Faculty

The following researchers collaborate in the PhD programme in research and supervision. (Click on the names to show details of the particular person.)

Prof. Dr. Frank Bätge
Law
HSPV

Frank Bätge
personal website
Prof. Dr. Frank Bätge works as a professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration North Rhine-Westphalia since 2008. He is also a lecturer at the German University of Administrative Sciences in Speyer and at the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Before his appointment as a professor, he worked in a leading position in the local government. His research interests are in the areas of municipal law and the law of political participation in the form of elections, polls and informal forms of participation. In these areas, he has been consulted by parliaments as an expert. Prof. Dr. Bätge has written various publications and reports to Electoral voting issues. He is editor of the journal ‘municipal elections practice’.


Publications (selection):

Frank Bätge (2011) Kommunalrecht Nordrhein-Westfalen, C.F.Müller

Katrin Möltgen, Frank Bätge (2012) Die Wahl des Integrationsgremiums in den Gemeinden am Beispiel des Integrationsrates und Integrationsausschusses in Nordrhein-Westfalen, KommunalPraxis Wahlen(2), p. 88-94 pdf

Frank Bätge (2015) E-participation and e-democracy in Germany, Volgograd Academy of Public Administration

Frank Bätge (2015) Umsetzbarkeit der Stimmabgabe über das Internet bei politischen Wahlen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bertelsmann-Studie "Zeitgemäßes Wählen", Bertelsmann-Verlag

Frank Bätge (2015) Rechtliche Möglichkeiten der Einführung einer elektronischen Online-Wahl an einer Hochschule, KommunalPraxis Wahlen, p. 36ff

Hartmut Frommer, Kurt Engelbrecht, Frank Bätge (2015) Europawahlrecht, Carl Link Kommunalverlag

Frank Bätge, Thomas Weiler, Theresa Witt (2016) Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen elektronischer Partizipation, Symposium „Online-Partizipation“ 2016, Gelsenkirchen: NRW Fortschrittskolleg Online-Partizipation

Frank Bätge (2016) Wahlen und Abstimmungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Loseblatt-Kommentar, Carl Link Kommunalverlag

Frank Bätge, Dirk Lahmann, Katrin Möltgen-Sicking (2017) Online-Partizipation in Kommunen, Studieninstitut für kommunale Verwaltung Ruhr

Frank Bätge, Katharina Gerl (2017) Online-Partizipation in Kommunen – Verbreitung und rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen, 18. ÖV-Symposium

Harald Hofmann, Rolf-Dieter Theisen, Frank Bätge (2019) Kommunalrecht in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Fachbuch mit Übungsaufgaben und Lösungen., p. 722 (18. Auflage), Witten: Verlag Bernhard Witten

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dorothea Baumeister
Computer Science
HHU

Dorothea Baumeister
personal website
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Dorothea Baumeister is since september 2013 a junior professor for computational social choice at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. In her research she concentrates on the algorithmic and complexity-theoretic analysis of problems from the fields of judgment aggregation, voting, and fair division. She is currently supported by an NRW grant for gender-sensitive universities and is part of the interdisciplinary research group ‘internet-mediated cooperative norm-setting’ at HHU.

Publications (selection):

Dorothea Baumeister (2015) Voter Dissatisfaction in Committee Elections, Workshop on Computational Social Choice, TU Graz

Dorothea Baumeister (2015) Challenges in Online Participation, Dagstuhl-Seminar 15241 "Computational Social Choice: Theory and Applications"

Nhan-Tam Nguyen, Dorothea Baumeister, Jörg Rothe (2015) Strategy-Proofness of Scoring Allocation Correspondences for Indivisible Goods, Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’15), p. 1127-1133

Dorothea Baumeister, Daniel Neugebauer, Jörg Rothe (2015) Verification in Attack-Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2015) 9346, p. 341-358, Lexington: Springer Verlag, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23114-3 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Sophie Dennisen, Lisa Rey (2015) Winner Determination and Manipulation in Minisum and Minimax Committee Elections, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2015) 9346, p. 469-485, Lexington: Springer Verlag, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23114-3 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Jörg Rothe, Hilmar Schadrack (2015) Verification in Argument-Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2015) 9346, p. 359-376, Lexington: Springer Verlag, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23114-3 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Jörg Rothe, Ann-Kathrin Selker (2015) Complexity of Bribery and Control for Uniform Premise-Based Quota Rules Under Various Preference Types, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2015) 9346, p. 432-448, Lexington: Springer, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23114-3 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Gábor Erdélyi, Olivia J. Erdélyi, Jörg Rothe (2015) Complexity of manipulation and bribery in judgment aggregation for uniform premise-based quota rules, Mathematical Social Sciences 76, p. 19-30, Elsevier B.V., url, doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2015.03.006 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Daniel Neugebauer, Jörg Rothe, Hilmar Schadrack (2016) Verification in Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, Sixth International Workshop on Computational Social Choice, p. 23, pdf pdf

Dorothea Baumeister (2017) Voter Dissatisfaction in Committee Elections, Dagstuhl Seminar 17261 "Voting: Beyond simple majorities and single-winner elections"

Dorothea Baumeister (2017) Interference in Judgment Aggregation, Workshop "Judgment Aggregation Meets Argumentation"

Dorothea Baumeister, Daniel Neugebauer, Jörg Rothe (2018) Credulous and Skeptical Acceptance in Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA)

Dorothea Baumeister, Daniel Neugebauer, Jörg Rothe, Hilmar Schadrack (2018) Complexity of Verification in Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’18), New Orleans, Luisiana, USA: AAAI Press

Prof. Dr. Michael Baurmann
Sociology
HHU


Michael-Baurmann
personal website
Prof. Dr. Michael Baurmann studied sociology, philosophy and law, in 1997 he was appointed to a chair for sociology at the university of Duesseldorf. He has been visiting professor in Australia (ANU), Mexico (ITAM) and the United States (NYU) and was senior research fellow at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald in 2009 and 2013. His main research interests are general theory of sociology, rational choice theory, social epistemology, and the epistemic dimensions of democracy. He has been co-editor of Analyse & Kritik: Journal for Social Theory for 30 years.


Publications (selection):

Michael Baurmann, Geoffrey Brennan (2006) Majoritarian Inconsistency, Arrow Impossibility and the Comparative Interpretation: A Context-Based View, Is There Value in Inconsistency?, Christoph Engel, Lorraine Daston (ed.), p. 93-118, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft pdf

Michael Baurmann (2007) Rational Fundamentalism? An Explanatory Model of Fundamentalist Beliefs, Episteme. Journal of Social Epistemology 4(2), p. 150-166 pdf

Michael Baurmann (2008) Political Norms, Markets and Social Capital, Political Legitimization without Morality, Jörg Kühnelt (ed.), p. 161-180, Wien-New York: Springer Verlag

Michael Baurmann, Geoffrey Brennan (2009) What Should the Voter Know? Epistemic Trust in Democracy, Grazer Philosophische Studien. Internationale Zeitschrift für Analytische Philosophie 79, p. 159-186 pdf

Michael Baurmann (2010) Fundamentalism and Epistemic Authority, Democracy and Fundamentalism. The Tampere Club Series, Aulis Aarnio (ed.), p. 45-70, Tampere: Tampere University Press pdf

Michael Baurmann (2010) Kollektives Wissen und epistemisches Vertrauen: der Ansatz der Sozialen Erkenntnistheorie, Soziologische Theorie kontrovers. Sonderheft 50 der Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Gert Albert, Steffen Sigmund (ed.), p. 185-201

