Konstantin Gavras, M.A.

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Project staff
konstantin.gavras [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
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+49-621-181-2801
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+49-621-181-2866
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+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZE
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:310
68159  Mannheim

Projects

B3 Democratic Multilevel Governance and Europeanization

B3.1839
Fighting Together, Moving Apart? European Common Defence and Shared Security in an Age of Brexit and Trump

Publications

Monographs

Schoen, Harald, Hans Rattinger, Maria Preißinger, Konstantin Gavras and Markus Steinbrecher (2017): Election Campaigns and Voter Decision-Making in a Multi-Party System: The 2009 and 2013 German Federal Elections. Baden-Baden: Nomos. [Studien zur Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung; 33] more

Journal Articles

Gavras, Konstantin, and Jan Karem Höhne (In Press): Evaluating political parties: criterion validity of open questions with requests for text and voice answers. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, (publ. online before print). more
Wuttke, Alexander, Konstantin Gavras and Harald Schoen (In Press): Have Europeans Grown Tired of Democracy? New Evidence from 18 Consolidated Democracies, 1981-2018. British Journal of Political Science. more
Gärtner, Lea, Konstantin Gavras and Harald Schoen (2020): What tips the scales? Disentangling the mechanisms underlying post-electoral gains and losses in democratic support. Electoral Studies, 67, issue October, (article: 102210). more
Wuttke, Alexander, Konstantin Gavras and Harald Schoen (2020): Leader of the free world or pioneer in democracy’s decline? Examining the democratic deconsolidation hypothesis on the mass level in East and West Germany. Research and Politics, 7, issue 1, (e-only). more
Gavras, Konstantin (2017): Book Review: Martijn Koster, Rivke Jaffe and Anouk de Koning (eds), Citizenship Agendas in and beyond the Nation-State. Political Studies Review, 15, issue 4, pp. 652. more

Book Chapters

Schoen, Harald, and Konstantin Gavras (2019): Eher anhaltende Polarisierung als vorübergehende Verstimmung: Die Flüchtlingskrise und die Bürgerurteile über die Große Koalition zwischen 2013 und 2017. Pp. 17-37 in: Reimut Zohlnhöfer, Thomas Saalfeld (Eds.) Zwischen Stillstand, Politikwandel und Krisenmanagement: eine Bilanz der Regierung Merkel 2013-2017. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Blumenstiel, Jan Eric, and Konstantin Gavras (2015): Ursachen und Konsequenzen ambivalenter Einstellungen. Pp. 418-443 in: Thorsten Faas, Cornelia Frank, Harald Schoen (Eds.) Politische Psychologie. Baden-Baden: Nomos. more

Papers / Reports

Gavras, Konstantin, Thomas J. Scotto, Jason Reifler, Stephanie Hofmann, Catarina Thomson, Matthias Mader and Harald Schoen (2020): NATO and CSDP: Party and Public Positioning in Germany and France. Rom [NDC Policy Brief; June 2020] more

Conference Presentations

Gärtner, Lea, Konstantin Gavras and Harald Schoen (2020): Up and Down With Voters’ Democratic Support: Disentangling the Causal Mechanisms of Winner-Loser Effects in a Multi-Party System. [Jahrestagung des DVPW-Arbeitskreises „Wahlen und politische Einstellungen“, (virtual conference), November 12th to November 13th, 2020] more
Gavras, Konstantin, Matthias Mader, Tom Scotto, Stephanie Hofmann, Jason Reifler, Catarina Thomson and Harald Schoen (2020): Neue Bedrohungen, neue Sicherheitsarchitektur? Individuelle Bedrohungswahrnehmungen und Einstellungen zur internationalen Sicherheitsarchitektur in Deutschland, Frankreich, Großbritannien und Italien. [Jahrestagung des DVPW-Arbeitskreises „Wahlen und politische Einstellungen“, (virtual conference), November 12th to November 13th, 2020] more
Gavras, Konstantin, Jan Karem Höhne, Harald Schoen and Annelies G. Blom (2020): New Avenues in Survey Data Collection. Investigating Linguistic and Content Characteristics of Text and Voice Answers to Political Attitude Questions. [MaSIR Talk, (virtual), October 27th, 2020] more
Gavras, Konstantin (2020): Politicizing Issues in Times of European Integration: A QTA Approach on Political Communication in an Ever Closer Union. [Online COMPTEXT Conference, (virtual conference), May 14th, 2020] more
Höhne, Jan Karem, Annelies G. Blom, Konstantin Gavras, Melanie Revilla and Leonie Rettig (2020): Open Question Formats: Comparing the Suitability of Requests for Text and Voice Answers in Smartphone Surveys. [BigSurv20, (virtual conference), November 06th, 2020] more
Gavras, Konstantin, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen (2019): Anführer der freien Welt oder Vorbote demokratischer Dekonsolidierung? Die Entwicklung der Demokratieunterstützung in Ost- und West-Deutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung. [Tagung des DVPW-Arbeitskreises "Wahlen und politische Einstellungen", Mannheim, May 09th to May 10th, 2019] more
Gavras, Konstantin, Matthias Mader and Harald Schoen (2019): Convergence or Divergence in Strategic Cultures in Europe since the End of the Cold War? - A Quantitative Text Analysis of Strategy Papers. [CEEISA-ISA 2019 Joint International Conference, Belgrad, June 17th to June 19th, 2019] more
Gavras, Konstantin (2019): The European Common Security and Defense Policy in Times of Public Attention - Linking Masses and Elites Through Multi-Dimensional Communication Flows. [Elections, Public Opinion and Parties (EPOP) Conference, Glasgow, September 13th to September 15th, 2019] more
Gavras, Konstantin (2019): Understanding Public Opinion towards the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) – An Empirical Examination of Attitude Formation in High Politics. [ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw, September 04th to September 07th, 2019] more
Gavras, Konstantin (2019): Voice Recording in Mobile Web Surveys. Evidence From An Experiment on Open-Ended Responses to the 'Final Comment'. [General Online Research (GOR) Conference, Köln, March 06th to March 08th, 2019] more
Gavras, Konstantin, and David Hilpert (2018): Tracking Political Shifts During the Electoral Cycle - A Latent Variable Approach Using Press Releases. [The 76th Annual Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Chicago, April 05th to April 08th, 2018] more
Gavras, Konstantin, Matthias Mader and Harald Schoen (2018): Understanding Support for the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy. [Workshop "Understanding Policy Preferences Using Experimental Methods", ZEW, Mannheim, December 17th to December 18th, 2018] more