Mannheim Centre for European Social Research

Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung Research on Politics and Societies

About the MZES

Media coverage Dr. Sandra Morgenstern commenting on the migration events in Ceuta DIE ZEIT interview

Project news Do citizens’ assemblies strengthen trust in democracy? Funding awarded to Dr. Antonia May and colleagues

Other news EASP Early Career Award for Dr. Jana Berkessel

Migration and Integration

Social Inequality

Citizens and Democracy

Social Data and Methods

Communication and Digitalisation

New Publications

Journal referenced in the SSCI

Jana Kuhlemann, Lena Arnold, Irena Kogan, Marlene Bauer

Different Paths, Shared Beliefs? Religion and Partnership Formation Among Young Male Refugees and Descendants of Immigrants in Germany

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion

Jana Kuhlemann, Yuliya Kosyakova

Sports as a gateway – and a glass ceiling? Physical leisure and refugee employment trajectories

European Journal for Sport and Society

Journal referenced in the SSCI

M. Debus, Michael Imre, Hanna Bäck

The Cost of Compromise: How Coalition Participation Shapes Party Membership

Party Politics

Journal referenced in the SSCI

M. Debus, Jale Tosun, Nils Schütz, Elisabeth Maikranz

The growing gap between churches and Christian democratic parties: evidence from Germany

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Events

Tue 08.09.2026

MZES Speaker Series

Governing the Spending of European Union Money: Member States and the Recovery and Resilience Facility

Tiziano Zgaga (LMU München)

Tue 15.09.2026

MZES Speaker Series

Individualism and Centralized Political Personalism

Gideon Rahat (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Tue 22.09.2026

MZES Speaker Series

Party Positioning on Immigration and Immigrant Voting

Jeyhun Alizade (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)

Tue 22.09.2026

MZES Speaker Series

tba

Oscar Stuhler (Northwestern University)

Tue 29.09.2026

MZES Speaker Series

tba

Nico Sonntag (Universität Mainz)

all upcoming events

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News Highlights

Medienresonanz

"They feel they have no significance"

DIE ZEIT interview with Prof. Marc Helbling

Sandra Morgenstern by Sarah Haenle Fotografie

Sonstige Meldungen

Bojanovsky Research Prize goes to Dr. Sandra Morgenstern

Information campaigns to reduce irregular migration

Sonstige Meldungen

Prof. Bernhard Ebbinghaus: presentation on pensions in front of EU parliamentary committee

Sonstige Meldungen

Lorenz-von-Stein Award for Dr. Leah von der Heyde

Dissertation on Large Language Models (LLMs)

Sonstige Meldungen

Freedom of Speech in Germany: Subjective Perceptions and Actual Experiences.

GIP Policy Brief by Prof. Richard Traunmüller