Michael Baurmann (2012) Gerechtigkeitsüberzeugungen als kollektives Wissen. Marktwirtschaft und Gerechtigkeit aus der Sicht der Soziologie, Marktwirtschaft und soziale Gerechtigkeit. Gestaltungsfragen der Wirtschaftsordnung in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft, Viktor J. Vanberg (ed.), p. 247-274, Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck) pdf

Michael Baurmann, Gregor Betz, Rainer Cramm (2014) Meinungsdynamiken in fundamentalistischen Gruppen. Erklärungshypothesen auf der Basis von Simulationsmodellen, Analyse & Kritik 36(1), p. 61-102 pdf

Michael Baurmann, Gerhard Vowe (2014) Governing the Research Club. Wie lassen sich Kooperationsprobleme in Forschungsverbünden lösen?, Forschung. Politik – Strategie – Management 3, p. 73-84

Michael Baurmann (2015) Political Parties as Epistemic Actors, Tampere Club

Michael Baurmann, Geoffrey Brennan (2015) Political Parties as Epistemic Actors. New Perspectives of Institutional Economics, Parteienwissenschaften, Julian Krüper, Heike Merten, Thomas Poguntke (ed.), p. 59-82, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft pdf

Michael Baurmann (2016) Dialog-Based Online Argumentation, Institute for Future Studies

Tobias Krauthoff, Michael Baurmann, Gregor Betz, Martin Mauve (2016) Dialog-Based Online Argumentation, Proceedings of the 2016 conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2016), Potsdam: IOS Press pdf

Michael Baurmann, Geoffrey Brennan (2016) On Virtue Economics, Economics and the Virtues. Building a New moral Foundation, Jennifer A. Baker, Mark D. White (ed.), p. 119-140, Oxford University Press

Michael Baurmann (2017) Perspektiven der Internet-Forschung, Theodor-Heuss Akademie

Michael Baurmann (2017) Anthropologie und Digitalisierung: die soziale Einbettung des Internet, Tagungsstätte der Evangelischen Kirche von Westfalen

Michael Baurmann, Gerhard Vowe (2017) Governing the Research Club. Solutions of collaboration problems in research groups, Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association

Tobias Krauthoff, Christian Meter, Michael Baurmann, Gregor Betz, Martin Mauve (2018) D-BAS – A Dialog-Based Online Argumentation System, 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), Sanjay Modgil, Katarzyna Budzynska, John Lawrence (ed.), p. 325-336, Warsaw: IOS Press, doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-906-5-325 pdf

Prof. Dr. Stefan Conrad
Computer Science
HHU


Steffen-Conrad
personal website


Publications (selection):

Matthias Liebeck, Stefan Conrad (2015) IWNLP: Inverse Wiktionary for Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 2: Short Papers), p. 414-418, Beijing, China: Association for Computational Linguistics, url pdf

Matthias Liebeck, Pashutan Modaresi, Alexander Askinadze, Stefan Conrad (2016) Pisco: A Computational Approach to Predict Personality Types from Java Source Code. Working notes of FIRE 2016, Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation pdf

Pashutan Modaresi, Matthias Liebeck, Stefan Conrad (2016) Neural Classification of Linguistic Coherence using Long Short-Term Memories. Proceedings of the 8th Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation, FIRE 2016, Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation pdf

Matthias Liebeck, Pashutan Modaresi, Stefan Conrad (2016) Evaluating Safety, Soundness and Sensibleness of Obfuscation Systems, CLEF Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum pdf

Matthias Liebeck, Philipp Pollack, Pashutan Modaresi, Stefan Conrad (2016) HHU at SemEval-2016 Task 1: Multiple Approaches to Measuring Semantic Textual Similarity, Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2016) pdf

Pashutan Modaresi, Matthias Liebeck, Stefan Conrad (2016) Exploring the Effects of Cross-Genre Machine Learning for Author Profiling in PAN 2016, CLEF 2016 Evaluation Labs and Workshop – Working Notes Paper pdf

Matthias Liebeck, Katharina Esau, Stefan Conrad (2016) What to Do with an Airport? Mining Arguments in the German Online Participation Project Tempelhofer Feld, Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Argumentation Mining, p. 144-153 pdf

Matthias Liebeck, Katharina Esau, Stefan Conrad (2017) Text Mining für Online-Partizipationsverfahren: Die Notwendigkeit einer maschinell unterstützten Auswertung, HMD Praxis der Wirtschaftsinformatik 54(4), p. 544-562, doi:10.1365/s40702-017-0321-6 pdf

Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders
Communication Studies
HHU


Christiane-Eilders
personal website
Prof. Dr. Christiane Eilders is a professor for communication and media studies at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf since 2011. She is works on public debates and public opinion formation and examines the role of mass media and online media in this process.
She is a member of the DFG-research team ‘Political Communication in the Online-World’ and is further involved in the interdisciplinary PhD programme online participation at the HHU.


Publications (selection):

Christiane Eilders, Sebastian Geißler, Michael Hallermayer, Michael Noghero, Jan-Mathis Schnurr (2010) Zivilgesellschaftliche Konstruktionen politischer Realität. Eine vergleichende Analyse zu Themen und Nachrichtenfaktoren in politischen Weblogs und professionellem Journalismus, M&K 58(1), p. 63-82, url, doi:10.5771/1615-634x-2010-1-63 pdf

Christiane Eilders, Pablo Porten-Cheé (2014) Das Paradox der Online-Kommunikation. Publikumsfragmentierung unter Bedingungen von Angebotsvielfalt, Jahrestagung der Fachgruppe Soziologie der Medienkommunikation der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

Pablo Porten-Cheé, Christiane Eilders (2015) Spiral of silence online: How online communication affects opinion climate perception and opinion expression regarding the climate change debate, Studies in Communication Sciences 15(1), p. 143-150, url, doi:10.1016/j.scoms.2015.03.002 pdf

Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2015) A Systematic Review of Online Deliberation Research, Policy & Internet 7(3), p. 319-339, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.95 pdf

Christiane Eilders, Pablo Porten-Cheé (2016) Effects of popularity cues on public opinion perception: Theoretical approach and findings of an online diary study on climate change, 66th Annual ICA Conference

Christiane Eilders, Pablo Porten-Cheé (2016) The sense of the visible others: Effects of online popularity cues on public opinion perception and personal opinion formation, European Communication Conference of the European Communication Research and Education Association

Katharina Esau, Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2016) Design Matters! An empirical analysis of online deliberation on different news platforms, The Internet, Policy & Politics Conference

Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2016) Deliberation: zwischen normativer Theorie und empirischen Zugängen. Ein forschungsleitendes Modell, Verantwortung – Gerechtigkeit – Öffentlichkeit. Normative Perspektiven auf Kommunikation, Petra Werner, Lars Rinsdorf, Thomas Pleil, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen (ed.), Konstanz: UVK pdf

Christiane Eilders, Pablo Porten-Cheé (2017) The power of “many likes”: Online popularity cues’ effects on personal opinion and public opinion perception, 67th Annual ICA Conference

Christiane Eilders (2017) Populismus und Social Media. Antipolitik und populistische Stimmen in den sozialen Netzwerken – wie Medien reagieren und wie sie mit ihnen umgehen können: eine kommunikationswissenschaftliche Perspektive, Leitungskonferenz der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung

Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Christiane Eilders (2017) Recent Perspectives on Online Deliberation, 67th Annual ICA Conference

Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Christiane Eilders (2017) Deliberation follows Design. Eine Analyse der Einflüsse von Plattformdesign auf die Qualität von Nutzerkommentaren, 62. Jahrestagung der DGPuK

Katharina Esau, Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2017) Design Matters! An Empirical Analysis of Online Deliberation on Different News Platforms, Policy & Internet 9(3), p. 321-342, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.154 pdf

Katharina Esau, Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2017) Emotionen, Narrationen und Humor im deliberativen Diskurs – Inhaltsanalyse von Nutzerkommentaren auf unterschiedlichen Online-Plattformen, Gemeinsame Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises "Politik und Kommunikation" der DVPW, der Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Politik" der DGPuK und der Fachgruppe "Politische Kommunikation" SGKM pdf

Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Christiane Eilders (2017) How Emotions, Humor and Narratives Interact with Traditional Characteristics of Deliberation Online, 67th Annual ICA Conference

Katharina Esau, Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2017) Design Matters! An Empirical Analysis of Online Deliberation on Different News Platforms, 67th Annual ICA Conference pdf

Katharina Esau, Matthias Liebeck, Christiane Eilders (2017) Mining Arguments in Online Participation: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen manueller und automatisierter Inhaltsanalyse zur Erhebung von Argumentkomponenten, Gemeinsame Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises "Politik und Kommunikation" der DVPW, der Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Politik" der DGPuK und der Fachgruppe "Politische Kommunikation" SGKM pdf

Pablo Porten-Cheé, Jörg Hassler, Pablo B Jost, Christiane Eilders, Marcus Maurer (2018) Popularity cues in online media: Theoretical and methodological perspectives in political communication research, Studies in Communication | Media 7(2), p. 210-230

Christiane Eilders, Olaf Jandura, Halina Bause, Dennis Frieß (2018) Vernetzung. Stabilität und Wandel gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation, Köln: von Halem

Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Christiane Eilders (2018) Deliberation follows Design. Eine Analyse der Einflüsse des Plattformdesigns auf die Qualität von Nutzerkommentaren zu Nachrichtenartikeln, Vernetzung. Stabilität und Wandel gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation, Christiane Eilders, Olaf Jandura, Halina Bause, Dennis Frieß (ed.), p. 87-106, Köln: von Halem

Christiane Eilders, Pablo Porten-Cheé (2019) Fragmentation in High-Choice Media Environments from a Micro-Perspective: Effects of Selective Exposure on Issue Diversity in Individual Repertoire. In Communications, Communications - The European Journal of Communication Research, p. im Erscheinen

Prof. Dr. Harald Hofmann
Law
HSPV


Harald-Hofmann
personal website
Professor of Law, Administration and Local Self-Government (at University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration of the State of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany); expert for Public Administration, local/regional Self-Government and Citizens Participation:
– Long-standing experience in the management of projects and university courses within the public sector
– Extensive practical experience in public administration management as well as academic experience covering teaching and research
– Development and leading of projects and workshops on democratization and administrative-reform
– Organizing and implementation of workshops and courses and Conduction of conferences for management-staff officials
– Organizing and implementation of workshops, courses and information tours in Germany for management-staff-officials and administration-officials of Chinese towns and Chinese regions.


Publications (selection):

Harald Hofmann (2015) Stellungnahme in der öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses für Kommunalpolitik zum Gesetzentwurf ("Abschaffung der Quoren bei Bürgerentscheiden") 16/2607, p. 1-8, url pdf

Harald Hofmann (2015) In NRW Bürgerentscheide künftig ohne Zustimmungsquorum?, Nordrhein-Westfälische Verwaltungsblätter 12, p. 445-447

Harald Hofmann (2015) Zur Abschaffung der Quoren bei Bürgerentscheiden, Neue Zeitschrift für Verwaltungsrecht 11, p. 715-718

Harald Hofmann, Jürgen Gerke, Uta Hildebrandt (2016) Allgemeines Verwaltungsrecht - mit Bescheidtechnik, Verwaltungsvollstreckung und Rechtsschutz, p. 482 (11. Auflage), Kohlhammer/Deutscher Gemeindeverlag

Harald Hofmann (2016) Kooperative Promotionen - Neues Projekt an der FHöV-NRW, Deutsche Verwaltungspraxis, p. 359ff

Harald Hofmann, Rolf-Dieter Theisen, Frank Bätge (2019) Kommunalrecht in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Fachbuch mit Übungsaufgaben und Lösungen., p. 722 (18. Auflage), Witten: Verlag Bernhard Witten

Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer
Computational Linguistics
HHU


Laura Kallmeyer
personal website
Prof. Dr. Laura Kallmeyer is professor for Computational Linguistics at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. Her research interests cover, amongst others: Tree Adjoining Grammars, Syntax-Semantics Interface, Underspecification, Reference Grammar Parsing, Syntax-based statistical machine translation and unsupervised machine learning.


Publications (selection):

Prof. Dr. Stefan Marschall
Political Science
HHU

marschall
personal website
Since 2010, Prof. Dr. Stefan Marschall is a full professor of political science and Chair of German Politics at the Department of Social Sciences of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. Among others, he has done research on the establishment of the Internet and its implications on political communication and decision-finding. He is the speaker of the standing group ‘Politics and Communication’ of the German Political Science Association and one of the (founding) conveners of the Network on Voting Advice Applications of the European Consortium for Political Research. Since 2012 he has been holding the position of a speaker of the interdisciplinary Research Training Group ‘Linkage in Democracy. Political Representation in Heterogeneous Societies’. Furthermore, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Graduate Academy philGRAD at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities as well as a member of the interdisciplinary research association ‘Internet-based cooperative norm-setting’, both based at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.


Publications (selection):

Stefan Marschall, Christian K. Schmidt (2010) The Impact of Voting Indicators: The Case of the German Wahl-O-Mat, Voting Advice Applications in Europe. The State of the Art, Lorella Cedroni, Diego Garzia (ed.), p. 65-90, Neapel: Scriptaweb, url

Stefan Marschall, Martin Schultze (2012) Normalisierung oder Mobilisierung ? – Die Auswirkungen politischer Online-Kommunikation auf die Wahlbeteiligung am Beispiel einer Internet-Applikation zur Bundestagswahl 2009, Politische Vierteljahresschrift 53(3), p. 444-466 pdf

Katharina Hanel, Stefan Marschall (2012) Die Nutzung kollaborativer Online-Plattformen durch Parteien: "top down" oder "bottom up"?, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 22(1), p. 5-34 pdf

Katharina Hanel, Stefan Marschall (2013) The Usage of Online Collaboration Platforms by Parties: Strengthening the “Party on the Ground” or the “Party in Central Office”?, German Politics & Society 31(3), p. 27-42, url, doi:10.3167/gps.2013.310302 pdf

Katharina Hanel, Stefan Marschall (2014) Der Einsatz von Online-Tools durch Parteien - Am Beispiel von onlineantrag.spd.de, Internet und Partizipation. Bottom-up oder Top-down? Politische Beteiligungsmöglichkeiten im Internet, Kathrin Voss (ed.), p. 193-201, Wiesbaden: Springer VS pdf

Katharina Gerl, Stefan Marschall, Nadja Wilker (2014) Neue Medien – neue Machtverhältnisse? Eine Fallstudie zum Einsatz von Online-Beteiligungsplattformen Durch Parteien, Politische Interessenvermittlung und Medien, Franziska Oehmer (ed.), p. 115-141, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft pdf

