Institute of Political Science

Institute of Political Science

Welcome to the website of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Tübingen. Founded in 1952, we are the oldest political science department in Germany, and a renowned centre of excellence in both teaching and research. We offer a wide range of courses and programmes in political science for both BA and MA students. Cutting edge research is undertaken in our research units led by our professors, all international specialists in their respective fields. 

Staff

Abels, Gabriele (Professor)

Abels, Joscha (Research Officer)

Afscharian, Dominic (Research Officer - Fus-Project)

Andrä, Christine (Research Officer)

Augenstein, Lea (Research Officer)

Barrios, Harald (Private Lecturer)

Berten, John (Research Officer / Lecturer)

Betz, Johanna (Research Officer - Project GROEG)

Bieling, Hans-Jürgen (Professor)

Bruzelius, Cecilia (Junior Professor)

Buchner, Julia (Administration)

Buhr, Daniel (Adjunct Supernumery Professor)

Conradi, Elisabeth (Private Lecturer)

Cress, Anne (Research Officer)

Dierksmeier, Claus (Professor)

Diez, Thomas (Professor)

Dreier, Volker (Private Lecturer)

Edel, Mirjam (Senior Lecturer, tenured)

Eilfort, Michael (Honorary Professor)

Frankenberger, Rolf (Senior Lecturer, tenured / Academic Counsellor)

Futterer, Andrea (Research Officer - Project GROEG)

Glynn, Natalie (Research Officer / Lecturer)

Große Hüttmann, Martin (Senior Lecturer, tenured / Academic Counsellor)

Hasenclever, Andreas (Professor)

Jäger, Uli (Honorary Professor)

Jopp, Mathias (Honorary Professor)

Kassem, Sarrah (Research Officer)

Kiefer, Maximilian (Research Officer)

Kuisma, Mikko (MPPSC Program Lead)

Locher-Finke, Birgit (Honorary Professor)

Lucke, Franz von (Research Officer)

Meier-Braun, Karl-Heinz (Honorary Professor)

Menze, Thore (Research Officer - Fus-Project)

Messerschmidt, Maike (Research Officer)

Mohr, Edward (Research Officer - Fus-Project)

Nagel, Melanie (Research Officer - Project GROEG)

Nickisch, Petra (Administration)

Nies, Antje (Administration)

Pawlowski, Natalie (Research Officer)

Plieninger, Jürgen (Librarian)

Reiss, Lea (Research Officer - MiSP-Project)

Sändig, Jan (Research Officer)

Schlag, Gabi (Senior Lecturer, tenured / Academic Counsellor)

Schlumberger, Oliver (Professor)

Schrogl, Kai-Uwe (Honorary Professor)

Schulten, Thorsten (Honorary Professor)

Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin (Professor)

Sowula, Jakob (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter)

Templ, Karl-Ulrich (Lecturer)

Tocci, Natalie (Honorary Professor)

Trautner, Bernhard (Honorary Professor)

Tremmel, Jörg (Adjunct Supernumery Professor)

Wagner, Stief (Administration)

Zolleis, Udo (Honorary Professor)

News

17.04.2025

Article by University of Tübingen Researchers Among Top-Read Articles Published in 2023

Dr. Jakub Sowula and Prof. Dr. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser have received an official certificate from the…

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16.04.2025

Institutskolloquium IfP (30.04.25) - “What Happened to the Poster Child: Is South Korean Democracy Backsliding?”

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Timo Fleckenstein (LSE - London School of Economics and Political Science)

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10.04.2025

Article “EU Free Movement and Emigration: Understanding the (Non-)Politicisation and Framing of Demographic Challenges

Article by “Population Europe” with the participation of Cecilia Bruzelius Professor of Comparative…

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01.04.2025

Institutskolloquium IfP (16.04.25) - “Goodbye human annotators? Content analysis of social policy debates using ChatGPT”

Speaker: Dr. Jakub Sowula, Post-Doctoral Researcher & Lecturer (University of Tübingen)

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26.03.2025

Female Activists on the Far Right: The „Friendly Face“ of an Illiberal Transformation in the U.S.

Talk with Prof. Dr. Julia Simon (Freie Universität Berlin) on June 16, 2025

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25.03.2025

Institutskolloquium IfP (07.05.25) - "Women under threat: perceptions of women's activism in Colombia"

Speaker: Dr. Juliana Tappe Ortiz (Centre for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Research…

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