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Sebastian Hellmeier
Universität Konstanz
Fachbereich Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaften
Postfach 84
Universitätsstraße 10
78464 Konstanz
Research areas
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Authoritarian regimes
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Protests and contentious politics
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Democratisation and autocratisation
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Resume
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since 04/2023
Interim professor, University of Konstanz -
since 6/2021
Postdoc, Berlin Social Science Center, Research Unit Transformations of Democracy -
09/2019-05/2021
Postdoc, Varieties of Autocracy (V-Aut) Project, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg -
09/2018-12/2018
Guest researcher, Duke University -
12/2015-12/2019
PhD student at the Graduate School of Decision Sciences, University of Konstanz -
12/2015-08/2019
Research Associate, Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database (MMAD) Project, University of Konstanz -
01/2015-06/2015
Research Associate, Horizon 2020 funding application, Institut Barcelona D'Estudis Internacionals -
09/2014-09/2015
Research Master in Political Science (M.Res.), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona -
10/2013-08/2014
European Master in Government (M.A.), University of Konstanz -
10/2013-08/2014
Research Assistant, Comparative Analysis of Moral Policy Change (MORAPOL) Project, University of Konstanz -
01/2011-02/2011
Intern, Research Assistant, GIGA Institute of Latin American Studies -
09/2009-08/2012
Political Science with minor in Hispanic Studies (B.A.), University of Mannheim
Selection of
publications
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Hellmeier, Sebastian (2022):
Polarisierung auf der Straße. Die politischen Folgen der Dynamiken von Protest und Gegenprotest.
In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen - Analysen zu Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft, Jg. 35, H. 2, S. 336-350.
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Keremoğlu, Eda/Hellmeier, Sebastian/Weidmann, Nils B. (2022):
Thin-Skinned Leaders. Regime Legitimation, Protest issues, and Repression in Autocracies.
In: Political Science Research and Methods, Vol. 10, No. 1, S. 136-152. (vorab online publiziert 05.05.2021)
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Boese, Vanessa A./Edgell, Amanda B./Hellmeier, Sebastian/Maerz, Seraphine F./Lindberg, Staffan I. (2021):
How Democracies Prevail. Democratic Resilience as a Two-Stage Process.
In: Democratization, Vol. 28, No. 5, Special Issue "Resilience of Democracies. Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges", edited by Wolfgang Merkel/Anna Lührmann, S. 885-907. (vorab online publiziert 27.04.2021)
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Hellmeier, Sebastian/Cole, Rowan/Grahn, Sandra/Kolvani, Palina/Lachapelle, Jean/Lührmann, Anna/Maerz, Seraphine F./Pillai, Shreeya/Lindberg, Staffan I. (2021):
State of the World 2020. Autocratization Turns Viral.
In: Democratization, Vol. 28, No. 6, S. 1053-1074. (vorab online publiziert 24.05.2021)
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Lachapelle, Jean/Hellmeier, Sebastian/Lührmann, Anna (2021):
How to Build Democracy after Authoritarian Breakdown. Insights from a Mixed Methods Approach.
V-Dem Working Papers 122. Gothenburg: The Varieties of Democracy Institute at the University of Gothenburg - V-Dem Institute.
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Hellmeier, Sebastian/Johannes Vüllers (2021):
Does Counter-Mobilization Contain Right-wing Populist Movements? Evidence from Germany.
In: European Journal of Political Research. Online first.
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Hellmeier, Sebastian (2020):
How Foreign Pressure Affects Mass Mobilization in Favor of Authoritarian Regimes.
In: European Journal of International Relations, 27 (2): 450-477.
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Hellmeier, Sebastian/Nils B. Weidmann (2020):
Pulling the Strings? The Strategic Use of Pro-Government Mobilization in Authoritarian Regimes.
Comparative Political Studies, 53 (1): 71-108.
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Hellmeier, Sebastian/Nils B. Weidmann/Espen G. Rød. (2018):
In the Spotlight: Analyzing Sequential Attention Effects in Protest Reporting.
Political Communication, 35 (4): 587-611.
Activities
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Salon Sophie Charlotte 2023
Aufklärung 2.0
In 2023, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities will once again open its doors to the public and invite visitors to the Salon Sophie Charlotte - this year under the motto "Enlightenment 2.0. The ten members of Die Junge Akademie who joined in the summer of 2022 will participate in the Salon with their own activity.
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- Starts on
- 13.05.23
Event access: Public
Berlin-Bradenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Link18:00
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Unspoken
Under the title "Ungesagtes" ("Unspoken"), the five articles and one discussion deal with aspects that one would tend to contrast with and deduct from the ideal of objectivity of science as "subjective" parts. On the one hand, it is about what the researching subject brings into the scientific work in often subtle ways: own views, emotions, values, personal beliefs. On the other hand, the influence of everything subjective on human behavior is itself also a topic of research.
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Berlin 2023
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