Populism unalteredly raises questions in Politics and Society. On this subject the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung hosted a congress in Bitterfeld-Wolfen. Dr. Benjamin Höhne conducted a workshop on the interrelations between social media and populism.
On 25th April 2018 20 students of the Martin Luther University as well as research assistants of the IParl attended an excursion to Magdeburg, organized by Benjamin Höhne. The main objective was to obtain additional insights into the political landscape of a state capital.
Dr. Benjamin Höhne and Daniel Hellmann from the IParl presented on the 17th April 2018 in Kiel current results of the research project on candidate selection for the German Parliamentary Elections of 2017.
The ninth Graduate Conference on Party Research in Düsseldorf took place from 2nd to 3rd February 2018. It gives interested doctoral candidates in Party Research an international platform for their research.
With the lecture of Patrick Wagner, professor for contemporary history at Martin Luther University, the lecture series about "Populism and Democracy" came to an end.
The Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing invited for an analysis of the German federal election 2017. The IParl attended this conference - a report.
The weekly in-house newspaper of the German Bundestag (Das Parlament) reported on the results of IParl’s research project in the paper’s special issue about the Parliamentary Election in Germany.
Benjamin Höhne and Daniel Hellmann analyze in a study the "new" FDP before the German Parliamentary Elections 2017. It is to expect that the liberals will be part of the German Bundestag again.
In the latest issue of the "Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen" (ZParl) Anastasia Pyschny and Daniel Hellmann discuss the question under which conditions a constituency is safe for a party.