Dr Danny Schindler

Danny Schindler is Director of the Institute for Parliamentarism Research. His research interests include parliamentary groups, opposition, coalition building and the political systems of (East) Africa. In addition to his research, he also works as an academic and political advisor (e.g. for the Georgian Parliament and the Inter-Parliamentary Union) and as a lecturer.

Projects

Main research areas

  • Parliaments and parties in democratic and authoritarian systems
  • Opposition
  • Coalitions
  • Political systems in East Africa

Selected publications

Constitutionalising dissent: The universe of opposition rules in African constitutions, in: Global Constitutionalism, 2024, online first (Link)

Recall rules as a legalistic autocrat's toolkit. The case of Zimbabwe, in: Democratisation, 2025, online first (Link)

District candidacies for the German Bundestag: what spurs or hampers intra-party competition? (with Anastasia Pyschny and Malte Cordes), in: The Journal of Legislative Studies, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2023, pp. 171-188 (Link)

More free-floating, less outward-looking. How more inclusive candidate selection procedures (could) matter, in: Party Politics, vo. 27 (2021), no. 6, pp 1120-1131. (Link)

Politische Führung im Fraktionenparlament. Rolle und Steuerungsmöglichkeiten der Fraktionsvorsitzenden im Deutschen Bundestag, Baden-Baden 2019. (Link)

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