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Thomas Poguntke is affiliated with Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany and specializes in Social Sciences with a strong focus on Political Science and International Relations. Their research encompasses various subfields, including Communication, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, as well as Artificial Intelligence.

Their scholarly output includes a range of publications centered on themes such as Electoral Systems and Political Participation, Political Influence and Corporate Strategies, Populism and Right-Wing Movements, Social Media and Politics, European Union Policy and Governance, Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection, and Media Studies and Communication.

Selected recent papers by Thomas Poguntke include:

  • PPDB_Round1a_1b_consolidated_v1 (2020), published in Harvard Dataverse
  • Intra-party decision-making in contemporary Europe: improving representation or ruling with empty shells? (2022), published in Irish Political Studies

Other notable publications where Thomas Poguntke has contributed or is associated include:

  • Conceptualizing and measuring party-interest group relationships (2020), Party Politics
  • Introducing the party-interest group relationships in contemporary democracies datasets (2022), Party Politics
  • Which candidates benefit from social media? An analysis of the 2021 German federal election (2023), Electoral Studies

Thomas Poguntke frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Susan E. Scarrow
  • Paul Webb
  • Ulrich Rosar
  • Elin Haugsgjerd Allern
  • Simon Otjes

Their work has been published extensively in several venues, with the most frequent being:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Party Politics
  • HHU Journals
  • Irish Political Studies
  • Electoral Studies

Best Publications

  • The presidentialization of politics : a comparative study of modern democracies

    Thomas Poguntke;Paul Webb

  • Going, Going, ...Gone? The Decline of Party Membership in Contemporary Europe

    Ingrid Van Biezen;Peter Mair;Thomas Poguntke

  • The Presidentialization of Politics

    Thomas Poguntke;Paul Webb

  • Alternative Politics: The German Green Party

    Thomas Poguntke

  • The presidentialization of politics in democratic societies: a framework for analysis

    Thomas Poguntke;Paul Webb

  • The decline of membership-based politics

    Ingrid van Biezen;Thomas Poguntke

  • The membership of political parties in European democracies, 1960-1990

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair;Luciano Bardi;Lars Bille

  • New politics and party systems: The emergence of a new type of party?

    Thomas Poguntke

  • Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies How parties organize in the 21st century

    Thomas Poguntke;Susan E Scarrow;Paul D Webb;Elin H Allern

  • Organizing political parties; representation, participation, and power

    Susan E Scarrow;Paul D Webb;Thomas Poguntke

  • The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation

    Thomas Poguntke;Nicholas Aylott;Elisabeth Carter;Robert Ladrech

  • Anti-party sentiment - Conceptual thoughts and empirical evidence: Explorations into a minefield

    Thomas Poguntke

  • Green Parties in National Governments: From Protest to Acquiescence?

    Thomas Poguntke

  • Parteiorganisation im Wandel : Gesellschaftliche Verankerung und organisatorische Anpassung im europäischen Vergleich

    Thomas Poguntke

  • Green Parties in National Governments

    Ferdinand Muller-Rommel;Thomas Poguntke

  • Parties in a Legalistic Culture: The Case of Germany

    Thomas Poguntke

  • The Europeanisation of national party organisations : A conceptual analysis

    Thomas Poguntke;Nicholas Aylott;Robert Ladrech;Kurt Richard Luther

  • Political Parties and Other Organizations

    Thomas Poguntke

  • The politics of anti-party sentiment: Introduction1

    Thomas Poguntke;Susan E. Scarrow

  • Party Organizational Linkage: Parties Without Firm Social Roots?

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  • It’s no longer the economy, stupid! Issue yield at the 2017 German federal election

    Simon T. Franzmann;Simon T. Franzmann;Heiko Giebler;Thomas Poguntke

  • Parteiorganisation im Wandel

    Thomas Poguntke

  • Measuring Intra-Party Democracy: A Guide for the Content Analysis of Party Statutes with Examples from Hungary, Slovakia and Romania

    Benjamin von dem Berge;Thomas Poguntke;Peter Obert;Diana Tipei

  • The Presidentialization of Party Leadership? Evaluating Party Leadership and Party Government in the Democratic World

    Paul Webb;Thomas Poguntke;Robin Kolodny

  • The Membership of Political Parties in European Democracies

    R. Katz;J. Pierre;T. Poguntke;J. Sundberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex
Susan E. Scarrow
Susan E. Scarrow University of Houston
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck University of Mannheim
Peter Mair
Peter Mair European University Institute
Richard S. Katz
Richard S. Katz Johns Hopkins University
Ingrid van Biezen
Ingrid van Biezen Leiden University
Wolfgang C. Müller
Wolfgang C. Müller University of Vienna
Leonardo Morlino
Leonardo Morlino Guido Carli Free International University for Social Studies
Jon Pierre
Jon Pierre University of Gothenburg
David M. Farrell
David M. Farrell University College Dublin

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