Thomas Gschwend, Ph.D.

Project A9

Lehrstuhl für Politische Wissenschaft I
Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
Universität Mannheim

Thomas Gschwend is currently Senior Fellow of the Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) at the University of Mannheim. He studied Mathematics, Political Science and Education in Freiburg. In 1998 he went to get his graduate training at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and received a PhD in Political Science in 2001, which was subsequently awarded the Gerhard-Fürst-Preis 2002. He is interested in the processes by which electoral institutions pre-structure an individual's decision-making process and its consequences for voters, party strategies and election outcomes. His current work focuses on comparative politics, public opinion, political psychology as well as political methodology.

Selected Publications

• Gschwend, T. (2004), Strategic Voting in Mixed-Electoral Systems. Reutlingen: SFG-Elsevier.
• Gschwend, T. (2006), Ticket-Splitting and Strategic Voting under Mixed Electoral Rules: Evidence from Germany. European Journal of Political Research, forthcoming.
• Gschwend, T., Johnston, R., Pattie, C. (2003), Split-Ticket Patterns in Mixed-Member Proportional Election Systems: Estimates and Analyses of their Spatial Variation at the German Federal Election, 1998. British Journal of Political Science 33(1), S. 109-127.
• Gschwend, T., Leuffen, D. (2005), Divided We Stand - Unified We Govern? The Issue of Cohabitation in the French Elections of 2002, British Journal of Political Science 35(4), S. 691-712.
• Gschwend, T., Pappi, F.U. (2004), Stimmensplitting und Koalitionswahl. In Bundestagswahl 2002, Frank Brettschneider, Jan van Deth und Edeltraud Roller (Hg.), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. S. 167-183.