Diego Garzia, Stefan Marschall (2014) Matching Voters with Parties and Candidates. Voting Advice Applications in a Comparative Perspective, ECPR Press pdf

Nadja Wilker, Stefan Marschall, Katharina Gerl (2015) Enhancing Representation by Online Participation? A Case Study on the (Non-)Usage of a Collaborative Platform in a German Party, ECPR General Conference, Montreal

Stefan Marschall, Martin Schultze (2015) German E-Campaigning and the Emergence of a ‘Digital Voter’? An Analysis of the Users of the Wahl-O-Mat, German Politics 24(4), p. 525-541, url, doi:10.1080/09644008.2014.949681 pdf

Katharina Gerl, Stefan Marschall, Nadja Wilker (2016) Evaluation von politischer Online-Partizipation – Demokratische Innovation vs. symbolische Politik, Zeitschrift für Politikberatung 8(2-3), p. 59-68, url, doi:10.5771/1865-4789-2016-2-3-59

Diego Garzia, Stefan Marschall (2016) Research on Voting Advice Applications: State of the Art and Future Directions, Policy & Internet 8(4), p. 376-390, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.140 pdf

Katharina Gerl, Stefan Marschall, Nadja Wilker (2016) Innerparteiliche Demokratie 2.0?, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 10(S2), p. 115-149, url, doi:10.1007/s12286-016-0288-7 pdf

Jonas Israel, Stefan Marschall, Martin Schultze (2016) Kognitive Dissonanz und die Effekte von Voting Advice Applications. Ergebnisse eines Quasi-Experiments anlässlich des Einsatzes des Wahl-O-Mat zur Europawahl 2014, Politische Psychologie(im Erscheinen) pdf

Stefan Marschall (2017) Dimensions of political and social changes in the big data era, SCRC Summer Schools 2017: Social Computing in the Big Data Era

Katharina Gerl, Stefan Marschall, Nadja Wilker (2018) Does the Internet Encourage Political Participation? Use of an Online Platform by Members of a German Political Party, Policy & Internet 10(1), p. 87-118, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.149

Prof. Dr. Martin Mauve (speaker)
Computer Science
HHU

mauve
personal website
Prof. Dr. Martin Mauve is heading the chair for computer networks and communication systems since 2003. His research areas are secure and robust distributed systems, computer supported collaborative work and online-participation using internet technologies. One particular focus of his work is on the scalable support of online deliberation and decision making.


Publications (selection):

Martin Mauve (2015) Per Mausklick Politik gestalten – mit Online-Partizipation zu mehr Bürgerbeteiligung?, ITEG Ringvorlesung WS 2015/2016: Digitale Gesellschaft - eine Gestaltungsaufgabe, Kassel: Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Informationstechnik-Gestaltung (ITeG)

Tobias Escher, Lars Heilsberger, Martin Mauve (2015) The PhD program "Fortschrittskolleg Online Participation", it - Information Technology 57(6), p. 384-387, url, doi:10.1515/itit-2015-0033 pdf

Martin Mauve (2016) Online Participation, IfI Colloquium

Sebastian Gießmann, Martin Mauve (2016) Online-Partizipation in NRW: Einflussfaktoren und Kooperationsmodelle für digitale Medien, Open.NRW-Kongress

Tobias Krauthoff, Michael Baurmann, Gregor Betz, Martin Mauve (2016) Dialog-Based Online Argumentation, Proceedings of the 2016 conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA 2016), Potsdam: IOS Press pdf

Christian Meter, Alexander Schneider, Philipp Hagemeister, Martin Mauve (2017) Tor is not enough: Coercion in Remote Electronic Voting Systems, arXiv.org, Cornell University Library Cryptograp pdf

Nadja Wilker, Martin Mauve (2017) DIID Monitor Online Partizipation, Personal- und Organisationsausschuss der Stadt Düsseldorf

Tobias Krauthoff, Christian Meter, Martin Mauve (2017) Dialog-Based Online Argumentation: Findings from a Field Experiment, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Advances in Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence, p. 85-99, CEUR-WS pdf

Lars Heilsberger, Martin Mauve, Katrin Möltgen-Sicking (2017) Online-Partizipation auf kommunaler Ebene in Nordrhein-Westfalen, DVP 68(8), p. 311-315

Christian Meter, Tobias Krauthoff, Martin Mauve (2017) discuss: Embedding Dialog-Based Discussions into Websites, HCI International 2017, Social Computing for Social Change, pdf pdf

Tobias Escher, Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Jost Sieweke, Ulf Tranow, Simon Dischner, Philipp Hagemeister, Martin Mauve (2017) Online Deliberation in Academia: Evaluating the Quality and Legitimacy of Cooperatively Developed University Regulations, Policy & Internet 9(1), p. 133-164, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.119 pdf

Tobias Krauthoff, Christian Meter, Michael Baurmann, Gregor Betz, Martin Mauve (2018) D-BAS – A Dialog-Based Online Argumentation System, 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), Sanjay Modgil, Katarzyna Budzynska, John Lawrence (ed.), p. 325-336, Warsaw: IOS Press, doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-906-5-325 pdf

Christian Meter, Björn Ebbinghaus, Martin Mauve (2018) Jebediah – Arguing With a Social Bot, 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), Sanjay Modgil, Katarzyna Budzynska, John Lawrence (ed.), p. 467-468, Warsaw: IOS Press, doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-906-5-467 pdf

Alexander Schneider, Christian Meter, Martin Mauve (2018) EDEN: Extensible Discussion Entity Network, 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA), Sanjay Modgil, Katarzyna Budzynska, John Lawrence (ed.), p. 257-268, Warsaw: IOS Press, doi:10.3233/978-1-61499-906-5-257 pdf

Prof. Dr. Katrin Möltgen-Sicking
Political Science
HSPV

mauve
personal website
Since 2001, Prof. Dr. Katrin Möltgen-Sicking teaches Political Sciences, Sociology and Intercultural Competences at the University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Management of North Rhine Westfalia in Cologne. Furthermore she is a lecturer for Project Management at the University of Kassel. Among others, she has done some research about non institutionalized forms of political participation on the local area in Germany and Brazil and about political participation of migrants. She is a member of the German Section of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences.


Publications (selection):

Katrin Möltgen, Wolfgang Pippke (2009) New Public Management und Demokratisierung der öffentlichen Verwaltung, Die öffentliche Verwaltung in der Demokratie der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Edwin Czerwick, Wolfgang H. Lorig, Erhard Treutner (ed.), p. 199-224, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, url pdf

Katrin Möltgen (2011) Governance, Staat und Gesellschaft: Soziologische und politische Grundlagen öffentlicher Verwaltung, Bernhard Frevel (ed.), p. 214-235, Verlag für Verwaltungswissenschaft pdf

Katrin Möltgen, Frank Bätge (2012) Die Wahl des Integrationsgremiums in den Gemeinden am Beispiel des Integrationsrates und Integrationsausschusses in Nordrhein-Westfalen, KommunalPraxis Wahlen(2), p. 88-94 pdf

Katrin Möltgen-Sicking (2015) Political participation on the municipal level in Germany, 17. Brasilianischer Soziologentag

Katrin Möltgen, Malte Schophaus (2015) Sociologia Política na Alemanha desde os anos de 1990 - desenvolvimento da subdisciplina e problemas atuais, Sociologias 17(38), p. 64-91, pdf, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/15174522-017003804 pdf

Frank Bätge, Dirk Lahmann, Katrin Möltgen-Sicking (2017) Online-Partizipation in Kommunen, Studieninstitut für kommunale Verwaltung Ruhr

Lars Heilsberger, Martin Mauve, Katrin Möltgen-Sicking (2017) Online-Partizipation auf kommunaler Ebene in Nordrhein-Westfalen, DVP 68(8), p. 311-315

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rosar
Sociology
HHU

Rosar
personal website
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rosar is currently Professor and holds the chair of the Sociology Department at the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorfs’ Institute of Social Sciences since 2010. His field of research and apprenticeship engages in the questions of Political Sociology, sociological analysis of Social Inequality and the Empirical Methods of Social Research. In 2011, he was announced one of three elected spokesperson of the DVPW working group ‘Elections and Political Attitudes’ and since 2012, he maintains a membership of the forsa Scientific Advisory Board (Association of Social Research and Statistical Analysis). At the Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, he is academically committed to the interdisciplinary post graduate programme ‘Linkage in Democracy’ and ‘Culture of Age(ing)’, as well as the interdisciplinary research association ‘Internet-mediated Cooperative Norm Setting’.


