gonzalo Caballero (Eds.) The Political Economy of Governance. Institutions, Political Performance and Elections. Cham: Springer. more

MZES Working Papers

Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2016): Die Politikpräferenzen der Wähler und die Wahrnehmung von Parteipositionen als Bedingungen für den Parteienwettbewerb um Wählerstimmen. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 162] more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Nicole Seher and Anna-Sophie Kurella (2013): Wahlprogramme als Quellen für die Politikfeldinteressen deutscher Landtagsparteien. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 149] more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Nicole Seher and Anna-Sophie Kurella (2011): Das Politikangebot deutscher Parteien bei den Bundestagswahlen seit 1976 im dimensionsweisen Vergleich: Gesamtskala und politikfeldspezifische Skalen. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 142] more

Thesis

Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2016): Do Social Cleavage Lines Shape Issue Voting and Party Completion? An Extension of the Spatial Model with Empirical Applications to German Elections, 1980-1994. Mannheim: University of Mannheim. [Politikwissenschaft] (Dissertation) more

Conference Presentations

Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2023): Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting behavior and representation. [Jahrestagung der DVPW Sektion Methoden, Göttingen, May 05th to May 06th, 2023] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2023): Salience strategies in a formal model of party competition. [80th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, Il, April 13th to April 16th, 2023] more
Rapp, Milena, and Anna-Sophie Kurella (2023): The asymmetric pattern of voter positions and salience of environmental and immigration issues in European electorates: Incentives for issue expansion of Green and Right parties?. [80th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, April 13th to April 16th, 2023] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2022): Consequences of party system fragmentation: Representation, accountability and political participation. [12th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Prague, June 23rd to June 25th, 2022] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, and Milena Rapp (2022): New paths in the analysis of issue voting in multidimensional policy spaces: combining voter preferences and party positions from different sources. [ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, August 22nd to August 26th, 2022] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, and Milena Rapp (2022): Political Entrepreneurs on New Cultural Issues: Right Party Success in Western European Policy Spaces. [12th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Prague, June 23rd to June 25th, 2022] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, Franz Urban Pappi and Thomas Bräuninger (2019): Candidate Spillover Effects in the German Mixed-Member System. [115th American Political Science Association's Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Washington, DC, August 29th to September 01st, 2019] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2019): Why the recent success of radical right parties does not indicate a right shift in public opinion. [Invited Talk at the Unequal Democracies Seminar, Genève, April 11th, 2019] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2017): Using panel fixed effects analysis to estimate the personal incumbency advantage without bias. [75th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 06th to April 09th, 2017] more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2017): Die Beurteilung von Parteien und Kanzlerkandidaten seit 1961. Stabilität der Konfliktstruktur bei wechselnder Attraktivität der Parteien und Kanzlerkandidaten. [„Wählerverhalten und Parteiensystem im Wandel - 40 Jahre Politbarometer“ Symposium anlässlich des 40-jährigen Bestehens des Politbarometers, Mannheim, November 23rd, 2017] more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2017): Valence advantage and the electoral mean. Strategic positioning of German district candidates. [New Developments in Spatial Models of Party Competition. An interdisciplinary workshop, Konstanz, July 21st to July 22nd, 2017] more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2017): Valence advantage, close races and the electoral mean. Strategic positioning of German district candidates. [75th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 06th to April 09th, 2017] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, Franz Urban Pappi and Thomas Bräuninger (2016): Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in mixed-member proportional systems. [6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Brussels, June 23rd to June 25th, 2016] more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2016): Die Politikpräferenzen der Wähler und die Wahrnehmung von Parteipositionen als Bedingungen für den Parteienwettbewerb um Wählerstimmen. [Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises „Wahlen und politische Einstellungen“, Landau, June 02nd to June 03rd, 2016] more
Pappi, Franz Urban, Anna-Sophie Kurella and Thomas Bräuninger (2016): Valenzvorteile und Medianwählerorientierung als Bedingung für den Gewinn von Direktmandaten bei deutschen Bundestagswahlen. [3-Länder-Tagung "Regionalismus in einer entgrenzten Welt" der DVPW, ÖGPW und SVPW, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg, September 29th to October 01st, 2016] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, Franz Urban Pappi and Thomas Bräuninger (2015): Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in the German mixed-member electoral system. [73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 16th to April 19th, 2015] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie (2014): Causes and consequences of heterogeneous issue salience among the electorate. [ECPR General Conference, University of Glasgow, September 03rd to September 06th, 2014] more
Schofield, Norman, and Anna-Sophie Kurella (2014): Party activists in the 2009 German federal election. [3rd International Conference on Political Economy and Institutions, Baiona, April 23rd to April 25th, 2014] more
Kurella, Anna-Sophie, and Franz Urban Pappi (2013): Combining ideological and policy distances with valence for a model of party competition in Germany 2009. [72nd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 11th to April 14th, 2013] more