Lukas Haffert, Pascal Langenbach and I present results from an online survey among 3250 German voters regarding their preferences for electoral reform proposals. We find that the majority of participants support a reform that reduces the size of the Bundestag, even if the trade-offs inherent in such a reform are made transparent to them. Among a set of three different reform proposals, reducing the number of electoral districts to 225 is most popular. Importantly, reducing the number of districts is more popular than the coalition parties’ proposal of not allocating surplus seats. Parallel voting, as proposed by the CDU/CSU, is the least popular reform proposal, even if it is still more popular than the status quo. Please find detailed results in our scientific report.

Lukas Haffert’s, Nils Redeker’s and my article “Misremembering Weimar: Hyperinflation, the Great Depression, and German Collective Economic Memory” is available online with Economics & Politics. Please find detailed information here.

Tabea Palmtag’s, Stefanie Walter’s and my article “International Trade and Public Protest: Evidence from Russian Regions” is out in print with International Studies Quarterly. Here, you can find the gated and ungated version.

In addition to my postdoctoral position at the Hochschule für Politik München, I will be a research associate affiliated with the TUM School of Management beginning from January 2020.

Paul Schaudt’s and my article “First Impressions: How Leader Changes Affect Bilateral Aid” is out in print with the Journal of Public Economics. Here, you can find the gated and ungated version.