University education 04/ /2007 PhD studies at the Jacobs University, PhD in Political Science

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1 , PhD Assistant Professor Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences University of Cologne Richard-Strauß-Str. 2, D Köln Phone: +49 (0) ; Fax: +49 (0) Current and previous positions Since 07/2009 Assistant Professor for Comparative Social Research at the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS), University of Cologne 04/ /2009 Research associate in the project The dynamics of interparty competition at the Chair for Comparative Politics, Prof. André Kaiser, University of Cologne 07/ /2008 Research associate in the project The quality of macrodata in the social sciences at the Chair for Empirical Social and Economic Research, Prof. Hans-Jürgen Andreß, University of Cologne 04/ /2007 Research associate in the International tax policy project of Prof. Philipp Genschel at the Collaborative Research Center Transformations of the State, Jacobs University University education 04/ /2007 PhD studies at the Jacobs University, PhD in Political Science 10/ /2003 Studies in Political Science at the University of Konstanz Diplom (equivalent to M.A.) in Politics and Management Skill enhancement workshops Seminar Rhetoric in Teaching (Rhetorik in der Lehre), Deutscher Hochschulverband, Bonn, 28/29 June, 2012 Research interests Party competition Party organizations Social science methodology and methods

2 Teaching Graduate Case study method, seminar 2012/13, 2011/12, 2010/11, 2009/10 Teaching, Workshops and Talks Concepts, measurement, and data in the social sciences, seminar 2012, 2011 Political parties: organization, competition, and membership in office and opposition, seminar 2009 Political and social institutions: theory and methodology, seminar 2010 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), seminar 2012, 2011, 2010 Research design, seminar 2011/12, 2009/10, 2008 (jointly with André Kaiser) Research seminar in comparative social research, seminar 2011/12 Undergraduate Introduction to Comparative Politics (Course held in German: Einführung in die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft), lecture 2012/13 Methods school courses & workshops Advanced multi-method research, ECPR Winter School on Methods and Techniques (to be confirmed by ECPR), Vienna, Feb, 2013 The combination of set-theoretic methods with process tracing, co-director (jointly with Derek Beach), Aarhus, Jan, 2013 Multi-method research, one-day workshop at PARTIREP II project, Bruxelles, 7 Dec, 2012 Methodologies of case studies, ECPR Summer School on Methods and Techniques, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 Process tracing: philosophy, theory, and practice, co-director of workshop at the ECPR Joint Sessions (jointly with Derek Beach), Antwerpen, April, 2012 Using mixed methods to study social phenomena, workshop, University of Enschede, 16 March,

3 Mixed-methods research, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Universität Konstanz, 30 September, 2011 Case study design & Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), workshop at the International Summer School Religious Pluralization and Migration, University of Bochum, July, 2010 Invited presentations & roundtables Case selection for process tracing after regression analyses and QCA A comparative discussion (joint work with Carsten Q. Schneider), workshop, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, May, 2011 Kausalität in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Methodendebatte ( Causality in the methods debate in the social sciences ), research seminar of Professor of Philosophy Andreas Hüttemann, University of Cologne, 4 May, 2011 It s in the process: the logic and methodology of process tracing reconsidered, workshop Reassessing the methodology of process tracing, University of Oldenburg, 26 Nov, 2010 Merkmale und Entwicklung der Fallstudienmethode ( Characteristics and developments of the case study method ), workshop on qualitative and interpretive methods, University of Constance, 22 Nov, 2008 Nested analysis: how to do it without falling out of one s nest, roundtable, ECPR Summer School on Methods and Techniques, Ljubljana, 14 Aug, 2008 Prozessanalyse: Eine neue Logik kausaler Inferenz? ( Process tracing: a new logic of causal inference? ), University of Potsdam, 1 Aug, 2008 Anyone missing? The omission of variables in quantitative and qualitative research, Research Group at the Arizona Institute on Qualitative Methods and Multi-Method Research, Tempe, Phoenix, 6 Jan, 2008 Mixing methods, mixing problems? Problems in combining regression analysis and case studies, MZES, Mannheim, 1 Oct, 2007 Causality in the social sciences: a contested concept, roundtable, ECPR Summer School on Methods and Techniques, Ljubljana, 31 July,