Publications (selection):

Ulrich Rosar, Hanna Hoffmann (2013) Ist die Veröffentlichung von Vorwahlumfragen schädlich für kleinere Parteien? Eine Untersuchung anhand eines Online-Experiments zur nordrhein-westfälischen Landtagswahl 2012, MIP – Mitteilungen des Instituts für Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung Jg. 19, p. 83-94 pdf

Ulrich Rosar, Markus Kleiner, Dieter Ohr (2013) Bewertungen der Kanzlerkandidaten und Wahlentscheidung bei der Bundestagswahl 2009, Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2009, Bernhard Weßels, Harald Schoen, Oscar W. Gabriel (ed.), p. 206-230, Wiesbaden: Springer VS pdf

Tobias Escher, Ulrich Rosar (2014) Der Einfluss von Online-Verfahren auf Partizipation, Legitimität und Qualität von demokratischen Entscheidungen: Eine empirische Überprüfung am Beispiel inneruniversitärer Rechtsetzung, Web 2.0 - Demokratie 2.0. Gemeinsame Tagung der DVPW-Arbeitskreise "Demokratieforschung" und "Politik und Kultur"

Ulrich Rosar, Markus Klein (2015) Problem-Peer und die (Über-)Mutter der Nation: Kanzlerkandidaten und Wahlentscheidung bei der Bundestagswahl 2013, Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2013, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels (ed.), Wiesbaden: Springer VS pdf

Ulrich Rosar, Hanna Hoffmann (2015) Priming-Effekte durch die medial aufbereitete Performanz der Spitzenkandidaten bei der Bundestagswahl 2013, Politische Psychologie pdf

Ulrich Rosar, Hanna Hoffmann (2015) War sie die richtige, war er der falsche? Einflüsse der Bewertung der Kanzlerkandidaten Steinbrück und Merkel auf die Wahlchancen ihrer Parteien bei der Bundestagswahl 2013, Die Bundestagswahl 2013, Karl-Rudolf Korte (ed.), p. 119-139, Wiesbaden: Springer VS pdf

Tobias Escher, Ulrich Rosar (2016) Der Einfluss von Online-Verfahren auf die Legitimität demokratischer Entscheidungen, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 10(S2), p. 179-211, url, doi:10.1007/s12286-016-0289-6 pdf

Prof. Dr. Jörg Rothe
Computer Science
HHU

Rothe
personal website
Prof. Dr. Jörg Rothe is head of the working group for complexity theory and cryptology at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf since 2000 and he is chair of the Department of Computer Science since 2014. His research interests are in computational social choice, algorithmic game theory, and fair division, typically focusing on the algorithmic and complexity-theoretic properties of the related problems. After receiving a DFG Heisenberg Fellowship in 2000, he has been the principal investigator of six DFG projects (two of which are still running) and a principal investigator in a EUROCORES project of European Science Foundation (ESF), in COST Action IC1205 ‘Computational Social Choice’ granted by ESF and EU, in an ARC Discovery Project, in a DAAD-PPP project with LAMSADE Paris, and in the interdisciplinary research project ‘Internet-Mediated Cooperative Normsetting’ at HHU.


Publications (selection):

Anja Rey, Jörg Rothe (2014) False-Name Manipulation in Weighted Voting Games is Hard for Probabilistic Polynomial Time, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 50, p. 573–601, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-54423-1_6 pdf

Edith Hemaspaandra, Lane A Hemaspaandra, Jörg Rothe (2014) The complexity of online manipulation of sequential elections, Journal of Computer and System Sciences 80(4), p. 697-710, doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2013.10.001 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister (2015) Voter Dissatisfaction in Committee Elections, Workshop on Computational Social Choice, TU Graz

Dorothea Baumeister (2015) Challenges in Online Participation, Dagstuhl-Seminar 15241 "Computational Social Choice: Theory and Applications"

Jörg Rothe (2015) Economics and Computation: Five Challenges in Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, and Fair Division, Dagstuhl-Seminar 15241 "Computational Social Choice: Theory and Applications"

Nhan-Tam Nguyen, Dorothea Baumeister, Jörg Rothe (2015) Strategy-Proofness of Scoring Allocation Correspondences for Indivisible Goods, Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI’15), p. 1127-1133

Tobias Heinen, Nhan-Tam Nguyen, Jörg Rothe (2015) Fairness and Rank-Weighted Utilitarianism in Resource Allocation, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT’15), p. 521-536

Jérôme Lang, Anja Rey, Jörg Rothe, Hilmar Schadrack, Lena Schend (2015) Representing and Solving Hedonic Games with Ordinal Preferences and Thresholds, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’15), p. 1229-1237

Jörg Rothe (2015) Economics and Computation. An Introduction to Algorithmic Game Theory, Computational Social Choice, and Fair Division, Jörg Rothe (ed.), Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, url

Dorothea Baumeister, Daniel Neugebauer, Jörg Rothe (2015) Verification in Attack-Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2015) 9346, p. 341-358, Lexington: Springer Verlag, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23114-3 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Sophie Dennisen, Lisa Rey (2015) Winner Determination and Manipulation in Minisum and Minimax Committee Elections, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2015) 9346, p. 469-485, Lexington: Springer Verlag, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23114-3 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Jörg Rothe, Hilmar Schadrack (2015) Verification in Argument-Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2015) 9346, p. 359-376, Lexington: Springer Verlag, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23114-3 pdf

Piotr Faliszewski, Yannick Reisch, Jörg Rothe, Lena Schend (2015) Complexity of Manipulation, Bribery, and Campaign Management in Bucklin and Fallback Voting, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 29(6), p. 1091-1124, Springer US, url, doi:10.1007/s10458-014-9277-x pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Jörg Rothe, Ann-Kathrin Selker (2015) Complexity of Bribery and Control for Uniform Premise-Based Quota Rules Under Various Preference Types, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Algorithmic Decision Theory (ADT 2015) 9346, p. 432-448, Lexington: Springer, url, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-23114-3 pdf

Gábor Erdélyi, Michael R. Fellows, Jörg Rothe, Lena Schend (2015) Control complexity in Bucklin and fallback voting: An experimental analysis, Journal of Computer and System Sciences 81(4), p. 661-670, Elsevier Inc., url, doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2014.11.003 pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Gábor Erdélyi, Olivia J. Erdélyi, Jörg Rothe (2015) Complexity of manipulation and bribery in judgment aggregation for uniform premise-based quota rules, Mathematical Social Sciences 76, p. 19-30, Elsevier B.V., url, doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2015.03.006 pdf

