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Name and Address
Curriculum Vitae
Paul Wilhelm Thurner
Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Paul W. Thurner
Empirical Political Research and Policy Analysis
University of Munich
Geschwister-Scholl-Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Oettingenstr. 67
D-80538 München
Office H 0.12
Tel.: +49 (0)89-2180-9081 / Secr.: 9080
Fax: +49 (0)89-2180-9092
E-Mail: paul.thurner@gsi.uni-muenchen.de
Employment
Since 3/2008 University of Munich, Faculty of Social Sciences
Professor, Empirical Political Science and Policy Analysis
10/2007- 3/2008 University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
Professor (Pro Tempore), Political Science
11/2006 - 9/2007 University of Bamberg
Faculty of Social Science, Economics, and Business Administration, Professor
(Pro Tempore), International Politics
3/2006 - 8/2006 University of St. Gallen
Switzerland, Lecturer, Center for Business Metrics
10/2005 - 2/2006 University of Konstanz
Department of Politics and Management Professor (Pro Tempore), International
Politics
3/2005 - 9/2005 University of St. Gallen
Switzerland, Lecturer, Center for Business Metrics
10/1998 - 2/2005 University of Mannheim
Department of Political Science, Assistant Professor

4/2002 - 9/2002 Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) Bielefeld
Research Group ‘Procedural Approaches to Conflict Resolution’ Research
Fellow
2003 - 2005 Mannheim Center for European Social Research
Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Institutionalization of International Negotiation
Systems’, Research Group Coordinator
12/1996 - 6/1997 General Secretariat of the Council of the EU, Bruxelles
In-Service training with DGF, (Preparation of the Research Project ‘International
Negotiations and Interministerial Coordination: The IGC 1996’,
granted by the German Research Foundation)
4/1995 - 9/1998 Mannheim Center for European Social Research
Senior Research Fellow
Education
12/2004 University of Mannheim
Habilitation in Political Science
3/1992 - 3/1995 University of Mannheim
Doctoral Dissertation (Summa Cum Laude)
7/1991 University of Passau
M.A. Political Science, Sociology, History (Grade: 1)
Grants
• Research Project ‘German Public Opinon and EMU’. Granted by Thyssen Foundation,
1998: e 28.000, principal coinvestigator, jointly with Franz Urban Pappi.
• Research Project ‘National Interministerial Coordination and International Negotiations:
The IGC 1996’. Granted by the German Research Foundation, 1999-2001, Interdisciplinary
Research Group ‘Institutionalization of International Negotiations’: e 88.695,
principal coinvestigator, jointly with Franz Urban Pappi.
• Research Project ‘European Health Policy and National Regulation of Pharmaceutical
Markets’. Granted by the German Research Foundation, 2001-2003, Interdisciplinary
Research Group ‘Institutionalization of International Negotiations’: e 110.400, principal
coinvestigator, jointly with Franz Urban Pappi.
• Research Project ‘Comparative International Negotiation Systems’. Granted by the German
Research Foundation, 2003-2005, Interdisciplinary Research Group ‘Institutionalization
of International Negotiations’: e 52.800, principal coinvestigator, jointly with
Franz Urban Pappi.

• Flexibility Rules in International Environmental Treaties. Granted by the Center for European
Social Research, 2002: e 3.500, principal coinvestigator, jointly with Bernhard
Boockmann.
• Simulation of Intra- and Intergovernmental Processes, 2003/2004. Granted by the Center
for European Social Research, Mannheim: e 13.500, principal coinvestigator, with
Nicole J. Saam, University of Munich.
• Book Publication Project ‘European Union Intergovernmental Conferences: Domestic
Preference Formation, Transgovernmental Networks, and the Dynamics of Compromise’.
Granted by the Center for European Social Research, Mannheim, 2006/7: e 30.000.
• Conference Grant ‘Advanced Political Network Modelling’. Granted by the German
Research Foundation, 2007: e 15.280, co-organizer: John T. Scholz.
• Conference and Book Publication Project ‘Comparative Policies and Politics of Nuclear
Energy, principal coinvestigator, jointly with Wolfgang C. Müller. Granted by Thyssen-
Foundation 2008: e 18.500.
• Conference and Workshop Grant: Networks in Political Science.Granted by the US National
Science Foundation. Participating Investigator with: Chris Ansell (UC Berkeley),
James Fowler (UC San Diego), Michael Heaney (Florida), David Lazer (Harvard), John
Padgett (Chicago), John T. Scholz (Florida State University) 2008-2009: $ 34.500.
• Issue-Inkonsistency, Issue-Indifference and the Effectiveness of Framing: The Case of
Nuclear Energy. Laboratory Expermients granted by the Munich Experimental Laboratory
for Economic and Social Sciences (MELESSA) 2010: e 2000.
• Conference Participation. Granted by the German Research Foundation: Annual Conference
of the American Political Science Association 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007, Annual
Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association 2006, 2007.
Awards, Fellowships
• Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (M.A. study grant)
• German Academic Exchange Service, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris grant
• German Research Foundation (Dissertation grant)
• Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) Bielefeld, Research Group ‘Procedural Approaches
to Conflict Resolution’ Research Fellow grant
• London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for International Studies
Visiting Fellowship (2006/7, declined)