4 Research and Awards Grants and fellowships DFG research funding for extension of project The dynamics of inter-party competition, 01/ /2011 ( Euro, jointly with André Kaiser) DFG travel grant, September 2009 (1.400 Euro) DFG research funding for project The dynamics of inter-party competition, 04/ /2010 ( Euro, jointly with André Kaiser) DFG travel grant, January 2008 (1.400 Euro) PhD fellowship, Jacobs University, 1 Jan-30 June, 2007 Reviewer and publishing activities Journals American Political Science Review British Journal of Political Science British Journal of Sociology Comparative Political Studies European Journal of Political Research Methodological Innovations Online R Journal Sociological Methods & Research Studies in Comparative International Development Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Book publishers Cambridge University Press Palgrave Macmillan Funding organizations UK Economic and Social Research Council Editorships Co-editor of Comparative Politics Series, Nomos Award committees Chair of the award committee for the Giovanni Sartori Book Award 2013, APSA Section on Qualitative Methods and Multi-Method research Awards Best Working Paper Award 2011 of the IPSA Committee on Concepts & Methods (Kühn, David and Ingo Rohlfing (2010): Causal explanation and multi-method research in the social sciences. Working Paper no. 26, Political Methodology Working Paper Series of the IPSA Committee on Concepts & Methods) - 4 -

5 Publications (all authors contributed equally to co-authored publications) Monograph (peer reviewed) (2012): Case studies and causal inference: an integrative framework (Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Series) Peer-reviewed articles (forthcoming): Asset or liability? The influence of changes in party membership on party ideology. Party Politics Rohlfing, Ingo, and Carsten Q. Schneider (forthcoming): Formalized case selection for process tracing after QCA: the case of necessity. Political Research Quarterly Schneider, Carsten Q. and Ingo Rohlfing (forthcoming): Combining QCA and process tracing in set-theoretic multi-method research. Sociological Methods & Research (forthcoming): Analyzing multilevel data with QCA: a straightforward procedure. International Journal of Social Research Methodology (forthcoming): Varieties of process tracing and ways to answer why-questions. European Political Science (2009): Bilateralismus und Multilateralismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen: Ein politökonomischer Ansatz am Beispiel der Handelsbeziehungen. Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 16 (1): (2009): Discrimination in international trade: A different perspective. Acta Politica 44 (2): (2008): What you see and what you get: Pitfalls and principles of nested analysis in comparative research. Comparative Political Studies 41 (11): (2008): Continuity in discontinuity: The domestic political economy of trade cooperation from 1860 to International Negotiation 13 (2): Rixen, Thomas and Ingo Rohlfing (2007): The institutional choice of bilateralism and multilateralism in international trade and taxation. International Negotiation 12 (3): Fischer, Jörn, André Kaiser and Ingo Rohlfing (2006): The push and pull of ministerial resignations in Germany, West European Politics 29 (4): Non peer-reviewed publications Schneider, Carsten Q. and Ingo Rohlfing (2012): Does set-relational causation fit into a potential outcomes framework? An Assessment of Gerring s Proposal. Newsletter of the APSA Section Qualitative Methods and Multi-Methods Research 10 (1): 8-14 (forthcoming): What is the relation between Comparative Historical Analysis and ordinary case studies? European Political Science - 5 -

6 Kühn, David and Ingo Rohlfing (2010): Causal explanation and multi-method research in the social sciences. Working Paper no. 26, Political Methodology Working Paper Series of the IPSA Committee on Concepts & Methods Winner of the Best Working Paper Award 2011 of the IPSA Committee on Concepts & Methods Kühn, David and Ingo Rohlfing (2009): Does it, really? Measurement error and omitted variables in multi-method research. Newsletter of the APSA Section Qualitative Methods and Multi- Methods Research 9 (2): (2008): Vergleichende Fallanalysen (Comparative case studies). Pickel, Susanne, Gert Pickel, Hans-Joachim Lauth and Detlef Jahn (eds.): Vergleichende politikwissenschaftliche Methoden. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. (2008): Do you know your data? Criteria for dataset quality. Working paper no. 1 in the Macroindicators Series, University of Cologne (2008): Measuring good governance: A comparison of three datasets. Working paper no. 2 in the Macroindicators Series, University of Cologne Book reviews Mahoney, James, and Kathleen A. Thelen (eds.) (2009): Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Political Studies Review 9 (2): Challenges and change in party politics, Journal of European Integration 33 (1): (reviewed books: Poguntke, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2007): The Europeanisation of national political parties; O'Brennan, John and Raunio Tapio (eds.) (2007): National parliaments within the enlarged European Union; Bosco, Anna and Leonardo Morlino (eds.) (2007): Party Change in Southern Europe; Benoit, Kenneth and Michael Laver (2006): Party Policy in Modern Democracies; Deschouwer, Kris (ed.) (2008): New parties in government) Box-Steffensmeier/Brady/Collier (eds.) (2008): Oxford Handbook of Political Methodology. Political Studies Review 7 (3): 402 Schimmelfennig/Gschwend (eds.) (2008): Forschungsdesign in der Politikwissenschaft. Swiss Political Science Review 14 (3):

