• Roth Tobias (2012): Effects of Social Networks on Finding an Apprenticeship in the German Vocational Training System, [ 20th annual workshop TIY: Transition in Youth: A 20 Year Perspective, Nijmegen, ]

• Schmitt Hermann (2012): Critical Elections in the European Union, [ Incontri Riformisti 2012, Chiesa Valmalenco (Sondrio), ]

• Gebel Michael, Johannes Giesecke (2012): Exklusion und Flexibilisierung auf Jugendarbeitsmärkten: Die Rolle institutioneller und struktureller Einflussfaktoren in Europa, [ DGS-Kongress, Ad-hoc Gruppe "Arbeitsmarktflexibilisierung und soziale Ungleichheit: Empirische Befunde, Trends und Risikogruppen", Bochum, ]

• Weiss Felix, Josipa Roksa (2012): Blurring Boundaries Between School and Work in the U.S. - New Dimensions of Educational Inequality?, [ International Sociological Association RC28 on Social Stratification and Social Mobility Spring Meeting, Chinese University of Hong Kong, ]

• Rimkutė Dovilė, Markus Haverland (2012): The Usage of Scientific Knowledge in European Union Legislative Policy-Making, [ Annual Meeting of the Dutch and the Flemish Associations of Political Science, Amsterdam, ]

• Rimkutė Dovilė, Markus Haverland (2012): The European Commission’s Usage of Expertise. Results from a Survey among Expert Group Members, [ 6th ECPR Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Tampere, ]

• Partheymüller Julia, Richard Johnston (2012): Campaign activation in German Elections: Evidence from 2005 and 2009, [ 2nd Annual General Conference Of The European Political Science Association, Berlin, ]

• Hörisch Felix, Jakob Weber (2012): Capitalizing the Crisis? Explanatory factors for the design of short-time work across OECD-countries, [ 4th ECPR Graduate Conference, Bremen, ]

• Hubl Vanessa (2012): The duration of household nonemployment spells in the United Kingdom and Germany: How do individual, structural and policy factors interact?, [ ECSR, EQUALSOC & University of Trento Joint Summer School on Inequality and the Life Course, Trento, ]

• Biegert Thomas (2012): Institutions and Labor Market Transitions: Leaving Non-employment in the United Kingdom and Germany, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic Change, Quality of Life and Social Cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Biegert Thomas (2012): Transitions out of Non-employment in the United Kingdom and Germany: Who Leaves and Where Do They Go?, [ 10th Annual ESPAnet Conference, Edinburgh, ]

• Horr Andreas, Klaus Pforr (2012): Erweiterung der Messung von stated preferences auf zweidimensionale Güterbündel: Anwendung auf ethnische Präferenzen bei der Wohnortwahl, [ Rational Choice Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications, Venice/San Servolo, ]

• Sanhueza Petrarca Constanza (2012): Multiculturalism in Western European Party Systems, [ Annual MPSA Meeting, Chicago, ]

• Sanhueza Petrarca Constanza (2012): Do MPs represent their immigrant-origin constituents? Parliamentary questioning in the United Kingdom, Germany and France, [ APSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, ]

• Schmitt Hermann (2012): Chair of the Management Committee and Working Groups Meetings, COST Action IS0806 “The True European Voter: A Strategy for Analysing the Prospects of European Electoral Democracy that includes the West, the South and the East of the Continent”, Institute of International Relations and Political Science Vilnius University, Lithuania,

• Pappi Franz Urban (2012): Parteiprogramme in der Wahrnehmung der Wähler, [ Tagung "Moderne Wahlforschung", Theodor-Heuss-Akademie, Gummersbach, ]

• Müller Walter, Reinhard Pollak (2012): Educational Inequality, Educational Expansion and Social Mobility, [ National Educational Panel Study, Bamberg, ]

• Müller Walter (2012): (In-)Equity in Education – Sources and Challenges for Policy, [ International Conference on Career Guidance for Social Justice, Prosperity and Sustainable Employment – Challenges for the 21st Century, University of Applied Labour Studies, Mannheim, ]

• Kruse Hanno (2012): Ethnic Boundaries, Neighborhoods and Friendship Tastes in Germany - How does Composition matter?, [ ECSR/EQUALSOC Conference: Economic change, Quality of life and Social cohesion, Stockholm, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2012): Involving civil society: the key to a more democratic Europe?, [ 2nd annual round table debate “European Union politics - views from Central Europe”, Central European University, Budapest, ]

• Bräuninger Thomas, Nathalie Giger (2012): Intra-party effects of mean voter and party constituency representation, [ DVPW Arbeitskreis für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, Jahrestagung, Wien, ]

• Bernhagen Patrick, Thomas Bräuninger (2012): Lobbying, Information Asymmetry, and Groups’ Influence over Public Policy, [ European Political Science Association, Annual Conference, Berlin, ]

• Kogan Irena (2012): Tertiary education landscape and labour market chances of the highly educated in Central and Estern Europe, European Sociological Review , 28, 6, pp. 701-703.

• Wiß Tobias (2012): Der Ausbau der betrieblichen Altersvorsorge: Soziale Ungleichheiten für Beschäftigte bei gleichzeitiger Wiederbelebung der Sozialpartner, Sozialer Fortschritt, 61, 7, pp. 165-172.

• Bräuninger Thomas, Marc Debus (2012): Parteienwettbewerb in den deutschen Bundesländern, pp. 270. Wiesbaden, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften