Bachelor and Master theses, doctoral dissertations
General remarks
Bachelor and Master theses are supported mainly in the fields of Comparative Politics, International Relations, Policy Analysis and the political system of the EU. They should have a clear quantitative and/or formal/mathematical orientation. Our chair has numerous data records from the fields of political sociology, electoral research, comparative politics and international relations.
Topics for Bachelor and Master theses
- Electoral Research (e.g. Abstention, Voting in different countries and contexts (Africa, EU, etc.)
- International Arms Trade
- Conflict Research
- Conjoint Experiments
- Discrete Choice Models
- Network Analysis
If you are interested in writing a BA or MA thesis at our chair, please contact Prof. Thurner.
Selection of theses that were written at our chair
Doctoral Dissertations
- Wankmüller, Sandra 2022: Advancing Natural Language Processing in Political Science. Dissertation, LMU Munich
- Klima, André 2016: Ökologische Inferenz und hybride Modelle: Schätzung der Wählerwanderung in Mehrparteiensystem. Dissertation, LMU Munich
- Rudolph, Lukas 2018: Voting behavior and electoral choice using causal inference methods for observational data. Dissertation, LMU Munich