Dirk Leuffen

former staff member
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Research Interests

  • French Foreign and European policy-making
  • The political system of France (elections, parties, executiv
  • The political system of the European Union
  • Franco-German relations

Projects

RP5 B2 Political Parties and Political Linkage

The French Study: Political Leaders in the Super-Election of 2002 in France

RP5 B4 Governance in Europe

Does Cohabitation Matter? French European Policy-Making in the Context of Divided Government

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

Leuffen, Dirk (2007): Cohabitation und Europapolitik. Politische Entscheidungsprozesse im Mehrebenensystem. Baden-Baden: Nomos. [Regieren in Europa; 14] more

Journal Articles

Leuffen, Dirk (2006): Bienvenu or Access Denied? Recruiting French Political Elites for In-Depth Interviews. French Politics, 3, issue 4, pp. 342-347. more
Leuffen, Dirk (2006): Wenn zwei sich streiten, freut sich der Dritte? Divided Government im dynamischen Mehrebenensystem der EU. Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, 13, issue 2, pp. 201-227. more
Gschwend, Thomas, and Dirk Leuffen (2005): Divided We Stand - Unified We Govern? Cohabitation and Regime Voting in the 2002 French Elections. British Journal of Political Science, 35, pp. 691-712. more
Leuffen, Dirk, and Stephan Weichert (2005): Versendetes Kulturgut. Plädoyer für ein audiovisuelles Medienarchiv. Medienheft (online), Kritik, issue 21.2.05. more

Book Chapters

Leuffen, Dirk, and Sander Luitwieler (2006): Domesticated Wolves? Length of Membership, State Size and Preferences at the European Convention. Pp. 151-178 in: Ron Holzhacker, Markus Haverland (Eds.) European Research Reloaded: Cooperation and Integration among Europeanized States. Dordrecht: Kluwer. more
Leuffen, Dirk (2006): Verbände als Indikator variabler Mitgliedermobilisierung: Mancur Olson. Pp. 93-110 in: Martin Sebaldt, Alexander Straßner (Eds.) Klassiker der Verbändeforschung. Wiesbaden: VS. more
Leuffen, Dirk, and Stephan A. Weichert (2005): Wider den Fluch der Flüchtigkeit. Plädoyer für ein audiovisuelles Medienarchiv. Pp. 365-389 in: Michael Beuther, Stephan A. Weichert (Eds.) Die Selbstbeobachtungsfalle. Grenzen und Grenzgänge des Medienjournalismus. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. more
Gschwend, Thomas, and Dirk Leuffen (2004): Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Electoral Dilemmas and Turnout in the 2002 French Legislative Elections. Pp. 155-177 in: Michael S. Lewis-Beck (Ed.) The French Voter: Before and After the 2002 Elections. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave. more

MZES Working Papers

Gschwend, Thomas, and Dirk Leuffen (2003): When Voters Choose Regimes: The Issue of Cohabitation in the French Elections of 2002. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 63] more

Thesis

Leuffen, Dirk (2005): Cohabitation und Europapolitik. Politische Entscheidungsprozesse zwischen Konflikt und Kooperation. Mannheim: Universität Mannheim. more

Papers / Reports

Leuffen, Dirk, and Stephan Weichert (2005): Schmerzliche Gedächtnislücken. Fehlende öffentliche Archive für Radio und Fernsehen. more
Leuffen, Dirk (2002): Presented paper: Europeanisation and the Probabilities of Power during Divided Government in France. more
Leuffen, Dirk (2002): Presented Paper: La Cohabitation – Negotiation Advantage or Constraint?. more

Conference Presentations

Leuffen, Dirk, and Luitwieler Sander (2004): Domesticated Wolves? Length of Membership, State Size and Preference Formation at the European Convention. [European Research Colloquium, Utrecht School of Governance, May 06th to May 08th, 2004] more
Leuffen, Dirk, and Frank Schimmelfennig (2004): Efficient and Legitimate Governance in the 'New' European Union. [Netherland's Institute of Government Annual Work Conference 2004 / European Research Colloquium, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, October 29th to October 30th, 2004] more