• Schmitt-Beck Rüdiger (2018): Effects of Election Campaigns: The Role of Citizens’ Interpersonal Communication, [ Lecture at the International ICA Summer School in Political Communication and Electoral Behavior, Università degli Studi di Milano, ]

• Grill Christiane, Anne Schäfer, Charlotte Löb, Chung-hong Chan (2018): Citizens, Media and Politics in Challenging Times: Perspectives on the Deliberative Quality of Communication, [ The Deliberative Quality of Communication Conference 2018, MZES, Mannheim, ]

• Grill Christiane, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2018): Politische Gespräche und demokratische Politik. Die Alltagskommunikation der BürgerInnen Mannheims, [ Vortrag bei der Stadtverwaltung, Mannheim, ]

• Shen Jing, Irena Kogan (2018): Does contextual exposure matter? Examining the causal effect of religious diversity on life satisfaction in the UK, 2009-2016, [ XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, ]

• Shen Jing, Irena Kogan (2018): Gains and Losses in Life Satisfaction of UK Society Following Brexit: A Triple-Difference Approach, [ ECSR Annual Conference, Paris, ]

• Schmitt-Beck Rüdiger, Alexander Staudt (2018): What’s in Yesterday’s News: Media Bias and Voter Preferences at the 2009 and 2013 German Federal Elections, [ Canada’s Electoral Future in Comparative Perspective, Vancouver, ]

• Schmitt-Beck Rüdiger, Christiane Grill (2018): From the living room to the meeting hall: Does informal everyday talk empower citizens for public political discussions?, [ 76th Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, ]

• Kieslich Pascal J., Felix Henninger, Dirk U. Wulff, Jonas M. B. Haslbeck, Michael Schulte-Mecklenbeck (2018): Mousetrap: Open-source and cross-platform software for mouse-tracking data collection and analysis, [ 51st Congress of the German Psychological Society, Frankfurt am Main, ]

• Manger Lea, Alexander Wuttke, Harald Schoen, Lea Gärtner (2018): Dynamische Modellierung von politischen Diskussionsnetzwerken und ihr Einfluss auf das Wahlverhalten im Mehrparteiensystem, [ Tagung des AK Wahlen zur Bundestagswahl 2017, WZB, Berlin, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2018): Die Organisation wirtschaftlicher Interessensvertretung in Europa: Supranational oder national dominiert?, [ Jahrestagung des AK Verbände der DVPW, Bielefeld, ]

• Grill Christiane, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck (2018): Does everyday political communication in discussant networks empower citizens for discursive participation in the public sphere?, [ XXVIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis, Utrecht, ]

• Bräuninger Thomas, Marc Debus, Jochen Müller, Christian Stecker (2018): Business as usual? Party competition and government formation in Germany following the refugee crisis, [ Jahrestagung des DVPW Arbeitskreises Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, Oldenburg, ]

• Winzen Thomas, David Weyrauch (2018): The Participation of Emerging Economies in Transnational Internet Governance, [ GIG-ARTS 2018: 2nd European Multidisciplinary Conference on Global Internet Governance Actors, Cardiff, ]

• Möhring Katja (2018): The Role of Life Course and Institutional Characteristics for Women’s Old Age Financial Well-Being in Europe - Keynote, [ ETK Conference "Gender Inequalities in Employment and Pensions", Helsinki, ]

• Däubler Thomas (2018): The personalization of electoral rules: Does it empower voters or merely facilitate policy shirking?, [ 8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, ]

• Paasch Jana (2018): When Europe hits the subnational authorities – The transposition of EU directives in the German regional parliaments between 1990 and 2016, [ Conference of the ECPR Standing Groups on the European Union, Paris, ]

• Fazekas Zoltán, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Hermann Schmitt, Pablo Barberá (2018): No Engagement, No Diffusion? The EU on Social Media, [ Conference of the ECPR Standing Groups on the European Union, Paris, ]

• Debus Marc (2018): Pariah parties, policy profiles and party politics in a multi-level system: coalition formation in Germany 2017/2018, [ Conference "2017: Europe’s Bumper Year of Elections", European University Institute, Florence, ]

• Gschwend Thomas, Indridi H. Indridason, Lukas F. Stötzer (2018): Pre-Electoral Coalition Strategies in Multiparty Systems, [ 8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, ]

• Schäfer Constantin, Daniela Braun, Hermann Schmitt, Sebastian Adrian Popa (2018): Tale of Two Realignments? The changing relationship between ideological dimensions and party positions towards European integration, [ 8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, ]

• Jäger Kai (2018): Process or Candidate: U.S. Pressure for Democracy Promotion Abroad, [ 8th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, ]

• Däubler Thomas, Marc Debus (2018): Party Constituencies and Campaigning on Welfare State Issues, [ 76th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, ]

• Däubler Thomas (2018): Reform-induced Personalization of Electoral Rules and Parliamentary Behavior, [ 76th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), Chicago, IL, ]

• Schulz Benjamin (2018): Ethnic networks, access to social capital and the labor market integration of immigrants in Germany. How ethnic networks function, Mannheim, University of Mannheim

• Fischer Torben, Markus Frölich, Andreas Landmann (2018): Adverse Selection in Low-Income Health Insurance Markets: Evidence from a RCT in Pakistan, 11751, pp. 53. Bonn, IZA Institute of Labor Economics