Publications
• Thurner, Paul W. and Franz U. Pappi, 2009: European Union Intergovernmental Conferences:
Domestic Preference Formation, Transgovernmental Networks, and the Dynamics
of Compromise. New York/London: Routledge. (peer-reviewed; publication grant
by the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research)
• Thurner, Paul W., 2006: Die graduelle Konstitutionalisierung der Europäischen Union.
Eine quantitative Fallstudie am Beispiel der Regierungs-konferenz 1996. Tübingen:
Mohr Siebeck. (Die Einheit der Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Vol. 136). (peer-reviewed)
• Thurner, Paul W., 1998: Wählen als rationale Entscheidung. Die Modellierung von Politikreaktionen
im Mehrparteiensystem. München: Oldenbourg. (Scientia Nova). (peerreviewed;
publication grant by the German Research Foundation)
Edited Book
• Pappi, Franz. U., Eibe Riedel, Paul W. Thurner, and Roland Vaubel (eds.), 2004: Die
Institutionalisierung Internationaler Verhandlungen. Frankfurt/New York: Campus.
• Baccini, Leo, Veronica Lenzi, and Paul W. Thurner, 2013: Global Energy Governance:
Trade, Infrastructure, and the Diffusion of International Organizations. International
Interactions (in print)
• Thurner, Paul W. and Martin Binder, 2012: Formal and Real Authority of Ministerial
Jurisdictions in Semi-Open States. The Comparative Value of Inside and Outside
Networking. Journal of European Public Policy 19, 6: 814-843.
• Thurner, Paul W., Ingrid Mauerer, and Martin Binder, 2011: Parteienspezifisches Issue
Voting bei den Bundestagswahlen 2002-2009. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 45 (Sonderheft):
302-321, (Special Issue: Wählen in Deutschland, ed. Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck).
• Shikano, Suzumu, Michael Herrmann, and Paul W. Thurner, 2009: Strategic Voting
under Proportional Representation: Threshold Insurance in German Elections. West
European Politics 32,3: 630-652.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Martin Binder, 2009: EU Transgovernmental Networks: The
Emergence of a New Political Space beyond the Nation State? European Journal of Political
Research 48: 80-106.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2008: Nichtförmliche Verwaltungskooperation der Ministerialbürokratien
der EU-Mitgliedstaaten und netzwerkbasierte Zusammenstellung von nationalen
und übernationalen Prozessteams. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 41: 401-429. (Special

