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Reimut Zohlnhöfer

Reimut Zohlnhöfer

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Political Science

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31
Citations
3832
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National Ranking
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Overview

Reimut Zohlnhöfer is affiliated with Heidelberg University in Germany and specializes in social sciences, with a significant focus on political science and international relations. Their research contributions encompass public administration, economics and econometrics, communication, and strategy and management.

Their work engages deeply with several main topics, including:

  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies

Zohlnhöfer has contributed to numerous scholarly publications, often collaborating with other researchers. Frequent co-authors include Nicole Herweg, Fabian Engler, Linda Voigt, Nikolaos Zahariadis, and Jan Jathe.

The scholar has been published in several academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Politische Vierteljahresschrift
  • European Policy Analysis
  • German Politics
  • European Political Science Review
  • The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Among their recent papers are:

  • The partisan politics of employment protection legislation: Social democrats, Christian democrats, and the conditioning effect of unemployment, 2021, European Political Science Review
  • Bringing agency back into the study of partisan politics: A note on recent developments in the literature on party politics, 2020, Party Politics
  • Quiet Politics of Employment Protection Legislation? Partisan Politics, Electoral Competition, and the Regulatory Welfare State, 2020, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
  • Beeinflussen Klima-Schulstreiks die politische Agenda? Eine Analyse der Twitterkommunikation von Bundestagsabgeordneten, 2020, Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen
  • Travelling Far and Wide? Applying the Multiple Streams Framework to Policy-Making in Autocracies, 2022, Politische Vierteljahresschrift

Zohlnhöfer has also authored a book titled Multiple Streams and Policy Ambiguity, published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.

Best Publications

  • The Multiple Streams Framework: Foundations, Refinements, and Empirical Applications

    Nicole Herweg;Nikolaos Zahariadis;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Straightening the three streams: Theorising extensions of the multiple streams framework

    Nicole Herweg;Christian Huß;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Die Wirtschaftspolitik der Ära Kohl : eine Analyse der Schlüsselentscheidungen in den Politikfeldern Finanzen, Arbeit und Entstaatlichung, 1982-1998

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Das rot-grüne Projekt : eine Bilanz der Regierung Schröder 1998-2002

    Christoph Egle;Tobias Ostheim;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Partisan Politics and Privatization in OECD Countries

    Herbert Obinger;Carina Schmitt;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Partisan Politics, Globalization, and the Determinants of Privatization Proceeds in Advanced Democracies (1990–2000)

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer;Herbert Obinger;Frieder Wolf

  • Bringing Formal Political Institutions into the Multiple Streams Framework: An Analytical Proposal for Comparative Policy Analysis

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer;Nicole Herweg;Christian Huß

  • Der Einfluss von Parteien und Institutionen auf die Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • How Politics Matter When Policies Change: Understanding Policy Change as a Political Problem

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Stand und Perspektiven der vergleichenden Staatstätigkeitsforschung

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Die Wirtschaftspolitik der Ära Kohl

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Theoretically refining the multiple streams framework: An introduction

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer;Nicole Herweg;Friedbert W. Rüb

  • Investing in human capital? The determinants of private education expenditure in 26 OECD countries

    Frieder Wolf;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • The Politics of Budget Consolidation in Britain and Germany: The Impact of Blame Avoidance Opportunities

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Ende des rot-grünen Projektes

    Christoph Egle;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Parteien, Vetospieler und der Wettbewerb um Wählerstimmen: Die Arbeitsmarkt-und Beschäftigungspolitik der Ära Kohl

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Partisan Politics, Party Competition and Veto Players: German Economic Policy in the Kohl Era

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Globalisierung der Wirtschaft und nationalstaatliche Anpassungsreaktionen. Theoretische Überlegungen

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • The Retreat of the Interventionist State in Advanced Democracies

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer;Fabian Engler;Kathrin Dümig

  • Implications of dataset choice in comparative welfare state research

    Georg Wenzelburger;Reimut Zohlnhöfer;Frieder Wolf

  • Left parties, voter preferences, and economic policy-making in Europe

    Fabian Engler;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Partisan differences and the interventionist state in advanced democracies

    Carina Schmitt;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Putting Together the Pieces of the Puzzle: Explaining German Labor Market Reforms with a Modified Multiple‐Streams Approach

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Bringing agency back into the study of partisan politics: A note on recent developments in the literature on party politics:

    Georg Wenzelburger;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Disregarding the Voters? Electoral Competition and the Merkel Government’s Public Policies, 2013–17

    Fabian Engler;Svenja Bauer-Blaschkowski;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • The Politics of Public and Private Pension Generosity in Advanced Democracies

    Frieder Wolf;Reimut Zohlnhöfer;Georg Wenzelburger

  • The 2009 Federal Election and the Economic Crisis

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Destination anywhere? the German red–green government's inconclusive search for a third way in economic policy

    Reimut Zohlnhöfer

  • Selling off the family silver: the politics of privatization in the OECD 1990-2000

    Herbert Obinger;Reimut Zohlnhöfer

Frequent Co-Authors

Herbert Obinger
Herbert Obinger University of Bremen
Thomas Saalfeld
Thomas Saalfeld University of Bamberg
Jale Tosun
Jale Tosun Heidelberg University
Nikolaos Zahariadis
Nikolaos Zahariadis Rhodes College

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