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Christian Breunig

Christian Breunig

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Political Science

D-Index
28
Citations
4125
World Ranking
1370
National Ranking
74

Overview

Christian Breunig is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany and focuses their research primarily within the social sciences, specializing in political science and its intersections with related fields. Their work spans various subfields including political science and international relations, strategy and management, sociology and political science, gender studies, and safety research.

Their main research topics include electoral systems and political participation, political influence and corporate strategies, social policy and reform studies, gender politics and representation, policy transfer and learning, experimental behavioral economics studies, and game theory and voting systems.

Breunig has published extensively in prominent academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include the European Journal of Political Research, British Journal of Political Science, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, American Political Science Review, and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Their recent papers reflect a diversity of research interests:

  • The Diminishing Value of Representing the Disadvantaged: Between Group Representation and Individual Career Paths (2021), British Journal of Political Science
  • Social status, political priorities and unequal representation (2021), European Journal of Political Research
  • Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives' Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries (2022), The Journal of Politics
  • Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion (2023), Political Psychology
  • Ministerial policy dominance in parliamentary democracies (2022), European Journal of Political Research

Their frequent coauthors include Chris Koski, Stefaan Walgrave, Stefanie Bailer, Frédéric Varone, and Rens Vliegenthart.

Christian Breunig has also contributed to academic literature through book publications, including one titled Means, Motives, and Opportunities, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • Punctuated Equilibrium in Comparative Perspective

    Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christoffer Green-Pedersen;Bryan D. Jones

  • A General Empirical Law of Public Budgets: A Comparative Analysis

    Bryan Davidson Jones;Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Christopher Wlezien

  • Communication and Political Mobilization: Digital Media and the Organization of Anti-Iraq War Demonstrations in the U.S.

    W. Lance Bennett;Christian Breunig;Terri E Givens

  • Punctuated Equilibria and Budgets in the American States

    Christian Breunig;Chris Koski

  • Fiscal austerity and the trade-off between public investment and social spending

    Christian Breunig;Christian Breunig;Marius R. Busemeyer

  • Do the media set the parliamentary agenda? A comparative study in seven countries

    Rens Vliegenthart;Stefaan Walgrave;Frank R. Baumgartner;Shaun Bevan

  • The more things change, the more things stay the same : a comparative analysis of budget punctuations

    Christian Breunig

  • Model-based clustering and typologies in the social sciences

    John S. Ahlquist;Christian Breunig

  • Multiple Engagements and Network Bridging in Contentious Politics : Digital Media Use of Protest Participants

    Stefaan Walgrave;W. Lance Bennett;Jeroen Van Laer;Christian Breunig

  • Stochastic Process Methods with an Application to Budgetary Data

    Christian Breunig;Bryan Davidson Jones

  • Global Migration and Political Regime Type: A Democratic Disadvantage

    Christian Breunig;Xun Cao;Adam Luedtke

  • Comparative Policy Agendas : Theory, Tools, Data

    Frank R. Baumgartner;Christian Breunig;Emiliano Grossman

  • What Motivates the Gatekeepers? : Explaining Governing Party Preferences on Immigration

    Christian Breunig;Christian Breunig;Adam Luedtke

  • Stability and Punctuations in Public Spending: A Comparative Study of Budget Functions

    Christian Breunig;Chris Koski;Peter B. Mortensen

  • Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries

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  • The tortoise or the hare? : Incrementalism, punctuations, and their consequences

    Christian Breunig;Chris Koski

  • Searching for electoral irregularities in an established democracy: Applying Benford's Law tests to Bundestag elections in Unified Germany

    Christian Breunig;Christian Breunig;Achim Goerres;Achim Goerres

  • Trade versus aid: donor generosity in an era of globalization

    Erik Lundsgaarde;Christian Breunig;Aseem Prakash

  • Punctuated Budgets and Governors' Institutional Powers

    Christian Breunig;Chris Koski

  • Reduction, Stasis, and Expansion of Budgets in Advanced Democracies

    Christian Breunig

  • Social status, political priorities and unequal representation

    Denise Traber;Miriam Hänni;Nathalie Giger;Christian Breunig

  • The Diminishing Value of Representing the Disadvantaged : Between Group Representation and Individual Career Paths

    Stefanie Bailer;Christian Breunig;Nathalie Giger;Andreas M. Wüst

Frequent Co-Authors

Frank R. Baumgartner
Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Bryan D. Jones
Bryan D. Jones The University of Texas at Austin
Sylvain Brouard
Sylvain Brouard Sciences Po
Stefaan Walgrave
Stefaan Walgrave University of Antwerp
Peter John
Peter John King's College London
Will Jennings
Will Jennings University of Southampton
David Lowery
David Lowery Pennsylvania State University
Aseem Prakash
Aseem Prakash University of Washington
Frédéric Varone
Frédéric Varone University of Geneva

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