(Eds.)
(2019):
Democratic Representation in Multi-level Systems : the Vices and Virtues of Regionalisation.
Abingdon:
Routledge.
[West European Politics Series]
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Dr. Thomas Däubler
Former Project Director
Phone:
+49-621-181-2842Postal Address
University College Dublin
Dublin
Ireland
Visiting Address
University College Dublin
School of Politics and International Relations
Dublin
Research Interests
- Party competition and election manifestos
- Legislative politics in parliamentary democracies
- Electoral systems
Projects
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.)
Editions
Däubler, Thomas, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker
(Eds.)
(2018):
Regionalisation – virtue or vice? Assessing democratic representation in multi-level democracies.
[West European Politics, Vol. 41, Issue 3 ]
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Journal Articles
Däubler, Thomas, Marc Debus and Alejandro Ecker
(2024):
Party campaign statements and portfolio allocation in coalition governments.
West European Politics, 47, issue 1, pp. 216-227.
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Bräuninger, Thomas, Thomas Däubler, Robert Huber and Lukas Rudolph
(2022):
How Open Lists Undermine the Electoral Support of Cohesive Parties.
British Journal of Political Science, 52, issue 4, pp. 1931-1943.
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Däubler, Thomas, and Lukas Rudolph
(2020):
Cue-Taking, Satisficing, or Both? Quasi-experimental Evidence for Ballot Position Effects.
Political Behavior, 42, issue 2, pp. 625–652.
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Däubler, Thomas
(2020):
Do more flexible lists increase the take-up of preference voting?.
Electoral Studies, 68, issue December 2020, (article no. 102232).
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Däubler, Thomas
(2020):
National policy for local reasons: how MPs represent party and geographical constituency through initiatives on social security.
Acta Politica, 55, issue 3, pp. 472–491.
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Däubler, Thomas, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker
(2018):
Assessing democratic representation in multi‐level democracies.
West European Politics, 41, issue 3, pp. 541-564.
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Däubler, Thomas, and Simon Hix
(2018):
Ballot Structure, List Flexibility and Policy Representation.
Journal of European Public Policy, 25, issue 12, pp. 1798-1816.
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Däubler, Thomas, Love Christensen and Lukáš Linek
(2018):
Parliamentary Activity, Re-Selection and the Personal Vote. Evidence from Flexible-List Systems.
Parliamentary Affairs, 71, issue 4, pp. 930-949.
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Däubler, Thomas
(2017):
Das Einstimmen-Mischwahlsystem bei baden-württembergischen Landtagswahlen: Wie fehlende Listen zur ungleichen deskriptiven Repräsentation von Stadt und Land in den Fraktionen beitragen.
Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 48, issue 1, pp. 141-156.
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Däubler, Thomas, Thomas Bräuninger and Martin Brunner
(2016):
Is Personal Vote-Seeking Behavior Effective?.
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 41, issue 2, pp. 419-444.
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Rudolph, Lukas, and Thomas Däubler
(2016):
Holding Individual Representatives Accountable: The Role of Electoral Systems.
The Journal of Politics, 78, issue 3, pp. 746-762.
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Däubler, Thomas
(2015):
What the UK General Elections of 2005/10 Tell Us about the Demand for Manifestos (and the Other Way Round).
Parliamentary Affairs, 68, issue 2, pp. 401-422.
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Bräuninger, Thomas, Martin Brunner and Thomas Däubler
(2012):
Personal Vote-Seeking in Flexible List Systems: How Electoral Incentives Shape Belgian MPs' Bill Initiation Behaviour.
European Journal of Political Research, 51, issue 5, pp. 607-645.
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Däubler, Thomas, Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov and Michael Laver
(2012):
Natural Sentences as Valid Units for Coded Political Texts.
British Journal of Political Science, 42, issue 4, pp. 937-951.
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Däubler, Thomas
(2012):
Wie entstehen Wahlprogramme? Eine Untersuchung zur Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg 2006.
Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 22, issue 3, pp. 333-365.
