On the 29th and 30th of January 2026, the Düsseldorf Graduate Conference on Party Research (GraPa) will take place for the for the 17th time. The PRUF would like to invite all PhD candidates in the field of party research and others who are interested in this two-day interdisciplinary conference at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Am 03. und 04. Februar 2025 findet zum 16. Mal die Düsseldorfer Graduiertenkonferenz Parteienwissenschaften (GraPa) statt. Zu der zweitätigen, interdisziplinären Veranstaltung an der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf lädt das PRUF alle Promovierenden auf dem Gebiet der Parteienwissenschaften sowie alle Interessierten herzlich ein.
We are pleased to announce the publication of "Political Parties and the Crisis of Democracy," edited by Thomas Poguntke and Wilhelm Hofmeister. This book is now available Open Access.
On the 05th and 06th of February, the Düsseldorf Party Research Institute hosted the Düsseldorf Graduate Conference on Party Research for the fifteenth time.
Prof. Dr. Sophie Schönberger, Co-Director of the Institute for German and International Party Law and Party Research (PRUF) and Chair of Public Law, Art, and Cultural Law at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf, will be speaking at the event "Von rechten nichts Neues?" ("Nothing New from the Right?") hosted by the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Politial Education) on February 28, 2024. For more information, click here.
On October 17, 2023, Prof. Dr. Sophie Schönberger, Co-Director of the Institute for German and International Party Law and Party Research (PRUF) participated in the event series "Parliamentarism in Times of Crisis" organized by the German Bundestag.
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