Marc is a postgraduate research student focusing on electoral politics and political parties. Prior to his postgraduate studies at the University of Edinburgh, he gained bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Study of Religions from Leipzig University. He then studied Political Science on a master’s level at Freie Universität Berlin. Marc holds a scholarship from the German National Scholarship Foundation.

Currently, Marc works on party finance structures by quantitatively examining parties’ incomes and expenses (supervisor: Dr Ugur Ozdemir). In order to study how party organisations change over time, he applies matrix algebra and cluster analysis to categorise party finance types. Among his previous research projects has also been an analysis of electoral reform debates in Germany.

Throughout his studies, Marc worked as a research assistant and tutor at Leipzig University and Freie Universität Berlin, where he was assisting research groups in the field of comparative politics and political sociology.

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Publications

Träger, Hendrik, and Marc S. Jacob. 2018. “(How) Can the German electoral system be reformed? Model calculations of the 2017 federal election and a plea for a “de-personalized” representative electoral formula.” Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (German Journal of Parliamentary Studies) 49 (3): 531-551 [in German, peer-reviewed, link].

Marc S. Jacob. 2017. “The Process of Establishing the Migrant’s Advisory Board of Leipzig, Germany (1996-2008). An Analysis of Success Factors.” In: SKLK Working Papers (1) [in German, link].

David Streit, and Marc S. Jacob. 2017. “Protest Behaviour of Students. A Qualitative Analysis of Student’s Participation in ‘NoLEGIDA’-Protests” [in German, link].

Conferences

PSA Annual International Conference 2019, Nottingham
"What Do Parties’ Accounts Tell? A Spatial Approach to Study Party Finance Structures" (accepted)