Here I present an overview of my work in progress. Feel free tro reach out if you'd like to get one of the working papers.
Thesis Project:
My thesis project consists of a german-language monography on intergenerational/age-based conflicts and political parties in Germany and France supervised by Prof. Dr. Uwe Wagschal (Uni Freiburg) and Dr. Jay Rowell (Directeur de recherche CNRS). It has been submitted in June 2025 and will be published in 2026.
In Press/Forthcoming
- Kurz, K.R.: Generationenkonflikte im öffentlichen und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs - Eine Einordnung. In: U. Wagschal & M. Fröhle: (Neu-)Ordnung: Transformationen, Reformen und Zeitenwenden, Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft, Bd. 37. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Work in Progress
- Bauer, P.C.; Rupprecht, J.; Landesvatter, C.; Brecht, T.; Friedrich, L.; Fröhle, M.; Jäckle, S.; Kurz, K.R.; Mayer, L.; Reinbold, J.; Schult, N.; Speldrich, L. & P. Weimar: How do social scientists
visualize? A visual review of the Socius Special Collection “Data Visualization” (Conditional Accept at Socius) - Fröhle, M.; Schleehauf, R.; Reinbold, J.; Kurz, K.R. & S. Jäckle: BLINDED (R&R)
- Wurthmann, L.C.; Kurz, K.R. & S. Wagner: BLINDED (R&R)
- Winkels, C. & K.R. Kurz: Mit 16 im Gemeinderat. Jugendvertretung nach den Kommunalwahlen
2024 in Baden-Württemberg und die Auswirkungen der Absenkung des passiven Wahlalters
(Cooperation with LpB Baden-Württemberg) - K.R. Kurz; Hellmann, D. & D. Schindler: BLINDED (submitted)
- Kurz, K.R.: The Influence of Party Youth Wings on Election Campaigns and Candidate Selection. Lessons from Case Studies in Germany and France (Manuscript)
- Diener, J.; Wurthmann, L.C.; Kurz, K.R. & D.C. Hagemann: Mainstream Monotony – Young adults‘ Perception of Party System Polarisation (Manuscript)
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Age Representation on Party Level Dataset (ARPLD) - with Felix Ettensperger
We introduce a novel open-access dataset containing information on mean and median age as well as the share of MPs in specific age brackets in party parliamentary groups in lower houses or single chambers of national parliaments. The dataset covers 163 cases from 30 countries and features variables that present these aforementioned shares in relation to the respective group’s presence in the voting-age population (Age Representation Index). Furthermore, the dataset includes the share of women within the party parliamentary groups as well as identifiers that enable matching the dataset with indicators from the Political Party Database (PPDB), the V-Party dataset, PartyFacts and the Manifesto Project Database.
The dataset is accessible via Harvard Dataverse.
And there is an accompanying research note.
The dataset is accessible via Harvard Dataverse.
And there is an accompanying research note.