Ulrich Sieberer

DIRECTOR OF THE BAMBERG GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

PROFESSOR OF EMPIRICAL POLITICAL SCIENCE

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Office: Feldkirchenstr. 21, Room: FG1/01.04, 96052 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail: ulrich.sieberer(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-2805
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Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Behaviour
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// CURRENT POSITIONS

Professor of Empirical Political Science
Director of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Ulrich Sieberer is particularly interested in supervising doctoral students in the areas of institutional design and change in modern democracies, legislative organization and legislative behavior, executive politics, intra-party politics, and political competition in democracies.

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// RESEARCH

His research focuses on institutional design and change in legislatures and executives, parliamentary voting behavior, intra-party dissent, and political opposition. Most of this research is comparative in nature and studies advanced European democracies. Professor Sieberer’s research has been published in outlets such as British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, Journal of Legislative Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Party Politics, and West European Politics.

RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Politics of Portfolio Design in European Democracies (DFG)
Coordination Committees as Parliamentary Agenda Setters (DFG)
Parliamentary Opposition in Times of Polarization

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Klüser, K. Jonathan/Schmuck, David/Sieberer, Ulrich, 2023, Colleagues or adversaries: Ministerial coordination across party lines, Governance, doi: 10.1111/gove.12784

Meyer, Thomas M./Sieberer, Ulrich/Schmuck, David, 2023, Rebuilding the coalition ship at sea. How uncertainty and complexity drive the reform of portfolio design in coalition cabinets, West European Politics, doi:10.1080/01402382.2023.2169512.

Louwerse, Tom/Sieberer, Ulrich/Tuttnauer, Or/Andeweg, Rudy, 2021, Opposition in times of crisis: Covid-19 in parliamentary debates, West European Politics 44(5-6), 1025-1051, doi: 10.1080/01402382.2021.1886519

The full list of Professor Sieberer’s publications can be found here.

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+ Professor Sieberer's website (Professorship of Empirical Political Science)

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