Lars Vogel, born in 1981, studied political science, sociology and philosophy in Jena and Budapest and completed his doctorate on political representation as attitude congruence between members of parliament and the population. He has been head of the Empirical Methods and Political Sociology department since 2017. Prior to this, he worked as a research assistant at the DFG Collaborative Research Centre 580, at the Institute of Sociology and at Komrex - Centre for Research on Right-Wing Extremism, Democracy Education and Social Integration at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Lars Vogel is an Executive Board Member of the RC02 “Political Elites” of the International Political Science Association and a member of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “The European Union and its Rural Periphery in East-Central Europe”.
Activities
Publications
- Kollmorgen, Raj, Lars Vogel, und Sabrina Zajak, Hrsg. (2024): Ferne Eliten. Die Unterrepräsentation von Ostdeutschen und Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund. Springer.
- Lars Vogel & Christian Schneickert (2023): “Political Elites”, In: Grasso, Maria & Guigni, Marco (Eds.) Enyclopedia of Political Sociology, Edward Elgar.
- Vogel, Lars (2023): “The Impact of Political Professionalization on Legislators-Citizen Congru- ence in Policies and Process Preferences”, In: Revue internationale de politique comparée.
- Vogel, Lars (2022): “(How) Perceived Descriptive Underrepresentation Decreases Political Sup- port: The Case of East Germans”, In: German Politics, 32:1, 169-190. DOI: 10.1080/09644008.2022.2058494
- Vogel, Lars (2021): “Rekrutierungsmuster und -mechanismen von Regierungsmitgliedern”, In: Korte KR., Florack M. (Eds.) Handbuch Regierungsforschung. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-30074-6_69-1
Lectures
- “One size fits it all? Citizens’ conceptions of elites and democracy”, Panel „Democratic Citizens and Political Elites“, Elites and Public Opinion: Analysing the Interaction of Public Opinion, Policy-Making and Party Strategy”, ECPR General Conference, Prague. (09/2023)
- “Kommunale Repräsentanz und gesellschaftliche Vielfalt”, Workshop, Böll Stiftung. (Online February 2022)
- “Does (Lack of) Descriptive Representation in Elites Challenge Democracy? The Case of East Germans”, Paper for the ECPR Joint Sessions 26-28 May, 2021, Workshop “Elites and Their Challengers? Bridging Sociological and Political Science Approaches”.
