Sven-Oliver Proksch , Ph.D.

Project director
proksch [at] uni-mannheim [dot] de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-3440
Fax: 
+49-621-181-3451
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim, SFB
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, SFB
L13, 17
Room:514
68159  Mannheim

Projects

B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance

B2.12
The Institutional Foundations of Legislative Speech

BI Associated Projects

BI.2
Legislative Reforms and Party Competition
BI.5
Measuring a Common Space and the Dynamics of Reform Positions

Publications

Monographs

Finke, Daniel, Thomas König, Sven-Oliver Proksch and George Tsebelis (2012): Reforming the European Union: Realizing the Impossible. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. more

Journal Articles

Proksch, Sven-Oliver, and Jonathan B. Slapin (In Press): Parliamentary Questions and Oversight in the European Union. European Journal of Political Research. more
Proksch, Sven-Oliver, and Jonathan B. Slapin (In Press): Position Taking in European Parliament Speeches. British Journal of Political Science. more
Proksch, Sven-Oliver, and Jonathan B. Slapin (2012): Institutional Foundations of Legislative Speech. American Journal of Political Science, 56, issue 3, p. 520–537. more
Proksch, Sven-Oliver, Jonathan B. Slapin and Michael Thies (2011): Party system dynamics in post-war Japan: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Electoral Pledges. Electoral Studies, 30, issue 1, p. 114-124. more
Slapin, Jonathan B., and Sven-Oliver Proksch (2010): Look who’s talking: Parliamentary debate in the European Union. European Union Politics, 11, p. 333-357. more
Proksch, Sven-Oliver, and Jonathan B. Slapin (2009): How to Avoid Pitfalls in Statistical Analysis of Political Texts: The Case of Germany. German Politics, 18, issue 3, p. 323-344. more

Book Chapters

König, Thomas, Bernd Luig, Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan B. Slapin (2010): Measuring Policy Positions of Veto Players in Parliamentary Democracies. p. 69 - 95 in: Thomas König, George Tsebelis, Marc Debus (Eds.) Reform Processes and Policy Change: Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies. New York: Springer. more

Conference Presentations

Gschwend, Thomas, and Sven-Oliver Proksch (2010): Improving the Measurement of Policy Preferences in Surveys: Bringing the Status-Quo back in. [REPCONG-Workshop "Policy Representation Europe", Mannheim, May 28th to May 29th, 2010] more
Proksch, Sven-Oliver (2010): Domestic Politics and Legislative Oversight in the European Parliament. [Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 01st to September 05th, 2010] more
König, Thomas, Bernd Luig, Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan B. Slapin (2009): Policy Dimensionality and Legislative Activity in Parliamentary Democracies. [67th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, April 02nd to April 05th, 2009] more
Proksch, Sven-Oliver (2009): Scrutinizing the Executive: Parliamentary Questions in the European Union" and "Parliamentary Questions and Oversight in the European Union. [EUSA 11th Biennial International Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April 23rd to April 25th, 2009] more
Proksch, Sven-Oliver (2009): The Dynamics of the Party System in Postwar Japan: A Quantitative Content Analysis of Electoral Pledges and Manifestos" and "Institutional and Electoral Foundations of Parliamentary Speeches. [2009 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Toronto, September 03rd to September 06th, 2009] more