CV Richard Traunmüller

CV Richard Traunmüller Junior Professor of Empirical Democracy Research Goethe University Frankfurt Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6 PEG Gebäude, 3 G. 113 D - 60926 Frankfurt am Main T +49 (0)69-798-36680 E-Mail: traunmueller@soz.uni-frankfurt.de www.richardtraunmueller.com Personal Information Born December 13th 1980 in Linz/Austria, growing up in Germany, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Thailand Austrian national, unmarried, no children Research and Teaching Interests Empirical Democracy Research, Religion and Democracy, Quantitative Political Methodology Education PhD in Political Science (Dr. rer. soc., summa cum laude), University of Konstanz (2011) Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection, University of Essex/GB (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012) Graduate Degree in Social Sciences (Dipl.-Soz.), Humboldt University of Berlin (2007) Academic Positions Junior Professor (W1) of Empirical Democracy Research, Institute of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt (2014-present) Research Fellow, Department of Government, University of Essex (2013-2014) Postdoctoral Fellow, Mannheimer Zentrum für europäische Sozialforschung (MZES), University of Mannheim (2012 2013) Senior Lecturer (Oberassistent) in Political Sociology, Institute of Political Science, University of Berne (2011 2012) Lecturer (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) in Comparative Politics, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz (2007 2011) 1

Job Offers and Shortlists Job Offer: Full Interim Professorship (W3) in Sociology of Religion, University of Münster (2014, declined) Job Offer: Junior Professorship (W1) in Empirical Democracy Research, Goethe University Frankfurt (2013, accepted) Shortlisted: Full Professorship (W3) in Political Sociology of Civil Society, University of Heidelberg (2013) Other Professional Experience Statistical Consultant for the Bertelsmann Foundation (Design and Analysis of the Bertelsmann Religion Monitor ) (2012 present) Statistical Consultant in the NORFACE-Project: What are the Impacts of Religious Diversity?, CERES, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (2010 2011) Researcher for the report Historische und politische Bildung in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft commissioned by the Stiftung Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft (2005 2006) Internship in the Foundation of the German Economy (Project evaluation of the project Zeichen setzen! Integration macht Schule ) (2004) Grants and Awards Rejected: DFG Project Multilevel Regression with Post-Stratification for Religious Minorities (MRPRM). New Data for the Study of the Demography, Social Integration, and Political Behavior of Religious Minorities in Europe. 354'500,- (together with Christopher Claassen, University of Glasgow) Rejected: ERC Grant Preferences for Conditional Immigration. 2 300'000,- (together with David Sanders and Thomas Plümper, University of Essex) Invitation to serve as Board Member for the Forum for Open Religious Policy (2014) SOEP-Prize for Best Publications 2011 awarded by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) for the best publication using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel within the last two years. Funding of a methods workshop and conference Finding Thetas in Berne: Bayesian Methods in the Social Sciences provided by the Department of Social Sciences, University of Berne (2011) Funding of participation in the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection provided by the board of the Cluster of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Integration at the University of Konstanz (2009) Funding of participation in the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection provided by the board of the Cluster of Excellence Cultural Foundations of Integration at the University of Konstanz (2009) ECPR Travel Grant for the participation in the Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis and Collection (2008, declined) 2