Issue: Governance in einer sich wandelnden Welt, eds.: Schuppert, Gunnar Folke / Michael
Zürn).
• Thurner, Paul W. and Franz U. Pappi, 2006: Domestic and International Politics during
EU Intergovernmental Conferences. Bridging the Gap between Negotiation Theory and
Practice. Negotiation Journal 22,2: 167-185.
• Boockmann, Bernhard and Paul W. Thurner, 2006: Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral
Environmental Treaties. International Environmental Agreements. Politics, Law and
Economics 6,2: 113-135.
• Thurner, Paul W., Michael Stoiber, and Cornelia Weinmann, 2005: Informelle Transgouvernementale
Koordinationsnetzwerke der Ministerialbürokratie der EU - Mitgliedstaaten
bei einer Regierungskonferenz. Politische Vierteljahresschrift: 45,4: 552-574.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Eric Linhart, 2004: Political Multilevel Negotiations and Issue
Linkage during an EU Intergovernmental Conference: An Empirical Application. Computational
and Mathematical Organization Theory, 9,3: 243-266.
• Thurner, Paul W., Clemens Kroneberg, and Michael Stoiber, 2003: Strategisches Signalisieren
bei internationalen Verhandlungen. Eine quantitative Analyse am Beispiel der
Regierungskonferenz 1996. Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 10,2: 287-320.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Michael Stoiber, 2002: Interministerielle Netzwerke: Formale und
informelle Koordinationsstrukturen bei der Vorbereitung der deutschen Verhandlungspositionen
zur Regierungskonferenz 1996. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 42, 4: 561-605.
• Pappi, Franz U. and Paul W. Thurner, 2002: Electoral Behavior in a Two-Vote-System:
Incentives for Ticket Splitting in German Bundestag Elections. European Journal of Political
Research 41,2: 207-232.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2000: The Empirical Application of the Spatial Theory of Voting in
Multiparty Systems with Random Utility Models. Electoral Studies 19,4: 493-517.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Angelika Eymann, 2000: Policy-Specific Alienation and Indifference
in the Calculus of Voting: A Simultaneous Model of Party Choice and Abstention.
Public Choice 102,1-2: 51-77.
• Pappi, Franz U. and Paul W. Thurner, 2000: Die deutschen Wähler und der Euro:
Auswirkungen auf die Bundestagswahl 1998 und längerfristige Perspektiven. Politische
Vierteljahresschrift 41,3: 435-465.
• Thurner, Paul W., 1999: Taktisch oder Aufrichtig? Zur Untersuchung des Stimmensplittings
bei Bundestagswahlen. Eine Replik auf Harald Schoens Beitrag in Heft 2/1998 der
Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 30,1: 163-166.

• Schöning, Norbert, Paul W. Thurner, and Martin Binder, 2012: Indifferenz und Inkonsistenz
als Moderatoren von räumlichen Framing-Effekten: Ein Laborexperiment am
Beispiel der Kernenergie. In: Bräuninger, Thomas, Susumu Shikano, and André Bächtiger
(eds.): Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, Band 7. Wiesbaden, VS
Verlag: (accepted for publication).
• Thurner, Paul W., 2010: Political Network Analysis. In: Geoffrey Garrett, Margaret Levi,
Paula D. McClain, James E. Alt, and Simone Chambers (eds.), 2010: Encyclopedia of
Political Science. Washington: CQ Press.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2010: ‘Issue-Unentschiedene’ und ‘Issue-Inkonsistente’ als Targetpopulationen?
Das Beispiel Kernenergie (1987-2005). In: Thorsten Faas, Kai Arzheimer,
and Sigrid Roßteutscher (eds.): Information-Wahrnehmung-Emotion: Politische Psychologie
in der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 333-353.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2010: Enhancing Horizontal and Vertical Self-Organization: Harnessing
Informal Networks to Integrate Policies Within and Between Governments in the
European Union. In: Rick Feiock and John T. Scholz (eds.): Self - organizing Federalism:
Collaborative Mechanisms to Mitigate Institutional Collective Action: Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 261-284.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2009: Die simultane Modellierung von Wahlbeteiligung und Wahlentscheidung.
In: Henning, Christian, Eric Linhart, and Susumu Shikano (eds.): Parteienwettbewerb,
Wählerverhalten und Koalitionsbildung. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 47-56.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2009: Internationale Verhandlungen und Interministerielle Koordination.
In: Schnapp, Kai-Uwe, et al. (eds.): Datenwelten. Datenerhebung und Datenbestände
in der Politikwissenschaft. Nomos-Verlag: Baden-Baden, 259-270.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2008: Verfahren der kollektiven Entscheidungsfindung. In: Gosepath,
Stephan, Wilfried Hinsch, and Beate Rössler (eds.): Handbuch der politischen Philosophie
und Sozialphilosophie Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 275-281.
• Herrmann, Michael, Susumu Shikano, Paul W. Thurner, and Axel Becker, 2006: Die
Analyse von Wählerpräferenzen mit Rank Ordered Logit. In: Bräuninger, Thomas and
Joachim Behnke (eds.): Jahrbuch Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, Band 4, 113-134.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2006: Modelle diskreter Entscheidungen. In: Behnke, Joachim, Thomas
Gschwend, Delia Schindler, and Kai-Uwe Schnapp (eds.): Empirische Methoden
der Politikwissenschaft. Neuere qualitative und quantitative Analyseverfahren. Nomos:
Baden-Baden, 193-204.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Franz U. Pappi, 2005: Quantitative Negotiation Analysis: Insights
from the Social Scientist’s Craft. Riedel, Eibe, Dirk Hanschel (eds.): Institutionalization
of International Negotiation Systems. Theoretical Concepts and Practical Insights (Conference
Report). Mannheim: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung.

