Prof. Dr. Jochen Müller

Former staff member, External Fellow
jochen.mueller [at] uni-greifswald.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University of Greifswald
Greifswald
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Greifswald
Greifswald

Projects

B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions

B2.1832
The Populist Challenge in Parliament

B3 Democratic Multilevel Governance and Europeanization

B3.1856
Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in Multilevel Systems

RP7 B3 Democratic Multi-level Governance

Party Competition in Multi-level Systems: An Analysis of Programmatic Strategy of Parties, Government Formation and Policy Making in European States

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

Bräuninger, Thomas, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2020): Parteienwettbewerb in den deutschen Bundesländern. 2., vollständig überarbeitete Auflage, Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more

Editions

Däubler, Thomas, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (Eds.) (2019): Democratic Representation in Multi-level Systems : the Vices and Virtues of Regionalisation. Abingdon: Routledge. [West European Politics Series] more
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 ] more

Journal Articles

Gross, Martin, Jochen Müller, Christian Stecker and Marc Debus (In Press): Navigating complexity: exploring the changing dynamics of coalition avoidance in Germany, 1946-2023. Regional and Federal Studies, (publ. online before print). more
Jankowski, Michael, Anna-Sophie Kurella, Christian Stecker, Andreas Blätte, Thomas Bräuninger, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Susanne Pickel (2022): Die Positionen der Parteien zur Bundestagswahl 2021: Ergebnisse des Open Expert Surveys. Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly, 63, pp. 53-72. more
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2019): The Unequal Distribution of Speaking Time in Parliamentary-Party Groups. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 44, issue 1, pp. 163-193. more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2019): Party Competition and Government Formation in Germany: Business as Usual or New Patterns?. German Politics, 28, issue 1, pp. 80-100. more
Däubler, Thomas, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2018): Assessing democratic representation in multi‐level democracies. West European Politics, 41, issue 3, pp. 541-564. more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2016): Modeling Preferences Using Roll Call Votes in Parliamentary Systems. Political Analysis, 24, issue 2, pp. 189-210. more
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2015): Convictions and Signals in Parliamentary Speeches: Dáil Éireann Debates on Abortion in 2001 and 2013. Irish Political Studies, 30, issue 2, pp. 199-219. more
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2015): Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policy Making. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 40, issue 2, pp. 179-210. more
Klingelhöfer, Tristan, and Jochen Müller (2015): Consociational and rational coalitions: Norm-based government formation and the case of the Dutch provinces. Acta Politica, 50, issue 1, pp. 101-124. more
Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2014): Who takes the parliamentary floor? The role of gender in speech-making in the Swedish Riksdag. Political Research Quarterly, 67, issue 3, pp. 504-518. more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2014): Expected utility or learned familiarity? The formation of voters' coalition preferences. Electoral Studies, 34, issue 1, pp. 54-67. more
Müller, Jochen, and Christian Stecker (2014): Zur Aussagekraft von Idealpunktschätzungen in parlamentarischen Systemen. Eine Analyse potentieller Auswahlverzerrungen. Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, 8, pp. 85-111. more
Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Henry Bäck (2013): Regional Government Formation in Varying Multilevel Contexts: A Comparison of Eight European Countries. Regional Studies, 47, issue 3, pp. 368-387. more
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Das legislative Verhalten von Bundestagsabgeordneten zwischen persönlichen Charakteristika, Wahlkreisinteressen und Parteilinie: Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzung um die Präimplantationsdiagnostik. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 23, issue 2, pp. 177-211. more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2013): Do Voters’ Coalition Preferences Affect Government Formation?. West European Politics, 36, issue 5, pp. 1007-1028. more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2013): The programmatic development of CDU and CSU since reunification: Incentives and constraints for changing policy positions in the German multi-level system. German Politics, 22, issue 1-2, pp. 151-171. more
Müller, Jochen (2013): On a Short Leash? Sub-National Party Positions between Regional Context and National Party Unity. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, 23, issue 2, pp. 177-199. more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2012): Bewertung möglicher Regierungen oder Spiegel des politischen Wettbewerbs? Determinanten der Koalitionspräferenzen der Wähler in den Bundesländern von 1990 bis 2009. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, 22, issue 2, pp. 159-186. more
Müller, Jochen, and Marc Debus (2012): „Second order“-Effekte und Determinanten der individuellen Wahlentscheidung bei Landtagswahlen: Eine Analyse des Wahlverhaltens im deutschen Mehrebenensystem. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft, 6, issue 1, pp. 17-47. more
Debus, Marc, Jochen Müller and Peter Obert (2011): Europeanisation and government formation in multi-level systems: Evidence from the Czech Republic. European Union Politics, 12, issue 3, pp. 381-403. more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2011): Government Formation After the 2009 Federal Election: The Remake of the Christian–Liberal Coalition Under New Patterns of Party Competition. German Politics, 20, issue 1, pp. 164-185. more
Giger, Nathalie, Jochen Müller and Marc Debus (2011): Die Bedeutung des regionalen Kontexts für die programmatische Positionierung von Schweizer Kantonalparteien. Swiss Political Science Review, 17, issue 3, pp. 259-285. more
Müller, Jochen (2009): The Impact of the Socio-Economic Context on the Länder Parties' Policy Positions. German Politics, 18, issue 3, pp. 365-384. more

