Marc S. Jacob
- Name
- Marc S. Jacob
- Title
- Organisation
- Politics and International Relations School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh UK
- Telephone
- M.S.Jacob@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Elections, organizations and institutions, Political parties, Quantitative Research, Comparative Political Behavior
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/marc_s_jacob
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 is working 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.
Publications
Peer-reviewed journal articles
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, link].
Working papers
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
P = Paper, C = Chair, D = Discussant
2019: Political Studies Association (P), European Political Science Association (P), European Consortium for Political Research (P, C, D)
Work in progress
Party Types, Trends, and Finance: Investigating the German Party System Using Spatial Methods
From Squaring the Circle to Electoral Reform? Negotiations on Electoral Law in the 19th German Bundestag (under review)
Values, Opinions, and Choice. A Three-Stage Model of Political Behavior (with Ugur Ozdemir)
Building Democracy and Institutional Trust: Evidence from Mongolia
Determinants of Trade Union Membership in Europe (with Chris Jardine)