Publications Google Scholar Citations: 400 h-index: 10 i10-index: 12 Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals in English Helbling, Marc & Traunmüller, Richard (2015): How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison. Comparative Political Studies DOI: 10.1177/0010414015612388. Traunmüller, Richard, Murr, Andreas & Gill, Jeff (2015): Modeling Latent Information in Voting Data with Dirichlet Process Priors. Political Analysis 23(1): 1-20. Gundelach, Birte & Traunmüller, Richard (2014): Beyond Generalized Trust: Norms of Reciprocity as an Alternative Form of Social Capital in an Assimilationist Integration Regime. Political Studies 62(3): 596-617. Rapp, Carolin, Traunmüller, Richard, Freitag, Markus & Vatter, Adrian (2014): Moral Politics: The Religious Factor in Referenda Voting. Politics & Religion 7(2): 418-443. Krech, Volkhard, Hero, Markus, Huber, Stefan, Ketola, Kimmi, & Traunmüller, Richard (2013): Religious Diversity and Religious Vitality: New Measuring Strategies and Empirical Evidence. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion 9(3): 1-21. Traunmüller, Richard (2011): Moral Communities? Religion as a Source of Social Trust in a Multilevel Analysis of 97 German Regions. European Sociological Review 27(3): 346-363. Traunmüller, Richard & Freitag, Markus (2011): State Support of Religion: Making or Breaking Faith- Based Social Capital? Comparative Politics 43(3): 253-269. Freitag, Markus & Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Spheres of Trust. An Empirical Analysis of the Foundations of Particularised and Generalised Trust. European Journal of Political Research 48(6): 782 803. Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Individual Religiosity, Religious Context, and the Creation of Social Trust in Germany. Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 129(2): 357-365. 3 Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals in German Traunmüller, Richard (2015): Preaching to the Converted? Probleme politikwissenschaftlicher Theoriebildung im Zusammenhang von Religion und Politik. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 56(4): 672-681. Ackermann, Kathrin & Traunmüller, Richard (2015): Zur neuen Relevanz des sozialen Kontexts für das Wahlverhalten. Antwort auf die kritischen Anmerkungen von Franz Urban Pappi. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 56(2): 285-299. Ackermann, Kathrin & Traunmüller, Richard (2014): Jenseits von Schwerkraft und Höllenfeuer. Nichtlineare Kontexteffekte auf das Wahlverhalten religiöser Gruppen bei fünf Bundestagswahlen. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 55(1): 33-66. Traunmüller, Richard (2014): Nationale Pfadabhängigkeit oder internationale Konvergenz? Eine quantitativ-vergleichende Analyse religionspolitischer Entwicklungen in 31 europäischen Demokratien, 1990-2011. Zeitschrift für Politik 62(2): 160-181. 3

Traunmüller, Richard (2013): Religiöse Diversität und Sozialintegration im internationalen Vergleich. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie 65(1): 437-465. 2012 Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Zur Messung von Staat-Kirche-Beziehungen. Eine vergleichende Analyse neuerer Indizes. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 6(2): 207-231. Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle & Traunmüller, Richard (2011): Der religiöse Faktor in der Familienpolitik. Ein empirischer Test klassischer und neuerer Ansätze im Vergleich von 27 OECD-Ländern. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform 57(4): 383-408. Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Religion und Sozialintegration. Eine empirische Analyse der religiösen Grundlagen sozialen Kapitals. Berliner Journal für Soziologie 19(3): 435-468. (2011 SOEP-Prize for Best Junior Publication) Freitag, Markus, Grießhaber, Nicolas & Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Vereine als Schulen des Vertrauens? Eine empirische Analyse zur Zivilgesellschaft in der Schweiz. Swiss Political Science Review 15(3): 463-495. Freitag, Markus & Traunmüller, Richard (2008): Sozialkapitalwelten in Deutschland. Soziale Netzwerke, Vertrauen und Reziprozitätsnormen im subnationalen Vergleich. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 2(1): 221-256. Books Traunmüller, Richard (2014): Religiöse Vielfalt, Sozialkapital und gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt. Gütersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung. Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Religion und Sozialkapital. Ein doppelter Kulturvergleich. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. Traunmüller, Richard, Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle, Ackermann, Kathrin & Freitag, Markus (2012): Zivilgesellschaft in der Schweiz. Analysen zum Vereinsengagement auf lokaler Ebene. Zürich: Seismo. Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle, Traunmüller, Richard, Gundelach, Birte & Freitag, Markus (2010): Freiwilligen-Monitor Schweiz 2010. Zürich: Seismo. Book Chapters and Non-refereed Journal Articles Traunmüller, Richard, Murr, Andreas & Gill, Jeff (2016): Modeling Latent Information in Voting Data with Dirichlet Process Priors. In: Franzese, Rob (ed.): Advances in Political Methodology. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming. Traunmüller, Richard (2016): Nationale Pfadabhängigkeit oder internationale Konvergenz? Eine quantitativ-vergleichende Analyse religionspolitischer Entwicklungen in 31 europäischen Demokratien, 1990-2011. In: Liedhegener/Pickel (Hrsg.): Religionspolitik in Deutschland. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. Forthcoming. Traunmüller, Richard (2016): Religion und Sozialkapital. In: Krech, Volkhard et al. (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Religionssoziologie. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. Forthcoming. Klein, Constantin & Traunmüller, Richard (2016): Sind Frauen grundsätzlich religiöser als Männer?. In: Benthaus-Apel/Sammet (Hrsg.): Religion und Geschlechterordnungen. Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag. Forthcoming. Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Religion und Soziales Kapital. In: Lewicki, Alexander, Melanie Möller, Jonas 4

