Are you researching politics and religion, moral philosophy in legislation or current issues of social policy in Europe? Then I am at your disposal as an expert.

I, as political scientist and Associate Professor at Fliedner University of Applied Sciences, offer expert commentary and analysis on topics related to my research areas, including morality policy, social care, religion, governance and policy implementation. I am available for expert interviews and commissioned research within my field of expertise.

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• Talk on "Secuar-religious conflict going online?", Workshop "Digital religion meets politics", Evangelische Akademie Landau, 10-11 May 2024.

• Chair of 2 Workshops for preparing a Special Issue on “Reconceptualizing Social Care: new policies, governance modes and beneficiaries”, April 2021 (online) & August 2021 (Akademie for politische Bildung Tutzing). (with A. Blome).
• Panel Co-Chair “Reconceptualizing Social Care”, DVPW Kongress, September 2021 (with A. Blome).

• Section Chair "Religion in a secular age: pattern, dynamics and consequences", ECPR General Conference in Wroclaw, September 4-7, 2019.
• Co-Chairing the panel "New challenges of welfare states in (il)liberal times: How policy ambiguity promotes third-sector engagement in policy implementation" at the 3-Ländertagung in Zurich, 14-16 February 2019.

• Co-Chairing and discussing contributions in the panel "Moral authority of churches in secular times: religious actors and their engagement in policy implementation" at the ECPR General Conference (with Irina Ciornei), Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018.
• Co-Chairing the ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop "Politics of values in the 21st century" (with Isabelle Engeli), Nicosia, 10-14 April 2018.

• Co-Chairing the section "European Union" (with Gill Allwood) at the General Conference of the Standing Group on Gender and Politics (ECPG), Lausanne, 8-10 June 2017.
• Co-Chairing the panel "Gender, Sexuality and Public Religion" (with David Paternotte) at the General Conference of the ECPG, Lausanne, 8-10 June 2017.
• Co-Charing the panel "Gendering EU Policy" at the General Conference of the ECPG, Lausanne, 8-10 June 2017.
• Discussant of the panel "The governance of prostitution by responsabilization" (with Jocye Outshoorn) at the General Conference of the ECPG, Lausanne, 8-10 June 2017.

• Organization of the panels "The religious factor in morality policies I + II" for the ECPR General Conference, Charles University in Prague, 7-10 September 2016.
  
• Organization of the department workshop "Multimethod Research in Political Science" with Prof. Dr. Ingo Rohlfing, Political Science Department, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 14 July 2016.
• Organization of the panel  "Collaborative regulatory governance in the field of morality policies"  (with C. Preidel), 6th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Tilburg University,  6‐8 July 2016.
  
• Organization of the panel "Electoral Institutions and the European Parliament" (with E. Frech), ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 1-2 July 2016.

• Guest talk on "Politiker:Innen und Religion", Evangelische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, 2 December 2024.
• Talk on "Digital religion meets politics", DWPW Kongress, Göttingen, 26 September 2024.
• Participation (online) in the roundtable "Power and Religion", Conference of the SIEF Ethnology of Religion reserach group, Hungarian Academy of Arts Research, Budapest, 17-19 October 2024.

• Paper presentation at 2 workshops for preparing a Special Issue on “Reconceptualizing Social Care: new policies, governance modes and beneficiaries”, April 2021 (online) & August 2021 (Akademie for politische Bildung Tutzing). (with V. Benoit).
• Paper presentation at a panel on “Reconceptualizing Social Care”, DVPW Kongress, September 2021 (with V. Benoit).

• Chair and Discussant in the panel “Religion across boundaries”, ECPR General Conference, virtual event, 24 August 2020.

• ECPR General Conference, 04-07.09.2019. Paper: "A new culture of parliamentary politics in post-secular times?"
• Jahrestagung DVPW Sektion "Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft,15.04.2019. Paper: "A new culture of parliamentary politics in post-secular times?"
• Invited talk "Prostitutionspolitik im internationalen Vergleich", University of Stuttgart, January 2019.
• Dreiländertagung, Zurich, 14.-16.02.2019. Paper: Policy ambiguity and conflict level as predictors of church engagement in morality policy implementation. (with O. Mettang, L. Riedel)

• Invited talk "Macht, Moral und Religion: Regulierung von moralpolitischen Fragen in säkularen Zeiten", University of Tübingen, 21 November 2018.
• "Speaking to the (national) Principal? An analysis of MEPs' legislative activities in the European Parliament. Paper presented at the GSI-workshop "Politics turn in EU studies", LMU Munich, 15-16 November 2018.
• "Policy implementation a playground for losers of decision-making?" Paper presented at the DVPW Conference, Frankfurt, 26-28 September 2018. (with O. Mettang)
• "Policy implementation a playground for losers of decision-making?" Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, 22-25 August 2018. (with O. Mettang)
  
• "Morality policy implementation in two German states" Paper presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop in Nicosia,  10-14 April 2018. (with O. Mettang)

• Invited talk "Gender quotas and parliamentary activity in the European Parliament, LMU, 26 July 2017.
• Invited talk "Morality policy-making in times of secularization", University of Linz, 22 June 2017.
• "Responsibilization by criminal liability in the governance of prostitution policy" Paper accepted for the General Conference of the Standing Group on Gender and Politics (ECPG), Lausanne, 8-10 June 2017.
• "Debunking a Myth: Are female "quota MEPs" less active?" Paper accepted for the General Conference of the Standing Group on Gender and Politics (ECPG), Lausanne, 8-10 June 2017. (with E. Frech)
• "Debunking a Myth: Are female "quota MEPs" less active?" Paper accepted for the General Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), Milan, 22-24 June 2017. (with E. Frech)

• "The religious factor in morality politics", Keynote Speaker  at the workshop „The Role of Values in EU Governance: „Human Dignity“ from Theory to Practice“, Free University Brussels, 6 December 2016.

