Professor Dr. Franz Pappi

Project A9

Lehrstuhl für Politische Wissenschaft I
Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften
Universität Mannheim

Franz Urban Pappi was born in Pfarrkirchen, Bavaria, in 1939. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 1967 after having studied sociology, history and psychology at the Universities of Heidelberg, The Free University of Berlin and the University of Munich. His dissertation focussed on the development of democratic attitudes under the impact of generational experiences and type of community. He moved to the University of Cologne where he was an assistant professor in sociology at the Zentralarchiv für Empirische Sozialforschung till 1974 and from 1974 to 1978 he served as a senior project director at the Zentrum für Umfragen, Methoden und Analysen at Mannheim. He finished his Habilitation at the University of Cologne in 1977 with a thesis on individual and contextual effects on voting behavior. In 1978 he became professor of sociology at the University of Kiel and moved to a chair in political science at the University of Mannheim in 1990. In the 1980s he was guest professor at the European University Institute and at the Department of Sociology of the University of Chicago. At present he serves on the editorial boards of the "Zeitschrift für Soziologie" and the "Journal of Theoretical Politics". He is interested in theories of collective decision making as applied to national legislatures and to international negotiation systems, and in theories of voting behavior, especially strategic voting.

Selected Publications

• Pappi, F. U., Gschwend, T. (2005), Partei- und Koalitionspräferenzen der Wähler bei der Bundestagswahl 1998 und 2002, In Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2002, Jürgen W. Falter, Oscar W. Gabriel und Bernhard Wessels (Hg.), Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, S. 284-305.
• 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.
• Pappi, F. U., Shikano, S., Bytzek, E. (2004), Der Einfluss politischer Ereignisse auf die Popularität von Parteien und Politikern auf das Parteiensystem, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 56 (1).
• Pappi, F. U., Thurner, P.W. (2002), Electoral behavior in a two-vote-system: Incentives for ticket splitting in German Bundestag elections, European Journal of Political Research 41, S. 207-232.
• Pappi, F. U. (2000), Zur Theorie des Parteienwettbewerbs. In: Klein, Markus, Wolfgang Jagodzinski, Ekkehard Mochmann und Dieter Ohr, (Hrsg.), 50 Jahre Empirische Wahlforschung in Deutschland. Wiesbaden, Westdeutscher Verlag, S. 85-105.