Giulia Sandri is Scientific Advisor for European and International Funding at the EU Liaison Office of the Université libre de Bruxelles. Between 2012 and 2024, she was Associate Professor in Political Science, Director of ESPOL-LAB Research Center for European and International Politics and Co-Director of the Master in Digital Politics and Governance at the Catholic University of Lille. Furthermore, she is member of the Executive Committee of the Political Studies Association’s Technology, Internet, and Policy Specialist Group (TIP) and member (and previously Work Package leader) of the Horizon Europe project “ACTEU-Towards a new era of representative democracy – Activating European citizens’ trust in times of crises and polarization” which runs between 2023 and 2026. She is also co-chair of the Digital Parties Network.

She was previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Christ Church college and at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Her main research interests are AI policy, digital politics, comparative politics, and political behavior. Her work recently has been published in Information, Communication & Society, in the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties; Réseaux and French Politics. She also published with Springer an edited volume on “Digital Parties – The Challenges of Online Organization and Participation“, with Oscar Barberà (University of Valencia, Spain) and Patricia Correa (Aston University, United Kingdom). Her full list of publications can be found on ORCID, on Researchgate, or GoogleScholar.

Marco is a Visiting Researcher from the University f Valencia in the framework of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Research Project: ‘Imagine (if) Platforms. European Progressive Parties and the Digital Commons. Mapping Ideologies and Practices. Comparing Political Imaginaries. Measuring Societal Impacts’ (IMDIGICOMM) (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01- 101110457).

2019-2025 Researcher

Publications:

Arzheimer, K., Bernemann, T., and Sprang, T. (2024). Oppression of Catholics in Prussia does not explain spatial differences in support for the radical right in Germany. A critique of Haffert (2022). ELECTORAL STUDIES, 89. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Arzheimer, K., and Bernemann, T. (2024). Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany. EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 16(2), 167-186. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Bernemann, T. (2023). Integration policy and political participation of migrants in Western Europe : Multiculturalism and assimilation in comparison [Master’s Thesis]. DOI Author/Publisher URL

Bernemann, T. Feelings of crisis instead of contextual conditions. Explanatory approaches for the geographical variance of right-wing populist electoral successes . Springer VS.

Professor Buchheim passed away on November 14, 2016. We mourn the loss of a valued colleague who has shaped and supported the Institute since its beginnings. We will keep him in honorable memory.

Academic career and public offices

From 1951, Hans Buchheim was a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich, where he worked primarily on the ruling organizations of National Socialism. From the mid-1950s, he was also involved as an expert witness in various trials of Nazi criminals. He later worked on Adenauer’s foreign and German policy. In 1966, Hans Buchheim was appointed full professor at the former Faculty of Philosophy at JGU. Here he was instrumental in founding and establishing the Institute of Political Science and the Department of Social Sciences (now Social Sciences, Media and Sport), of which he was Dean.

Beyond academia, Buchheim held a number of public offices and responsibilities, including in the CDU, on the Central Committee of German Catholics and as an advisor to the Federal Chancellery. He remained closely associated with his institute long after his retirement (1990) and regularly offered lectures until his 90th birthday.

Main research areas

Hans Buchheim studied classical philology, ancient history and philosophy, but already dealt with political problems of antiquity in his dissertation (“Die Orientpolitik des Marcus Antonius und sein Verhältnis zu Octavian”). His research initially focused primarily on contemporary (German) history, where he dealt with the era of National Socialism and later with the immediate post-war period. He also had a keen interest in normative and conceptual issues as well as the classics of the history of ideas.

Selected publications

  • The Third Reich. Kösel, 1958 (reprinted, revised and translated several times)
  • The SS – the instrument of power, command and obedience. Olten, 1965
  • Theory of politics. Oldenbourg, 1981
  • Contributions to the ontology of politics. Oldenbourg, 1991
  • The rationality of political reason. BWV, 2004
  • The modern republican state. Mohr Siebeck 2013

Academic career and public offices (selection)

  • April 2012 to March 2019 Senior Research Professor at the University of Mainz at Faculty 02, Social Sciences, Media and Sport
  • 2007-2012 Member of the Board of the Gutenberg Research College of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • 2007-2012 Senior Fellow of the Gutenberg Doctoral College of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • 2005-2008 Founding Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Media and Sport at the University of Mainz
  • January 1993 to March 2012 Full Professor (C4) of Political Science at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, specializing in “Political Systems” and “Domestic Politics”
  • 1983-1992 Full Professor (C4) of Political Science and Comparative Fascism Research at the University of Berlin (FU); Head of the “Comparative Fascism Research” department at the Central Institute for Social Science Research; lecturer at the Otto Suhr Institute in the Institute for the Foundations of Politics
  • 1981 Habilitation at the Faculty of Law and Economics at Saarland University; topic: “The Behavioralism Controversy in American Political Science 1945-1975.” Reviewers: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Domes; Prof. Dr. Werner Kroeber-Riel; awarded the venia legendi for political science
  • 1973-1983 Professor of Methodology of the Social Sciences and Political Sociology in the Department of Education at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich
  • 1973 Doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Faculty of Law and Economics at Saarland University (grade: summa cum laude); dissertation topic: “Factors of the electoral decision. An electoral sociological analysis using the example of the 1970 Saarland state parliamentary elections.” First reviewer: Prof. Dr. Karl Kaiser (Political Science); second reviewer: Prof. Dr. Gerald Eberlein (Sociology)

Honors:

  • 2001 Elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  • 2005 Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon
  • 2013 Elected as a full member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
  • 2016 Appointed Honorary Senator of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Selected publications:

  • “How I found my way to the Führer”. Motives for joining and strategies for exonerating NSDAP members, Frankfurt/New York 2022: Campus Verlag (with Kristine Khachatryan, Lisa Klagges, Jonas Meßner, Jan Rosensprung and Hannah Weber).
  • Hitler’s voters. The supporters of the NSDAP 1924-1933 , 2nd expanded and revised edition, Frankfurt/New York 2020: Campus Verlag.
  • Hitler’s party comrades. The members of the NSDAP 1919-1945, Frankfurt/New York 2020: Campus Verlag.
  • Is what belongs together growing together? Stability and change in political attitudes in reunified Germany , Baden-Baden 2005: Nomos (with Gabriel, O. W./Rattinger, H.).
  • Hitlers Wähler, Munich 1991: Verlag C. H. Beck.
  • Factors of the electoral decision. An electoral sociological analysis using the example of the 1970 Saarland state election , Cologne 1973: Heymanns-Verlag.

2011-2015 Research assistant

2018-2024 Researcher

Publications:

Fitzpatrick, J., and Selbach, R. (2022). Political parties: Interest organization in transition. In L. H. Anders and D. Riese (Eds.), Political actors and institutions in Germany: A research-oriented introduction to the political system (pp. 69-90). Wiesbaden:Springer VS. DOI

2007-2013 Researcher

former Alexander von Humboldt Fellow