(2021):
The Two Faces of Judicial Power. Dynamics of Judicial-Political Bargaining.
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan.
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Dr. Benjamin G. Engst
External Fellow and Project Director
engst [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone:
+49-621-181-3231
Phone:
+49-621-181-2842Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131
Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
B 6, 30-32
Room:322
68159
Mannheim
Projects
B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions
RP9 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.)
Monographs
Journal Articles
Arnold, Christian, Benjamin G. Engst and Thomas Gschwend
(2023):
Scaling Court Decisions with Citation Networks.
Journal of Law and Courts, 11, issue 1, pp. 25-44.
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Garwe, Christoph, Benjamin G. Engst, Yannick Stawicki and Christoph Hönnige
(2022):
Temporal Strategies. Governments Alter the Pace of Legislation in Bicameralism Depending on Electoral Expectations.
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 47, issue 1, pp. 127-156.
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Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend and Sebastian Sternberg
(2020):
Die Besetzung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts. Ein Spiegelbild gesellschaftlicher Präferenzen.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 61, issue 1, pp. 39-60.
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Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend, Nils Schaks, Sebastian Sternberg and Caroline Wittig
(2017):
Zum Einfluss der Parteinähe auf das Abstimmungsverhalten der Bundesverfassungsrichter - eine quantitative Untersuchung.
JuristenZeitung, 72, issue 17, pp. 816-826.
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Sternberg, Sebastian, Thomas Gschwend, Caroline Wittig and Benjamin G. Engst
(2015):
Zum Einfluss der öffentlichen Meinung auf Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts: Eine Analyse von abstrakten Normenkontrollen sowie Bund-Länder-Streitigkeiten 1974 – 2010.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 56, issue 4, pp. 570-598.
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Web Publications
Sohnius, Marie-Lou, Benjamin G. Engst and Thomas Gschwend
(2020):
Kontinuität am Bundesverfassungsgericht? Wie die Öffentlichkeit Voßkuhles und Masings Nachfolger bewertet,
RechtsEmpirie Blog, 2020 (13.05.2020)
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Conference Presentations
Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend and Christoph Hönnige
(2022):
Who should be selected to the highest courts? Evidence from Survey Experiments in France, Germany and the United States.
[ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, August 22nd to August 26th, 2022]
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Engst, Benjamin G., David Grundmans and Thomas Gschwend
(2021):
Give them the word, they sharpen the sword - How high courts use language to exert political and societal power.
[15th General Conference of the ECPR, (virtual conference), August 30th to September 03rd, 2021]
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Engst, Benjamin G., and Thomas Gschwend
(2020):
Attitudes on Judicial Independence: A Discrete Choice Experiment in Four EU Member States.
[10th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, (virtual conference), June 18th to June 20th, 2020]
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Arnold, Christian, Benjamin G. Engst and Thomas Gschwend
(2019):
Scaling Lower Court Decisions.
[Conference on Data Science and Law, Zurich, June 07th to June 08th, 2019]
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Engst, Benjamin G., David M. Grundmanns and Thomas Gschwend
(2019):
Judicial Positions on Political Reform. Designing common policy scores from judicial text.
[9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Belfast, June 20th to June 22nd, 2019]
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Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend, Christoph Hönnige and Caroline Wittig
(2019):
The Constitutional Court Database. Conceptualizing a relational database.
[Workshop "Multi-User Databases on Judicial Decision-Making", Florence, October 10th to October 11th, 2019]
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Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend and Sebastian Sternberg
(2017):
Public Support for Judicial Nominations: Evidence from a Discrete-Choice Experiment.
[7th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Milan, June 22nd to June 24th, 2017]
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Hönnige, Christoph, Thomas Gschwend, Benjamin G. Engst and Caroline Wittig
(2015):
Constitutional Courts as Veto Players: Composition, Absorption and Decisions at the German Court.
[9th ECPR General Conference, Université de Montréal, August 26th to August 29th, 2015]
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Hönnige, Christoph, Benjamin G. Engst, Caroline Wittig and Thomas Gschwend
(2015):
Demand for Change: Institutional Features Empowering Judges as Policy Makers.
[73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 16th to April 19th, 2015]
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Engst, Benjamin G., Caroline Wittig, Christoph Hönnige and Thomas Gschwend
(2014):
Validating own Interests through Invalidating: Judges Shaping Policy.
[4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014]
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Hönnige, Christoph, Thomas Gschwend, Caroline Wittig and Benjamin G. Engst
(2014):
The German Constitutional Court - Conceptualizing an Innovative Database.
[110th APSA Annual Meeting 'Politics after the revolution', Washington D.C., August 28th to August 31st, 2014]
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Hönnige, Christoph, Thomas Gschwend, Benjamin G. Engst and Caroline Wittig
(2014):
The German Constitutional Court as Veto Player - Composition, Decisions and the Absorption Hypothesis.
[23nd IPSA World Congress of Political Science, Montreal, July 19th to July 25th, 2014]
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Engst, Benjamin G., Caroline Wittig, Christoph Hönnige and Thomas Gschwend
(2013):
Courts as Veto Players: A Game Theoretic Model.
[41st ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013]
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Engst, Benjamin G., Caroline Wittig, Christoph Hönnige and Thomas Gschwend
(2013):
Courts as Veto Players: A Game Theoretic Model.
[7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, September 04th to September 07th, 2013]
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