November 2015 MARKUS B. SIEWERT CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Social Sciences Institute for Political Science Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6 60629 Frankfurt/Main (Germany) 0049 (0)69 798 366 46 siewert@soz.uni-frankfurt.de EDUCATION 2016 (expected) PhD, Political Science 01/2010 Magister Artium in Political Science and History Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg ACADEMIC POSITIONS 10/2012 present Academic Fellow at the Department of Social Sciences Chair for Qualitative Empirical Methods in the Social Sciences (Prof. Claudius Wagemann) 10/2012 present Fellow at the Social Science Methods Center Organizer of the GU Methods Winter School for B.A. Students in the Social Sciences 10/2011 09/2012 Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Academic Fellow at the Institute for Political Sciences Chair for Comparative Politics (Prof. Uwe Wagschal) 11/2011 09/2012 & 04/2008 07/2010 Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Personal Assistant of Prof. em. Wolfgang Jäger (former President of the University of Freiburg) 08/2005 02/2010 Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Student Assistant at the Chair for Comparative Politics (Prof. Wolfgang Jäger)
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS AND LECTURESHIPS 01/2016 06/2016 European University Institute, Florence Visiting Doctoral Student at the Department for Political and Social Sciences (Prof. Alexander Trechsel) 01/2016 06/2016 Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Florence Visiting Fellow at the Department for Political Science and Sociology (Prof. Giliberto Capano) 02/2015 present University of Lucerne Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for Political Science (Prof. Joachim Blatter) 07/2013 10/2014 Georgetown University, Washington, DC Visiting Researcher at the Government Department (Prof. Stephen Wayne) 02/2014 04/2014 University of California, Irvine Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy (Prof. Charles Ragin) 07/2013 12/2013 American University, Washington, DC Visiting Fellow at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (Prof. James Thurber) FIELDS OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING US politics with focus on the presidency quality of democracies comparative politics of Western democracies Qualitative research methods Qualitative Comparative Analysis set-theoretical approaches concept formation case study designs Simulations and role plays in teaching political science 2
PUBLICATIONS Edited Volumes Lammert, Christian, Markus B. Siewert and Boris Vormann (eds.), 2015. Handbuch Politik USA. Wiesbaden: VS Springer. (Handbook on the Political System of the United States of America) Peer-Reviewed Articles Buche, Antje, Jonas Buche and Markus B. Siewert, forthcoming. Fuzzy Logic or Fuzzy Application? A Response to Stockemer s Fuzzy set or Fuzzy Logic? European Political Science [manuscript accepted]. Wagemann, Claudius, Jonas Buche and Markus B. Siewert, 2015. QCA and Business Research: Work in Progress or a Consolidated Agenda? Journal of Business Research, online first. Buche, Jonas and Markus B. Siewert, 2015. Qualitative Comparative Analysis in der Soziologie. Perspektiven, Potentiale und Anwendungsbereiche. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Vol. 44(6), 386-406. Engartner, Tim, Markus B. Siewert, Maria Theresa Meßner and Christiane Borchert, 2015. Politische Partizipation spielend fördern? Charakteristika von Planspielen als didaktischmethodische Arrangements handlungsorientierten Lernens. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft, Jg. 25(2), 187-215. Articles without Peer-Review Siewert, Markus B. and Claudius Wagemann, 2014. Kein Vorbild mehr? Zur Krise der US- Demokratie. POLIS, 3/2014, 18-20. Chapters in Edited Volumes Lammert, Christian, Markus B. Siewert and Boris Vormann, 2015. Fremde Vertraute: Traditionelle Leitbilder und neue Herausforderungen der US Politik. In Lammert, Christian, Markus B. Siewert and Boris Vormann (eds.). Handbuch Politik USA. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, 1-12. (Unknown Intimates: Traditional Leitmotifs and New Challenges to US Politics. In Handbook on the Political System of the United States of America). Siewert, Markus B., 2015. Der Präsident der USA: Zwischen Führungsanspruch und Machtbeschränkung. In Lammert, Christian, Markus B. Siewert and Boris Vormann (eds.). Handbuch Politik USA. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, 135-154. (The American President. In Handbook on the Political System of the United States of America). Siewert, Markus B. and Claudius Wagemann, 2015. Demokratie in der Krise? Zur Qualität der USamerikanischen Demokratie. In Lammert, Christian, Markus B. Siewert and Boris Vormann (eds.). Handbuch Politik USA. Wiesbaden: VS Springer, 659-681. (The Quality of American Democracy. In Handbook on the Political System of the United States of America). Siewert, Markus B. and Claudius Wagemann, 2015. The Quality of Democracy in the United States of America in a Comparative Perspective. In Fantoni, Marcello and Leonardo Morlino (eds.). Comparing Democracies. The American Exceptionalism Revisited, Rome: Viella, 23-54. 3
Siewert, Markus B. and Georg Wenzelburger, 2015. Medien und politische Kommunikation. In Wagschal, Uwe, Sebastian Jäckle and Georg Wenzelburger (eds.). Einführung in die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Institutionen Akteure Policies. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 221-236. (Media and Political Communications. In Introduction to Comparative Politics). Fricke, Carola and Markus B. Siewert, 2015. Bürokratie und Verwaltung. In Wagschal, Uwe, Sebastian Jäckle and Georg Wenzelburger (eds.). Einführung in die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft. Institutionen Akteure Policies. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 237-250. (Burocracies and Administrations. In Introduction to Comparative Politics). Haas, Christoph M. and Markus B. Siewert, 2012. What a President Can? Politikwissenschaftliche Analyseperspektiven zum US-Präsidenten und der Präsidentschaft Barack Obamas. In Jäger, Wolfgang and Christoph M. Haas (eds.). What a President Can Barack Obama und Reformpolitik im Systemkorsett der USA. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 13-17. (What a President can? Analytical Perspectives on the US Presidency and the Obama Administration. In What a President can Barack Obama and the Politics of Reform). Siewert, Markus B. and Christoph M. Haas, 2012. Change (un)limited? Präsident Obamas politische Handlungsmöglichkeiten zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit. In Jäger, Wolfgang and Christoph M. Haas (eds.). What a President Can Barack Obama und Reformpolitik im Systemkorsett der USA. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 207-218. (Change (un)limited? President Obama s Opportunities for Action between Aspiration and Reality. In What a President can Barack Obama and the Politics of Reform). Eith, Ulrich and Markus B. Siewert, 2010. Das unechte Unikat: Der Deutsche Bundesrat. In Riescher, Gisela, Christoph M. Haas and Sabine Ruß (eds.). Zweite Kammern. 2. Aufl., München/Wien: Oldenbourg Verlag, 97-126. (The German Bundesrat: the Unreal Unicum. In Second Chambers). Siewert, Markus B. and Christian Zettl, 2007. Politische Elite. In Jäger, Wolfgang, Christoph M. Haas and Wolfgang Welz, Wolfgang (eds.). Regierungssystem der USA. Ein Lehr- und Handbuch, 3. Aufl., München/Wien: Oldenbourg Verlag, 347-361. (Political Elites. In The Political System of the USA). Miscellaneous Siewert, Markus B., 2013. Rezension zu Sozialpolitik in den USA. Eine Einführung. By Britta Grell and Christian Lammert, Wiesbaden: VS Springer. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Jg. 54(4), 757-759. Siewert, Markus B., 2010. Tagungsbericht Privatisierung. Idee, Ideologie und Praxis seit den 1970er Jahren. In Arbeitskreis Historische Forschungen, April 2011. (Conference Proceedings: Privatization: Idea, Ideology and Practice since the 1970s. In Arbeitskreis Historische Forschungen). 4
TEACHING Winter 2015/2016 Summer 2015 Set-Theoretical Thinking and the Study of Democracy B.A., in English Research Design M.A., in English Introduction to the US Political System in a Comparative Perspective B.A., in German Introduction to Empirical Methods in the Social Sciences Project Seminar B.A., in German; co-teaching with Claudius Wagemann Globalization in US and European Perspectives B.A. in English; co-teaching with Matthias Hofferberth (University of Texas, San Antonio) University of Lucerne Configurational Thinking and the Study of Democracy B.A./M.A., in English; Winter 2014/2015 Summer 2014 Winter 2013/2014 Summer 2013 Research Design M.A., in English Simulation US-Presidential Elections B.A., in English; together with Alexandra Ochs, Marc Meller, and Vincent Berendes Qualitative Empirical Methods and Concept Formation B.A., in German; co-teaching with Jonas Buche Concepts and Concept Formation in the Social Sciences B.A., in German The Quality of the American Democracy in Interdisciplinary Perspective B.A., in English; co-teaching with Stefanie Müller Role Plays and Simulations in Teaching Political Science M.A., in German; co-teaching with Tim Engartner Introduction to the Political System of the United States of America B.A., in German 5
Winter 2012/2013 Summer 2012 Winter 2011/2012 Measuring Democracy M.A., in English; co-teaching with Claudius Wagemann Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Introduction into Comparative Politics B.A. in German Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg Introduction to Political Science B.A., in German WORKSHOPS FOR DOCTORAL AND POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS 11/2015 02/2016 Research Design Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence (together with Claudius Wagemann) 11/2015 Einführung in Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) als fallorientierter, mengentheoretischer Ansatz TU Kaiserslautern 10/2015 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence (together with Claudius Wagemann) 09/2015 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Set-Theoretical Strategies for Concept Formation Georg-August-University Göttingen; 10. Methods Summer School Göttinger Graduate School for the Social Sciences (together with Jonas Buche) 06/2015 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets Viadrina University Frankfurt/Oder; Department for Political Science 05/2015 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets A Method for Case-Oriented Research Leuphana University Lüneburg; Department of Political Science (together with Jonas Buche) 04/2015 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets An Introduction to Set-Theoretical Approaches in the Social Sciences Humboldt University Berlin; Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (together with Jonas Buche) 01/2015 Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) Justus-Liebig-University Giessen; Department of Sociology (together with Jonas Buche) 01/2015 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) An Introductory Workshop 6
Tilburg University; International Conference on QCA (together with Jonas Buche) 12/2014 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets A Method for Case-Oriented Research Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg; Center for Southeast-Asian Studies (together with Jonas Buche) 07/2014 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Set-Theoretical Strategies for Concept Formation Georg-August-University Göttingen; 9. Methods Summer School Göttinger Graduate School for the Social Sciences (together with Jonas Buche) 07/2014 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) An Introduction Georg-August-University Göttingen; Department for Social Sciences (together with Jonas Buche) 11/2013 Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and Fuzzy Sets An Introductory Workshop ; International Conference on QCA (together with Jonas Buche) SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS 06/2015 Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Fellowship, Syracuse (NY) 07/2013 09/2013 APSA Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs Fellowship, Washington, DC 07/2013 09/2013 German Academic Exchange Service PhD research grant, Washington, DC 07/2013 09/2013 APSA Presidency and Executives Section PhD research grant, Washington, DC 09/2012 Fulbright Commission American Studies Summer Institute Fellowship, San Francisco / Washington, DC 08/2010 11/2010 Graduate Stipend Program of Baden-Württemberg PhD starting grant 05/2009 07/2009 German Academic Exchange Service M.A. thesis research grant, Washington, DC 7
RESEARCH, TEACHING AND CONFERENCE TRAVEL GRANTS 09/2015 02/2016 Starting grant for project development (5.000,- ) Main applicant together with Claudius Wagemann 07/2015 Teaching grant for internationalization (4.500,- ) Friends of the Goethe University Main applicant together with Matthias Hofferberth (University of Texas, San Antonio) 07/2015 Study abroad grant (9.500,- ) German Academic Exchange Service Joint seminar on globalization in US and European perspectives Main applicant together with Matthias Hofferberth (University of Texas, San Antonio) 06/2015 Conference travel grant (400,- ) Graduate Center Social Sciences, Goethe University 03/2015 09/2015 Small research grant (3.500,- ) Project on women representation in national parliaments Main applicant together with Jonas Buche 03/2015 Conference travel grant (500,- ) Goethe University, Institute for Political Science 07/2014 02/2015 Teaching grant (35.000,- ) German Ministry for Education and Research Project on developing simulations for teaching political science Main applicant together with Tim Engartner 07/2014 Conference travel grant (1.300,- ) German Academic Exchange Service 04/2014 Conference travel grant (500,- ) Goethe University, Institute for Political Science 09/2013 08/2014 Innovative teaching grant (35.000,- ) Project on developing simulations for teaching political science Main applicant together with Tim Engartner 07/2013 12/2014 Starting grant for project development (5.000,- ) Foundation German-American Academic Relations Project on revolving door and lobbying in the US and EU Collaboration on the proposal with Claudius Wagemann 8
CONFERENCE PAPERS 07/2015 QCA and Business Research Work in Progress or a Consolidated Agenda? 5 th Global Innovation and Knowledge Academy (GIKA), Valencia (together with Claudius Wagemann and Jonas Buche) 06/2015 Assessing Women s Legislative Representation in Europe and Beyond A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsqca) 4 th European Conference on Politics and Gender, Uppsala (together with Jonas Buche) 06/2015 Applying Regression Analysis and fsqca to the Study of Women s Legislative Representation 4 th European Conference on Politics and Gender, Uppsala (together with Antje Buche and Jonas Buche) 04/2015 In What Ways Can Exogenous Challenges Impact the Qualities of Democracies? Towards an Analytical Framework ECPR Joint Sessions Workshops, Warsaw 03/2015 When Do Presidents Prevail and Fail within the Legislative Arena? Explaining President George W. Bush s Success on the Substance of Legislation 12 th Presidential Conference The Presidency of George W. Bush at Hofstra University 03/2015 When Quality of Democracy Meets Set Theory Conference Quality of Democracy: Challenges of a New Research Agenda, Brussels (together with Claudius Wagemann and Jonas Buche) 01/2015 Comparing OR Combining? Assessing the Small Value of Valuing fsqca versus Regression Analysis Conference Qualitative Comparative Analysis Social Science Applications and Methodological Challenges, Tilburg (together with Antje Buche and Jonas Buche) 01/2015 When Do Presidents Prevail and Fail within the Legislative Arena? Explaining President George W. Bush s Success on the Substance of Legislation Conference Qualitative Comparative Analysis Social Science Applications and Methodological Challenges, Tilburg 10/2014 Zurück in die Zu(ku)nft: Perspektiven von Qualitative Comparative Analysis in der (deutschsprachigen) Soziologie 37. Congress of the German Association of Sociology, Trier (together with Jonas Buche) 08/2014 When POTUS Does (Not) Get What He Wants A Fuzzy-Set QCA of Presidential Success on the Substance of Legislation Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC 9
