Dr. Benjamin G. Engst

picture Benjamin Engst
External Fellow and Project Director
engst [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-3231
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
B 6, 30-32
Room:322
68159  Mannheim

Projects

B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions

B2.2021
Get the Word Out. The Formation and Political Impact of Judicial Opinion-Writing

RP9 B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions

RP9
The Federal Constitutional Court as a Veto Player

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.)

Monographs

Engst, Benjamin G. (2021): The Two Faces of Judicial Power. Dynamics of Judicial-Political Bargaining. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. more

Journal Articles

Engst, Benjamin G., David M. Grundmanns and Thomas Gschwend (In Press): How to place non-majoritarian institutions and political actors in a common policy space: Spatial modeling of court–executive interactions. The Journal of Politics, (publ. online before print). more
Arnold, Christian, Benjamin G. Engst and Thomas Gschwend (2023): Scaling Court Decisions with Citation Networks. Journal of Law and Courts, 11, issue 1, pp. 25-44. more
Garwe, Christoph, Benjamin G. Engst, Yannick Stawicki and Christoph Hönnige (2022): Temporal Strategies. Governments Alter the Pace of Legislation in Bicameralism Depending on Electoral Expectations. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 47, issue 1, pp. 127-156. more
Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend and Sebastian Sternberg (2020): Die Besetzung des Bundes­verfassungs­gerichts. Ein Spiegelbild gesellschaft­licher Präferenzen. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 61, issue 1, pp. 39-60. more
Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend, Nils Schaks, Sebastian Sternberg and Caroline Wittig (2017): Zum Einfluss der Parteinähe auf das Abstimmungsverhalten der Bundesverfassungsrichter - eine quantitative Untersuchung. JuristenZeitung, 72, issue 17, pp. 816-826. more
Sternberg, Sebastian, Thomas Gschwend, Caroline Wittig and Benjamin G. Engst (2015): Zum Einfluss der öffentlichen Meinung auf Entscheidungen des Bundesverfassungsgerichts: Eine Analyse von abstrakten Normenkontrollen sowie Bund-Länder-Streitigkeiten 1974 – 2010. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 56, issue 4, pp. 570-598. more

Book Chapters

Engst, Benjamin G., and Thomas Gschwend (2024): Observational Databases. Pp. 247-264 in: Lee Epstein, Gunnar Grendstad, Urška Šadl (Eds.) The Oxford handbook of comparative judicial behaviour. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more

Web Publications

Sohnius, Marie-Lou, Benjamin G. Engst and Thomas Gschwend (2020): Kontinuität am Bundesverfassungsgericht? Wie die Öffentlichkeit Voßkuhles und Masings Nachfolger bewertet, RechtsEmpirie Blog, 2020 (13.05.2020) more

Conference Presentations

Engst, Benjamin G., and Thomas Gschwend (2024): Citizens' commitment to judicial independence: A discrete choice experiment in nine European countries. [14th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Köln, July 04th to July 06th, 2024] more
Engst, Benjamin G., David M. Grundmanns and Thomas Gschwend (2023): The power of words: Strategic judicial opinion-writing to influence politics and society. [13th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Glasgow, June 22nd to June 24th, 2023] more
Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend and Christoph Hönnige (2022): Who should be selected to the highest courts? Evidence from Survey Experiments in France, Germany and the United States. [ECPR General Conference, Innsbruck, August 22nd to August 26th, 2022] more
Engst, Benjamin G., David Grundmans and Thomas Gschwend (2021): Give them the word, they sharpen the sword - How high courts use language to exert political and societal power. [15th General Conference of the ECPR, (virtual conference), August 30th to September 03rd, 2021] more
Engst, Benjamin G., and Thomas Gschwend (2020): Attitudes on Judicial Independence: A Discrete Choice Experiment in Four EU Member States. [10th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, (virtual conference), June 18th to June 20th, 2020] more
Arnold, Christian, Benjamin G. Engst and Thomas Gschwend (2019): Scaling Lower Court Decisions. [Conference on Data Science and Law, Zurich, June 07th to June 08th, 2019] more
Engst, Benjamin G., David M. Grundmanns and Thomas Gschwend (2019): Judicial Positions on Political Reform. Designing common policy scores from judicial text. [9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Belfast, June 20th to June 22nd, 2019] more
Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend, Christoph Hönnige and Caroline Wittig (2019): The Constitutional Court Database. Conceptualizing a relational database. [Workshop "Multi-User Databases on Judicial Decision-Making", Florence, October 10th to October 11th, 2019] more
Engst, Benjamin G., Thomas Gschwend and Sebastian Sternberg (2017): Public Support for Judicial Nominations: Evidence from a Discrete-Choice Experiment. [7th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Milan, June 22nd to June 24th, 2017] more
Hönnige, Christoph, Thomas Gschwend, Benjamin G. Engst and Caroline Wittig (2015): Constitutional Courts as Veto Players: Composition, Absorption and Decisions at the German Court. [9th ECPR General Conference, Université de Montréal, August 26th to August 29th, 2015] more
Hönnige, Christoph, Benjamin G. Engst, Caroline Wittig and Thomas Gschwend (2015): Demand for Change: Institutional Features Empowering Judges as Policy Makers. [73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 16th to April 19th, 2015] more
Engst, Benjamin G., Caroline Wittig, Christoph Hönnige and Thomas Gschwend (2014): Validating own Interests through Invalidating: Judges Shaping Policy. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014] more
Hönnige, Christoph, Thomas Gschwend, Caroline Wittig and Benjamin G. Engst (2014): The German Constitutional Court - Conceptualizing an Innovative Database. [110th APSA Annual Meeting 'Politics after the revolution', Washington D.C., August 28th to August 31st, 2014] more
Hönnige, Christoph, Thomas Gschwend, Benjamin G. Engst and Caroline Wittig (2014): The German Constitutional Court as Veto Player - Composition, Decisions and the Absorption Hypothesis. [23nd IPSA World Congress of Political Science, Montreal, July 19th to July 25th, 2014] more
Engst, Benjamin G., Caroline Wittig, Christoph Hönnige and Thomas Gschwend (2013): Courts as Veto Players: A Game Theoretic Model. [7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, September 04th to September 07th, 2013] more
Engst, Benjamin G., Caroline Wittig, Christoph Hönnige and Thomas Gschwend (2013): Courts as Veto Players: A Game Theoretic Model. [41st ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Mainz, March 11th to March 16th, 2013] more