Junior Professorship for Empirical-Analytical Participation Research Jun.-Prof. Dr. Endre Borbáth
Contact & Office Hours
Heidelberg University
Institute of Political Science
Bergheimer Str. 58 | 69115 Heidelberg
Office: 03.033
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 54 2871
E-Mail: endre.borbath@ipw.uni-heidelberg.de
Office Hours
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Research Profile
Endre Borbáth is Junior Professor for Empirical-Analytical Participation Research at Heidelberg University’s Institute of Political Science and leads the Emmy Noether research group The New Climate Divide. He is also a guest researcher at the Center for Civil Society Research at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
His work examines mass mobilisation and changing political cleavages in Europe, with particular attention to climate change, immigration and European integration. Combining comparative politics with political sociology, he studies how parties and social movements mobilise and how citizens participate and develop political group identities.
He primarily uses quantitative approaches, including analyses of media reporting on election campaigns and protests, population surveys and survey experiments. His geographical focus is Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
Research Interests
Comparative politics • political sociology • political participation • social movements • party competition • democracy • civil society • cleavages • environmental politics • climate change • research methods
The New Climate Divide
The New Climate Divide (ClimateDivide) is a research group led by Endre Borbáth at Heidelberg University and funded through the German Research Foundation’s Emmy Noether Programme. The project investigates how climate change is moving from a largely consensual valence issue towards a polarising political divide, with consequences for mobilisation, political participation and collective identities in Europe.
Selected Publications
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Curriculum Vitae
Endre Borbáth was a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. He completed his Ph.D. at the European University Institute in December 2018; prior to that, he earned an M.A. in Political Science from Central European University, with a focus on electoral politics.
For the latest information and publications, please visit his personal website.
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| Year | Position / Degree |
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| Year | Position / Degree |
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Since 06/2025 | Emmy Noether Research Group Leader, The New Climate Divide, Heidelberg University |
Since 02/2024 | Junior Professor for Empirical-Analytical Participation Research, Heidelberg University |
01/2019 – 01/2024 | Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin |
12/2018 | PhD, European University Institute, Florence |