// DISSERTATION PROJECT

The Interdependency of Vote Choice and Level of Vote

Empirical evidence suggests that voting behavior is – strictly speaking – dependent on the level of vote at decision: local, regional, national or European.
The question is why voters do differentiate and decide based on different aspects: Do we normally vote for the most sympathetic candidate the closer the decision is to our day-to-day life? Why is, on the other hand, “performance” more important nationally than e.g. in the European context? And: Do voters really still distinguish between “first” and “second order elections” when comparing the national and all other political arenas?
These are some of the questions I try to answer with my quantitative analysis, comparing some European countries on three (to four) levels of voting competition.

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// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

2014
Diploma (Dipl.Pol.) in Political Science and Philosophy, University of Bamberg

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// PUBLICATIONS

Lucas Geese, Wolfgang Goldbach und Thomas Saalfeld (2015 – im Erscheinen): Mobility and Representation: Legislators of Non-European Origin in the British House of Commons, 2001-2015. In: Panter, Sarah (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch für europ?ische Geschichte – European History Yearbook 2015: Mobility and Biography. Band 16, 2015. De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

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// EXPERIENCE

Professional Positions

10/2011 – 05/2012
research assistant to Jamie Hepburn and David Torrance MSPs (Member of Scottish Parliament), Scottish National Party (SNP)

09/2013 – 05/2014
personal assistant to visiting Prof. Dr. Harshan Kumarasingham (University of Cambridge)

09/2014 – ongoing
administrative coordinator ECPR Winter School in Methods and Techniques at the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS), University of Bamberg

10/2014 – ongoing
research assistant at the chair of Comparative Politics, University of Bamberg

03/2015 – ongoing
international coordinator of double-Master degrees in political science at the University of Bamberg


Teaching

Winter term 2014/2015   
Das Regierungssystem Schottlands – Zwischen Unabh?ngigkeit und Union (The Scottish political regime – Independence or Union?), University of Bamberg

Summer term 2015    
Mehrebenenpolitik: Regional, national, europ?isch – Probleme von Mehrebenensystemen mit Polity, Governance und Wahlen in europ?ischen Staaten (Multi-level politics: regional, national, European: Problems of multi-level systems with polity, governance and elections in European democracies), University of Bamberg

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