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Dr Sebastian Koehler, M.A. Political Science and Economics (University of Mannheim), PhD Political Science (University of Mannheim)

Sebastian

Lecturer in Comparative Politics

Email: s.koehler@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: Arts One Building 2.07
Twitter: @@sebkoehle
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11:30-12:30 (online) Thursdays, 14:30-15:30 (in office) Please book your office hours here: https://calendly.com/sebastiankoehler/office-hours

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. 

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 

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