• "Religion and morality politics in light of the European refugee crisis", Talk at the  Annual Conference of the DVPW-Working Group "Politik and Religion" titled "Parteien, Kirchen und Religionsgemeinschaften vor den Herausforderungen von Flucht und Migration in Europa", University of Leipzig, 24-25 November 2016.

• "The role of religious communities in the implementation of morality policies", Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Charles University in Prague, 7-10 September 2016. (with I. Ciornei)
  
• "Collaborative regulatory governance: The role of religious communities in the implementation of morality policies in Germany". Paper presented at  6th Biennial Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Regulatory Governance, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, 6‐8 July 2016. (with C. Preidel)
• "Gender Quotas in European Elections and their Effect on Political Performance in the European Parliament". Paper presented at the 3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments, Munich, 1-2 July 2016.
  (with E. Frech)
• Divergence in regulating Islamic religious education in Germany. Paper presented at the workshop on "Migration und Integration als politische Herausforderung", University of Leipzig, 2-4 June 2016.
• Invited talk "Who are the agents of societal minorities?", Public Policy School, Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary, 11 May 2016.
• Invited talk "Säkularisierung, Parteikonflikte und Moralpolitik", Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften und Theologie, TU Dortmund, 18 April 2016.

• Invited talk "How to survive? Dead ends and winning strategies for writing a PhD", PhD-Workshop of the DFG-Research Training Group "Wicked Problems and Contested Administrations" (WIPCAD), University of Potsdam, 9 November 2015.
• Parteiinterne Konflikte als Determinanten legislativen Verhaltens. Paper presented at the Conference „Soziologie der Parteien - revisited“, Munich,  17-18 July 2015 (with C. Preidel).
• Regulating prostitution and same-sex partnership rights in Europe: Who are the agents of societal minorities? Paper presented at the International Conference for Public Policy (ICPP), Mailand, 01-03 July 2015 (with C. Preidel).
• Who are the agents of societal minorities? Paper presented at the ECPR Gender and Politics Conference, Uppsala, 11-13 June 2015 (with C. Preidel).
• Regulating morality policies in the EU: The influence of gender-related explanations. Panel-Chair at the ECPR Gender and Politics Conference, Uppsala, 11-13 June 2015.
• Engagement or avoidance in morality policies? Paper presented at the Comparative Agendas Project Conference (CAP), Lisbon, 22-24 June 2015.
• Politicization without party discipline. Paper presented at the Comparative Agendas Project Conference (CAP), Lisbon, 22-24 June 2015.

•  State capacity and typical forms of moral regulation. Paper presented at the FoJuS Jahrestagung 2014 „Politik und öffentliche Verwaltung – Stabilität und Wandel unter komplexen Bedingungen“, Munich, 27-28 November 2014 (with C. Preidel).
• Religion versus gender? Investigating conflict lines and patterns of politicization in morality policies (with C. Preidel). Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, 3-6 September 2014.
• State capacity and typical forms of moral regulation. Some insights from two extraordinary services: assisted suicide and sex work. Paper presented at the 5th ECPR Regulatory Governance Conference, Barcelona, 25-27 June 2014 (with C. Preidel).
• Coalition politics and issue politicization in the religious world. Paper presented at the Comparative Agendas Project Conference, Konstanz, 12-14 June 2014.
• Invited talk "Parteienwettbewerb in der Religiösen Welt",  Brown-Bag Colloquium of the Political Science Department, University of Konstanz,  31 January 2014.

• Agenda mobilisation and radical policy change: What about the role of institutional friction? Paper presented at the ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux, 5-7 September 2013 (with C. Preidel).
• Disscussant in the Panel "The influence of religion on morality policies", ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux, 5-7 September 2013.
• Agenda mobilization, morality policy change and institutional friction. Paper presented at the Comparative Agendas Project Conference, Antwerp, 27-29 June 2013.
• Invited talk "Societal demand and morality policy change in the religious world",  Institut Barcelona D'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona, 13 February 2013.

• Blog entry titled "Speaking or drafting? How parties' candidate selection procedures shape the prioritization of parliamentary activities in the European Parliament", "Counting Counts", 6 June 2020 (together with my co-author Elena Frech).

• Statement Faktencheck @ Maischberger. Topic: Ideological positioning of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, 13 December 2018.
  

• Interview Neue Passauer Zeitung "Frauen in der Männerdomäne". Topic: Representation of women in German politics, 22 August 2017.
  

• Blog entry titled "Why are private actors able to co-govern prostitution policy and assisted dying in Germany?" at the Core Blog of Cambridge University Press, 8 June 2017.

• Interview NDR Info with Henning Cordes, 11 September 2016. Topic: Street prostitution in Germany and latest regulatory changes (in German).

• Interview Radio Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) with Ingo Kahle, 30 January 2016. Topic: New law on prostitution regulation in Germany (in German).

• Interview Radio Bayern 2, 9 August 2014. Topic: How can we reform sex work in Germany? (in German).