Richter & Henriette Rösch (Hrsg.): Religiöse Gegenwartskultur. Zwischen Integration und Abgrenzung. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 17-34. Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Religiöser Pluralismus und soziales Kapital in Europa. Ein interkultureller Vergleich auf der Grundlage kreuz-klassifizierter Mehrebenenanalysen. In: Pollack, Detlef, Tucci, Ingrid & Ziebertz, Hans-Georg (Hrsg.): Religiöser Pluralismus im Fokus quantitativer Religionsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 189-220. Traunmüller, Richard (2010): Segen oder Fluch? Zum Einfluss von Staat-Kirche-Beziehungen auf die Vitalität religiöser Zivilgesellschaften im europäischen Vergleich. In: Liedhegener, Antonius & Ines- Jacqueline Werkner (Hrsg.) Religion zwischen Zivilgesellschaft und politischem System. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 138-161. Traunmüller, Richard (2010): Glaube und/oder Gemeinschaft? Religion und der Radius des Vertrauens in Deutschland. In: Soeffner, Hans-Georg (Hrsg.): Unsichere Zeiten. Herausforderungen gesellschaftlicher Transformationen. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag. (CD-Rom) Traunmüller, Richard (2010): Religion und Sozialkapital. Individuelle Religiosität, religiöser Kontext und die Entstehung von sozialem Vertrauen. In: Grözinger, Gerd & Wenzel Matiaske (Hrsg.): Religion@Gesellschaft. Jahrbuch Ökonomie und Gesellschaft. Marburg: Metropolis, 53-82. 4 Gundelach, Birte & Traunmüller, Richard (2010): Kulturelle Diversität und sozialer Zusammenhalt. Eine Mehrebenenanalyse zum Einfluss multikultureller Kontexte auf das Sozialkapital in den deutschen Regionen. In: Freitag, Markus & Adrian Vatter (Hrsg.): Vergleichende subnationale Analysen für Deutschland. Institutionen, Staatstätigkeiten und politische Kulturen. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 315-343. Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle & Traunmüller, Richard (2010): Scheckbuch-Partizipation als moderne Form des Engagements. Die Spendenkulturen in den deutschen Kreisen. In: Freitag, Markus & Adrian Vatter (Hrsg.): Vergleichende subnationale Analysen für Deutschland. Institutionen, Staatstätigkeiten und politische Kulturen. Münster: Lit-Verlag, 345-368. Traunmüller, Richard (2008): Religion als Ressource sozialen Zusammenhalts? Eine empirische Analyse der religiösen Grundlagen sozialen Kapitals in Deutschland. SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research 144, Berlin: German Institute for Economic Research. Traunmüller, Richard & Legewie, Joscha (2006): Geschichtsbewusstsein und historisch-politische Bildung in der deutschen Einwanderungsgesellschaft: Ergebnisse einer Studie unter Schülern und Lehrern in vier Bundesländern. Internationale Schulbuchforschung 28(4) 381-392. Short Pieces and Book Reviews Helbling, Marc & Traunmüller, Richard (2015): Regeln und was sie bewirken. Das Verhältnis von Staat und Religion prägt die Einstellungen zu Muslimen. WZB Mitteilungen 147 (3/15): 14-16. Freitag, Markus & Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Gemeinden und Vereinsengagement. Aktuelle Befunde für die lokale Ebene der Schweiz. Revue der Schweizerischen Gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft 4/12: 11-13. Traunmüller, Richard (2010): Rezension zu "Sigrid Roßteutscher: Religion, Zivilgesellschaft, Demokratie. Eine international vergleichende Studie zur Natur religiöser Märkte und der demokratischen Rolle religiöser Zivilgesellschaften". Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 4(2): 379-381. Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Brücken bildend oder abgrenzend? Die soziale Zusammensetzung von Vereinen in der Schweiz. Revue der Schweizerischen Gemeinnützigen Gesellschaft 9: 24-26. 5

