Full Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Dept. of Political Science (joint appointment), Florida State University, 2/85 - 9/89 (tenure effective 8/86; on leave 8/88 - 9/89)
(Assoc.) Professor ("C2 - Lebenszeit"), Dept. of Social Sciences (Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften), Universität Frankfurt, 4/74 - 8/86 (on leave 1/1/81 - 8/31/86) -- Chairperson Division on Methodology, 1979-1980
Program Director (1/81-6/83), and Executive Director (7/83-2/85), Center for Survey Research & Methodology (ZUMA e.V.), Mannheim, Germany
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent in der Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld, 1971-74 (Instructor in the Dept. of Sociology)
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent in der
Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld, 1969-71 (Research
Associate, Dept. of Mathematics)
b) Offices in Professional
Organizations
Chairperson, Methodology Section of the
German
Sociological Association, 1981-1985
Secretary (1982-86) and President
(1986-90), Research Committee 'Logic and Methodology' (RC33) of the
International Sociological
Association.
Member, Research Coordinating Committee of
the
International Sociological Association, 1986-90
c) Review Work
Elected referee ("Fachgutachter") for
German
National Science Foundation ("DFG") in the field of 'Empirical Social
Research',
1983-1987.
Reviewer for Stiftung Volkswagenwerk
(Volkswagen Foundation) and for the National Science Foundation
(Political Science Program
and Sociology Program) as well as for various scholarly journals
including
Contemporary Sociology, Journal of Politics, Journal
of
the American Statistical Association, Politische
Vierteljahresschrift, and Public Opinion Quarterly.
d) Other
Co-founder of International Social Survey
Program
(ISSP) -- with Roger Jowell (SCPR
London),
James Davis, Peter Rossi, and Tom Smith (NORC Chicago/GSS) and Jonathan
Kelley
(Australia National University, Canberra) in 1983. The first in a
series
of modular questionnaires to be used (repeatedly) in conjunction with
general
social surveys in different nations ran in 1985. By 2002, 38 nations
have
joined ISSP.
Co-founder (with Helmut Wilke) and head of
program
committee of an international conference on applications of statistic
software
in 1982 and 1983 with participation of major software vendors such
SPSS,
SAS, etc. The conference was later named 'SoftStat'
and held biannually (last 1997) in Germany.
Member Advisory Board of German Youth
Institute
(DJI),
Munich, Germany, 1989-1998
Member Advisory Board of the "Youth
&
Politics" survey project at DJI, 1992-1999
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(thematic
overview)
(55) "Maximizing Utility at the Polls? - A Replication of Himmelweit's 'Consumer Model of Voting' with German Election Data of '83". European Journal of Political Research (14), 1986, p. 81-95
(58) "Persönliche Probleme und politische Präferenzen" in Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Max Kaase (Eds), Wahlen und politscher Prozeß (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1986), p.338-365
(59) "Wahl-und Surveyforschung". Politische Vierteljahresschrift (27), 1986, Special Issue (Sonderheft) No. 17, p. 194-208
(64) "The Utility of Surveys for Cross-National Research". Social Science Research (16), 1987, p. 229-244
(71) "Dynamics of Mass Political Support in Western Europe: Methodological Problems and Preliminary Findings" in Karlheinz Reif and Ronald Inglehart (eds), EUROBAROMETER - The Dynamics of European Opinion (London: Macmillan, 1991), p. 275-293.
(74) -with Russell Dalton (eds), Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies (London: Polity Press and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990).
(75) -with Russell Dalton, "New Social Movements and the Political Order: Inducing Change for Long-Term Stability?" in Dalton and Küchler (eds), Challenging the Political Order: New Social and Political Movements in Western Democracies (London: Polity Press and New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 277-300.
(76) "Ökologie statt Ökonomie: Wählerpräferenzen im Wandel" in Max Kaase and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds), Wahlen and Wähler: Analysen aus Anlaß der Bundestagswahl 1987 (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1990), p. 419-444.
(77) "Political Attitudes and Behavior in West Germany: Feats and Failures, Pitfalls and Promises of Survey Research". German Studies Review, DAAD Special Issue 1990, p. 153-171.
(78) "Wähler and Parteien: Das politische System in der Sicht des Bürgers". Manuscript integrated in Rudolf Wildenmann (in collaboration with Werner Kaltefleiter, Manfred Küchler, Alf Mintzel, Karl-Heinz Naßmacher, Hans-Martin Pawlowski, Thomas Poguntke, Gordon Smith, Gunnar Sjöblom and Ulrich Widmaier), Volksparteien -- Ratlose Riesen? (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 1989).
(79) "Public Perceptions of the Parties' Economic Competence" in Helmut Norpoth, Michael Lewis-Beck and Jean-Dominique Lafay (eds), Economics and Politics: The Calculus of Support (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), p.221-238.
