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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
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 (2022). Observing many researchers using the same data andhypothesis 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
2020
- Gärtner, L., Gavras, K. & Schoen, H. (2020). What tips the scales? Disentangling the mechanisms underlying post-electoral gains and losses in democratic support. Electoral Studies, 67(2), Article 102210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2020.102210
- Wuttke, A., Gavras, K. & Schoen, H. (2020). Leader of the free world or pioneer in democracy’s decline? Examining the democratic deconsolidation hypothesis on the mass level in East and West Germany. Research & Politics : R&P, 7(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168019900822
2022
- Höhne, J. K., Kern, C., Gavras, K. & Schlosser, S. (2022). The Sound of respondents: Predicting respondents’ level of Interest with voice data in smartphone surveys. SSRN Working Paper Series. Rochester, NY. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4239005
2021
- Eichfelder, S. & Gavras, K. (2021). Von der klassischen Promotion zum Graduiertenkolleg: Die Promotion im Wandel der Zeit. In A. Borgstedt, S. Eichfelder & P. Gassert (eds.), Eine Universität für die Gesellschaft : 75 Jahre Neubegründung Wirtschaftshochschule und Universität Mannheim (S. 233–235). Ubstadt-Weiher: verlag regionalkultur.
2018
- Schoen, H. & Gavras, K. (2018). Eher anhaltende Polarisierung als vorübergehende Verstimmung : Die Flüchtlingskrise und die Bürgerurteile über die Große Koalition zwischen 2013 und 2017. In R. Zohlnhöfer (eds.), Zwischen Stillstand, Politikwandel und Krisenmanagement : Eine Bilanz der Regierung Merkel 2013–2017 (S. 17–37). Wiesbaden: Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978–3-658–22663-3_2
2022
- Gavras, K. (2022). The conditions and nature of europeanized public discourse – A multi-lingual QTA analysis of public discourses in Europe using the internet archive, 2016–2019. [Doctoral dissertation, Universität Mannheim].
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