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Prof. Dr. Bernhard Weßels

Advisory Council

Bernhard Weßels is Professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Deputy Director of the Department "Democracy and Democratization" at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. His research areas include comparative political behavior, mediation of interests and political representation. He is co-head of the German Election Study (GLES) and head of the Manifesto Project (MARPOR).


Selected Publications

Klingemann, H.-D., Gancheva, D., & Weßels, Bernhard (2017). Ideological Congruence. Choice, Visibility, Clarity. Parties, Governments and Elites. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 53-72.

Giebler, H., & Weßels, B. (2017). If you don't know me by now. Explain local candidate recognition. German Politics 26(1), 149-169.

Schoen, H., & Weßels, B. (2016). Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2013. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Weßels, B. (2015). Democratic Legitimacy. Concepts, Measures, Outcomes. How Europeans View and Evaluate Democracy. Series Comparative Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 235-256.


Contributions


Living & Working Future of Democracy News from the DPZ New intellectual contributors join Das Progressive Zentrum New Members of the Scientific Council and Fellows support our think tank
19 July 2018 | Isabelle Maras | Daniela Blaschke | Manuela Barišić | Maik Bohne | Johannes Hillje | Kübra Gümüşay | Oliver Geden | Florian Grotz | Tanja Klenk | Lutz Mache | Rita Nikolai | Florian Ranft | Sabine Ruß-Sattar | Alexander Schellinger | Bernhard Weßels | Fiona D. Wollensack

A total of 16 outstanding progressive thinkers and practitioners will add to the intellectual life within the think-tank in our three programme areas “International Relations”, “Future of Democracy” and “Structural Change”, and elaborate on new thematic threads such as “Digital Democracy”, “Corporate Citizenship” and “Democratic Debate Culture”.