Faculty & Fellows Colloquium

Markus Steinbrecher is the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) visiting assistant professor at the Department of German Studies and the Department of Political Science. His research focuses on political behavior, including voter turnout and non-electoral participation; economic voting; dynamics and the stability of political preferences; the role of personality in politics; and the impact of survey breakoff on data quality. He received his PhD from the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg in 2008. Between 2008 and 2011 Steinbrecher worked at the University of Mannheim and was part of the project team of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES).