Dr. Thomas Saalfeld is Professor of Comparative Politics. His research focuses on parliamentary accountability, coalition government and political representation in European democracies. Amongst other outlets, his research was published in academic journals such as the European Journal of Political Research, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Legislative Studies, the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica, Parliamentary Affairs and West European Politics. 

Books

Bird, K., Saalfeld, T. and Wüst, A.M. (eds.) (2010). The Political Representation of Immigrants and Minorities: Voters, Parties and Parliaments in Liberal Democracies. London: Routledge.

Saalfeld, T. (1995). Parteisoldaten und Rebellen: Eine Untersuchung zur Geschlossenheit der Fraktionen im Deutschen Bundestag (1949-1990). Opladen: Leske und Budrich.

Articles and Book Chapters

Saalfeld, T. (2008). ‘Intra-party Conflict and Cabinet Survival in 17 West European Democracies, 1945-1999.’ In: Benoit, K. and Giannetti, D. (eds.), Intra-party Politics and Coalition Governments in Parliamentary Democracies. London: Routledge, pp. 169-186.

Saalfeld, T. (2008). ‘Institutions, Chance and Choices: The Dynamics of Cabinet Survival in the Parliamentary Democracies of Western Europe (1945-99).’ In: Strøm, K., Müller, W.C. and Bergman, T. (eds.), Cabinets and Coalition Bargaining: The Democratic Life Cycle in

Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 327-368. Saalfeld, T. (2007). ‘Koalitionsstabilität in 15 europäischen Demokratien von 1945 bis 1999: Transaktionskosten und Koalitionsmanagement,’ Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 3(1), pp. 180-206.

Saalfeld, T. (2003). ‘The Bundestag: Institutional Incrementalism and Behavioural Reticence.’ In: Dyson, K. and Goetz, K.H. (eds.), Germany, Europe, and the Politics of Constraint. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 73-96.

Saalfeld, T. (2000). ‘Coalitions in Germany: Stable Parties, Chancellor Democracy and the Art of Informal Settlement.’ In: Müller, W.C. and Strøm, K. (eds.), Coalition Government in Western Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 32-85.

Saalfeld, T. (2000). ‘Members of parliament and governments in Western Europe: Agency relations and problems of oversight,’ European Journal of Political Research 37(3), pp. 353-376.

Saalfeld, T. (1990). ‘The West German Bundestag after 40 Years: The Role of Parliament in a "Party Democracy",’ West European Politics 13(3), pp. 68-89.

Zimmermann, E. and Saalfeld, T. (1988). ‘Economic and Political Reactions to the World Economic Crisis of the 1930s in Six European Countries,’ International Studies Quarterly 32(3), pp. 305-334.