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Current and past job vacancies, publications and other announcements from the Centre you can find at this page.
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21.10.2025

Cologne Center for Comparative Politics: Lecture Series (2025/26)

October 21st: Dr. Alessia Aspide
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Rethinking Austerity’s Political Costs:…

12.08.2025

New article published in Comparative European Politics

Elena Semenova, Keith Dowding, André Kaiser and Alessandro Di Biagio on "Do citizens approve of technocrats? Analyzing…

21.07.2025

"The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation" by Marius R. Busemeyer and Christine Trampusch published in Chinese

First published in 2012 by Oxford University Press, the book analyses the political and historical causes as well as the…

21.07.2025

Danielle Pullan Takes Up Assistant Professor Post in USA

Danielle Pullan, former doctoral researcher at the Chair of Comparative Politics, is leaving the University of Cologne…

05.06.2025

New article published in Contemporary Politics.

Düzgün Arslantaş and Şenol Arslantaş on "Opposition parties and hybrid regime change: evidence from Mexico, Russia,…

19.03.2025

New article published in Voluntas

Defne Gönenç, Elçin Doruk & Düzgün Arslantas on "Is the Environment a Political Issue? A View from Environmental Civil…

05.03.2025

Course Offers Summer 2025

Overview of the courses offered in the Summer Term 2025 in the Bachelor, Master and PhD-Programm.

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17.02.2025

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