Dear all,
applications are invited for the positions of four junior research
fellows with the MARPOR project ("Manifesto Research on Political
Representation") headed by Dr. Andrea Volkens and located at the Social
Science Research Center Berlin (Germany). The project continues the
international Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP). Deadline for
applications is July 31, 2009. For further details please see below.
Best regards,
Dag Tanneberg
Berlin, 15 June 2009
Job Offers
The Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), research area Civil
Society, Conflicts, and Democracy, research unit Democracy: Structures,
Performance, Challenges seeks
four junior research fellows
for the time period from 1 October 2009 until 30 September 2012 with a
weekly working load of 19,5 hours in the context of the project "MARPOR
Manifesto Research on Political Representation", financed by the German
Science Foundation (DFG) long-term to analyse the quality of
programmatic representation across 75 countries between 1990 and 2021
based on quantitative content analyses of parties' election programs
(see http://www.wzb.eu/zkd/dsl/pdf/Marpor.pdf). Within MARPOR, the
Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP) continues its international
cooperation. The DFG supports the collection and content-analyses of the
manifestos to make them publicly available by financing four fellowships
for tackling the following tasks:
Position 1: Organising, documenting, and preparing the primary data and
secondary data on election statistics, regime types, and government
compositions for publication, corresponding contribution to the
scheduled book.
Position 2: Training of coders, organising the reliability tests, and
further developing the coder handbook, developing and carrying out the
coder interviews, preparing secondary data on party preferences, own
contribution to the scheduled book on quality of primary data.
Position 3: Comparing existing and developing new measures on policy
preferences of parties, collaborating in setting up and maintaining the
online database for texts and content analytical data, own contribution
to the scheduled book on measuring policy preferences.
Position 4: Preparing secondary data on voters and contexts, matching
party and voter data, applying existing and developing new measures on
congruence between parties and voters, own contribution to the scheduled
book on measuring the programmatic congruence between parties and voters.
Requirements for all four positions: Applicants should hold an M.A. or
corresponding degree in political science or an adjacent science with a
relevant theoretical (comparative election studies, comparative party or
democratic theory) or methodological focus (computerised text, micro,
aggregate data, time series cross-section analysis or web-based data
retrieval), good knowledge of methods of empirical social research and
statistical packages as well as high capacity for teamwork. Command of
the English language is a precondition for tackling the comparative
tasks of the project. Knowledge of all other languages, in particular
Spanish, is very welcome, command of German language is not a prerequisite.
We prefer applicants who aspire to attain their PhD on research topics
central to MARPOR and who want to contribute to planned project
publications.
Salary for each position: In accordance with German civil service
standards (E 13 TVöD)
Disabled applicants with equal qualification will be given preference.
The WZB expressly invites women to apply.
Candidates are kindly requested to submit their application and the
usual accompanying documentation no later than 31 July 2009 to:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
für Sozialforschung (WZB)
Dr. Andrea Volkens
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
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Dag Tanneberg
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
Abt. Demokratie: Strukturen, Leistungsprofil und Herausforderungen
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
http://www.wzb.eu
Tel.: +49 30 25491 -317
Fax: +49 30 25491 -345
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