Coalition Sizes In Hessian Independent Cities And Counties – Do Rational Or Institutional Factors Determine Coalition Size?

About this episode

The episode discusses the factors influencing coalition sizes in Hessian independent cities and counties with insights from political science experts.

Björn Egner is adjunct professor and chair of the research group “Methodology in Political Science and Philosophy of Science” at the Institute of Political Science. He graduated in political science, history and sociology and received his doctoral degree for a book about notions of German mayors. His habilitation thesis identified determinants of public expenditure on the state level in federations. His research focus is located in public policy (especially housing policy) and local politics. Etnik Dragaj completed his PhD in October 2025 at Technical University of Darmstadt in Political Science. In December 2020, he got his Master degree in Government and Public Policy also at Technical Universität Darmstadt. In June 2018, he finished at University Mannheim his Bachelor studies in Political Science as a major and Business Administration as a minor. His research interest are Comparative Goverment especially coalition research and local politics. He focuses his research on Germany and Central Eastern European countries (CEE region).

People in this episode

Hosts: Erman Ermihan, Senem Görür

Guests: Björn Egner, Etnik Dragaj

Topics covered

• coalition size
• political science
• local politics
• public policy
• Germany
• Central Eastern Europe

Keywords

• coalition research
• public expenditure
• housing policy
• local politics
• Germany
• CEE region

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Institute of Political Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, University Mannheim

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