Staff

Journal article

Kaftan, Lea, Bruno Della Sala, Olga Jerjomina, Stefan Stojkovic, Edoardo Alberto Viganò, and Nils-Christian Bormann. 2025. "Introducing the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data & Assemblies (AIEEDA)." Nature Scientific Data 2025 (12, 630): 1-12.

Röth, Leonce, Daniel Felipe Saldivia Gonzatti, Lea Kaftan, and André Kaiser. 2025. "Studying multi-level systems with cross-level data: Introducing three integrated datasets." British Journal of Political Science 55: e19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000553.

Kaftan, Lea, and Theresa Gessler. 2025. "The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding." Government and Opposition 60 (2): 358-381. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2024.12.

Bormann, Nils-Christian, and Lea Kaftan. 2024. "Introducing the Democratic Electoral Systems data, 1919-1945." Open Research Europe 4 (73): 1-9. doi: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.17264.2.

Kaftan, Lea. 2024. "Lip Service to Liberal Democracy in Western Europe?" European Political Science Review 16 (4): 521-538. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773924000079.

Kaftan, Lea. 2024. "Party Competition over Democracy: Democracy as an Electoral Issue in Germany." Politics and Governance 12 (8 October 2024): 1-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8502.

Duell, Dominik, Lea Kaftan, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Jonathan Slapin, and Christopher Wratil. 2024. "The rhyme and reason of rebel support: exploring European voters’ attitudes toward dissident MPs." Political Science Research and Methods 12 (2): 301-317. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2023.26.

Gessler, Theresa, and Lea Kaftan. 2023. "Communicating democratic subversions to citizens." Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17457289.2023.2282626.

Duell, Dominik, Lea Kaftan, Sven-Oliver Proksch, Jonathan Slapin, and Christopher Wratil. 2023. "Communicating the Rift: Voter Perceptions of Intra-Party Dissent in Parliaments." The Journal of Politics 85 (1): 76-91. doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/720645.

Mohamad-Klotzbach, Christoph, Susanne Pickel, Lucas Adler, Lea Kaftan, and Lisa Vogt. 2017. "Schwerpunkte und Trends der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft in Deutschland (2007-2017)." Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 11: 557–574. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-017-0366-5.

Volkens, Andrea, Cristina Ares, Lea Kaftan, and Radostina Bratanova. 2015. "Scope, Range, and Extent of Manifesto Project Data Usage: a New Research Tool for Manifesto Project Database's Users." RIPS. Revista de Investigaciones Políticas y Sociológicas 14 (2): 217-232.

Working and discussion paper

Röth, Leonce, Lea Kaftan, and Daniel Felipe Saldivia Gonzatti. 2024. Optimized Dictionaries: A Semi-Automated Workflow of Concept Identification in Text-Data. Social Science Open Access Repository. urn: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-91666-3.

Presentation not at a conference

Kaftan, Lea. 2025. "Beyond Left and Right. How Populism and Authoritarianism Shape Voter Behaviour in Europe." Kolloquium der Abteilung Politische Theorie und Empirische Demokratieforschung, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 2025-01-27.

Kaftan, Lea. 2024. "Demokratie von Köln bis Europa: Welche Rolle spielen Bürgerinnen und Bürger in der Demokratie? Wie können wir heute beeinflussen, was morgen politisch entschieden wird?" Wissenschaft in Kölner Häusern, AntoniterQuartier, Köln, 2024-10-01.

Kaftan, Lea. 2024. "EU-Integration zwischen Werte und Kriterien: Über Motivation, Willen und Chancen der (potentiellen) Beitrittskandidaten." Unser Europa der Zukunft, Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung für die Freiheit, 2024-01-14.

Basu, Chitralekha, Jens Wäckerle, and Lea Kaftan. 2023. "How Voters Prioritize Identities for Descriptive Representation: A Pre-Analysis Plan." Research Colloquium, Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne, Köln, 2023-10-24.

Kaftan, Lea. 2023. "Party Competition over Democracy. Democracy as Electoral Issue in Germany." Comparative Politics & Political Economy Research Workshop, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, 2023-11-20.

Other

Kaftan, Lea, Paul Bederke, Alexia Katsanidou, and Sebastian Ziaja. 2024. "Grant: OSCARS 1st Open Call, Project: 01‑415‑Harmony in the Democratic Ideological Space (HarDIS) -- 250.000€."