07/2014 When POTUS Does (Not) Get What He Wants A Fuzzy-Set QCA of Presidential Success on the Substance of Legislation 23 rd World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Montréal 04/2014 Presidential Legislative Success Approaching a Fuzzy Concept with a Fuzzy Method Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle INVITED TALKS 01/2015 Presidential Success in the Legislative Arena Detecting Different Pathways through a Fuzzy-Set QCA Colloquium of the John-F.-Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin 11/2014 Presidential Success in the Legislative Arena Detecting Different Pathways through a Fuzzy-Set QCA Colloquium of the Center for Democracy Studies, Leuphana University Lüneburg 11/2014 Lobbying and Interest Group Politics in the US and Europe in Comparative Perspective Workshop US Democracy in Comparative Perspective, Stanford University (together with Claudius Wagemann) 11/2013 Negotiating Politics, Media and Society in the Arena of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report Weilburg Seminar for Teachers, Ingelheim (together with Christiane Borchert) 04/2013 Presidential Legislative Success Approaching a Fuzzy Concept with a Fuzzy Method Colloquium Comparative Sociology, University of Irvine, California 11/2012 Change (Un)Limited? The Presidency of Barack Obama between Change and Continuity Talk at the University of Applied Sciences North Switzerland, Bale PROFESSIONAL SERVICES 09/2016 Chair of the Panel Set-Theoretic Methods and Regionalism 3-Country Conference of the DVPW, SVPW and ÖGPW (together with Anja Jetschke and Frank Schimmelfennig) 07/2016 Chair of the Panel Set-Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Inequality 24 th World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Istanbul (together with Camilla Borgna) 10
01/2016 Organizer of the 2nd GU Methods Winter School for B.A. Students of the Social Sciences Goethe University (together with Jonas Buche) 01/2015 Organizer of the 1st GU Methods Winter School for B.A. Students of the Social Sciences Goethe University (together with Jonas Buche) 12/2014 Organizer of the Conference Evaluating Classroom Gaming Simulations Wiesneck / Freiburg (together with Tim Engartner, Stefan Rappenglück and Maria Theresa Meßner) 07/2014 Chair of the Panel Combining Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Case Studies in Mixed-Methods Designs 23 rd World Congress of the International Political Science Association, Montréal 04/2014 Discussant of the Panel on Executive Politics: Presidential Policy Making: Foreign and Domestic Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle 11/2013 Organizer of the Conference The United States in Times of Crisis? Annual Meeting of the Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies, Lambrecht (together with Christian Lammert and Boris Vormann) 11/2012 Organizer of the Presidential Election Night 2012 Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Carl-Schurz-House and Center for Political Education, Freiburg (together with Christoph Haas and Michael Wehner) REVIEWING Since 2015 Since 2013 Journal for Business Research Congress and the Presidency PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Since 2013 International Political Science Association (IPSA) RC: Concepts and Methods RC: Quality of Democracy German Association for Political Science (DVPW) Section: Methodology Working Group: Democracy Studies 11
Since 2012 American Political Science Association (APSA) Section: Presidency and Executive Politics Section: Qualitative and Multi-Method European Consortium for Political Science (ECPR) Standing Group: Democratic Innovations Standing Group: Presidential Politics (since 2015) German Association for American Studies (GAAS/DGFA) Section: Political Science DEPARTMENTAL SERVICES 10/2013 04/2014 Member of the Search Committee for the Chair of European Union and Multilevel Governance, Goethe University 04/2013 03/2014 Representative of the Faculty within the Institute for Political Science, Goethe University 04/2013 09/2013 Member of the Search Committee for the Chair of Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences, Goethe University 10/2012 04/2013 Member of the Search Committee for the Chair of Empirical Democracy Research, Goethe University FURTHER SKILLS AND INTERESTS Languages German (native speaker) English (fluent) French (basic) Latin (Advanced Latinum) Software Real life interests Tools for analysis: R, SPSS, fsqca, MaxQDA Office software: Microsoft Office, Citavi, OLAT, FIONA Sports: Tennis (DTB B-Licence), Soccer Movies & Films, Traveling & Food 12