International comparative research; Visible international journal publications; Excellent international networking; Cooperation with the GIGA, Hamburg; Cooperation with the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid; Erasmus exchange with the University of Perugia; International conferences for students to participate in; International visiting professors who also support teaching.

International comparative research; Visible international journal publications; Excellent international networking; Cooperation with the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg; Cooperation with the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid; Erasmus exchange with the University of Perugia; International conferences in which students can participate; International visiting professors who also support university teaching (currently Prof. Anselmi, Perugia).

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Mailand; Università degli Studi di Roma "Unitelma Sapienza", Rom; Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid

CATI laboratory of the survey methodology office of the Institute of Social Sciences for telephone surveys (also lending licenses for transcription programmes and survey software/hardware); Data Science Lab at the Institute of Social Sciences; E-book packages from Springer Humanities and Social Sciences and Social Sciences and Law; Access via the campus network of the library, OpenAccess publications and publication funds, specialist politics portal, social science teaching-learning laboratory (SoSciLa), including an ActivPanel interactive display.

Extensive experience in the analysis of large online databases (meta and content data); Implementation of multi-year third-party-funded projects (DFG, etc.): Projects with a research focus on politics and the internet (including social media and protest movements,; Campaign communication on social media); Research projects in the field of migration policy, in particular on municipal refugee and integration policy in Germany; DFG project Gravitational Centres of Authoritarian Rule, with a focus on Latin America and Eastern Europe.