Book Chapters

Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2020): Soziale Konflikte, sozialer Wandel, sozialer Kontext und Wählerverhalten. Pp. 437-457 in: Thorsten Faas, Oscar W. Gabriel, Jürgen Maier (Eds.) Politikwissenschaftliche Einstellungs- und Verhaltensforschung. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2019): Die programmatischen Positionen der deutschen Parteien zur Bundestagswahl 2017: Ergebnisse einer Expertenbefragung. Pp. 93-113 in: Marc Debus, Markus Tepe, Jan Sauermann (Eds.) Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie Band 11. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Müller, Jochen, and Marc Debus (2016): Koalitionsoptionen und Lagerdenken aus Wählerperspektive. Eine Analyse anhand der Parteiensympathien der Bundesbürger von 1977 bis 2011. Pp. 119-148 in: Sigrid Roßteutscher, Thorsten Faas, Ulrich Rosar (Eds.) Bürger und Wähler im Wandel der Zeit: 25 Jahre Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung in Deutschland. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2013): Lohnt sich der Sprung über den Lagergraben? Existenz und Effekte politischer Lager im bundesdeutschen Parteienwettbewerb. Pp. 259-278 in: Frank Decker, Eckhard Jesse (Eds.) Die deutsche Koalitionsdemokratie vor der Bundestagswahl 2013. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more

MZES Working Papers

Bräuninger, Thomas, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Estimating Policy Positions of Political Actors Across Countries and Time. Mannheim [Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung: Arbeitspapiere; 153] more