7 Conference proceedings Rohlfing, Ingo and Tobias Schafföner: Die versprechen doch eh alles das Gleiche. Der Einfluss ökonomischer Globalisierung auf die Unterscheidbarkeit von Parteiprogrammen, DVPW General Conference, Tübingen, September 2012 Rohlfing, Ingo: Generalisierungen kausaler Inferenzen als kontrafaktische Aussagen, DVPW General Conference, Tübingen, September 2012 Case selection and causal inference in comparative hypothesis testing via process tracing, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Antwerp, April, 2012 Rupture or continuity? The effect of party leader change on party ideology, ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, St. Gallen, April, 2011 (presentation of joint work with Sara Binzer Hobolt, Robert Klemmensen, and Thomas Bräuninger) Explaining party competition: a multi-method approach combining fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsqca) and case studies, ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, Sep, 2009 (presentation of joint work with Carsten Q. Schneider) Are opposition parties ideological opportunists or purists? An analysis of campaign manifestos, ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, Sep, 2009 Causal Explanation and Multi-method Research in the Social Sciences, APSA Annual Meeting, Toronto, 3-6 Sep, 2009 (presentation of joint work with David Kühn) Case selection and model dependence in multi-method research: problems and strategies, Annual Meeting of the Comparative Politics Section of the DVPW, Darmstadt, Jan, 2008 Types of causal relationships and their identification in small-n, large-n, and mixed-method designs, APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, 29 Aug, 2008 (presentation of joint work with David Kühn) Distribution versus transaction costs: a dilemma of institutional choice between bilateral and multilateral cooperation (poster), APSA Annual Meeting, Boston, 29 Aug, 2008 Regressionsschätzungen als Kontext für Prozessanalysen, Annual Meeting of the Methodology Group of the DVPW, Mainz, 6-7 June, 2008 (joint work with Peter Starke) Stairway to heaven or highway to hell? A skeptical view on the combination of regression analysis and case studies, ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes, April, 2008 (joint work with Peter Starke) Was bringt die Kombination von Groß-N und Klein-N Methoden? Eine skeptische Perspektive, Annual Meeting of the Comparative Politics Section of the DVPW, Delmenhorst, 9-11 Nov, 2007 Bilateralism and multilateralism in the GATT, Young Scholar s Conference of the International Relations Section of the DVPW, Arnoldshain, May 26-28,

8 Seeing both the forest and the trees: a network analytic perspective on international trade cooperation, , 2 nd conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis, Zurich, Oct 20-21, 2005 The political economy of bilateralism and multilateralism: institutional choice in trade and taxation, Meeting of the International Relations Section of the DVPW, Mannheim, Oct 6-7, 2005 (joint work with Thomas Rixen) When the strength becomes the problem: spill-over errors in mixed-methods designs, ECPR General Conference, Budapest, Sep 8-10, 2005 Have you chosen the right case? Pitfalls in case selection in nested analysis, ASPA Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Sep 1-4, 2005, Claiming too much? Cautions on generalizing from within-case analysis, Annual Meeting of the Methodology Group of the DVPW, Hagen, May 19-21, 2005 Bilateralism and multilateralism: institutional choice in international cooperation, the examples of international trade and taxation, APSA Annual Meeting, Chicago, Sep 2-5, 2004 (joint work with Thomas Rixen) Wann handeln Staaten bilateral oder multilateral?, Young Scholar s Conference of the International Relations Section of the DVPW, Freiburg, Jan 30-Feb 01, 2004 (joint work with Thomas Rixen) - 8 -