Dr. Alejandro Ecker

Alejandro Ecker
Former Project Director
alejandro.ecker [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Profile/Career

Projects

B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions

B2.1831
Intra-Party Politics and European Multiparty Governments
B2.1913
The Consequences of Bargaining Deadlock During Government Formation

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

Däubler, Thomas, Marc Debus and Alejandro Ecker (In Press): Party campaign statements and portfolio allocation in coalition governments. West European Politics, (publ. online before print). more
Bauer, Paul C., Alejandro Ecker, Michael Imre, Camille Landesvatter and Sonja Malich (2023): Who tweets, and how freely? Evidence from an elite survey among German politicians. Research & Politics, 10, issue 1, (e-only). more
Ecker, Alejandro, Marcelo Jenny, Wolfgang C. Müller and Katrin Praprotnik (2022): How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: a comparative analysis of the ‘left–right’and the ‘European integration’ dimensions. Party Politics, 28, issue 3, pp. 528-540. more
Plescia, Carolina, Alejandro Ecker and Thomas M. Meyer (2022): Do party supporters accept policy compromises in coalition governments?. European Journal of Political Research, 61, issue 1, pp. 214-229. more
Ecker, Alejandro, and Thomas M. Meyer (2020): Coalition bargaining duration in multiparty democracies. British Journal of Political Science, 50, issue 1, pp. 261-280. more
Ecker, Alejandro, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik and Martin Haselmayer (2020): Gender Bias in Asylum Adjudications: Evidence for Leniency toward Token Women. Sex Roles: a Journal of Research, 82, issue 1, pp. 117-126. more
Ecker, Alejandro, and Thomas M. Meyer (2019): Fairness and qualitative portfolio allocation in multiparty governments. Public Choice, 181, issue 3-4, pp. 309–330. more

Book Chapters

Debus, Marc, Holger Döring and Alejandro Ecker (2021): Germany: From Stable Coalition Camps to New Complexity. Pp. 247-283 in: Torbjörn Bergman, Hanna Bäck, Johan Hellström (Eds.) Coalition Governments in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Müller, Wolfgang C., Marcelo Jenny, Alejandro Ecker, Nikolaus Eder and Isabella Skrivanek (2010): Der Elite–Public Gap in der europäischen Integration. Ein europäischer Vergleich. Pp. 115–130 in: Roman Pfefferle, Nadja Schmidt, Gerd Valchars (Eds.) Europa als Prozess: 15 Jahre Europäische Union und Österreich. Festschrift für Peter Gerlich. Vienna: LIT Verlag. more

Thesis

Ecker, Alejandro (2016): The party foundations of coalition politics in European parliamentary democracies. Vienna: University of Vienna. [Department of Government, University of Vienna; Dr. phil.] (cumulative) more

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] more
Imre, Michael, and Alejandro Ecker (2020): Measuring policy positions using 280 characters (or less) – Introducing a new data set on intra-party preference heterogeneity. [10th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, (virtual conference), June 18th to June 19th, 2020] more
Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer and Wolfgang C. Müller (2019): If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands: coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies. [ECPR General Conference, Wrocław, September 04th to September 07th, 2019] more
Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer and Wolfgang C. Müller (2019): If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands: coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies. [3-Länder-Tagung DVPW, ÖGPW, SVPW, Zürich, February 14th to February 16th, 2019] more
Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer and Wolfgang C. Müller (2019): If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands: coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies. [9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Belfast, June 20th to June 22nd, 2019] more
Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer and Wolfgang C. Müller (2019): If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands: coalition mood in European parliamentary democracies. [Summer School of ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Lisbon, July 23rd to August 02nd, 2019] more
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] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2018): Policy pay-offs in European multiparty governments. [Invited talk at the Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, November 15th, 2018] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2018): Portfolio allocation at the local level in Germany. [27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, September 25th to September 28th, 2018] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2018): Qualitative portfolio allocation in European multiparty governments. [114th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Boston, MA, August 30th to September 02nd, 2018] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2018): The effect of electoral coordination on voting behavior. [8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 21st to June 23rd, 2018] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2017): Coalition Governance and Cabinet Duration. [75th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 06th to April 09th, 2017] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2017): Fairness and Portfolio Allocation in Multiparty Governments. [7th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Milan, June 22nd to June 24th, 2017] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2017): Refugee Roulette on Crooked Tables? Examining Structural Biases in Austrian Asylum Adjudications. [11th ECPR General Conference, Oslo, September 06th to September 09th, 2017] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2017): The Architecture of Coalition Governance. [1st Regional Research and Networking Conference, Heidelberg, January 27th, 2017] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2016): Coalition bargaining duration in multiparty democracies. [6th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Brussels, June 23rd to June 25th, 2016] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2016): Coalition bargaining duration in multiparty democracies. [New Developments in Cabinet Coalition Research, Rome, April 29th to April 30th, 2016] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2016): Data on portfolio design - An overview of existing indicators and perspectives on future research. [The Politics of Portfolio Design, Vienna, March 10th to March 12th, 2016] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2016): The Architecture of Coalition Governance. [ECPR General Conference, Charles University, Prague, September 07th to September 10th, 2016] more
Ecker, Alejandro (2016): The Architecture of Coalition Governance. [Coalition government in the new millennium, Vienna, December 16th, 2016] more