{"id":11010,"date":"2023-04-03T07:32:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T05:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.zdv.uni-mainz.de\/fb02-vergleichende-politikwissenschaft\/?page_id=11010"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:25:52","slug":"start-vergleichende","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vergleich.politik.uni-mainz.de\/en\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative Political Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Our teaching profile: Comparative democracy research; comparative government and electoral systems; representation and responsiveness research; political attitudes and political participation; democracy and inequality; comparative party research, with a particular focus on populist parties; methods of empirical social research, including data visualisation and Bayesian statistics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our research profile: The field of comparative political science covers a broad spectrum of topics that can be classified as empirical democracy research, e.g. attitude, election and party research; the causes of the rise of populist parties; the relationship between economic and political (in)equality; the composition of parliaments and its impact on political representation; and globalisation processes and the challenges posed to democracy by globalisation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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In the field of comparative political science, Prof. Sch\u00e4fer, Dr Lea Els\u00e4sser, Dr Johannes Kessler, Dr Nils Steiner and Jonas Wenker are authorised to supervise bachelor’s theses. It is not necessary to have completed a seminar with your desired supervisor.However, your topic should fall within the research focus of the field (see above).If you would like to write a Bachelor’s thesis in the field of Comparative Political Science, you must register for a consultation appointment and send your desired supervisor a short expos\u00e9 of your proposed project by email at least two days before the consultation. Your expos\u00e9 should be about one page long and should include:* a clearly defined research question,* an explanation of its scientific relevance,* a description of the theoretical framework you plan to use,* a brief outline of your intended approach (a preliminary structure), and* if applicable, information about your data basis and initial working hypotheses.Plan ahead: In the B.A. program, you have eight weeks to complete your thesis. The correction period takes about 4\u20136 weeks, after which the oral examination for the bachelor\u2019s thesis takes place.For detailed information about the format of the oral examination, please ask your supervisor. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\n

In the field of Comparative Politics, Professor Sch\u00e4fer is authorized to supervise master\u2019s theses. The second evaluation will be carried out by another professor from the institute. If you wish to write your master\u2019s thesis in our department, you are required to attend the colloquium and present your topic there. In your presentation, you should explain your research question, theoretical framework, data basis, methods, and timeline. <\/p>\n\n\n<\/jgu-base-accordionitem>\n\n\n \n\t\t\t\t

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