Gábor Erdélyi, Michael R. Fellows, Jörg Rothe, Lena Schend (2015) Control complexity in Bucklin and fallback voting: A theoretical analysis, Journal of Computer and System Sciences 81(4), p. 632-660, Elsevier Inc., url, doi:10.1016/j.jcss.2014.11.002 pdf

Nhan-Tam Nguyen, Jörg Rothe (2016) Local Fairness in Hedonic Games via Individual Threshold Coalitions, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’16), p. 232-241

Anja Rey, Jörg Rothe (2016) Structural Control in Weighted Voting Games, Proceedings of the 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS’16), p. 58:80:1-80:15, Kraków, Poland: LIPIcs

Victor Persien, Anja Rey, Jörg Rothe (2016) Cost of Stability and Least Core in Path-Disruption Games, Proceedings of the 8th European Starting AI Researcher Symposium (STAIRS’16), p. 99-110, The Hague: IOS Press

Nhan-Tam Nguyen, Anja Rey, Lisa Rey, Jörg Rothe, Lena Schend (2016) Altruistic Hedonic Games, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’16), p. 251-259

Piotr Faliszewski, Jörg Rothe (2016) Control and Bribery in Voting, Handbook of Computational Social Choice, Felix Brandt, Vincent Conitzer, Ulle Endriss, Jérôme Lang, Ariel D Procaccia (ed.), p. 146-168, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, url pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Daniel Neugebauer, Jörg Rothe, Hilmar Schadrack (2016) Verification in Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, Sixth International Workshop on Computational Social Choice, p. 23, pdf pdf

Jörg Rothe, Cynthia Maushagen (2016) Complexity of Control by Partitioning Veto and Maximin Elections and of Control by Adding Candidates to Plurality Elections, Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), p. 277-285, The Hague: IOS Press pdf

Dorothea Baumeister (2017) Voter Dissatisfaction in Committee Elections, Dagstuhl Seminar 17261 "Voting: Beyond simple majorities and single-winner elections"

Dorothea Baumeister (2017) Interference in Judgment Aggregation, Workshop "Judgment Aggregation Meets Argumentation"

Nhan-Tam Nguyen, Trung Thanh Nguyen, Jörg Rothe (2017) Approximate Solutions To Max-Min Fair and Proportionally Fair Allocations of Indivisible Goods, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’17), p. 262-271, Sao Paolo, Brazil: IFAAMAS

Marc Neveling, Jörg Rothe (2017) Closing the Gap of Control Complexity in Borda Elections: Solving Ten Open Cases, Proceedings of the 18th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (ICTCS’17), p. 1949:138-149, Napoli, Italy: CEUR-WS.org

Jörg Rothe (2017) Stability Notions: From Argumentation to Game Theory and Back, Workshop on "Formal Argumentation in Online Discussions"

Cynthia Maushagen, Jörg Rothe (2017) Complexity of Control by Partition of Voters and of Voter Groups in Veto and Other Scoring Protocols, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS’17), p. 615-623, Sao Paolo, Brazil: IFAAMAS

Jörg Rothe (2017) Fair Division of Divisible and Indivisible Goods, Kolloquium zur Praktischen Philosophie, HHU Düsseldorf

Edith Hemaspaandra, Lane A Hemaspaandra, Jörg Rothe (2017) The complexity of online voter control in sequential elections, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 31(5), p. 1055-1076, url, doi:10.1007/s10458-016-9349-1 pdf

Marc Neveling, Jörg Rothe (2017) Solving Seven Open Problems of Offline and Online Control in Borda Elections, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, p. 3029-3035, San Francisco: AAAI Press pdf

Dorothea Baumeister, Daniel Neugebauer, Jörg Rothe (2018) Credulous and Skeptical Acceptance in Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, 7th International Conference on Computational Models of Argument (COMMA)

Cynthia Maushagen, Marc Neveling, Jörg Rothe, Ann-Kathrin Selker (2018) Complexity of Shift Bribery in Iterative Elections, 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), p. 1567-1575

Dorothea Baumeister, Daniel Neugebauer, Jörg Rothe, Hilmar Schadrack (2018) Complexity of Verification in Incomplete Argumentation Frameworks, 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’18), New Orleans, Luisiana, USA: AAAI Press

Dr. Sascha Ruhle
Business Studies
HHU


Sascha Ruhle
zur persönlichen Website
From 2004-2009 he studied business and economics at the University of Wuppertal. Between 2009 and 2013 he worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Human Resource Management and Organisation at the Schumpeter School in Wuppertal, Germany. He has worked for the Helmut Schmidt University – University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg and the Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Westfalen-Lippe. Since January 2015 he is post doc at the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Organization Studies and Human Resource Management at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.


Publications (selection):

Prof. Dr. Stefan Süß
Business Studies
HHU

süß
personal website
Since April 2010 Prof. Süß holds the Chair of Business Administration, in particular Organization Studies and Human Resource Management at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf. From October 2013 till December 2014, Professor Süß was Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. Since January 2015 he is Vice President for Quality in Studies and Human Resource Management. Since May 2016 President of the Academic Advisory Board of the Düsseldorf Business School.


Publications (selection):

Markus Kleiner, Stefan Süß (2007) Diversity management in Germany: dissemination and design of the concept, The International Journal of Human Resource Management 18(11), p. 1934-1953

Stefan Süß (2009) Die Institutionalisierung von Managementkonzepten. Eine strukturationstheoretisch-politische Perspektive, Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft 79(2), p. 187-213 pdf

Simon Dischner, Jost Sieweke, Stefan Süß (2013) Regeln in interorganisationalen Projekten: Eine qualitative Studie, Managementforschung 23, p. 157-192 pdf

Simon Dischner, Stefan Süß (2014) Was beeinflusst die Befolgung von Regeln in Organisationen? Eine szenariobasierte Experimentalstudie, Die Betriebswirtschaft (DBW) 74(2), p. 107-132

Henning Rode, Stefan Süß (2014) Warum Mitarbeiter unternehmensinterne Social Media (nicht) nutzen, Personalwirtschaft 41(3), p. 30-32

Henning Rode, Stefan Süß (2015) Der Einfluss unternehmensinterner Social Media auf die Arbeitgeberattraktivität: Eine szenariobasierte Experimentalstudie, Die Betriebswirtschaft (DBW) 75(6)

Johannes Görg, Henning Rode, Stefan Süß (2015) Enterprise Social Media: Warum Mitarbeiter Wissen teilen, Wissensmanagement - Das Magazin für Führungskräfte 17(4), p. 13-15 pdf

Simon Dischner, Stefan Süß (2015) Decision-making 2.0 – Internetvermittelte kooperative Normsetzung in einer deutschen Universität, Erkenntnis und Fortschritt. Beiträge aus Personalforschung und Managementpraxis, Thomas Behrends, Thorsten Jochims, Werner Nienhüser (ed.), p. 183-189, München/Mehring: Rainer Hampp Verlag

Kathrin Diekmann, Malte Steinbach, Stefan Süß (2016) Innovative strategische Entscheidungsprozesse in Universitäten: Eine qualitative Analyse der Online-Partizipation am Beispiel der Neufassung von Promotions- und Habilitationsordnung, Arbeitskreis empirische Personal- und Organisationsforschung (AKempor)

Malte Steinbach, Stefan Süß (2016) The institutional dimensions of the e-participation innovation process - A qualitative analysis of institutional logics and work, EGPA Annual Conference and pre-conference PhD Symposium