• Saam, Nicole J., Paul W. Thurner and Frank Arndt, 2004. Dynamics of International
Negotiations. A Simulation of EU Intergovernmental Conferences. In: van Dijkum, Cor,
Jörg Blasius, Henk Kleijer, and Branko van Hilten (eds.). Recent Developments and
Applications in Social Research Methodology. Proceedings of the Sixth International
Conference on Logic and Methodology. August 17-20, 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2004: Determinanten transgouvernementaler Koordinationsbeziehungen
der Ministerien der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten: Eine Überprüfung der Keohane/Nye-
Conjecture. In: Henning, Christian H.C.A. and Christian Melbeck (eds.): Interdisziplinäre
Sozialforschung. Theorie und empirische Anwendungen. Frankfurt/New York:
Campus, 165-180.
• Pappi, Franz U., Eibe Riedel, Paul W. Thurner, and Roland Vaubel, 2004: Die Institutionalisierung
Internationaler Verhandlungssysteme als Fragestellung einer interdisziplinären
Forschergruppe. In: Pappi, Franz. U., Eibe Riedel, Paul W. Thurner, and Roland
Vaubel (eds.): Die Institutionalisierung Internationaler Verhandlungen. Frankfurt/New
York: Campus, 11-32.
• Stoiber, Michael and Paul W. Thurner, 2004: Die Ratifikation intergouvernementaler
Verträge: Konstitutionelle Erfordernisse und akteursspezifische Agendakontrolle. In:
Pappi, Franz U., Paul W. Thurner, Eibe Riedel, and Roland Vaubel (eds.): Die Institutionalisierung
Internationaler Verhandlungen. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 173-204.
• Linhart, Eric and Paul W. Thurner, 2004: Die Erklärungskraft spiel- und tauschtheoretischer
Verhandlungsmodelle bei gegebenem Institutionalisierungsgrad. Ein empirischer
Vergleich am Beispiel des Endgames der Regierungskonferenz 1996. In: Pappi, Franz
U., Eibe Riedel, Paul W. Thurner, and Roland Vaubel (eds.): Die Institutionalisierung
Internationaler Verhandlungen. Frankfurt/New York: Campus, 261-292.
• Thurner, Paul. W., 2000: Agrarstruktur und der Aufstieg der NSDAP in Bayern. Die
Rolle der Betriebsgrößenstruktur. In: Immerfall, Stefan (ed.): Parteien, Kulturen und
Konflikte. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 83-110.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Franz U. Pappi, 1998: ‘Retrospective’ und ‘Prospective Voting’ in
Mehrparteiensystemen mit Koalitionsregierung. Die Bundestagswahl 1994. In: Kaase,
Max and Hans-Dieter Klingemann (eds.): Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der
Bundestagswahl 1994. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 113-144.
• Thurner, Paul W., 1997: Nationale öffentliche Meinungen und internationale Verhandlungssysteme.
Die Regierungskonferenz 1996. In: Hrbek, Rudolf (ed.): Die Reform der
Europäischen Union. Positionen und Perspektiven anläßlich der Regierungskonferenz.
Baden-Baden: Nomos.

