, 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-50931 Köln +49 (0) 221 470 1233 rohlfing@wiso.uni-koeln.de Previous Positions Since 07/2009 Assistant Professor at the Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences (CGS), University of Cologne 04/2008-06/2009 Research associate in the project The dynamics of interparty competition at the Chair for Comparative Politics, Prof. André Kaiser, University of Cologne 07/2007-03/2008 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 04/2003-12/2007 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 04/2003-08/2007 PhD studies at the Jacobs University, PhD in Political Science 10/1997-03/2003 Studies in Political Science at the University of Konstanz Diplom (equivalent to M.A.) in Politics and Management Research Interests Party competition Party organizations Social science methodology Institutional theory and analysis Teaching Graduate Political and social institutions: theory and methodology, seminar, University of Cologne, summer 2010 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), seminar, University of Cologne, summer 2010
Research design in comparative social research, seminar, University of Cologne, winter 2009/10 Methodologies of case studies, seminar, University of Cologne, winter 2009/10 Comparative Political Institutions: Political Parties: Organization, Competition, and Membership in Office, seminar, University of Cologne, summer 2009 Research design, seminar, International Max Planck Research School, University of Cologne (jointly with André Kaiser), summer 2008 Undergraduate Was ist Internationale Politik? Konzepte und Problemfelder in den Internationalen Beziehungen (International Relations: Concepts and issue areas), seminar, Bremer Sommerakademie, Jacobs University (jointly with Moritz Weiß), 24-28 July, 2006 Summer Schools & Workshops Case Study Design & Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), 27-28 July, 2010, workshop to be held at International Summer School Religious Pluralization and Migration, University of Bochum Methodologies of case studies, ECPR Summer School on Methods and Techniques, Ljubljana, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 Invited Lectures & Roundtables 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: Ein 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, 2007-2 -
Grants, Fellowships DFG Travel grant, September 2009 DFG Research funding, 04/2008-03/2010 (116.000 Euro) DFG Travel grant, January 2008 PhD Fellowship, Jacobs University, 1 Jan-30 June, 2007 ECPR Travel grant, April 2005 Reviewer for American Political Science Review Comparative Political Studies Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft Publications Books Methodologies of case studies (manuscript under contract, Palgrave Macmillan Research Methods Series) Peer-reviewed articles (2009): Bilateralismus und Multilateralismus in den Internationalen Beziehungen: Ein politökonomischer Ansatz am Beispiel der Handelsbeziehungen. Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen 16 (1): 75-101 (2009): Discrimination in international trade: A different perspective. Acta Politica 44 (2): 192-210 (2008): What you see and what you get: Pitfalls and principles of nested analysis in comparative research. Comparative Political Studies 41 (11): 1492-1514 (2008): Continuity in discontinuity: The domestic political economy of trade cooperation from 1860 to 1914. International Negotiation 13 (2): 211-231 Rixen, Thomas and Ingo Rohlfing (2007): The institutional choice of bilateralism and multilateralism in international trade and taxation. International Negotiation 12 (3): 389-414 Fischer, Jörn, André Kaiser and Ingo Rohlfing (2006): The push and pull of ministerial resignations in Germany, 1969-2005. West European Politics 29 (4): 709-735 Other publications (forthcoming): What is good data? Political Methodology Working Paper Series of the IPSA Committee on Concepts & Methods - 3 -
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 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): 18-22 (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 (forthcoming) Review article of multiple books, Journal of European Integration (forthcoming) (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): 579-583 Work in Progress (working titles) Party ideology as a collective incentive for party members Schneider, Carsten Q. and Ingo Rohlfing: It s complex: Case selection on the basis of fsqca with an application to party competition Rohlfing, Ingo and Peter Starke: Building on solid ground: A procedure for robust case selection in mixed-methods designs Kühn, David and Ingo Rohlfing: Causal explanation and multi-method research in the social sciences - 4 -
Conference Proceedings Rohlfing, Ingo and Carsten Q. Schneider: A comparison of case selection principles in settheoretic and regression-based multi-method research. Paper to be presented at the ESPAnet Conference, Central European University, Budapest, 2-4 September, 2010 (presentation by Carsten Schneider) Rohlfing, Ingo and Peter Starke: Building on solid ground: A procedure for robust case selection in mixed-methods designs. Workshop on Comparative Methodology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 19 May, 2010 (presentation by Peter Starke) Schneider, Carsten Q. and Ingo Rohlfing: Explaining party competition: A multi-method approach combining fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsqca) and case studies, Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, 10-12 Sep, 2009 Are opposition parties ideological opportunists or purists? An analysis of campaign manifestos, Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Potsdam, 10-12 Sep, 2009 Kühn, David and Ingo Rohlfing: Causal Explanation and Multi-method Research in the Social Sciences, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto, 3-6 Sep, 2009 Case selection and model dependence in multi-method research: Problems and strategies, Annual Meeting of the Comparative Politics Section of the German Political Science Association, Darmstadt, 23-25 Jan, 2008 Types of causal relationships and their identification in small-n, large-n, and mixed-method designs, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, 29 Aug, 2008 Distribution versus transaction costs: A dilemma of institutional choice between bilateral and multilateral cooperation (poster), Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, 29 Aug, 2008 Rohlfing, Ingo and Peter Starke: Regressionsschätzungen als Kontext für Prozessanalysen, Annual Meeting of the Methodology Group of the German Political Science Association, Mainz, 6-7 June, 2008 Stairway to heaven or highway to hell? A skeptical view on the combination of regression analysis and case studies, ECPR Joint Sessions, Rennes, 11-16 April, 2008 Was bringt die Kombination von Groß-N und Klein-N Methoden? Eine skeptische Perspektive, Annual Meeting of the Comparative Politics Section of the German Political Science Association, Delmenhorst, 9-11 Nov, 2007 Bilateralism and multilateralism in the GATT, Young Scholar s Conference of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association, Arnoldshain, May 26-28, 2006 Seeing both the forest and the trees: A network analytic perspective on international trade cooperation, 1815-1913, 2 nd conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis, Zurich, Oct 20-21, 2005-5 -
Rixen, Thomas and Ingo Rohlfing: The political economy of bilateralism and multilateralism: Institutional choice in trade and taxation, Meeting of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association, Mannheim, Oct 6-7, 2005 When the strength becomes the problem: Spill-over errors in mixed-methods designs, General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research, Budapest, Sep 8-10, 2005 Have you chosen the right case? Pitfalls in case selection in nested analysis, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 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 German Political Science Association, Hagen, May 19-21, 2005 Rixen, Thomas and Ingo Rohlfing: Bilateralism and multilateralism: Institutional choice in international cooperation, the examples of international trade and taxation, Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sep 2-5, 2004 Rixen, Thomas and Ingo Rohlfing: Wann handeln Staaten bilateral oder multilateral?, Young Scholar s Conference of the International Relations Section of the German Political Science Association, Freiburg, Jan 30-Feb 01, 2004-6 -