• 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, ]

• Bernhagen Patrick, Thomas Bräuninger (2012): Lobbying, Information Asymmetry, and Groups’ Influence over Public Policy, [ International Political Science Association, World Congress, Madrid, ]

• Müller Walter, Reinhard Pollak (2012): Bildungsungleichheit, Bildungsexpansion und soziale Mobilität, [ Fachbereich Soziologie, Universität Konstanz, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2012): Stand und Perspektiven direkter Demokratie in der Europäischen Union, [ 2. Gustav-Heinemann-Forum „Stand und Perspektiven direkter Demokratie in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Europäischen Union. Verfassungspolitischer Disput, Schloss Rastatt, ]

• Quittkat Christine (2012): Competition, Cooperation, and Campaigning - Blurring lines in EU interest representation?, [ 42nd Annual UACES Conference “Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2012, Old borders - New frontiers", Panel: New frontiers in EU business lobbying?", , University of Passau, Passau, ]

• Gschwend Thomas, Markus Wagner, Eva Zeglovits, Sylvia Kritzinger (2012): Sequencing Effekte: Links-Rechts-Positionierung und weitere Survey Experimente, [ AUTNES, Vienna, ]

• Giger Nathalie (2012): Focusing events and policy change: The aftermath of Fukushima, [ European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Berlin, ]

• Giger Nathalie (2012): Electoral Politics and New Social Risk Policies, [ Workshop on the politics of social policy, Lund, ]

• Blumenberg Johannes N. (2012): Party Identification - Old but Gold!, [ XXIInd World Congress of Political Science der International Political Science Association, Madrid, ]

• Weishaupt J. Timo, Tobias Schulze-Cleven (2012): Leveraging Ideational Legacies: Partisan Labor Market Policies in Crisis-Ridden Europe, [ 24th Annual Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Conference, Cambridge, ]

• Wüst Andreas M. (2012): Politische Integration von Zuwanderern: Partizipation und Repräsentation, [ Universität Koblenz-Landau, Landau, ]

• Wüst Andreas M. (2012): Politische Partizipation von Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund, [ Tagung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung “Mehr Bürgerbeteiligung?!, Mainz, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate, Peter Kotzian (2012): Holding International Governance to account: Civil Society Organizations as a supplementary creators and facilitators of accountability, [ Transatlantic Conference on Transparency Research, University of Utrecht, ]

• Kohler-Koch Beate (2012): Change and persistence in EU business lobbying, [ 42st Annual UACES Conference “Exchanging Ideas on Europe 2012. Old Borders - New Frontiers”, Passau, ]

• Weishaupt J. Timo (2012): Beyond National Navel Gazing: Assessing the Impact of International Organizations on National Labor-Market Reforms, [ American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, SSRN ]

• Huber Sascha (2012): Koalitionen und Wahlverhalten in Deutschland: Eine Analyse der Bundestagswahlen von 1961 bis 2009, [ Jubiläumstagung 25 Jahre DVPW-Arbeitskreis „Wahlen und Politische Einstellungen“, Frankfurt a. M., ]

• Giger Nathalie (2012): Wie reagieren Wähler auf Sparpolitik? Eine theoretische und empirische Annäherung an die elektoralen Kosten von Sparpolitik, der moderne staat (dms), 2, pp. 291-312.

• Schulz Sonja, Harald Beier (2012): Die Vernachlässigung langfristiger Folgen in der Entscheidung zu abweichendem Verhalten. Entwicklung und Gütekriterien einer neuen Messung von Selbstkontrolle, Soziale Probleme, 23, 2, pp. 251-281.