Dr. Richard Traunmüller

picture Richard Traunmüller
MZES Postdoc Fellow
richard [dot] traunmueller [at] mzes [dot] uni-mannheim [dot] de
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+49-621-181-2877
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+49-621-181-2845
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:307
68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

  • Education

    Dr. rer. soc. (PhD in Political Science), University of Konstanz (2011)

    Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012)

    Dipl.-Soz. (MA in Social Sciences), Humboldt-University of Berlin (2007)

     

    Academic Positions

    Senior Researcher and Lecturer, Chair of Political Sociology, Institute of Political Science, University of Berne (9/2011 – 10/2012)

    Researcher, Research Centre on Social Capital and Civic Engagement, University of Konstanz (1/2009 – 8/2011)

    Researcher and Lecturer, Chair of Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz (11/2007 – 8/2011 )

    Researcher, Cluster of Excellence: Cultural Foundations of Integration, University of Konstanz (6/2007 – 6/2010)

    Research and Teaching Assistant, Chair of Empirical Social Research, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin (9/2002 – 5/2007)

    Research Assistant, Chair of Demography, Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University of Berlin (1/2002 - 3/2002)

Publications

Monographs

Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Religion und Sozialkapital. Ein doppelter Kulturvergleich. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more

Journal Articles

Gundelach, Birte, and Richard Traunmüller (2013): Beyond Generalized Trust: Norms of Reciprocity as an Alternative Form of Social Capital in an Assimilationist Integration Regime.. Political Studies, in press. more
Krech, Volkhard, Markus Hero, Stefan Huber, Kimmo Ketola and Richard Traunmüller (2013): Religious Diversity and Religious Vitality: New Measuring Strategies and Empirical Evidence. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 9, issue Article 3. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Zur Messung von Staat-Kirche-Beziehungen. Eine vergleichende Analyse neuerer Indizes. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft/Comparative Governance and Politics, 6, issue 1, Suppl., p. 207-231. more
Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle, and Richard Traunmüller (2011): Der religiöse Faktor in der Familienpolitik. Ein empirischer Test klassischer und neuerer Ansätze im Vergleich von 27 OECD-Ländern. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform , 57, issue 4, p. 383-408. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2011): Moral Communities? Religion as a Source of Social Trust in a Multilevel Analysis of 97 German Regions. European Sociological Review, 27, issue 3, p. 346-363. more
Traunmüller, Richard, and Markus Freitag (2011): State Support of Religion: Making or Breaking Faith-Based Social Capital?. Comparative Politics, 43, issue 3 , p. 253-269. more
Freitag, Markus, and Richard Traunmüller (2009): Spheres of Trust. An Empirical Analysis of the Foundations of Particularized and Generalized Trust. European Journal of Political Research, 48, issue 6, p. 782-803. more
Freitag, Markus, Nicolas Grießhaber and Richard Traunmüller (2009): Vereine als Schulen des Vertrauens? Eine empirische Analyse zur Zivilgesellschaft in der Schweiz. Swiss Political Science Review, 15, issue 3, p. 495-527. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Individual Religiosity, Religious Context, and the Creation of Social Trust in Germany. Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies , 129, issue 2, p. 357-365. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Religion und Sozialintegration. Eine empirische Analyse der religiösen Grundlagen sozialen Kapitals. Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 19, issue 3, p. 435-468. more
Freitag, Markus, and Richard Traunmüller (2008): Sozialkapitalwelten in Deutschland. Soziale Netzwerke, Vertrauen und Reziprozitätsnormen im subnationalen Vergleich. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft/Comparative Governance and Politics, 2, issue 1 , p. 221-256. more