In Preparation Traunmüller, Richard (2015): I Just Plotted Two Million Regressions. Data Visualization for Sensitivity Analysis in the Social Sciences. Paper presented at the 2015 APSA General Conference in San Francisco. Traunmüller, Richard & Stolle, Dietlind (2015): Aunt Sue and Pal Al Travel Around the World: Attitudinal Correlates of Religious Bridging Social Networks in Eleven Democracies. Paper presented at the 2015 ECPR General Conference in Montreal. Vrablikova, Katerina & Traunmüller, Richard (2015): Zero the Hero: Improving Studies of Protest Behavior by Turning Rare Cases into Variables. Paper presented at the 2015 ECPR General Conference in Montreal. Plümper, Thomas & Traunmüller, Richard (2015): We could have estimated 5 million regressions, but we didn t. Paper presented at the 2015 EPSA General Conference in Vienna. Traunmüller, Richard (2014): A New Politics of Religion? How Political Parties Change Religious Regulation in 30 European Democracies 1990-2011. Paper presented at the 2013 EPSA General Conference in Barcelona and the 2013 ECPR General Conference in Bordeaux. Traunmüller, Richard (2013): The Dynamic Effects of Social Context on Political Preferences. Paper presented at the 2012 SVPW Annual Meeting in Lucerne, the 2012 EPSA General Conference in Berlin and the 2013 MPSA General Conference in Chicago. Conference Participation and Invited Talks APSA 2015 DVPW 2012, 2015 DGS 2008 EPSA 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 ECPR 2009, 2013, 2015 MPSA 2014, 2016 SVPW 2010, 2011, 2012 University of Essex 2014 European University Institute Florence 2016 GIGA Hamburg 2015 MPI Göttingen 2013 WZB Berlin 2013 Teaching Experience Introduction to Social Science Statistics (BA Lecture, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, SS 2016) Data Visualization (Instructor, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex 7-8/2016) Visualizing Data and Statistical Models (Workshop, European University Institute Florence, 3/2016) The Social Logic of Democratic Politics (MA course, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, WS 2015/16) Religion and Politics in Comparative Democracy Research (BA course, Department of Social Sciences, 6

