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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1957 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Heike Klüver is affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their research spans several key areas within social sciences, with a focus on political science and related interdisciplinary fields. The scientist's work is documented in a variety of publications, most notably in journals addressing political systems, public policy, and electoral dynamics.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Helping or Hurting? How Governing as a Junior Coalition Partner Influences Electoral Outcomes" (2020), The Journal of Politics
  • "Incentives can spur COVID-19 vaccination uptake" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Responding to far right challengers: does accommodation pay off?" (2020), Journal of European Public Policy
  • "How does income inequality affect the support for populist parties?" (2021), Journal of European Public Policy
  • "Policy positions, power and interest group-party lobby routines" (2021), Journal of European Public Policy

Frequent co-authors in the scientist's work are:

  • Johannes Giesecke
  • Macartan Humphreys
  • Felix Hartmann
  • Ferdinand Geißler
  • Lukas F. Stoetzer

Heike Klüver's research is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Journal of European Public Policy
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • European Journal of Political Research
  • Comparative Political Studies
  • Electoral Studies

Their work largely concentrates within the broader field of Social Sciences, especially within the subfields of Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management, Economics and Econometrics, and Health.

Main topics covered in their research include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Media Influence and Politics
  • Policy Transfer and Learning

In recognition of their work, Heike Klüver is listed as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1957.

Best Publications

  • Lobbying in the European Union: Interest Groups, Lobbying Coalitions, and Policy Change

    Heike Klüver

  • Lobbying in the European Union

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  • Measuring Interest Group Influence Using Quantitative Text Analysis

    Heike Klüver

  • The contextual nature of lobbying: Explaining lobbying success in the European Union:

    Heike Klüver

  • Who Responds? Voters, Parties and Issue Attention

    Heike Klüver;Jae-Jae Spoon

  • Legislative lobbying in context: towards a conceptual framework of interest group lobbying in the European Union

    Heike Klüver;Caelesta Braun;Jan Beyers

  • Do parties respond? How electoral context influences party responsiveness

    Jae-Jae Spoon;Heike Klüver

  • Informational Lobbying in the European Union: The Effect of Organisational Characteristics

    Heike Klüver

  • Setting the Agenda or Responding to Voters? Political Parties, Voters and Issue Attention

    Heike Klüver;Iñaki Sagarzazu

  • Framing in context: how interest groups employ framing to lobby the European Commission

    Heike Klüver;Christine Mahoney;Marc Opper

  • Europeanization of Lobbying Activities: When National Interest Groups Spill Over to the European Level

    Heike Klüver

  • Coalition Governments and Party Competition: Political Communication Strategies of Coalition Parties*

    Iñaki Sagarzazu;Heike Klüver

  • Lobbying as a collective enterprise : Winners and losers of policy formulation in the European Union

    Heike Klüver

  • Biasing politics? : Interest group participation in European policy-making

    Heike Klüver

  • Voting Against Your Constituents? How Lobbying Affects Representation

    Nathalie Giger;Heike Klüver

  • Party convergence and vote switching: Explaining mainstream party decline across Europe

    Jae‐Jae Spoon;Heike Klüver

  • Helping or Hurting? How Governing as a Junior Coalition Partner Influences Electoral Outcomes

    Heike Klüver;Jae-Jae Spoon

  • Opening the black box: The professionalization of interest groups in the European Union

    Heike Klüver;Sabine Saurugger

  • Images of an unbiased interest system

    David Lowery;Frank R. Baumgartner;Joost Berkhout;Jeffrey M. Berry

  • Incentives can spur COVID-19 vaccination uptake.

    Heike Klüver;Felix Hartmann;Macartan Humphreys;Ferdinand Geissler

  • Coalition Agreements, Issue Attention, and Cabinet Governance

    Heike Klüver;Hanna Bäck

Frequent Co-Authors

Jae-Jae Spoon
Jae-Jae Spoon University of Pittsburgh
Anne Rasmussen
Anne Rasmussen King's College London
Hanna Bäck
Hanna Bäck Lund University
Jeremy Richardson
Jeremy Richardson University of Oxford
Marc Debus
Marc Debus University of Mannheim
David Lowery
David Lowery Pennsylvania State University
Beate Kohler-Koch
Beate Kohler-Koch University of Mannheim
Jan Beyers
Jan Beyers University of Antwerp
Frank R. Baumgartner
Frank R. Baumgartner University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kay Lehman Schlozman
Kay Lehman Schlozman Boston College

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