Stefan Süß, Malte Steinbach, Franziska Fischer (2016) Online-Partizipation, Das Wirtschaftsstudium 45(6)

Malte Steinbach, Kathrin Diekmann, Stefan Süß (2017) Innovative decision-making processes in university-publics: A qualitative analysis of online-participation processes in examination regulation reforms, 33. European Group of Organizational Studies (EGOS) Kolloquium

Kathrin Diekmann, Malte Steinbach, Stefan Süß (2017) Innovative strategische Entscheidungsprozesse in Universitäten: Eine qualitative Analyse der Online-Partizipation am Beispiel der Neufassung von Promotions- und Habilitationsordnung, Wissenschaftliche Kommission Hochschulmanagement im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre (WK HSM)

Kathrin Diekmann, Malte Steinbach, Stefan Süß (2017) Innovative strategische Entscheidungsprozesse in Universitäten: Eine qualitative Analyse der Online-Partizipation am Beispiel der Neufassung von Promotions- und Habilitationsordnung, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Hochschulforschung (GfHf)

Malte Steinbach, Stefan Süß (2017) The institutional aspects of the e-participation innovation process – A qualitative analysis of institutional logics and institutional work, 41. Workshop der Wissenschaftlichen Kommission Organisation (WK ORG) im Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre

Kathrin Diekmann, Malte Steinbach, Stefan Süß (2017) Innovative Entscheidungsprozesse in Universitäten: Eine qualitative Analyse der Online-Partizipation am Beispiel der Neufassung von Promotions- und Habilitationsordnung, der moderne staat - dms 10(2), p. 317-340

Malte Steinbach, Stefan Süß (2018) Administrators' identities and strategies in the e-participation innovation process - A qualitative analysis of institutional logics and institutional work in German municipalities, Information Polity 23(3), p. 281-305

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Vowe
Communication Studies
HHU

vowe
personal website
Gerhard Vowe is Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the Department of Communication and Media Studies, University of Duesseldorf. His research focuses on political communication, online media, media policy, and security issues in mass media. He is spokesperson of the research group ‘Political communication in the online world’ and involved in the interdisciplinary research group ‘Internet-mediated cooperative norm setting’. Recently, he conducted a project on the topic of media monitoring on security issues, financed by the BMBF.


Publications (selection):

Martin Emmer, Gerhard Vowe, Jens Wolling (2011) Bürger online: Die Entwicklung der politischen Online-Kommunikation in Deutschland, p. 346, Konstanz: UVK pdf

Gerhard Vowe (2014) Politische Kommunikation in der Online-Welt, VDI. Stadt:Denken – wie sieht der VDI die Stadt von morgen

Michael Baurmann, Gerhard Vowe (2014) Governing the Research Club. Wie lassen sich Kooperationsprobleme in Forschungsverbünden lösen?, Forschung. Politik – Strategie – Management 3, p. 73-84

Marco Dohle, Olaf Jandura, Gerhard Vowe (2014) Politische Kommunikation in der Online-Welt. Dimensionen des strukturellen Wandels politischer Kommunikation, Zeitschrift für Politik 61(4), p. 414-436 pdf

Gerhard Vowe (2015) Wie verändert sich die politische Kommunikation durch das Internet? Mythen auf dem Prüfstand, Heimatverein Düsseldorfer Jonges e.V.

Uli Bernhard, Marco Dohle, Gerhard Vowe (2015) Local Politics Online: The Influence of Presumed Influence on Local Politicians’ Online Communication Activities, 65th Annual ICA Conference

Gerhard Vowe (2015) Constructive or Repressive? Journalists’ Reactions to the Presumed Political Influences of Online Media, 65th Annual ICA Conference

Gerhard Vowe (2015) Partizipation durch Online-Medien: Mythen und empirische Befunde, Kommunalwissenschaftliches Institut der Universität Potsdam: Partizipation in der Bürgergemeinde

Gerhard Vowe (2015) Das Internet: Fluch oder Segen für die Politik? Politische Kommunikation in einer veränderten Medienwelt, Seniorenakademie

Gerhard Vowe (2015) Politische Kommunikation in der Online-Welt. Wie verändert sich die Politik durch das Internet, VHS Oberhausen

Uli Bernhard, Marco Dohle, Gerhard Vowe (2015) Wer nutzt wie das „Web 2.0“ für Politik? Der Stellenwert von Social Media in politischen Kontexten, Demokratisierung durch Social Media?, K. Imhof, R. Blum, H. Bonfadelli, O. Jarren, V. Wyss (ed.), Wiesbaden: Springer VS pdf

Gerhard Vowe (2016) Politische Kommunikation in der Online-Welt. Dimensionen und Folgen des strukturellen Wandels politischer Kommunikation, Dresdner Symposium "Digitale Revolution in der Demokratie"

Uli Bernhard, Marco Dohle, Gerhard Vowe (2016) Perceptual processes and political participation: Do Presumed reach and presumed influences of online media affect political online activities?, 66th Annual ICA Conference

Gerhard Vowe (2016) Politische Kommunikation in der Migrationskrise. Der strukturelle Wandel der Kommunikation als Herausforderung für Politik und Wissenschaft, Publizistik 61(4), p. 431-440 pdf

Gerhard Vowe, Philipp Henn (2016) Political communication in the online world. Theoretical approaches and research designs, London and New York: Routledge

Gerhard Vowe (2016) Wissenschaftskommunikation 2.0? Fachzeitschriften in der Online-Welt, Publizistik 61(1), p. 51-72 pdf

Gerhard Vowe (2016) Wie verändert sich die politische Kommunikation durch das Internet. Ergebnisse einer Langzeit-Panelstudie, Journal für politische Bildung, p. 25-31 pdf

Uli Bernhard, Marco Dohle, Gerhard Vowe (2016) Do Presumed Online Media Effects Have an Influence on the Online Activities of Politicians?, Policy & Internet 8(1), p. 72-90, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.108 pdf

Gerhard Vowe (2016) Rational Choice, The International Encyclopedia of Political Communication, G. Mazzoleni (ed.), Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell pdf

Gerhard Vowe (2017) Politische Kommunikation in der Online-Welt. Wie verändert sich die Politik durch das Internet?, Deutschen Instituts für Urbanistik: Seminar „Beteiligungskultur“

Gerhard Vowe (2017) Trendbericht aus der Wissenschaft, Bundesverband deutscher Pressesprecher

Michael Baurmann, Gerhard Vowe (2017) Governing the Research Club. Solutions of collaboration problems in research groups, Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association

Gerhard Vowe (2017) Wie verändern sich Wahlkämpfe in der Online-Welt?, Evangelische Akademie der Pfalz: Südwestdeutsche Medientage 2017

Ole Kelm, Marco Dohle, Uli Bernhard, Gerhard Vowe (2017) Political PR Practitioners’ Social Media Activities: Driven by In-Group Orientation or Strategic Considerations?, 67th Annual ICA Conference

Gerhard Vowe (2017) Wie hat sich die Online-Kommunikation von Bundestagsabgeordneten im Zeitverlauf verändert? Ergebnisse von vier Befragungsstudien zur Nutzung und Wahrnehmung von Online-Medien, 62. Jahrestagung der DGPuK

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Marius Wehner
Business Studies
HHU


Marius Wehner
personal website
10/2001–09/2004: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Grundstudium an der Universität Osnabrückseit; 10/2004–03/2008: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Hauptstudium an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen mit den Schwerpunkten Personalmanagement, Ökonometrie und Politikwissenschaften; 04/2008–01/2013: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Promotionsstudium an der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Erstbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kabst); 02/2013–09/2017: Akademischer Rat/Habilitand an der Professur für International Business (Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kabst) an der Universität Paderborn; seit 10/2017: Juniorprofessor für BWL, insbesondere Unternehmensführung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf


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To administrate and coordinate the academic research of the PhD programme, the speaker is currently assisted by two coordinators.

