Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels
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D-10785 Berlin
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ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0127-3556
2020/04-2022-03 Acting Director, research unit "Democracy and Democratization" (completed) at the WZB
2003-2020 Deputy director, research unit "Democracy and Democratization", formerly "Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges" at the WZB (Director of the research unit: Wolfgang Merkel)
since 2003 Senior research fellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Democracy and Democratization", formerly "Democracy: Structures, Performance, Challenges"
since April 2013 Professor (retired), Humboldt-University Berlin, Institute for Social Sciences
since 2008 Faculty member, Berlin Graduate School of the Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Privatdozent at the Institute for Social Sciences
2000-2008 Privatdozent at Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences
1992-3/2003 (completion of the research unit) Deputy director, research unit "Institutions and Social Change" at the WZB (director of the research unit: Hans-Dieter Klingemann)
1989- 2003 Senior research fellow, Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research unit "Institutions and Social Change"
1983-1989 Research fellow, Zentralinstitut für sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung, Freie Universität Berlin
Selected Publications
Weßels, Bernhard (2025): Stability and change - legitimacy and populism. In: Mónica Ferrín and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.), How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy Revisited. Ten Years Later. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 230-252.
Schoen, Harald; Weßels, Bernhard (eds)(2024): Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2021.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-42694-1
04/2017-09/2024
MARPOR Manifesto Research on Political Representation, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Director: Bernhard Weßels
Participating scientists: Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merkel, Pola Lehmann, Theres Matthieß, Nicolas Merz, Sven Regel, Dr. Andrea Volkens, Carolin Herrmann, Jirka Lewandowski
10/2020-09/2023
Observatory of Political Texts in European Democracies (OPTED), funded by the European Commission, Workpackage 4
Co-Director: Bernhard Weßels
12/2017-09/2021
Populistische Kritik der politischen Legitimität repräsentativer Demokratie, Teilprojekt des Projektverbundes "Veränderung durch Krisen? Solidarität und Entsolidarisierung in Deutschland und Europa", funded by BMBF.
Participating scientists: Heiko Giebler, Bernhard Weßels
09/2009-12/2021
German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Co-Director: Bernhard Weßels
Participating scientists: Aiko Wagner (Koord.), Josephine Lichteblau, Reinhold Melcher. Assoziiert: Heiko Giebler
In cooperation with: Hans Rattinger (University of Mannheim), Sigrid Roßteutscher (University Frankfurt am Main), Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (University of Mannheim)
2008-2011
PIREDEU - Providing an Infrastructure for Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union, FP7 Project, funded by the European Commission; study component "European Candidate Study"
Co-Director: Bernhard Weßels
Participating Scientists: Heiko Giebler
In cooperation with: European University Institute, Florenz; Mannheimer Zentrum für europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), University of Mannheim
2005-2020
Democracy Barometer, NCCR Democracy, University of Zurich, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Project leaders: Wolfgang Merkel, Daniel Bochsler (Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau)
Participating scientists: Marc Bühlmann (University of Berne), Heiko Giebler, Bernhard Weßels
Doctoral student: Lisa Müller (Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau)
1998-2020
Post-electoral studies to the German federal elections in 1998, 2002, 2005, 2009, 2013, 2017
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems - German part,
in cooperation with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
cooperative project with electoral study teams in 36 countries.
Funding: WZB and German Research Foundation (DFG)
Director: Bernhard Weßels
In cooperation with Herrmann Schmitt (University of Mannheim, 1998-2005); since 2009 the project is pursued in the framework of GLES.
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