Christian Ignorek

has been a research assistant at IParl since April 2024. He has also been employed as a research assistant in the SPD parliamentary group's Berlin network since 2024. In his master's thesis in the "Parlamentsfragen und Zivilgesellschaft (Parliamentary Issues and Civil Society)" programme at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, he investigated variables influencing the leadership process and the control instruments used to establish parliamentary group discipline by social democratic parliamentary group leaders in state parliaments and city councils.

Projects

Main research areas

  • Political leadership research
  • Representation research
  • Internal structure of political groups
  • Local policy research

Selected publications:

Between „conflict mediator, facilitator and initiator“ – Political leadership by Social Democratic group leaders in state and city council parliamentary groups, in: Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (ZParl), vol. 57 (2026), no. 2, pp. 318–339.

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