Program

Thursday, 12 February 2026

9:00-9:15 a.m.	*Coffee and Welcome*
	Session I: Party Behavior
9:15-9:55 a.m.	Christian Bohlen Second-Order Elections and Issue Attention in Parliament: The Timing of State-Level Elections and their Influence on National Party Agendas
9:55-10:35 a.m.	Rossella Merullo Women's Leadership and the Expansion of Populist Radical Right Party Agendas
10:35-11:15 a.m.	Ilayda Yücel The Patterns of Political Access: Candidacy, Placement, and Success of Visible Minorities in Germany
11:15-11:45 a.m.	*Coffee*
	Keynote
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.	Micael Castanheira Pack-Crack-Pack: Gerrymandering with Differential Turnout
1:00-2:15 p.m.	*Lunch*
	Session II: Justice
2:15-2:55 p.m.	Tim Schnelle Institutional Self-Dealing in Constitution-Making – Empirical Evidence from 1789 to 2024
2:55-3:35 p.m.	Shams Mammadli Acceptance of Getting Transfers and Evading Taxes by Fraud or Loophole Exploitation
3:35-4:15 p.m.	*Coffee*
4:15-4:55 p.m.	Luchino Hagemeier Unreasonable Limitarianism
4:55-5:35 p.m.	Dorela Degjoni Obstacles to Achieving Relational Equality
7:00-10:00 p.m.	*Dinner*

9:00-9:15 a.m.	*Coffee*
	Session III: Causality and Responsibility
9:15-9:55 a.m.	Felix Riechmann AVs, AI, and Accountability: Empirical Evidence on Reinforcing Accountable Behavior in Autonomous Driving Vehicles
9:55-10:35 a.m.	Gesa Amann Prerogatives for Bystander Intervention
10:35-11:15 a.m.	Federico Pollachini Causal Mechanisms within Collective Actions
11:15-11:45 a.m.	*Coffee*
	Keynote
11:45 a.m.-1:00 p.m.	Moritz Schulz Decisions about Blame and Punishment
1:00-2:15 p.m.	*Lunch*
	Session IV: Collective Bargaining and Deliberation
2:15-2:55 p.m.	Lore-Marie Junghans Trade Unions' Democratic Credentials: Bringing Organizing (Back) In
2:55-3:35 p.m.	André Frank The Political Strategy of Unions: Strikes during U.S. Presidential Elections
3:35-4:15 p.m.	Laura Engel Dependence Falsification in Group Deliberation
4:15-4:45 p.m.	*Coffee and Farewell*