Academic CV Leonce Röth Email leonce.roeth@uni-koeln.de Phone +49 221 470 7276 Since 07/2014 - Project Management of the DFG Grant: Decentralization and Electoral Geographies (GZ: KA 1741/10-1 & GZ: KA 1741/10-2). 07/2017 08/2017 Visiting Researcher at EURAC Institute in Bolzano. 03/2013 04/2013 Visiting Researcher at the University of Stockholm. Since 05/2012 Member of the research staff at the chair of Comparative Politics (Prof. André Kaiser). 08/2011 04/2012 Student assistant at the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI), Department of Environment and Ressources. 03/2011 06/2011 IOB Evaluation Ruanda, IOB field evaluation of electrification impacts on rural areas (EnDEV). 04/2009 03/2010 Research Seminar at the Institut für Empirische sozial- und Wirtschaftsforschung (Dr. Achim Goerres) 07/2008 03/2011 Lecturer at the Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (ZfAS). 03/2006 04/2006 Internship at the Scientific Service of the German Bundestag. 10/2005 03/2012 Studies of Social Sciences (Economics and Political Science; Diploma) at the University of Cologne. 03/2005 04/2005 Internship for the Vice President of the German Bundestag - Dr. h.c. Susanne Kastner. 10/2002 07/2003 Studies of Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bielefeld. Selected Publications 2017 - Ideological Alignment and the Distribution of Public Expenditures. West European Politics (with Kleider, A. & Garritzmann, J.)
2017 - The Impact of Populist Radical Right Parties on Socio-Economic Policies. European Political Science Review (with Afonso, A., & D. Spies) 2016 - Centre Periphery Conflict and Ideological Distance in Turkey. Swiss Political Science Review, 22(4), 585-607. (with A. Kaiser, Ç. Varol & U. Sadioğlu) 2016 - Why Decentralize Authority Asymmetrically? A Theory of Authority Insulation (with André Kaiser). Under revision. 2015 - Cabinet Preferences on Two Dimensions. Majorities for Cultural and Economic Preferences in 35 Countries from 1945 to 2015. Arbeitspapier. 2015 - Measuring Party Positions on Latent Dimensions with Salience and Positional Indicators from Texts: The Case of Market Liberalism. Under revision. Teaching Undergraduate Summer Term 2013 The political system of Germany Summer Term 2014 Electoral- and party-systems Summer Term 2014 Political economy introduction (Journalistenschule Köln) Summer Term 2015 Party positions and party competition PHD Level 2013 ECPR Summer School Teaching Assistant Case Study Research: Method and Practice (Ljubljana) (Prof. Ingo Rohlfing) 2014 ECPR Summer School Teaching Assistant Case Study Research: Methodology and (Ljubljana) Practice (Prof. Ingo Rohlfing) 2014 ECPR Winter School Advanced Multi-Method Research (Prof. Ingo Rohlfing) (Vienna) Winter Term 2014/2015 International School of Management (ISM) Advanced Political Economy 2015 Summer School Genoa Validity in Multi-Method Research Respos (Genua) Research Strategies in Policy Studies Winter Term 2015/2016 International School of Management (ISM) Advanced Political Economy 2017 NASP Milano Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Science (NASP) - Modelling Causal Pathways. Structural Equations and Mediation of Causal Effects
Conferences and Invited Talks 2017 Pulheim Wie wirken die Rechtspopulisten? 2017 APSA San Francisco - The Role of Middle Class Involvement for the Nexus of Immigration and Welfare 2017 APSA San Francisco - Decentralization and Salient Ideological Conflict Dimensions from 1900-2015. 2017 CES Glasgow - Partisan Politics and Public Investment in Education: A Regional Level Analysis of Education Spending in 15 OECD Countries. 2017 CES Glasgow - Ideological Similarity and the Quest for Political Self-Determination. Decentralization and Salient Ideological Conflict Dimensions in Islamic, Catholic and Protestant Countries from 1900-2015. 2017 ESPA Milano - Towards Equivalent Party Positions on the Market Dimension. 2017 ESPA Milano - Political Rhetoric: Measurement and Method (Discussant). 2017 Wiener Neustadt, Klagenfurt, Graz, Salzburg - Was kommt wenn die Rechte kommt. Presentations by Invitation of the Grüne Bildungswerkstatt. 2017 Nottingham - Authority to Friends. A Systematic Analysis of Partisan Rationales in Symmetric De/Centralization Reforms. 2017 Cologne - Policy Impact of Populist Radical Right Parties (Speech for Guests of the Syracuse University (New York). 2017 Cologne - Interview with Al Jazeera. Right wing Populism in Germany. 2016 MPSA Chicago - Market Liberalism and the Change of Western Societies: Government Preferences and the Impact on Welfare Generosity, Tax Burden, Inequality and Economic Performance. 2016 Cologne - Policy Impact of Populist Radical Right Parties (Speech for Guests of the Syracuse University (New York). 2016 CES Philadelphia - Historical Trajectories of Territorial Authority Distribution in Decentralized Countries. A Sequence Analysis in 21 Countries. 2016 CES Philadelphia - Causes and Implications of the Great Territorial Transformation (Panel Organizer) 2015 ECPR Montreal - The Electoral Calculi of Governing Parties and Symmetric Shifts of Authority between Nation-States and Regions.
2015 ECPR Montreal - Parties and Elections in Multilevel Countries 2 (Discussant). 2015 CES Paris - Why Decentralize Authority Asymmetrically? 2014 ECPR Glasgow - Why Decentralize Authority Asymmetrically? A Mixed Methods Analysis of Territorial Reforms in 12 Countries 2014 ECPR Glasgow - What's Left of the Radical Right? The Social-Economic Programmes of Radical Right-Wing Populist Parties (Discussant; Panel Chair: Simon Otjes). 2014 ECPR Glasgow - And They Still Matter Market Liberalism, Governments and Performance in 32 Western Democracies. 2014 CES Washington - The Extreme Right s Impact on Economic Liberalization. 2014 CES Washington - And They Still Matter... Parties Preferences on Markets and the Liberalization of Western Societies. 2013 ECPR Bordeaux - Why Decentralize Authority? Explaining Decentralization Reforms with Electoral Concerns of Governments in Seven Established Democracies. 2013 DVPW Leipzig - Why Decentralize Authority? Explaining Decentralization Reforms with Electoral Concerns of Governments in Seven Established Democracies. Grants 2013-2015 - Several Travel Grants (ECPR, DAAD, Future of the UK) 2014 - DFG Grant: Decentralization and Electoral Geographies I (KA 1741/10-1) (168.000 ) 2016 - DFG Grant: Decentralization and Electoral Geographies II (KA 1741/10-1) (172.804 ) Reviewer Comparative Political Studies, Regional and Federal Studies, Political Studies Quarterly.