Dr. Markus Baumann
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Vita
Markus Baumann studied political science and economics (M.A.) at the University of Mannheim. Between 2010 and 2017 he worked as a research and teaching associate at the Collaborative Research Center 884 – Political Economy of Reforms (SFB884, University of Mannheim), at the Professorship for the Political System of Germany (University of Oldenburg), at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), and at the Department of Political Science, Lund University.
In his dissertation (2016/17) with the title „Individual Parliamentary Behavior and Responsiveness in Non-Partisan Contexts“, he explores individualized preference formation and decision making by legislators in European parliaments.
Since October 2017, Markus Baumann is a research and teaching fellow at the Institute of Political Science (IPW) at Heidelberg University. His emphases in research and teaching are on the empirical analysis of parliaments, parties and party competition. In this context, his current research concentrates on questions relating to statements parties make in campaigns directly prior to elections as well as the consequences that increasing polarization has for legislative speech and legislators’ co-operation behavior.
Courses taught during the winter term 2018/19
Forschungsseminar: Quantitative Politikforschung
Institutionen, Präferenzen und Ergebnisse politischer Prozesse in Westeuropa
Publications
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann and Marc Debus (im Erscheinen): Coordination of legislative speech in times of crisis: Youth unemployment and debates on redistributive policies in the Swedish Riksdag, 1994–2014. International Journal of Social Welfare.
Baumann, Markus, Hanna Bäck and Johan Bo Davidsson (2018): Double Standards. The Role of Gender and Intra-Party Politics in Swedish Cabinet Appointments. Politics and Gender, first view 26 November 2018. [Link]
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2018): The Unequal Distribution of Speaking Time within Parliamentary Party Groups. Legislative Studies Quarterly, online first 04 November 2018. [Link]
Baumann, Markus (2018): Turning Liberal: Legislator’s Individual Preferences and the Regulation of Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis in Switzerland. Swiss Political Science Review 24 (1), 16-40 . [Link]
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Tristan Klingelhöfer (2017): Keeping One's Seat: TheCompetiveness of MP Renomination in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems. The Journal of Politics 79 (3), 979-994. [Link]
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Martin Gross (2017): Strength of weakness? Innerparteiliche Heterogenität, divergierende Koalitionspräferenzen und die Ergebnisse von Koalitionsverhandlungen in den deutschen Bundesländern. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 58 (2), 179-204. [Link]
Baumann, Markus (2016): Constituency Demands and Limited Supplies: Comparing Personal Issue Emphases in Co-sponsorship of Bills and Legislative Speech. Scandinavian Political Studies 39 (4), 366-387. [Link]
Baumann, Markus, and Martin Gross (2016): Where Is My Party? Introducing New Data Sets on Ideological Cohesion and Ambiguity of Party Positions in Media Coverage. Mannheim: Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung, MZES-Workingpaper 167. [Link]
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2015): Convictions and Signals in Parliamentary Speeches: Dáil Éireann Debates on Abortion in 2001 and 2013. Irish Political Studies 30 (2), 199-219. [Link]
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2015): Personal Characteristics of MPs and Legislative Behavior in Moral Policy Making. Legislative Studies Quarterly 40 (2), 179 210. [Link]
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2013): Das legislative Verhalten von Bundestagsabgeordneten zwischen persönlichen Charakteristika, Wahlkreisinteressen und Parteilinie: Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzung um die Präimplantationsdiagnostik. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 23 (2), 177-211. [Link]
Outreach publications
Gewissensentscheidungen im Parlament: Die Debatte um die Präimplantationsdiagnostik in der Schweiz, DeFacto (2018). [Link]
Book Review: Die Kandidatenauftsellung zur Bundestagswahl: Analyse der Nominierungen von CDU und SPD in Baden-Württemberg zur Bundestagswahl 2009, German Politics, published online 03 May 2018. [Link]
Conference contributions (since 2015)
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann and Marc Debus (2017): Who Speaks for Young People? An Analysis of Debates on (Youth) Unemployment in the Swedish Riksdag, 1994–2014. Youth in a Post-Crisis Europe: Policy-Making and its Effects, Lissabon, September 21st to September 22nd, 2017.
Bäck, Hanna, Markus Baumann, Marc Debus and Jochen Müller (2016): The Unequal Distribution of Speaking Time in European Parliamentary Party Groups. 74th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 07th to April 10th, 2016.
Baumann, Markus, Hanna Bäck and Johan Bo Davidsson (2016): In line with the party? The role of intra-party politics and gender in Swedish cabinet appointments. 10th ECPR General Conference, Charles University, Prague, September 07th to September 10th, 2016.
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Martin Gross (2016): Innerparteiliche Zerstrittenheit, divergierende Koalitionspräferenzen und Ergebnisse von Koalitionsverhandlungen. Annual meeting of the Analytical Politics Section (Arbeitskreis Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie) of the German Political Science Association, University of Cologne, May 20th to May 21st, 2016.
Baumann, Markus, Marc Debus and Tristan Klingelhöfer (2015): Incumbent MPs, contenders and competition for the best places: Determinants of intra-party candidate selection in the run-up to the 2013 Bundestag election. 26. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, September 21st to September 25th, 2015.
Baumann, Markus (2015): Personal Issue Emphases and Plenary Debates: Comparing Co-sponsorship of Bills and Legislative Speech. 65th Political Studies Association Annual International Conference, Sheffield, March 30th to April 01st, 2015.
Baumann, Markus, and Dominic Nyhuis (2015): Strategies and convictions: Determinants of parliamentary collaboration networks in two European parliaments. 9th ECPR General Conference, Université de Montréal, August 26th to August 29th, 2015.
Baumann, Markus, and Jochen Müller (2015): Timing Diversity: The Time-Dependent Logic of Parliamentary Debate. 9th ECPR General Conference, Université de Montréal, August 26th to August 29th, 2015.
