• Esser Hartmut (2015): Institutionelle Sortierung und Bildungsarmut: Verschärft eine strikte(re) Selektivität nach den Leistungen wirklich (nur) die Bildungsungleichheiten? Ein Vergleich von Bayern und Hessen mit den Daten des BiKS-Projektes, [ Social Science Colloquium, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, ]

• Allerkamp Doreen (2015): The Presidency Effect, [ 22nd International Conference of Europeanists, Sciences Po, Paris, ]

• Johnston Richard, Julia Partheymüller (2015): The activation of fundamentals during election campaigns: What are the mechanisms?, [ Workshop "Enlightenment or Manipulation? Mass Media and Electoral Campaigns", University of Milan, ]

• Kruse Hanno (2015): Interethnische Freundschaften junger Migranten in Deutschland: SES-spezifische Nachbarschaftseffekte, [ Herbsttagung der DGS-Sektion "Modellbildung und Simulation", Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nürnberg, ]

• Leszczensky Lars, Sebastian Pink (2015): The Co-Evolution of Friendship Networks and Host Country Identification of Young Immigrants, [ Herbsttagung der DGS-Sektion “Modellbildung und Simulation” , Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, ]

• Leszczensky Lars, Sebastian Pink (2015): Ethnic Segregation of Friendship Networks in School: Testing a Rational Choice Argument of Differences in Ethnic Homophily between Classroom- and Grade-Level Networks, [ Frühjahrstagung der DGS-Sektion "Methoden der empirischen Sozialforschung'', Universität Bremen, ]

• Leszczensky Lars, Sebastian Pink (2015): Ethnic Segregation of Friendship Networks in School, [ 8th Annual Meeting of the International Network of Analytical Sociologists (INAS), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2015): Patterns of Change and Persistence in German Business Associations, [ ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Warsaw, ]

• Esser Hartmut (2015): Ability Tracking and Educational Inequality: Two Approaches, a Comprehensive Model and Empirical Evidence from the BiKS. A Comparison between Bavaria and Hesse in Germany, [ Conference on "(Persistent) Inequalities Reconsidered: Education and Social Mobility", Ascona, ]

• Partheymüller Julia (2015): Campaign dynamics of strategic voting in German elections, 2005-2013, [ 9th ECPR General Conference, Université de Montréal, ]

• Kurella Anna-Sophie, Franz Urban Pappi, Thomas Bräuninger (2015): Centripetal and centrifugal incentives in the German mixed-member electoral system, [ 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, ]

• Bräuninger Thomas, Franz Urban Pappi (2015): Contamination effects of vote functions in mixed-member electoral systems, [ 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, ]

• Schäfer Anne, Oana Lup (2015): What changes and what stays the same? Tracking changes in the nature and the relevance of political discussion for individual turnout across the election cycle, [ 73rd Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, ]

• Schierholz Malte (2015): Asking for Occupation during the Interview: Experimental Results, [ 6th Conference of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA), Reykjavik, ]

• Schmidt Sebastian, Anne Schäfer (2015): German Federal Election Campaigns in TV News Coverage – 2005 to 2013. Insights from the GLES media content analyses, [ 4th Meeting of the GLES Young Researchers’ Network, Düsseldorf, ]

• Partheymüller Julia (2015): Agenda-Cutting in der Geheimdienst-Affäre: Eine Ursache für den Abstieg der Grünen im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013?, [ 26. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, ]

• Baumann Markus, Marc Debus, Tristan Klingelhöfer (2015): Incumbent MPs, contenders and competition for the best places: Determinants of intra-party candidate selection in the run-up to the 2013 Bundestag election, [ 26. wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, ]

• Gschwend Thomas, Lukas F. Stötzer, Steffen Zittlau (2015): Valence Campaigning in the 2008 US Congressional Elections, [ 111th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, ]

• Gschwend Thomas, Thomas Zittel (2015): Who brings home the pork? The role of electoral context and localness in assigning committee seats in the German Bundestag, [ 111th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, ]

• Kruse Hanno (2015): The SES-specific neighborhood effect on interethnic friendship formation. The case of adolescent immigrants in Germany, [ CILS4EU 2015 Stockholm Conference, SOFI, Stockholm, ]

• Barisione Mauro, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2015): Late deciders and campaign effects in a comparative perspective: The cases of Germany and Italy in 2013, [ 9th ECPR General Conference, Université de Montréal, ]

• Wessler Hartmut, Antal Wozniak, Lutz Hofer, Julia Lück (2015): Global multimodal news frames on climate change, [ 65th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, ]

• Theocharis Yannis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas, Sebastian Adrian Popa (2015): A Bad Workman Blames his Tweets: The Consequences of Citizens' Uncivil Twitter Use when Interacting with Party Candidates, [ 111th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, ]

• Schäfer Anne, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2015): Socio-spatial Contexts, Discussant Networks and Turnout, [ 111th Annual Conference of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, ]

• Neugebauer Martin (2015): Kommt es auf die Lehrkraft an? Empirische Studien zur Selektion in das Lehramt und zu Lehrereffekten bei der Entstehung ungleicher Bildungschancen, pp. 206. Aachen, Shaker