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Dr Konstantin Vossing

Reader International Politics (E&R)

School of Policy & Global Affairs Department of International Politics

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Overview

Konstantin is Reader in Comparative Politics. He is an expert in comparative European politics, the European Union, American politics, political history, political leadership, and political psychology.

In his research, Konstantin uses comparative, transnational, historical, and individual perspectives to study how people form preferences about controversial issues, how elites shape opinions and the behavior of citizens through mobilization, persuasion, and information in different political environments, and how these processes relate to critical episodes of major political conflict, such as class politics, regional integration, and the transformation of the welfare state. To investigate the interaction of large-scale political events and developments with individual-level processes, he combines the macro-analysis of institutions, conflict, and competition with a micro-level psychological approach, and he uses a range of methods including experiments, comparative case studies, surveys, elite interviews, and quantitative text analysis.

Before coming to City, Konstantin worked as assistant and associate professor of political science at Humboldt University Berlin from 2009 to 2018, Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center of the European University Institute (EUI) during the academic year 2015/16, John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University during the academic year 2013/14, and lecturer of Political Science and International Studies at Ohio State University during the academic year 2008/09. He received his PhD in Political Science from Ohio State University in August 2008.

For additional information, see Konstantin's personal website: sites.google.com/site/konstantinvossing

Expertise

Geographic Areas

  • Americas - North
  • Europe

Research students

2ndsupervisor

  • Agni Poullikka, Research Student

Publications

Featured publications

  1. Vössing, K. (2024). Argument-stretching: (slightly) invalid political arguments and their effects on public opinion. European Political Science Review, 16(1), pp. 35-55. doi:10.1017/s1755773923000164

    [publisher’s website]

  2. Vössing, K. (2021). Shaping Public Opinion about Regional Integration: The Rhetoric of Justification and Party Cues. Political Studies, 69(3), pp. 492-513. doi:10.1177/0032321720905130

    [publisher’s website]

  3. Vössing, K. and Weber, T. (2019). Information Behavior and Political Preferences. British Journal of Political Science, 49(2), pp. 533-556. doi:10.1017/s0007123416000600

    [publisher’s website]

  4. Vössing, K. (2017). How Leaders Mobilize Workers. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107165175.

Publications by category

Books (2)

  • Blais, A., Laslier, J.-.F. and Van der Straeten, K. (Eds.), (2016). Voting Experiments. Springer International Publishing. ISBN 9783319405711.
  • Jobelius, S., Ruenker, R. and Voessing, K. (1999). Bildungs-Offensive Reformperspektiven für das 21. Jahrhundert. ISBN 9783879757435.

Chapters (10)

  • Vossing, K. (2025). Logics of politics. In Schieder, A., Andor, L., Maltschnig, M. and Skrzypek, A. (Eds.), The Progressive Compass (pp. 258-271). Brussels: Federation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS).
  • Vossing, K. (2024). Social democracy between progress and conservation. In Schieder, A., Andor, L., Maltschnig, M. and Skrzypek, A. (Eds.), Progressive Ambition: how to shape Europe in the next decade (pp. 214-230). Brussels: FEPS - Foundation for European Progressive Studies. ISBN 9782931233672.
  • D'Ippolito, C., Fulla, M., Tsarouhas, D. and Vossing, K. (2023). The politics of solidarity: a social democratic account. In Schieder, A., Andor, L., Maltschnig, M. and Skrzypek, A. (Eds.), Crisis and progressive politics: How to make hard choices and succeed? Renner Institute. ISBN 9782931233009.
  • Vossing, K. (2023). Value-based policy communication in European social democracy. In Schieder, A., Andor, L., Maltschnig, M. and Skrzypek, A. (Eds.), Progressive proposals for the turbulent times: how to boost the political, organizational, and electoral potential (pp. 230-243). Brusselles, Belgium: Foundation of European Progressive Studies (FEPS). ISBN 9782930769783.
  • Voessing, K. (2020). How politicians ought to talk about Europe. Lessons learned from experimental evidence. In Rose, R. (Ed.), How Referendums Challenge European Democracy: Brexit and Beyond (pp. 101-116). Cham: Springer Nature. ISBN 9783030441166.
  • Voessing, K. (2017). Politikbegründungen, Politisierung und die öffentliche Meinung zur europäischen Integration. In Anders, L., Scheller, H. and Tuntschew, T. (Eds.), Parteien und die Politisierung der Europäischen Union (pp. 103`-130). Wiesbaden: Springer. ISBN 9783658192839.
  • Voessing, K. and Weber, T. (2016). The company makes the feast. Party conflict and issue voting in multi-party systems. In Laslier, J.-.F., van der Straeten, K. and Blais, A. (Eds.), Voting Experiments (pp. 43-66). New York: Springer. ISBN 9783319405735.
  • Voessing, K., Jobelius, S. and Ruenker, R. (1999). Einleitung. In Jobelius, S., Ruenker, R. and Voessing, K. (Eds.), Bildungs-Offensive Reformperspektiven für das 21. Jahrhundert (pp. 10-15). Hamburg: VSA. ISBN 9783879757435.
  • Voessing, K. and Jobelius, S. (1999). Mut zur Kapitalbildung. Die Notwendigkeit einer kulturellen und sozialen Reform des Bildungswesens. In Jobelius, S., Ruenker, R. and Voessing, K. (Eds.), Bildungs-Offensive Reformperspektiven für das 21. Jahrhundert (pp. 110-127). Hamburg: VSA. ISBN 9783879757435.
  • Voessing, K., Jobelius, S. and Ruenker, R. (1999). Anforderungen an eine Bildungsreform des 21. Jahrhunderts. In Jobelius, S., Ruenker, R. and Voessing, K. (Eds.), Bildungs-Offensive Reformperspektiven für das 21. Jahrhundert (pp. 236-245). Hamburg: VSA. ISBN 9783879757435.

Journal articles (16)

Reports (2)