(80) -with Cees van der Eijk and Hermann Schmitt, "The European Voters Study". IASSIST Quarterly (14), 1990, p.9-13.
(81) "Issues and Voting in the European Elections 1989". European Journal of Political Research (19), 1991, p.81-103.
(83) "The NSDAP vote in the Weimar Republic: An Assessment of the State-of-the-Art in View of Modern Electoral Research". Historical Social Research (17), 1992, p.22-52.
(84) "Voting Behavior" in Edgar F. and Marie L. Borgatta (eds), The Encyclopedia of Sociology, (New York: Macmillan, 1992), p.2234-2242.
(86) "The Road to German Unity: Mass Sentiment in East and West Germany". Public Opinion Quarterly (56), 1992, p.53-76.
(87) "Political Attitudes and Behavior in Germany: The Making of a Democratic Society". In Michael Huelshoff, Andre Markovits, and Simon Reich, (eds), From Bundesrepublik to Deutschland (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), p.33-58.
(88) "Framing Unification: Issue Salience and Mass Sentiment 1989-1991". In Russell Dalton, ed., The New Germany Voters: Unification and the Development of a New German Party System. (Oxford: Berg, 1993), p.29-55.
(89) "Politische Streitfragen und Wahlentscheidung: Vereinigung als 'neue' Frage?" in Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Max Kaase (Eds), Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlaß der Bundestagswahl 1990 (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994), p.422-451.
(90) "New Germans in a New Germany?" (Review essay). German Politics and Society, Issue 26, 1992, p.117-126.
(91) "Einheit über alles? -- What did the Voter decide in the 1990 German Elections?" In Erwin K. Scheuch and Chikio Hayashi (Eds), Quantitative Social Research in Germany and Japan (Opladen, Leske + Budrich, 1996), p.93-121.
(92) -with Hartmut Häussermann, "Wohnen und Wählen -- Zum Einfluß von Hauseigentum auf die Wahlentscheidung". Zeitschrift für Soziologie (22), 1993, p.33-48.
(93) "The Germans and the 'Others': Racism, Xenophobia, or Legitimate Conservatism?". German Politics (3), 1994, p.47-74.
(94) "Poblemlösungskompetenz der Parteien und Wahlverhalten bei den Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament 1989" In Oskar Niedermayer and Hermann Schmitt (Eds), Wahlen und Europäische Einigung (Opladen, Westdeutscher Verlag, 1994), p.135-160.
(95) -with Clara To, "Agreement among Spouses on Political Issues". Internal working paper for the meeting of the CNEP group at Nuffield College, Oxford, July 1994
(96) "Personal Networks, Organizations, and the Media as the Political Environment for the Voter: Findings from the 1990 German CNEP Survey". Paper prepared for the Tokyo Symposium on CNEP, December 1994
(97) "Xenophobie im Internationalen Vergleich" in Jürgen W. Falter und Hans-Gerd Jaschke (eds), Rechtsextremismus (=Sonderheft 27 der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift 1996), p.248-262.
(98) "Deutschland den Deutschen? -- Migration and Naturalization in the 1994 Campaign and Beyond" in Russell Dalton (ed), Germany Divided: The 1994 Bundestagswahl and the Evolution of the German Party System (Oxford and Providence, Berg Publishers, 1996), p.235-264.
(99) -with Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, "Political Intermediation in East and West Germany". Working paper for the meeting of the CNEP group at Instituto Juan March, Madrid, July 1996
(100) "The Electronic Reserve Shelf (ERS) -- Using the WWW as a Teaching Resource" in J. L. Morrison (Ed.), Technology Tools for Today's Campuses [CD ROM]. (Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 1997)
(101) "The Survey Method - An Indispensable Tool for Social Science Research Everywhere?". American Behavorial Scientist (42), 1998, p.178-200.
(102) "Vereint und doch getrennt?" in Heiner Meulemann (ed), Werte und nationale Identität im vereinten Deutschland. Erklärungsansätze der Umfrageforschung (Opladen: Leske + Budrich, 1998), p.291-299.
(103) "Ausländerfeindlichkeit, Wahlkampf und Wählerverhalten" in Max Kaase and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Eds), Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlaß der Bundestagswahl 1994 (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1998), p.285-314.
(104) "Using the Web in the Classroom". Social Science Computer Review (17), 1999, p.144-162.
(105) "Mehr Demokratie oder mehr Manipulation? Neue Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien und politische Willensbildung" in Oskar Niedermayer and Bettina Westle (Eds), Demokratie und Partizipation (Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2000), p.313-331.
(106) "Voting Behavior" in Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda Montgomery (Eds), Encyclopedia of Sociology -- Second Edition, (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2000), p.3231-3240.
(107) "Demoskopie" in Martin and Sylvia Greiffenhagen (Eds), Handwörterbuch zur Politischen Kultur der Bundesrepublik Deutschland -- Zweite Auflage, (Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2002), p.91-96.