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Hermann Schmitt is an Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow of the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research. Besides having contributed to many comparative projects, he was a member of the planning committee of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (1993–2009) for three CSES modules; a principle investigator of the European Election Studies in 1994, 2004, 2014 and 2019; and the initiator and chair (2006–2016) of the Comparative Candidate Survey. He also served as a co-director of the BES between 2014 and 2017. He has co-edited some 20 comparative datasets, most of them based on cross-nationally comparative mass survey data, but also party elite survey data and party manifesto content analyses. He has (co-) authored and (co-)edited 21 books and more than a hundred journal articles and book chapters. In terms of research funding, he obtained grants - usully in co-operation with others - in the order of magnitude of altogether over 15 mio DM/Euro.

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University of Mannheim: Mannheim, DE

1987-01-01 to present | Research Fellow (MZES)
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Universty of Manchester: Manchester, GB

2011-01-01 to 2017-12-31 | Chair in Electoral Politics (Politics)
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University of Duisburg: Duisburg, DE

1983-01-01 to 1987-12-31 | lecturer (FB1)
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University of Mannheim: Mannheim, DE

1978-10-01 to 1982-12-31 | Research Assistent (Social Sciences)
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Education and qualifications (5)

University of Mannheim: Mannheim, DE

2008 to present | venia legendi (politics) (Social Sciences)
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Freie Universität Berlin: Berlin, DE

2000 to present | venia legendi (politics) (Social Sciences)
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University of Duisburg-Essen: Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

1987 to present | Dr. sc. pol. (Social Sciences)
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The University of Manchester: Manchester, Manchester, GB

2011-01 to 2017-12 | Professor in Electoral Politics (Politics)
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University of Mannheim: Mannheim, Germany, DE

1972 to 1978 | Staatsexamen Politics & German (Social Sciences)
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: Thessaloniki, Kentriki Makedonia, GR

2018-02 | Honorary Doctorate (Dr. h. c.) (Social Sciences)
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The University of Manchester: Manchester, Manchester, GB

2018-01 | Emeritus Professor (Faculty of Humanities)
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University of Mannheim: Mannheim, DE

2012-05 | Honorarprofessor (Social Sciences)
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