I am a political scientist with research interests in political sociology, political behaviour, comparative politics, and political methodology. In the first two areas I focus on electoral behaviour, political attitudes and behaviour in Germany, the relation between social structure and politics, and on political knowledge and political sophistication. My methodological research interests focus on the spatial modelling of party manifestos, survey research methodology in general, computational statistics and ecological inference. On these topics I have published a monograph, a variety of book chapters as well as research articles in Acta Politica, Electoral Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, German Politics, Perspectives on Politics, and Political Analysis.

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• 1. Introduction2. Building Blocks of Data3. Data Frames4. Data Tables and Tidyverse5. Handling Data from Social Science Surveys6. Managing Data from Complex Samples7. Dates, Times, and Time Series8. Spatial/Geographical data9. Text as Data