Our Work

We organise regular conferences and workshops in Europe, as well as running a regular trip to observe the German federal elections.

But most of all, we publish the prestigious scholarly journal German Politics, which is the premier English language outlet for high-quality academic social science research on Germany.

In 15 years since its launch, German Politics has established itself as the leading international journal in its field. Its mission is to provide theoretically informed perspectives on the changing agendas of German Politics. It engages with themes that connect Germany comparatively with other states - the challenges of globalisation, changes in international relations, and the widening and deepening of the European Union. It also links work on Germany to wider debates and issues in comparative politics, public policy, political behaviour, and political theory.

German Politics is published for times a year by Routledge. The editors welcome submissions from scholars of German political economy, law and society of German-speaking countries, as well as on issues related to German and comparative politics. German Politics is available at reduced rates to both full and postgraduate members of the IASGP as part of their membership subscriptions.

Peer Review All articles in this journal have been subject to review by two anonymous referees.

Latest articles from our Journal

  • The AfD and its Electoral Persistence in Eastern Germany. Causes, Issues, and Implications
    Source: www.tandfonline.com Published on 2026-06-26 By Anna-Sophie Heinze Steffen Kailitz Gert Pickel Manès Weisskircher a Institute of Political Science, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germanyb HAIT Dresden, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germanyc Institute for Practical Theology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germanyd Institute of Political Science, TU Dresden, Dresden, GermanyAnna-Sophie Heinze is Interim Professor of the Political System of the Federal Republic of Germany and the EU at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Her research focuses on political parties, democracy, and the far right. She has published in West European Politics, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science Review, and International Political Science Review.Steffen Kailitz is Senior Research Fellow at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies at TU Dresden. He co-coordinates the research area on Comparative Autocracy and Extremism Studies and leads the Varieties of Political Regimes project. His research focuses on political regimes, democratic backsliding, extremism, and authoritarian legitimation strategies and has published e.g. in Democratization and International Political Science Review.Gert Pickel is Professor of the Sociology of Religion and Antisemitism Commissioner at Leipzig University. He heads the Leipzig branch of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (RISK) and co-directs the Competence Center for Right-Wing Extremism and Democracy as well as the scholarly network on right-wing extremism research.Manès Weisskircher leads a research group on far-right climate obstruction (REXKLIMA) at TU Dresden. He is also affiliated with the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at the University of Oslo and the Center for Civil Society Research at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB).
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