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Däubler, Thomas, and Marc Debus
(2009):
Government Formation and Policy Formulation in the German States.
Regional & Federal Studies, 19, issue 1, pp. 73-95.
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Book Chapters
Däubler, Thomas
(2017):
Links-Rechts und darüber hinaus - eine Neuvermessung der deutschen Parteienlandschaft mit einem auf die MARPOR/CMP-Daten angewandten IRT-Modell.
Pp. 57-88 in:
Sebastian Bukow, Uwe Jun
(Eds.)
Parteien unter Wettbewerbsdruck.
Wiesbaden:
Springer VS.
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Conference Presentations
Däubler, Thomas, Marc Debus and Alejandro Ecker
(2021):
The impact of party campaign statements on portfolio allocation in coalition governments.
[Workshop “Coalition Dynamics: Advances in the Study of the Coalition Life-Cycle”, Wien, November 12th to November 13th, 2021]
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Bräuninger, Thomas, Thomas Däubler, Robert Huber and Lukas Rudolph
(2019):
The Performance of Populist Right Parties in Open and Closed List PR system. Evidence from a Survey Experiment.
[Advances in the Empirical and Theoretical Study of Parliaments, Konstanz, September 26th to September 28th, 2019]
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Bräuninger, Thomas, Thomas Däubler, Robert Huber and Lukas Rudolph
(2019):
The Performance of Populist Right Parties in Open and Closed List PR systems. Evidence from a Survey Experiment.
[9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Belfast, June 20th to June 22nd, 2019]
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Bräuninger, Thomas, Thomas Däubler, Robert Huber and Lukas Rudolph
(2019):
The Performance of Populist Right Parties in Open and Closed List PR systems. Evidence from a Survey Experiment.
[Conference on Advances in the Empirical and Theoretical Study of Parliaments, Konstanz, September 26th to September 28th, 2019]
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Chiru, Mihail, Thomas Däubler and Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen
(2019):
Electoral incentives in European Parliament Elections: Introducing a new collection of data on parties, MEPs and candidates.
[Comparative Research on Political Elites Conference, Berlin, November 29th to November 30th, 2019]
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Chiru, Mihail, Thomas Däubler and Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen
(2019):
The sanction that isn’t imposed? Roll-call voting loyalty and demotion in European Parliament elections.
[9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Belfast, June 20th to June 22nd, 2019]
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Chiru, Mihail, Thomas Däubler and Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen
(2019):
The sanction that isn’t imposed? Roll-call voting loyalty and demotion in European Parliament elections.
[13th ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw, September 04th to September 07th, 2019]
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Däubler, Thomas, and Marc Debus
(2018):
Party Constituencies and Campaigning on Welfare State Issues.
[76th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, April 05th to April 08th, 2018]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2018):
Reform-induced Personalization of Electoral Rules and Parliamentary Behavior.
[76th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, April 05th to April 08th, 2018]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2018):
The personalization of electoral rules: Does it empower voters or merely facilitate policy shirking?.
[8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 21st to June 23rd, 2018]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2018):
The personalization of electoral rules: Does it empower voters or merely facilitate policy shirking?.
[27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, September 25th to September 28th, 2018]
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Däubler, Thomas, Alejandro Ecker and Martin Schröder
(2018):
Unravelling Parties' Frequent Call for Welfare State Expansion.
[Manifesto Project Corpus Conference, WZB, Berlin, February 01st to February 02nd, 2018]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2017):
Constituency Representation under Districted PR Systems.
[Workshop "Responsivität", University of Duisburg-Essen, January 20th, 2017]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2017):
National Policy for Local Reasons.
[Workshop "Micro-foundations of party democracy: The re-inforcing and cross-cutting consequences of party membership and non-party affiliation", University of Bremen, July 20th to July 21st, 2017]
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Däubler, Thomas, and Lukas Rudolph
(2017):
Primacy Effects on the Candidate Vote under Open-List PR. Separating Candidate Quality from Placement.
