Ulrich Sieberer

DIRECTOR OF THE BAMBERG GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

PROFESSOR OF EMPIRICAL POLITICAL SCIENCE

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Office: Feldkirchenstr. 21, Room: FG1/01.04, 96052 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail: ulrich.sieberer(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-2805
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Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Behaviour
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// CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Empirical Political Science
Director of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Ulrich Sieberer is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the areas of institutional design and change in modern democracies, legislative organization and legislative behavior, intra-party politics, political competition in democracies and judicial politics.

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// RESEARCH

His research focuses on institutional design and change in legislatures and executives, parliamentary voting behavior, intra-party dissent, and judicial politics. Most of this research is comparative in nature and studies advanced European democracies. Professor Sieberer’s research has been published in outlets such as Electoral Studies, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, Journal of Legislative Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, and West European Politics.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Politics of Portfolio Design in Germany
Coordination Committees as Parliamentary Agenda Setters
Institutional Design in European Parliaments
Parlamentarische Opposition in Zeiten gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Sieberer, Ulrich/Ohmura, Tamaki, 2021, Mandate type, electoral safety, and defections from the party line. The conditional mandate divide in the German Bundestag, 1949-2013, Party Politics 27(4), 704-715, doi: 10.1177/1354068819881637.

Sieberer, Ulrich/Meyer, Thomas M./Bäck, Hanna/Ceron, Andrea/Falcó-Gimeno, Albert/Guinaudeau, Isabelle/Hansen, Martin Ejnar/Kollveit, Kristoffer/Louwerse, Tom/Müller, Wolfgang C./Persson, Thomas, 2021, The political dynamics of portfolio design in European democracies, British Journal of Political Science 51(2), 772-787, doi: 10.1017/S0007123419000346.

Sieberer, Ulrich/Dutkowski, Julia F./Meißner, Peter/Müller, Wolfgang C. , 2020, ’Going Institutional’ to Overcome Obstruction: Explaining the Suppression of Minority Rights in Western European Parliaments, 1945-2010, European Journal of Political Research 59 (4), 886-909, doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12376.

The full list of Professor Sieberer’s publications can be found here.

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+ Professor Sieberer's website (Professorship of Empirical Political Science)

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