Conference Presentations

Blätte, Andreas, Marcel Lewandowsky, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2019): Amusement, laughter and applause: Alternative sources for ideal point estimation?. [77th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, April 04th to April 07th, 2019] more
Blätte, Andreas, Marina König, Marcel Lewandowsky, Jochen Müller, Christian Stecker and Tobias Weiß (2019): Nach Köln…“ – Die Flüchtlingskrise, die Kölner Silvesterereignisse und der parlamentarische Diskurs. [Workshop: The Established Populists. The implications of the AfD’s success, MZES, Mannheim, May 24th, 2019] more
Blätte, Andreas, Marcel Lewandowsky, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2019): Policing, Muslims and Populism Parliamentary Discourse in Germany during the European Migrant Crisis. [77th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, April 04th to April 07th, 2019] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2018): Business as usual? Party competition and government formation in Germany following the refugee crisis. [Jahrestagung des DVPW Arbeitskreises Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, Oldenburg, May 31st to June 01st, 2018] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2018): Jamaica, minority government or grand coalition? Government formation after the Bundestagwahl 2017. [44th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP), GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, May 29th to May 30th, 2018] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2018): Party Competition and Government Formation in Germany: Business as Usual or New Patterns?. [27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, September 25th to September 28th, 2018] more
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2017): Analyzing the Apportionment of Speaking Time in Parliamentary Party Groups: Does the Electoral Cycle Matter?. [4th Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Basel, June 29th to July 01st, 2017] more
Debus, Marc, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2017): Group-serving bias and confirmation bias von Wählern im Spiegel der Politbarometerdaten. [Wählerverhalten und Parteiensystem im Wandel - 40 Jahre Politbarometer. Symposium anlässlich des 40-jährigen Bestehens des Politbarometers, Universität Mannheim, November 23rd, 2017] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2017): Parteienwettbewerb und Responsivität politischer Akteure in Mehrebenensystemen. [Workshop "Responsivität", University of Duisburg-Essen, January 21st, 2017] more
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2016): The Unequal Distribution of Speaking Time in European Parliamentary Party Groups. [74th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 07th to April 10th, 2016] more
Baumann, Markus, and Jochen Müller (2015): Timing Diversity: The Time-Dependent Logic of Parliamentary Debate. [9th ECPR General Conference, Université de Montréal, August 26th to August 29th, 2015] more
Debus, Marc, Thomas Bräuninger and Jochen Müller (2015): Forecasting coalition formation in Germany. [Joint MZES-SFB Workshop ‘Political Forecasting’, MZES, Mannheim, December 18th, 2015] more
Müller, Jochen, and Christian Stecker (2015): Disentangling parties' policy shifts: "Law and Order" in European Manifestos. [26. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, September 21st to September 25th, 2015] more
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2014): Campaigning in the House: The Unequal Distribution of Speaking Time in European Parliamentary Party Groups. [4th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Edinburgh, June 19th to June 21st, 2014] more
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2014): Campaigning in the House: The Unequal Distribution of Speaking Time in European Parliamentary Party Groups. [8th ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, September 03rd to September 06th, 2014] more
Klingelhöfer, Tristan, Jochen Müller and Marc Debus (2014): Scrutinizing the Assumption of Consistency Benefits in Research on Multi-Level Party Politics.. [21st International Conference of Europeanists, Washington D.C., March 14th to March 16th, 2014] more
Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Who is allowed to take the floor? Individual and party-level determinants of the number of legislative speeches delivered by Swedish MPs. [Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, March 25th to March 27th, 2013] more
Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Who is allowed to take the floor? The role of saliency and gender when explaining speech-making in the Swedish Riksdag. [71st National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 11th to April 14th, 2013] more
Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Who takes the parliamentary floor? Party- and gender-specific issue attention in speech-making in the Swedish Riksdag. [European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013] more
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Beyond Party Unity: MPs' Personal Traits and Legislative Behavior on Moral Policy Issues. [ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Mainz, March 12th to March 15th, 2013] more
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Giving Signals in Parliamentary Speeches: An Analysis of the Debates on Abortion Legislation in Ireland 2001 and 2013. [7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, September 04th to September 07th, 2013] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2013): Strategic voting in roll calls. Pitfalls of ideal point estimation in parliamentary systems. [71st Annual Conference - Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 11th to April 14th, 2013] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker (2013): Strategic voting in roll calls. Pitfalls of ideal point estimation in parliamentary systems. [3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013] more
Obert, Peter, and Jochen Müller (2013): The thresholds of representation and relevance and their implications for the survival of new parties in the context of Czech regional elections. [ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po, Bordeaux, September 04th to September 07th, 2013] more
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] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2012): Gibt es politische Lager? Lohnt sich der Sprung über den Lagergraben? Eine Analyse auf Grundlage der programmatischen Positionen der deutschen Landesparteien von 1990 bis 2011. [Tagung "Die deutsche Koalitionsdemokratie vor der Bundestagswahl 2013", Tutzing, January 13th to January 15th, 2012] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2012): Koalitionsaussagen, Policy-Positionen der Landesparteien oder die Bundespolitik: Welche Faktoren bestimmen die Koalitionspräferenzen der Wähler in den Bundesländern von 1990 bis 2009?. [Jubiläumstagung 25 Jahre DVPW-Arbeitskreis „Wahlen und Politische Einstellungen“, Frankfurt, June 28th to June 29th, 2012] more
Müller, Jochen, and Christian Stecker (2012): Dimensionality and legislative voting. Evidence from the German Länder. [4th ECPR Graduate Conference, Bremen, July 04th to July 06th, 2012] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2011): Coalition preferences of voters and government formation in European multi-level systems: Evidence from Germany. [6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 25th to August 27th, 2011] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2011): The programmatic development of CDU and CSU since reunification: Incentives and constraints for changing policy positions in the German multi-level system. [The CDU: Continuities, Challenges and Changes, Birmingham, June 24th, 2011] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2011): Why Voters like some Coalitions and dislike Others: Evidence from the German Multilevel System. [European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Dublin, June 16th to June 18th, 2011] more
Müller, Jochen, Nathalie Giger and Marc Debus (2011): Die Bedeutung des regionalen Kontexts für die programmatische Positionierung von Schweizer Kantonalparteien. [Dreiländertagung von SVPW, DVPW und ÖGPW, Basel, January 13th to January 14th, 2011] more
Müller, Jochen, and Marc Debus (2011): Government Formation and Portfolio Allocation: Evidence from Scotland and Wales. [Political Studies Association Annual Conference, London, April 18th to April 21st, 2011] more
Müller, Jochen, and Christian Stecker (2011): Political Dimensionality in the German state parliaments. [Dreiländertagung von SVPW, DVPW und ÖGPW, Basel, January 13th to January 14th, 2011] more
Müller, Jochen, and Marc Debus (2011): The 'Second-orderness’ of Voting Behaviour in State Elections: Evidence from the German Multi-level System. [Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle, September 01st to September 04th, 2011] more
Müller, Jochen (2011): The Dynamics of Party Competition at the Regional Level: Analysing Policy Shifts in the German States. [Political Studies Association Annual Conference, London, April 18th to April 21st, 2011] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2010): Assessing the implications of policy positions on the sub-national level: Evidence from nine European countries. [Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Edinburgh, March 29th to April 01st, 2010] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2010): Assessing the implications of policy preferences of political parties on the sub-national level: Evidence from nine European countries. [68th National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 22nd to April 25th, 2010] more
Debus, Marc, and Jochen Müller (2010): Regional Government Formation in Varying Multi-Level Contexts: A Comparison of Eight European Countries. [Towards a Regional Political Science, Edinburgh, June 23rd to June 25th, 2010] more
Müller, Jochen (2010): Party competition at the sub-national level. Different game, same rules?. [3rd ECPR Graduate Conference, Dublin, August 30th to September 01st, 2010] more
Müller, Jochen (2009): Party position taking in multilevel systems – between regional context and intra-party constraints: An analysis of German Land parties’ positions. [ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 10th to September 12th, 2009] more