Caroline Wittig

Former staff member
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Projects

RP9 B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions

RP9
The Federal Constitutional Court as a Veto Player

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

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. more
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. more

Thesis

Wittig, Caroline (2016): The Occurrence of Separate Opinions at the Federal Constitutional Court. An Analysis with a Novel Data Base. Mannheim: University of Mannheim. [Politikwissenschaft] (Dissertation) more

Conference Presentations

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] more
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] more
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] more
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] more
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] more
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] more
Wittig, Caroline (2014): To Write or not to Write: A Theoretical Framework for Understanding the Emergence of Seperate Opinions at Constitutional Courts. [72nd Annual MPSA Conference, Chicago, IL, April 03rd to April 06th, 2014] more
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] more
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] more
Wittig, Caroline (2013): Writing Separate Opinions: Acclimation Effects at the German Federal Constitutional Court. [7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, September 04th to September 07th, 2013] more
Wittig, Caroline (2013): Writing Separate Opinions: Acclimation Effects at the German Federal Constitutional Court. [ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Mainz, March 12th to March 15th, 2013] more
Brandenburg, Jens, and Caroline Wittig (2012): Negotiations at the German Federal Constitutional Court: A Dynamic Bargaining Game. [2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin, June 21st to June 23rd, 2012] more