Our professorship focuses on methods in the social sciences.
According to the Greek sense of the word, the term methods refers to
"ways". Ways can be very different: Sometimes you choose a different
path than the one you are used to, sometimes you take a detour, and
sometimes you stand at a fork in the road. And so our website would like
to show you which paths we take at the professorship:
Our research
is primarily devoted to methodological topics such as Qualitative
Comparative Analysis (QCA) and comparative case studies, but we also
work substantively on protest movements, interest groups, Italy, and
issues of democracy and autocracy.
Our publications include peer-reviewed articles as well as monographs and textbooks and handbooks.
Our teaching is aimed at bachelor's and master's students in political science and sociology, with a special emphasis on basic training in methods.
Our team is composed of people with different (university) biographies and is characterized by mutual respect and good cooperation.