Dr. Dennis Frieß
Coordination
HHU

Dennis Frieß
personal website
Dr. Dennis Frieß is communication scientist at the University of Düsseldorf and one of the two coordinators for the PhD program. He holds a Bachelor degree in Political Sciences, Social Sciences and Communications from the University of Erfurt and a Master in Political Communication from the University of Düsseldorf. From 2013-2019 he was a research fellow at the department for communication and media studies at the University of Düsseldorf. His research interests are political (online) communication, online deliberation, user comments and online participation.


Publications (selection):

Lena Bayer-Eynck, Dennis Frieß, Johanna Schade, Caroline Strobel (2012) Funktion erfüllt? Onlinegestützte Bürgerhaushalte aus Sicht der Bürger., p. 138, pdf

Eva G Heidbreder, Jannis Feller, Dennis Frieß (2013) Demokratisierung durch Partizipation? Empirische Ergebnisse und neue Fragestellungen zivilgesellschaftlicher Beteiligung jenseits des Staates, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 23(4), p. 605-626, url, doi:10.5771/1430-6387-2013-4-605

Dennis Frieß (2013) E-Partizipation. Chancen und Risiken, Kommune21 - Bürgerbeteiligung 11(2013)

Dennis Frieß (2015) Online Deliberation Complete. Towards a new framework to analyze and explain deliberation online, 65th Annual ICA Conference

Dennis Frieß, Johanna Schade (2015) Denn wer hat, dem wird gegeben. Eine Analyse zur demokratischen Funktionalität von onlinegestützten Bürgerhaushalten, Die Politik auf dem Siegertreppchen. Beiträge des 10. Düsseldorfer Forum Politische Kommunikation, Beate Pohlers, Franca Schreiber, Ibrahim Ghubbar (ed.), p. 55-74, Düsseldorf: Frank & Timme

Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2015) A Systematic Review of Online Deliberation Research, Policy & Internet 7(3), p. 319-339, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.95 pdf

Katharina Esau, Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2016) Design Matters! An empirical analysis of online deliberation on different news platforms, The Internet, Policy & Politics Conference

Dennis Frieß, Pablo Porten-Cheé (2016) Towards a Democratic Citizens´ Perspective. What participants take away from eParticipation, ECREA, Section for Communication & Democracy

Dennis Frieß (2016) Online-Kommunikation im Lichte deliberativer Theorie. Ein forschungsleitendes Modell zur Analyse von Online-Diskussionen., Politische Online-Kommunikation. Voraussetzungen und Folgen des strukturellen Wandels der politischen Kommunikation, Philipp Henn, Dennis Frieß (ed.), p. 143-169, Berlin: Digital Communication Research 3, url, doi:10.17174/dcr.v3.7

P. Henn, D. Frieß (2016) Politische Online-Kommunikation. Voraussetzungen und Folgen des strukturellen Wandels der politischen Kommunikation, Philipp Henn, Dennis Frieß (ed.), Berlin: Digital Communication Research, url

Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2016) Deliberation: zwischen normativer Theorie und empirischen Zugängen. Ein forschungsleitendes Modell, Verantwortung – Gerechtigkeit – Öffentlichkeit. Normative Perspektiven auf Kommunikation, Petra Werner, Lars Rinsdorf, Thomas Pleil, Klaus-Dieter Altmeppen (ed.), Konstanz: UVK pdf

Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Christiane Eilders (2017) Recent Perspectives on Online Deliberation, 67th Annual ICA Conference

Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Christiane Eilders (2017) Deliberation follows Design. Eine Analyse der Einflüsse von Plattformdesign auf die Qualität von Nutzerkommentaren, 62. Jahrestagung der DGPuK

Katharina Esau, Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2017) Design Matters! An Empirical Analysis of Online Deliberation on Different News Platforms, Policy & Internet 9(3), p. 321-342, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.154 pdf

Katharina Esau, Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2017) Emotionen, Narrationen und Humor im deliberativen Diskurs – Inhaltsanalyse von Nutzerkommentaren auf unterschiedlichen Online-Plattformen, Gemeinsame Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises "Politik und Kommunikation" der DVPW, der Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Politik" der DGPuK und der Fachgruppe "Politische Kommunikation" SGKM pdf

Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Christiane Eilders (2017) How Emotions, Humor and Narratives Interact with Traditional Characteristics of Deliberation Online, 67th Annual ICA Conference

Katharina Esau, Dennis Frieß, Christiane Eilders (2017) Design Matters! An Empirical Analysis of Online Deliberation on Different News Platforms, 67th Annual ICA Conference pdf

Tobias Escher, Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Jost Sieweke, Ulf Tranow, Simon Dischner, Philipp Hagemeister, Martin Mauve (2017) Online Deliberation in Academia: Evaluating the Quality and Legitimacy of Cooperatively Developed University Regulations, Policy & Internet 9(1), p. 133-164, url, doi:10.1002/poi3.119 pdf

Dennis Frieß, Pablo Porten-Cheé (2018) What do participants take away from local eParticipation?: Analyzing the success of local eParticipation initiatives from a democratic citizens' perspective, Analyse und Kritik 40(1), p. 1-29, doi:10.1515/auk-2018-0001

Christiane Eilders, Olaf Jandura, Halina Bause, Dennis Frieß (2018) Vernetzung. Stabilität und Wandel gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation, Köln: von Halem

Dennis Frieß, Katharina Esau, Christiane Eilders (2018) Deliberation follows Design. Eine Analyse der Einflüsse des Plattformdesigns auf die Qualität von Nutzerkommentaren zu Nachrichtenartikeln, Vernetzung. Stabilität und Wandel gesellschaftlicher Kommunikation, Christiane Eilders, Olaf Jandura, Halina Bause, Dennis Frieß (ed.), p. 87-106, Köln: von Halem

Lena Schwarz, M.A.
Coordination
HHU

Lena Schwarz
personal website
Lena Schwarz, M.A., joined the coordination team in January 2021. She is a Linguist and completed her B.A. as well as her M.A. studies at Heinrich-Heine-Universität (HHU) Düsseldorf. From 2018 until 2020 she was the administrative coordinator of the Collaborative Research Centre 991 at HHU. Her research is mainly settled within the linguistic areas of Semantics and Pragmatics and parallel to her role as a coordinator for the PhD program ‘Online Participation’ she is going to work on the further development of her own research at the interface of Linguistics and language philosophy.

Dr. Lars Heilsberger
personal website
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Publications (selection):

Tobias Escher, Lars Heilsberger, Martin Mauve (2015) The PhD program "Fortschrittskolleg Online Participation", it - Information Technology 57(6), p. 384-387, url, doi:10.1515/itit-2015-0033 pdf

Lars Heilsberger, Martin Mauve, Katrin Möltgen-Sicking (2017) Online-Partizipation auf kommunaler Ebene in Nordrhein-Westfalen, DVP 68(8), p. 311-315

Lars Heilsberger (2019) Hochschulgovernance, Governance. Eine Einführung in Grundlagen und Politikfelder, Katrin Möltgen-Sicking, Thorben Winter (ed.), p. 205-226, Wiesbaden: Springer VS