Jens Wäckerle

Dr. Jens Wäckerle serves as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cologne's Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, actively contributing to the Center for Comparative and Collective Political Research (CCCP) with focus on European political systems and institutional analysis.

His research program integrates four core domains:

• Women in politics: Investigating gender representation dynamics and policy impacts in legislative bodies
• Legislative politics: Analyzing lawmaking processes and parliamentary behavior across European democracies
• Quantitative text analysis: Developing computational methodologies for political discourse examination
• European Union Parliamentary debate: Studying rhetorical strategies and consensus-building in EU institutions

His methodological approach emphasizes rigorous quantitative techniques applied to political text corpora.

As an educator, Dr. Wäckerle teaches advanced courses including 'Comparing European Democracies' (MA Lecture), 'Women in European Politics' (BA/MA levels), and 'Introduction to Quantitative Methods', demonstrating commitment to training next-generation political scientists in empirical research techniques.