[7th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Milan, June 22nd to June 24th, 2017]
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Däubler, Thomas, and Kenneth Benoit
(2017):
Statistical Scaling Meets Classic Content Analysis: Using Bayesian IRT-Modelling to Infer Latent Variables from Hand-Coded Texts.
[The 3rd Annual International Conference on Computational Social Science, Cologne, July 10th to July 13th, 2017]
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Bräuninger, Thomas, Thomas Däubler and Jean-Benoit Pilet
(2016):
The Personal Vote in Preferential List PR: Incumbency and Voters' Decision-Making.
[10th ECPR General Conference, Prague, September 07th to September 10th, 2016]
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Däubler, Thomas, Love Christensen and Lukáš Linek
(2016):
Parliamentary Activity Types, Re-Selection and the Personal Vote.
[24th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, Poznań, July 23rd to July 28th, 2016]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2016):
Personalization incentives and the choice of parliamentary activities.
[3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Munich, June 30th to July 02nd, 2016]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2015):
Legislative Review by Individual MPs.
[5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 25th to June 27th, 2015]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2015):
Parteienwettbewerb in Deutschland - Was wir mit Hilfe von IRT-Modellen neu aus den CMP/MARPOR-Daten lernen können.
[26. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, September 21st to September 25th, 2015]
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Rudolph, Lukas, and Thomas Däubler
(2015):
Holding Individual Representatives Accountable: The Role of Electoral Systems.
[World Regions Compared: Polity, Politics and Policy. DVPW Comparative Political Science Section Conference, Hamburg, February 25th to February 27th, 2015]
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Benoit, Kenneth, and Thomas Däubler
(2014):
Putting Text in Context: How to Estimate Better Left-Right Positions by Scaling Party Manifesto Data using Item Response Theory.
[“Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts” Conference, WZB Berlin, May 15th to May 16th, 2014]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2014):
Constituency Representation in Flexible List Systems.
[4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2014):
Constituency Representation in Flexible List Systems.
[110th APSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 28th to August 31st, 2014]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2014):
Intra-Party Choice and Electoral Accountability.
[4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014]
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Rudolph, Lukas, and Thomas Däubler
(2014):
Intra-Party Choice and Electoral Accountability.
[110th APSA Annual Meeting, Washington DC, August 28th to August 31st, 2014]
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Däubler, Thomas, and Simon Hix
(2013):
Ballot structure and party loyalty in European Parliament roll call votes.
[109th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il., August 29th to September 01st, 2013]
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Däubler, Thomas, and Simon Hix
(2013):
Ballot structure and party loyalty in European Parliament roll call votes.
[3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013]
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Däubler, Thomas, and Kenneth Benoit
(2013):
Explaining the Content of Party Manifestos.
[109th American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Il., August 29th to September 01st, 2013]
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Däubler, Thomas, and Kenneth Benoit
(2013):
The empirical determinants of manifesto content.
[3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013]
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Däubler, Thomas
(2013):
Who buys election manifestos? Analysing manifesto sales before the General Elections in England, 2005 and 2010.
[63rd Political Studies Association Annual International Conference, Cardiff, March 25th to March 27th, 2013]
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Däubler, Thomas, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller
(2012):
Battle over bases: German military reform between partisan interests and economic constraints.
[European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Berlin, June 21st to June 23rd, 2012]
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Däubler, Thomas, and Séin Ó Muineacháin
(2012):
Candidate versus party-based campaigning under PR-STV. Fiánna Fail and Fine Gael candidates in the 2011 Irish General Election.
[Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Londonderry/Derry, October 19th to October 21st, 2012]
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Bräuninger, Thomas, Martin Brunner and Thomas Däubler
(2011):
Parliamentary Activity as Pursuit of Re-Selection and Re-Election: Do MPs Gain from Bill Initiation in Preferential List Electoral Systems?.
[European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, Dublin, June 16th to June 18th, 2011]
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Bräuninger, Thomas, Martin Brunner and Thomas Däubler
(2009):
Parliamentary Activity in Preferential List Systems: Initiation of Private Members' Bills as Pursuit of Re-Selection and Re-Election?.
[5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 10th to September 12th, 2009]
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