Goethe University Frankfurt, WS 2015/16) Citizens in Context: Multilevel Models in Empirical Democracy Research (MA course, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, SS 2015) Model Specification, Estimation, and Visualization (Instructor, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, 7/2015) Introduction to Data Visualization (Graduate Workshop, German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA), 7/2015) Data Visualization for Empirical Democracy Research (Part II) (BA course, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, SS 2015) Religion and Democracy (MA course, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, WS 2014/15) Data Visualization for Empirical Democracy Research (Part I) (MA course, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University Frankfurt, WS 2014/15) Religion and Democracy (MA course, Institute for Political Science, University of Berne/Switzerland, 9/2014) Introduction to Statistics and Multilevel Analysis Using R (Three-day Workshop, University of Berne/Switzerland, 5/2014) Introduction to Multilevel Analysis (Two-day Workshop, University of Duisburg-Essen, 12/2013) State-Church-Relations in Europe (MA course, Institute for Political Science, University of Berne/Switzerland, HS 2012) Hierarchical Models (TA, responsible for conceptualization and teaching of lab sessions, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex/United Kingdom, 8/2012) Hierarchical Models in Political Sociology: Foundations and Applications (MA course, Institute for Political Science, University of Berne/Switzerland, FS 2012) Religion and Politics (BA course, Institute for Political Science, University of Berne/Switzerland, HS 2011) Hierarchical Models (TA, responsible for conceptualization and teaching of lab sessions, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex/United Kingdom, 8/2011) Bayesian Analysis in the Social Sciences (TA, Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis, University of Essex/United Kingdom, 8/2011) Introduction to Political Behavior (BA course, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, SS 2011) Graphical Data Analysis in Political Science (MA course, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, SS 2011) The Social Logic of Politics: Social Contexts, Networks and Political Behavior (MA course, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, WS 2010/11) The Religious Factor in Politics (BA course, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, WS 2010/11) 7

Citizens and Politics: Foundations of Political Sociology (BA course, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, SS 2010) Comparative Political Culture Research (MA course, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, WS 2009/10) Cultural and Political Foundations of Social Capital (BA course, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, WS 2008/09) Religion and Politics (BA course, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, WS 2007/08) Empirical Social Research I+II (TA, responsible for conceptualization and teaching of lab sessions, Institute of Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, WS 2002/03- SS2007) Thesis Supervision Sven Speer: How Political Parties Shape Constitutional Clauses on Religion (PhD, expected 2016) Jutta Bellmer: The Influence of Direct Democracy on Large-scale Construction Projects (MA, 2015) Fabian Schorb: Determinants and Effects of Inter-religious Social Networks in Israel (MA, 2016) Alisa Roth: Is Street Art a Form of Political Participation? (BA, 2015) Marcel Hertel: How Authority Decisions Affect Religious Tolerance: A Survey Experiment in Egypt (BA, expected 2016) Valeri Houbchev: Social Policy as Pull Factor in International Refugee Migration (BA, expected 2016) Memberships Deutsche Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (DVPW) European Political Science Association (EPSA) Midwestern Political Science Association (MPSA) Swiss Political Science Association (SVPW/ASSP) Reviewer Activity Acta Politica, Acta Sociologica, American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Criminology, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, European Sociological Review (4x), European Union Politics (4x), Journal of Civil Society, Journal of Labour Market Research, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2x), Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, Political Psychology, Political Science Research and Methods, Politics & Religion, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Publius The Journal of Federalism, Schmollers Jahrbuch Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, Social Science Research, Soziale Welt, Swiss Political Science Review (2x), West European Politics, Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (2x) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Schweizer Nationalfonds (SNF) 8

References Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher FB03 Gesellschaftswissenschaften Goethe-Universität Frankfurt Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 6 D-60323 Frankfurt/Main Tel. +49 69 798 36628 Email: rossteutscher@soz-uni-frankfurt.de Prof. Jeff Gill, PhD Washington University in St. Louis One Brookings Drive, Seigle L079 St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 Tel. +1 314 935 9012 Email: jgill@wustl.edu Prof. Dr. Markus Freitag Institut für Politikwissenschaft Universität Bern Lerchenweg 36 CH-3012 Bern Tel. +41 31 631 46 85 Email: markus.freitag@ipw.unib.ch Prof. Dr. Thomas Plümper Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien D4 Welthandelsplatz 1 A-1020 Wien Email: thomas.pluemper@wu.ac.at 9