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Marc Debus is affiliated with the University of Mannheim in Germany and specializes in social sciences with a focus on political science and international relations. Their body of work includes 72 publications in social sciences, with 49 specifically in political science and international relations. Additional subfields include strategy and management, sociology and political science, communication, and gender studies.

Their research addresses several main topics including electoral systems and political participation, political influence and corporate strategies, populism and right-wing movements, social media and politics, social policy and reform studies, gender politics and representation, and European Union policy and governance.

Recent papers authored by Marc Debus include:

  • Political ideology and vaccination willingness: implications for policy design (2021, Policy Sciences)
  • The manifestation of the green agenda: a comparative analysis of parliamentary debates (2021, Environmental Politics)

Frequent co-authors in their research network include Hanna Bäck, Christian Stecker, Noam Himmelrath, Jale Tosun, and Michael Imre, reflecting collaborative work across multiple projects.

Their publications appear frequently in journals such as Harvard Dataverse, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Party Politics, Environmental Politics, and Research & Politics. The distribution of publications indicates a broad engagement with political science discourse and related interdisciplinary fields.

Best Publications

  • Who gets what in coalition governments? Predictors of portfolio allocation in parliamentary democracies

    Hanna Bäck;Marc Debus;Patrick Dumont

  • Parteienwettbewerb in den deutschen Bundesländern

    Thomas Bräuninger;Marc Debus

  • Do parties matter in internationalised policy areas? The impact of political parties on environmental policy outputs in 18 OECD countries, 1970-2000

    Christoph Knill;Marc Debus;Stephan Heichel

  • Economic Voting under Coalition Governments: Evidence from Germany

    Marc Debus;Mary Stegmaier;Jale Tosun

  • Who Takes the Parliamentary Floor? The Role of Gender in Speech-making in the Swedish Riksdag

    Hanna Bäck;Marc Debus;Jochen Müller

  • Pre-electoral commitments and government formation

    Marc Debus

  • Legislative agenda-setting in parliamentary democracies

    Thomas Bräuninger;Marc Debus

  • Der Einfluss von Koalitionsaussagen, programmatischen Standpunkten und der Bundespolitik auf die Regierungsbildung in den deutschen Ländern

    Thomas Bräuninger;Marc Debus

  • Political Parties, Parliaments and Legislative Speechmaking

    Hanna Bäck;Mark Debus

  • Regional Government Formation in Varying Multilevel Contexts: A Comparison of Eight European Countries

    Hanna Bäck;Marc Debus;Jochen Müller;Henry Bäck

  • Government Formation and Policy Formulation in the German States

    Thomas Däubler;Marc Debus

  • Intra-party Diversity and Ministerial Selection in Coalition Governments

    Hanna Bäck;Marc Debus;Wolfgang C. Müller

  • Partisan politics in corporate taxation

    Steffen Osterloh;Marc Debus

  • Soziale Konfliktlinien und Wahlverhalten: Eine Analyse der Determinanten der Wahlabsicht bei Bundestagswahlen von 1969 bis 2009

    Marc Debus

  • Challenges for estimating policy preferences: announcing an open access archive of political documents

    Kenneth Benoit;Thomas Bräuninger;Marc Debus

  • Office and Policy Payoffs in Coalition Governments

    Marc Debus

  • Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policymaking

    Markus Baumann;Marc Debus;Jochen Müller

  • Party Competition and Government Formation in Germany: Business as Usual or New Patterns?

    Thomas Bräuninger;Marc Debus;Jochen Müller;Christian Stecker

  • Reform Processes and Policy Change : Veto Players and Decision-Making in Modern Democracies

    Thomas König;George Tsebelis;Marc Debus

  • When Do Women Speak? A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Gender in Legislative Debates:

    Hanna Bäck;Marc Debus

  • Pre-Electoral Alliances, Coalition Rejections, and Multiparty Governments

    Marc Debus

  • Party Competition and Government Formation in Multilevel Settings: Evidence from Germany

    Marc Debus

  • Coalition formation at the local level: Institutional constraints, party policy conflict, and office-seeking political parties

    Marc Debus;Martin Gross

  • Let’s Just Agree to Disagree: Dispute Resolution Mechanisms in Coalition Agreements

    Shaun Bowler;Thomas Bräuninger;Marc Debus;Indridi H. Indridason

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanna Bäck
Hanna Bäck Lund University
Thomas Bräuninger
Thomas Bräuninger University of Mannheim
Jale Tosun
Jale Tosun Heidelberg University
Christoph Knill
Christoph Knill Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolfgang C. Müller
Wolfgang C. Müller University of Vienna
Thomas König
Thomas König University of Mannheim
Kenneth Benoit
Kenneth Benoit Singapore Management University
George Tsebelis
George Tsebelis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Heiner Stuckenschmidt
Heiner Stuckenschmidt University of Mannheim

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