PRuF

On the 03rd and 04th of February 2025, the Düsseldorf Graduate Conference on Party Research (GraPa) will take place for the for the 16th 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. We particularly welcome participants from abroad.

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.

Dr. Ole Kelm, research associate at the Institute for Social Sciences at HHU, has co-authored a study in the journal "Electoral Studies" with Prof. Dr. Thomas Pogunkte, Co-Director of the PRUF, Dr. Michael Angenendt, research associate at PRUF, and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rosar, Professor of Sociology at HHU. The study focuses on the benefits of social media in election campaigns for direct candidates. You can access the paper by clicking here.