Thorsten Faas

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Thorsten Faas (born August 17, 1975 in Idar-Oberstein ) is a German political scientist and election researcher . He is a university professor in the field of "Political Sociology of the Federal Republic of Germany" at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin .

Career

Thorsten Faas studied political science at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and the London School of Economics and Political Science . There he graduated with a Master of Science degree in 2001 . From 2001 to 2003 he worked as a research assistant at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, from 2003 to 2008 at the University of Duisburg-Essen and from 2008 to 2009 at the University of Mannheim . He was born in 2008 with a thesis on “Unemployment and voter behavior. Direct and indirect effects on turnout and party preferences in East and West Germany "at Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck at the University of Duisburg-Essen doctorate . In 2011, the work was awarded the German Political Science Association's award for the best dissertation.

From 2009 to 2012 Faas was junior professor for political science, especially voter behavior at the University of Mannheim. From September 2012 to September 2017 he was a university professor in the field of "Empirical Political Research" at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Mainz . Since October 1, 2017, he has been a university professor in the field of "Political Sociology of the Federal Republic of Germany" at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science at the Free University of Berlin . In his research he deals with elections, election campaigns and election studies.

Faas is a member of the board of directors of the German Association for Political Science , the Presidium of the German Society for Election Research and the Council for Social and Economic Data .

Publications (selection)

  • Thorsten Faas, Kai Arzheimer, Sigrid Roßteutscher (eds.): Information - Perception - Emotion: Political Psychology in Election and Attitude Research. VS, Wiesbaden 2010
  • Thorsten Faas: Unemployment and voter behavior: direct and indirect effects on voter participation and party preferences in East and West Germany. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2010
  • Kai Arzheimer, Thorsten Faas, Ulrich Rosar, Sigrid Roßteutscher (eds.): Innovative methods of election and attitude research. In: methods - data - analyzes: Journal for Empirical Social Research (special issue). 6, 2012, pp. 67-244.
  • Thorsten Faas, Kai Arzheimer, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Bernhard Weßels (eds.): Coalitions, candidates, communication: analyzes of the 2009 federal election. Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2013.
  • Thorsten Faas, Cornelia Frank, Harald Schoen (eds.): Political Psychology: An Interdisciplinary Research Paradigm to Explain Political Phenomena (PVS Special Issue 50), Nomos, Baden-Baden 2015.
  • Thorsten Faas, Benjamin C. Sack: Political Communication in Times of Social Media , BAPP, Bonn 2016.
  • Sigrid Roßteutscher, Thorsten Faas, Ulrich Rosar (eds.): Citizens through the ages 25 years of election and attitude research in Germany , Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2016.
  • Thorsten Faas, Mona Krewel: A complex triangular relationship: politics - media - citizens and their mutual influences , Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Bonn 2017.
  • Thorsten Faas, Dietmar Molthagen , Tobias Mörschel (Eds.): Democracy and Demoskopie: Do Numbers Make Politics? Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2017.
  • Jürgen Maier, Thorsten Faas: TV duels , Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2019.
  • Thorsten Faas, Oscar W. Gabriel, Jürgen Maier (Eds.): Handbook of Political Science Attitude and Behavior Research , Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DVPW Science Awards ( Memento from October 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ DVPW - German Association for Political Science: Board of Directors. Retrieved February 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Faas, Thorsten
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Idar-Oberstein