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Konstantin Gavras

Year: 2016

Center: Social Sciences

Supervisor: Harald Schoen

Konstantin Gavras holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and Public Law and a Master’s Degree in Political Science both from the University of Mannheim. Konstantin gained broad research  experiences on voting behavior during his work as a research assistant for the GLES (German Longitudinal Election Study) at the Chairs of Comparative Political Behavior and Political Psychology. In his Master thesis he integrated the influence of institutional aspects into the process of political communication and tested it using both macro- and micro-level data on several European countries and their citizens. Konstantin aims to integrate contextual influences in the classical theories of voting behavior, building bridges from Political Sociology to Comparative Politics.

Research interests:

  • Political Behavior and Attitudes
  • Comparative Politics
  • Epistemology and Causal Identification

Publications

2024

2022

  • Breznau, N., Rinke, E. M., Wuttke, A., Nguyen, H. H. V., Adem, M., Adriaans, J., Alvarez-Benjumea, A., Andersen, H. K., Auer, D., Azevedo, F., Bahnsen, O., Balzer, D., Bauer, G., Bauer, P. C., Baumann, M., Baute, S., Benoit, V., Bernauer, J., Berning, C., Berthold, A., Bethke, F. S., Biegert, T., Blinzler, K., Blumenberg, J. N., Bobzien, L., Bohman, A., Bol, T., Bostic, A., Brzozowska, Z., Burgdorf, K., Burger, K., Busch, K. B., Carlos-Castillo, J., Chan, N., Christmann, P., Connelly, R., Czymara, C., Damian, E., Ecker, A., Edelmann, A., Eger, M. A., Ellerbrock, S., Forke, A., Forster, A., Gaasendam, C., Gavras, K., Gayle, V., Gessler, T., Gnambs, T., Godefroidt, A., Grömping, M., Groß, M., Gruber, S., Gummer, T., Hadjar, A., Heisig, J. P., Hellmeier, S., Heyne, S., Hirsch, M., Hjerm, M., Hochman, O., Hövermann, A., Hunger, S., Hunkler, C., Huth, N., Ignácz, Z. S., Jacobs, L., Jacobsen, J., Jaeger, B., Jungkunz, S., Jungmann, N., Kauff, M., Kleinert, M., Klinger, J., Kolb, J.-P., Kołczyńska, M., Kuk, J., Kunißen, K., Kurti Sinatra, D., Langenkamp, A., Lersch, P. M., Löbel, L.-M., Lutscher, P., Mader, M., Madia, J. E., Malancu, N., Maldonado, L., Marahrens, H., Martin, N., Martinez, P., Mayerl, J., Mayorga, O. J., McManus, P., McWagner, K., Meeusen, C., Meierrieks, D., Mellon, J., Merhout, F., Merk, S., Meyer, D., Micheli, L., Mijs, J., Moya, C., Neunhoeffer, M., Nüst, D., Nygård, O., Ochsenfeld, F., Otte, G., Pechenkina, A. O., Prosser, C., Raes, L., Ralston, K., Ramos, M. R., Roets, A., Rogers, J., Ropers, G., Samuel, R., Sand, G., Schachter, A., Schaeffer, M., Schieferdecker, D., Schlueter, E., Schmidt, R., Schmidt, K. M., Schmidt-Catran, A., Schmiedeberg, C., Schneider, J., Schoonvelde, M., Schulte-Cloos, J., Schumann, S., Schunck, R., Schupp, J., Seuring, J., Silber, H., Sleegers, W. W. A., Sonntag, N., Staudt, A., Steiber, N., Steiner, N. D., Sternberg, S., Stiers, D., Stojmenovska, D., Storz, N., Striessnig, E., Stroppe, A.-K., Teltemann, J., Tibajev, A., Tung, B., Vagni, G., Van Assche, J., Van der Linden, M., Van der Noll, J., Van Hootegem, A., Vogtenhuber, S., Voicu, B., Wagemans, F., Wehl, N., Werner, H., Wiernik, B. M., Winter, F., Wolf, C., Yamada, Y., Zhang, N., Ziller, C., Zins, S. & Żółtak, T. (2022). Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America : PNAS, 119(44, Article e2203150119), 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2203150119
  • Elshehawy, A., Gavras, K., Marinov, N., Nanni, F. & Schoen, H. (2022). Illiberal communication and election intervention during the refugee crisis in Germany. Perspectives on Politics, 20(3), 860–878. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592721003108
  • Gavras, K. & Höhne, J. K. (2022). Evaluating political parties: criterion validity of open questions with requests for text and voice answers. International Journal of Social Research Methodology : IJSRM, 25(1), 135–141. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2020.1860279
  • Gavras, K., Höhne, J. K., Blom, A. G. & Schoen, H. (2022). Innovating the collection of open-ended answers: The linguistic and content characteristics of written and oral answers to political attitude questions. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in Society, 185(3), 872–890. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12807
  • Gavras, K., Mader, M. & Schoen, H. (2022). Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018. European Union Politics : EUP, 23(4), 662–679. https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165221103026
  • Wuttke, A., Gavras, K. & Schoen, H. (2022). Have Europeans grown tired of democracy? New evidence from 18 consolidated democracies, 1981-2018. British Journal of Political Science, 52(1), 416–428. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123420000149

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Konstantin Leonardo Gavras, M.A.

Konstantin Leonardo Gavras, M.A.

Academic Staff Member
University of Mannheim
Chair of Political Science, Political Psychology
A 5, 6 – Room 328
68159 Mannheim
Consultation hour(s):
Tue 2–3 p.m.