Joachim Behnke

Joachim Behnke (born December 8, 1962 ) is a German political scientist . Since 2008 he has held the professorship for political science at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen . His research focuses on voting systems in Germany and voting behavior . He has also published books on decision and game theory , methods of empirical political science research and statistical data analysis.

Career

Behnke attended the Georg-Wilhelm-Steller-Gymnasium in Bad Windsheim and graduated from high school there in 1982. He then started studying theater studies , philosophy , communication studies , economics and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , for which he received funding from the State of Bavaria's scholarship for particularly talented people from 1982 to 1989 . In 1990 he graduated with a Magister Artium in communication science, economics and political science.

For his doctorate, he then moved to the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg and worked there parallel to his doctoral process as a research assistant from 1991 to 1996 in a research project under the direction of Hans Rattinger on factors influencing foreign policy attitudes and, from 1997, at the chair for political theory by Reinhard Zintl . In 1998 Behnke received his doctorate with his thesis Spatial Models of the factual question-oriented voting decision . He then became a research assistant in the chair in 1999 . With his work The Election System of the Federal Republic of Germany. Logic, technology and practice of proportional representation , he habilitated there in January of 2006.

In April 2006 he returned to the University of Munich, where he was a substitute professor at the chair for empirical political research and policy field analysis for almost two years . In March 2008 he received a professorship at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen , where he took over the chair for political science.

Since 2002 Joachim Behnke has been one of the spokespersons for the Action and Decision Theory working group of the German Association for Political Science (DVPW) and, in this role, is co-editor of the Yearbook for Action and Decision Theory . Furthermore, he has been the spokesman for the working group at the DVPW since 2003 and of the Empirical Methods in Political Science section since 2012 .

Works (selection)

• Spatial models of factual question-oriented voting decisions . Publishing house Dr. Kovač, Hamburg 1999.
• with Nathalie Behnke : Basics of statistical data analysis. An introduction for political scientists . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006.
• The electoral system of the Federal Republic of Germany. Logic, technique and practice of proportional representation . Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007.
• with Nina Baur and Nathalie Behnke : Empirical Methods in Political Science . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh / UTB, Paderborn 2006. (2nd edition published in 2010)
• Decision and game theory . Nomos / UTB, Baden-Baden 2013.
• Logistic regression analysis. An introduction . Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2014.

Web links

• Joachim Behnke's curriculum vitae on the Zeppelin University website
• Website of the chair of Joachim Behnke at the Zeppelin University
• Literature by and about Joachim Behnke in the catalog of the German National Library