Thomas Poguntke - Curriculum Vitae#

Previous appointments: Chair of Political Science, University of Bochum (2006-2010); Chair of German and European Politics and Director of the Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham (2005-2006); Chair of Political Science at Keele University (2000-2005).

Visiting Fellowships: Australian National University, Canberra (2017); European University Institute, Florence (2008/09, 2012).

Education

• 1999 Habilitation at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim
  
• 1989 Ph.D. awarded by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute, Florence
  
• 1983 M.Sc. (Econ), LSE

Major research grants:

• 2025 - 2027 Opposition party behaviour inside and outside of parliament: functional difference and mutual influence? DFG grant, volume €281 000)
  
• Project Co-Director and Co-Applicant (with Simon Franzmann, Göttingen)
  
• 2014 - 2018 Political Party Database Project: How Parties Shape Democracy (ORA grant; volume € 600 000); Project Co-Director and Co-Applicant (with Susan Scarrow, Houston and Paul Webb, Sussex (project ongoing)
  
• 2014 – 2017 Independent Local Lists: membership, Identity, Organization. A membership Survey (DFG grant; volume € 256 000); Principal Applicant
  
• 2008 - 2013 Europarties going East. The Influence of Europarties on Parties and Party Systems in Eastern Europe (DFG grant; volume € 240 000); Project Co-Director and Co-Applicant (with Jan van Deth, Mannheim)
  
• 2003-2006 The Europeanisation of National Political Parties, 15-Nation-Study; Principal Investigator (ESRC grant; volume £ 230 000)
  
• 2001 - 2005 Parties and Democracy in The European Union: Euro-Parties as New Democratic Intermediaries? (DFG grant; volume € 150 000); Project Co-Director and Co-Applicant (with Jan van Deth, Mannheim)
  
• 1997 - 1999 The Development of Organizational Linkages between Parties and Society in Western Europe (DFG grant; volume: equivalent to 2 years and 9 months salary), Principal investigator

Major book publications

(2024), Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy. Organization, Resilience and Reform, Oxford: Oxford University Press (co-edited with Wilhelm Hofmeister).

(2017), Organizing Political Parties: Representation, Participation and Power, Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Susan E. Scarrow and Paul D. Webb).

(2005) The Presidentialization of Politics in Democratic Societies. A Comparative Study of Modern Democracies, Oxford: Oxford University Press (co-edited with Paul Webb; paperback edition 2007; expanded Japanese translation 2014).

(2007) The Europeanization of National Political Parties: Power and Organizational Adaptation, London/New York: Routledge (co-edited with Nicholas Aylott, Robert Ladrech, Elisabeth Carter & Kurt Richard Luther; paperback 2008).