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Dr. Matthias Dilling

Assistant Professor (Political Science)

 dillingm@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Dr Dilling is an assistant professor in political science and qualitative methods. His research is on the emergence and resilience of democratic institutions, political parties, and the far right. He is particularly interested in how political parties change and adapt to new challenges and what this means for the future of democracy. Dr Dilling is the author of 'Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation', published by the University of Chicago Press. His sole- and co-authored work has been published or is forthcoming in the British Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies Review, Social Science History, German Politics and Society, Journal of Political Science Education, and edited volumes on party politics. Before joining Trinity, Dr Dilling worked at Oxford University and Swansea University. He also was a visiting researcher at Yale University and the University of Vienna. Dr Dilling holds a PhD from Oxford University (Nuffield College). His doctoral thesis is the recipient of the Walter Dean Burnham Award by the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of politics and history.

Research Tags

  German Politics and Elections   Political Parties

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Co-convenor, German Politics Specialist Group, Political Studies Association, United Kingdom
American Political Science Association
International Association for the Study of German Politics
Council for European Studies, Historical Study of States and Regimes Research Network
Reactionary Politics Research Network
Matthias Dilling, Parties under Pressure: The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2024, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Matthias Dilling; Felix Krawatzek, The populist radical right as memory entrepreneur? The prominence, sentiment, and interpretations of history in the German parliament, British Journal of Political Science, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Matthias Dilling, Political Parties and Interest Incorporation: A New Typology of Intra-Party Groups, Political Studies Review, 22, (1), 2024, p193 - 206, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Matthias Dilling; Leah Owen, Designing politics and IR assessments in the era of AI: An empirical investigation into ChatGPT's output across Bloom's revised taxonomy, Journal of Political Science Education, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI  URL
Sukriti Issar; Matthias Dilling, Analyzing failed institutional change attempts, Political Research Quarterly, 75, (1), 2022, p203 - 215, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Matthias Dilling, Denominational conflicts and party breakthrough: The negative case of the All-German People's Party, Social Science History, 46, (3), 2022, p505 - 529, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Matthias Dilling, Kanzlerwahlverein no more? Failed internal coalition building and the CDU/CSU" 2021 campaign, German Politics and Society, 40, (3), 2022, p88 - 109, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Matthias Dilling, Two of the same kind? The rise of the AfD and its implications for the CDU/CSU, German Politics and Society, 36, (1), 2018, p84 - 104, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

Matthias Dilling, Introduction to Process Tracing, 2023, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Matthias Dilling, Introduction to Archival Research, 2023, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Matthias Dilling, Review of Germany and the Confessional Divide. Religious Tensions and Political Culture, 1871 " 1989, by Mark Edward Ruff; Thomas Großbolting , German Politics and Society, 41, (3), 2023, p113-117 , Review, PUBLISHED
Die CDU: Repräsentationsgarantien und -defizite einer Volkspartei in, editor(s)Elmar Wiesendahl , Parteien und soziale Ungleichheit, Springer, 2017, pp89 - 121, [Matthias Dilling], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Das Wählerpotential von Rechts- und Linksaußenparteien: Unideologische Protestwahl? in, editor(s)Gerhard Hirscher; Eckhard Jesse , Extremismus in Deutschland: Schwerpunkte, Vergleiche, Perspektiven, 2013, pp397 - 434, [Matthias Dilling; Viola Neu], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Walter Dean Burnham Award, American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the field of politics and history
UKRI Seedcorn Fund, Swansea University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (£9,456.00)
John Fell Fund, OUP Research Fund (Co-I, with G. Capoccia and F. Krawatzek, £9,977.94)
International Association for the Study of German Politics (£1,000.00)
Research fund, Oxford University, Department of Politics and IR (£809.00)
Completion grants, University of Oxford, Nuffield College and Department of Politics and IR (£3,000 overall)
Travel grants, Nuffield College and American Political Science Association (£1,955 overall)
Nuffield - Yale Exchange Program
DPhil studentship, Oxford University, Nuffield College and Department of Politics and IR
PhD studentship, London School of Economics and Political Science (declined)
PhD studentship, European University Institute (declined)
MPhil studentship, Oxford University, Nuffield College
Scholarship holder, Konrad Adenauer Foundation

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Comparative politics, European politics, political parties, political institutions, qualitative and historical methods