Research

Publications (Peer-reviewed Articles)

• Rehmert, Jochen and Naofumi Fujimura (2023) Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments, Early View in Legislative Studies Quarterly  [Replication Data] [Appendix]

• Kayser, Mark A., Matthias Orlowski and Jochen Rehmert (2023): "Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Dynamic Measure of Party Competitiveness and Cabinet Leverage", Political Science Research and Methods, Vol. 11(2) , 328-346. [Replication Data] [Online Appendix] [CIP & Polling Data] 

• Rehmert, Jochen (2022): "Coordinating Nominations: How to Deal with an Incumbent Surplus after Electoral Reform", Japanese Journal of Political Science, Vol. 53 (1), 55-72.  [Replication Data] [Online Appendix]

• Rehmert, Jochen (2022): "Party Membership, Pre-Parliamentary Socialization and Party Cohesion",  Party Politics, Vol. 28(6), 1081-1093.

• Rehmert, Jochen (2022): "Party Elites' Preferences in Candidates: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment", Political Behavior , Vol. 44, 1149-1173. [Replication Data] 

• Kayser, Mark A. and Jochen Rehmert (2021): "Coalition Prospects and Policy Change: An Application to the Environment", Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 46 (1), 219-246. [Replication Data] [Online Appendix] 

• Rehmert, Jochen (2021): "Behavioral Consequences of Open Candidate Recruitment", Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 46 (2), 427-458. [Replication Data] [Online Appendix] 

• Rehmert, Jochen (2020): "Candidacy Eligibility Criteria and Party Unity", Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 53 (8), 1298-1325. [Replication Data & Online Appendix] 

Book-Chapters (Peer-reviewed)

• Rehmert, Jochen (2022): "Candidate Selection for the 2021 General Election". In: Pekkanen, R.J., Reed, S.R., Smith, D.M. (eds) (2022): Japan Decides 2021. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 

Working Papers

• Origin, Changes and Consequences of Policy Expertise, with Wang Leung Ting 

• Dissolution Powers, Coalition Inclusion Probabilities and the Fulfillment of Election Pledges, with Mark A. Kayser and Petra Schleiter

• Intra-Party Competition, the Personal Vote and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR

• Public Support for Gender Equality and the Nomination of Female Candidates: Evidence from the UK, 1992-2017, with Denis Cohen

• Should we stay or should we go? Exit Options and Cabinet Stability, Maria Thürk and Mingyi Zhang

• Selecting and Ranking Female Candidates Under PR. Evidence from a Two-Stage Conjoint Experiment with Part Elites, with Michael Jankowski

Work in Progress

• Dynamic and Strategic Coalition Termination, with Mark A. Kayser and Petra Schleiter

• Candidate Selection and Proportional Representation: Estimating Party Leaders' Preference for Incumbent Deselection, with Michael Jankowski

Conferences

2022

• EPSA Annual Conference: "Intra-Party Competition, the Personal Vote and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR"

2021

• NoPSA Virtual Congress: "'All Politics is Local': Local Incentives for Incumbent Re-selection in a Closed-List Environment"

• SPVW Virtual Conference: "Coordinating Nominations: How to Deal with an Incumbent Surplus after Electoral Reform"

• EPSA Annual Conference: "Coordinating Nominations: How to Deal with an Incumbent Surplus after Electoral Reform"

• EPSA Annual Conference: "Ideological Positions and Committee Chair Appointments"

2020

• ECPR Virtual General Conference: "Origin, Changes and Consequences of Policy Expertise"

2019

• Inauguraltagung DVPW-Themengruppe "Vergleichende Parlamentarismusforschung", Frankfurt/Main: "Informal Reasons for Incumbent De-Selection"

• ECPR General Conference, Wroclaw, Poland: "Candidacy Eligibility Criteria and Party Unity"

• APSA 115th Annual Meeting, Washington D.C.: "Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Dynamic Measure of Party Competitiveness and Cabinet Leverage"

• EPSA General Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland: "Party Membership, Pre-Parliamentary Socialization and Party Cohesion"

• MPSA 77th Annual Conference, Chicago, Ill.: "Candidacy Eligibility Criteria and Party Unity"

2018

• Harvard Symposium on Japanese Politics, Cambridge, MA.: "Behavioral Consequences of Open Candidate Recruitment"

• EPSA General Conference, Vienna, Austria: "Candidacy Eligibility Criteria and Party Unity"

• EPSA General Conference, Vienna, Austria: "Coalition Inclusion Probabilities: A Dynamic Measure of Party Competitiveness and Cabinet Leverage"

• GEAS Free University of Berlin, Germany: "Behavioral Consequences of Open Candidate Recruitment"

• 3. Workshop zur Politischen Verhaltensforschung, Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany: "Informal Criteria in Candidate Selection"

2017

• 2. Workshop zur Politischen Verhaltensforschung, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany: "Candidacy Eligibility Criteria and Party Unity"

• ECPR Summer School on Parliaments, Berlin, Germany: "Behavioral Consequences of Open Candidate Recruitment"

• Micro-foundations of party democracy workshop, University of Bremen, Germany: "Behavioral Consequences of Open Candidate Recruitment"

• EPSA General Conference, Milan, Italy: "Behavioral Consequences of Open Candidate Recruitment"

2016

• ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Pisa, Italy: "Coalition Inclusion Probabilities. A Dynamic Measure of Electoral Competitiveness"