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Vita

Dennis joined the Team Survey Data Augmentation at GESIS in October 2021. Before that, he worked as a Researcher at the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (2020-2021) and the Chair of International Comparative Political Economy and Economic Sociology, University of Cologne (2015-2020). Dennis studied Political Science and Public Law at the University of Trier (B.A., 2008-2012), Political Science and Energy Economics at the University of Cologne (M.A., 2012-2014), Environmental Policy at the University of Cambridge, UK (M.Phil., 2014-2015), and Political Economy at the University of Cologne (Dr., 2015-2022). He wrote his dissertation on EU climate and energy governance at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Cologne.

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Research

Dennis' research addresses energy, environmental and climate policy. He specializes in quantitative approaches and geospatial data analysis. His current project, "GESIS meets Copernicus (GxC)" (2023-2025) aims to create an interface to Earth observation data for the social sciences.


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Publications

Publication

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Journal article

Abel, Dennis, and Armin Mertens. 2023. "United in disagreement: Analyzing policy networks in EU policy making." Review of Policy Research online first. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12546.

Abel, Dennis. 2021. "The diffusion of climate policies among German municipalities." Journal of Public Policy 41 (1): 111-136. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X19000199.

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Working and discussion paper

Lieth, Jonas, Dennis Abel, Stefan Jünger, Omar Usmani, and Ajesh Kumar. 2023. 2D GIS-based models for spatial analysis and scenario definition at regional, national and supranational levels.: D4.6 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement n°101022317. Köln: GESIS. https://projectgreta.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GRETA_D4_6_2D-GIS-based-models-for-spatial-analysis-and-scenario-definition-at-regional-national-and-supranational-levels_v1_0.pdf.

López, Arantza, Nekane Hermoso, Beatriz Sánchez, Omar Usmani, Carlos Montalvo, Toni Kuronen, Lasse Lensu, Dennis Abel, Jonas Lieth, and Stefan Jünger. 2023. Definition of the modelling framework: D4.2 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement No. 101022317. https://projectgreta.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/GRETA_D4.2_Modelling-framework.pdf.

Abel, Dennis, Stefan Jünger, Jonas Lieth, Martina Massari, and Saveria O.B. Boulanger. 2022. Interrelations among different types of citizens in different geographic contexts: D5.2 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement n°101022317. Köln: GESIS. https://projectgreta.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/GRETA_D5_2_Interrelations-among-different-types-of-citizens-in-different-geographic-contexts_v1_0.pdf.

Massari, Martina, Saveria O.B. Boulanger, Danila Longo, Giulia Turci, Serena Pagliula, Giada Coleandro, Beatrice Ruggieri, Dennis Abel, and Luise Schlindwein. 2022. Taxonomy of geographical levels and drivers for energy citizenship emergence: D5.1 of the Horizon 2020 project GRETA, EC grant agreement n°101022317, Bologna, Italy. . https://projectgreta.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/GRETA_D5_1_Taxonomy-of-geographical-levels-and-drivers_v1_0.pdf.

Teaching

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Other

Schwalbach, Jan, and Dennis Abel. 2023. "Introduction to R for Data Analysis." GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Köln.