• Thurner, Paul W., 2008: Review of: Herwig C.H. Hofmann and Alexander H. Türk
(eds.), 2006: EU Administrative Governance. Cheltenham: E. Elgar. European Journal of
International Law 19,2: 455-456.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2005: Review of: Thomas Bräuninger, 2002: Internationale Institutionenpolitik:
Die Wahl von Entscheidungsregeln für die Meeresbodenbehörde. Frankfurt/New
York: Campus. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 57,2: 356-
358.
• Thurner, Paul W., 2000: Überhangmandate: theoretisch und empirisch unerschöpft. Review
of: Holger Jakob, 1998: Überhangmandat und Gleichheit der Wahl. Ein Beitrag zur
aktuellen Wahlrechtsdiskussion. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen
31,2: 493-494.
• Thurner, Paul W., Ingrid Mauerer, and Marc Debus, 2012: Conditionality of Party-
Specific Issue-Voting in German Election 1987-2009. A Conditional Logit Approach.
(submitted)
• Thurner, Paul W., André Klima, and Helmut Küchenhoff, 2012: Agricultural Structure
and the Rise of the Nazi Party Reconsidered. (to be presented at the Annual Conference
of the European Political Science Association, Berlin 2012) (submitted)
• Thurner, Paul W., Marcel Kiel, Micha Schneider, 2011: Committee Networks in the
European Parliament: Structure and Impact on Allocation of Reports. (presented at the
Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Berlin 2012)
• Thurner, Paul W. and Alexander Hatzold, 2010: Global Energy Governance - a Network
Perspective. Ms. LMU Munich. (Presented at the Conference on Political Network
Analysis, Duke University ( June 2010), and to ASNA Zurich (September 2010))
• Thurner, Paul W. and Martin Binder, 2010: Issue-Voting bei der Bundestagswahl 2009.
Ms. LMU Munich. (Presented at the German Longitudinal Election Study conference
on the 2009 German Election, Mannheim (September 2010))
• Thurner, Paul W., 2010: Country Chapter ‘Germany’. In: Müller, Wolfgang C. and Paul
W. Thurner (eds.): Politics of Nuclear Energy in Europe (in preparation). Ms. LMU
Munich.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Martin Binder, 2008: Formal and Real Authority of Ministerial
Jurisdictions in Semi-Open States. The Comparative Value of Inside and Outside Networking
(Ms., presented at the Harvard Conference on Networks in Political Science,
Boston, June 2008)

• Thurner, Paul W. and Martin Binder, 2007: Multiplex Interorganizational Networks of
State Officials: A Random Effects p2-Model. (Ms., presented at the Annual Conference
2007 of the American Political Science Association, Chicago).
• Thurner, Paul W. and Martin Binder, 2007: Effectiveness of Ministries’ Claims in EU
Intergovernmental Negotiations: A Multi-Level Approach. (Ms., presented at der Annual
Conference 2007 of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago).
• Thurner, Paul W. and Martin Binder, 2006: Explaining Transgovernmental Network
Choices with Exponential Random Graph Models. (presented at Annual Conference
2006 of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago).
• Shikano, Suzumu, Paul W. Thurner, and Michael Herrmann, 2006: Explaining (in)complete
preference rankings versus explaining stated party choice: The role of expectations.
(presented at Annual Conference 2006 of the Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago).
• Saam, Nicole J., Paul W. Thurner, and Frank Arndt, 2004: Dynamics of International
Negotiations. A Simulation of EU Intergovernmental Conferences. Arbeitspapiere -
Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung / Nr. 78. Mannheim 2004.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Eric Linhart, 2004: Domestic Politics and EU Intergovernmental
Conferences. A Theoretical Conceptualization and Empirical Testing of the Putnam
Conjectures. Arbeitspapiere - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung /
Nr 77. Mannheim.
• Thurner, Paul W., Clemens Kroneberg, and Michael Stoiber, 2003: Strategisches Signalisieren
bei internationalen Verhandlungen. Eine empirisch-quantitative Analyse am
Beispiel der Regierungskonferenz 1996. Arbeitspapiere - Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische
Sozialforschung / Nr. 70. Mannheim.
• Thurner, Paul W., Franz U. Pappi, and Michael Stoiber, 2002: EU Intergovernmental
Conferences: A Quantitative Analytical Reconstruction and Data-Handbook of Domestic
Preference Formation, Transnational Networks and Dynamics of Compromise
during the Amsterdam Treaty Negotiations. Arbeitspapiere Mannheimer Zentrum für
Europäische Sozialforschung Nr. 60 /IINS Research Paper No. 15. (294 pages).
• Boockmann, Bernhard, and Paul W. Thurner: Flexibility Provisions in Multilateral Environmental
Treaties. ZEW Discussion Paper / Nr. 02-44. Mannheim: 2002. [IINS Research
Paper No. 13].
• Thurner, Paul W. and Michael Stoiber, 2001: Interministerielle Netzwerke: Formale und
informelle Koordinationsstrukturen bei der Vorbereitung der deutschen Verhandlungspositionen
zur Regierungskonferenz 1996. Arbeitspapiere Mannheimer Zentrum für
Europäische Sozialforschung Nr. 37, Mannheim.

