Profile
Sebastian holds a PHD from the University of Mannheim, Germany. He is currently serving as the Academic Convenor of the ECPR Methods School and as member of the editorial board of SN Social Sciences. Before joining Queen Mary University, he held positions at King’s College London, the University of Konstanz, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Mannheim.
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Teaching
POL105 Political Analysis
POL272 Political Data Research
POL284 Comparative Politics
POL309 Making Democracy Work: Public Opinion, Representation, and Information
POL350 Analysing Public Policy
Research
Research Interests:
Legislative Politics, Lobbying, Climate Change Policy, Causal Inference, Network analysis
Examples of research funding:
POLE – Patterns of Legislative Effectiveness. Research Project funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT).
Publications
Stockemer, Daniel/Koehler, Sebastian/Lentz, Tobias. 2018. “Data Access and Transparency: New insights from the political behavior literature.” PS: Political Science and Politics 51 (4): 799–803.
Koehler, Sebastian/König, Thomas. 2015. “Fiscal Governance in the Eurozone: How Effectively Does the Stability and Growth Pact Limit Governmental Debt in the Euro Countries?” Political Science Research and Methods 03(2): 329-352.
Books
Koehler, Sebastian. 2019. “Lobbying, Political Uncertainty and Policy Outcomes”. London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan. https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319970547.
Book Chapters
Calca, Patrícia/Koehler, Sebastian. 2014. “Is this a path or a shortcut? Unemployment and Turnout in the Portuguese European Parliament Elections (1987-2014)”, In: Maria Fer- nanda Rollo, José Maria Brandão de Brito and Alice Cunha (eds.). Portugal and the Elections to the European Parliament. Almedina: Coimbra, pp.47-67 (in Portuguese).
2012 Calca, Patrícia/Koehler, Sebastian. “Presidential Speech-Making and Leadership Images in Times of Crisis: Bush vs. Obama”. in: Belim, Célia/Calca, Patrícia (eds.). 2012. Image of U.S. Presidential Administrations: The Cases of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Maryland: Lexington Books.
Supervision
Interested in supervising work on Legislative Politics, Lobbying or Climate Change Policy.
Public Engagement
Academic Convenor of the ECPR Methods School
Member of Editorial Board of SN Social Sciences
