Comparative Politics and German Government

Chair of Comparative Politics and German Government

The field of comparative politics applies methodical, theoretical and empirical approaches to the comparison of governmental systems.

As a main field of focus, empirical democracy research spans various regions of the world (areas) i.e. Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. Formal and informal Institutions are included in the analysis. The Chair of Comparative Politics and German Government also incorporates the analysis of the political system of the German Democratic Republic utilizing comparative categories.

Research

Interim Professor

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kestler

Room 03.209a
Telephone: +49 (0)931 / 31 81280
E-mail: thomas.kestler@uni-wuerzburg.de

Senior Professor

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lauth
E-mail: hans-joachim.lauth@uni-wuerzburg.de

Administrative Office

Michaela Thoma
Room 00.105
Telephone: +49 (0)931 / 31 84802
E-mail: l-polwiss@uni-wuerzburg.de

Academic Staff

Democracy Matrix

The DFG funded research project "The democracy matrix as an alternative to the democracy indices of Freedom House and Polity: Implementation of the Varieties-of-Democracy-Data by using the 15-Field-Matrix of Democracy” is developing a new measurement tool of democracy based on the Varieties of Democracy project.

Democracy Matrix

Other Research Projects

LoSAM (DFG)

Fiscal Citizenship

Staatlichkeitsindex StIx

News

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Das IPS auf dem DVPW-Kongress in Göttingen

An der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen fand vergangene Woche der 29. Wissenschaftliche Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW) statt. Mit dabei waren auch zahlreiche IPS-Angehörige.

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Prof. Dr. Kestler untersucht das Google Books Ngram Viewer-Tool

Prof. Dr. Thomas Kestler untersucht in einem von der Fritz Thyssen Stiftung geförderten Projekt das Tool Google Books Ngram Viewer und überprüfte das deutschsprachige Textkorpus, um die Diskussion über die Stärken und Schwächen des Tools voranzubringen.

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Artificial Intelligence in Political Science Teaching

Milan Banse and Hans Stanka represent the IPS in the AI project at the University of Würzburg. They are investigating the opportunities and risks of AI in political science teaching.

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New Publication: The Stateness Index (StIx) – Conceptual Design and Empirical Results

Issue 15 of the Würzburg Working Papers in Political Science and Sociology (WAPS) has just been published. Theresa Paola Stawski and Hans-Joachim Lauth present the conceptual design and empirical results of the new Stateness Index (StIx).

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