• Thurner, Paul W. and Peter Kotzian, 2001: Comparing European Health Care Systems
from an Institutional Economics Perspective. Paper delivered to the ECPR Joint Sessions
2001, Grenoble.
• Thurner, Paul W., Angelika Eymann, and Franz U. Pappi, 2000: Voter Reactions Towards
EMU: Did Foreign Trade Sensitivity Matter? Paper presented at the 2000 Annual
Meeting of the APSA, Washington.
• Stoiber, Michael and Paul W. Thurner, 2000: Der Vergleich von Ratifikationsstrukturen
der EU-Mitgliedsländer für Intergouvernementale Verträge: Eine Anwendung des
Veto-Spieler-Konzeptes. Arbeitspapiere der DFG-Forschergruppe ‘Institutionalisierung
Internationaler Verhandlungssysteme’ Nr. 6.
• Thurner, Paul W. and Franz U. Pappi, 1999: Causes and Effects of Coalition Preferences
in a Mixed-Member Proportional System. Mannheim: MZES, Working Paper Nr. 1. (Paper
(coauthored by André Kaiser) presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the APSA,
Atlanta, September, 1999).
• Thurner, Paul W. and Franz U. Pappi, 1998: Measuring and Explaining Strategic Voting
in the German Electoral System. Mannheim: MZES, AB II, Working Paper Nr. 21. (Paper
presented at the 1998 Annual Meeting of the APSA, Boston, September 1998).
• Thurner, Paul W. and Angelika Eymann, 1997: Policy-Specific Alienation and Indifference
in the Calculus of Voting: A Simultaneous Model of Party Choice and Abstention.
Mannheim: MZES, AB II, Working Paper Nr. 18. ISSN 0948-0080.
• Thurner, Paul W., 1996: Estimating the Parameters of a Spatial Voting Model with
Multiattributive Random Utility Models. Mannheim: MZES, AB II, Working Paper Nr.
13. ISSN: 0948-0080).
• Immerfall, Stefan and Paul W. Thurner, 1996: Die REPs in Bayern. Der kurze Traum
einer rechtspopulistischen Partei. S. 48-102 in: Immerfall, Stefan, Aline M. Kuntz, Alf
Mintzel, and Paul W. Thurner (eds.): Parteien in Bayern. Passauer Papiere zur Sozialwissenschaft
15. Passau.
Knowledge Transfer / External Workshops
8/2012 ECPR Summer School on Techniques and Methods, Ljubljana (two-week)
8/2011 ECPR Summer School on Techniques and Methods, Ljubljana (two-week)
8/2010 ECPR Summer School on Techniques and Methods, Ljubljana (two-week)
8/2009 APSA 2009 Short Course, Toronto (one-day)
8/2009 ECPR Summer School on Techniques and Methods, Ljubljana (one- week)

4/2009 Masters’ Spring Academy on Policy Analysis/German Policy Studies Conferences,
Braunschweig
3/2009 Berufsverband Deutscher Markt- und Sozialforscher e.V. (BVM) (two-day)
6/2008 Harvard Conference on Networks in Political Science: Applying Network
Methodology to Policy Analysis.
4/2008 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (two-day)
8/2007 APSA 2007 Short Course, Chicago (one-day)
5/2007 Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim (two-day)
2/2013 ECPR Winter School on Methods and Techniques, Vienna (one-week)
11/2008 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (two-day)
11/2007 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (two-day,
jointly with Florian Heiss, University of Munich, Dept. for Empirical Economics)
3/2007 Centre for European Economics (ZEW), Mannheim (two-day, together with
Florian Heiss, University of Munich)
11/2006 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (two-day,
jointly with Florian Heiss, University of Munich, Dept. for Empirical Economics)
9/2006 Ing-DiBa AG (two-day inhouse workshop)
11/2005 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (two-day,
jointly with Florian Heiss, University of Munich, Dept. for Empirical Economics)
03/2005 Centre for European Economics (ZEW) (three-day, jointly with Florian
Heiss (Mannheim Institut of the Economics of Aging) and Andreas Ziegler
(ZEW)
10/2004 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (two-day,
jointly with Florian Heiss)
11/2003 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (two-day,
jointly with Florian Heiss)
09/2003 Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA), (two-day, jointly
with Florian Heiss)

09/2002 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (two-day,
jointly with Florian Heiss, cancelled due to too few attendants)
11/2001 Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA), (two-day, jointly
with Florian Heiss)
10/2001 Association of German Market and Social Researchers (BVM) (one-day)
11/1999 DaimlerChrysler AG Berlin (two-day, jointly with Angelika Eymann)
6/1996 Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA), (two-day, jointly
with Angelika Eymann)