Hi! My name is Michael Imre
and I'm a postdoc
at the University of Vienna

I'm Michael and I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. Before that, I worked at the Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies (HCIAS, Heidelberg University) and the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES, University of Mannheim).

I obtained my doctorate in political science from the Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim.

I am currently working on a project called Understanding the Abundance of Constitutional Law in Austria in which we are trying to explain why Austria, next to its main constitutional document, has hundreds of additional documents that have constitutional rank (or include such provisions) that were changed more than 1,000 times in the post-war period, what motives political actors had for these individual laws, and what consequences such an abundance of constitutional law has. In addition to that, my research interests include parties and party competition, intra-party politics, and (coalition) governments.

Below, you can find an overview over my previous publications and related materials. If you want to reach out, you can find links to my profiles on several platforms and my email in the sidebar (or at the bottom of the page if you're on mobile).

Peer-reviewed publications

Debus, Marc, Michael Imre, and Hanna Bäck. 2026. 'The cost of compromise: How coalition participation shapes party membership'. Party Politics. doi:10.1177/13540688261441234.

Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus, and Michael Imre. 2026. 'Incumbency Advantages, Prime Minister Replacements and Government Formation'. Party Politics. 32 (2): 183–96. doi:10.1177/13540688251344561.

Imre, Michael, and Alejandro Ecker. 2025. 'Intra-party determinants of the allocation of legislative speeches'. The Journal of Legislative Studies. 31 (3): 740–64. doi:10.1080/13572334.2023.2287347.

Bäck, Hanna, Marc Debus, and Michael Imre. 2024. 'Populist Radical Parties, Pariahs, and Coalition Bargaining Delays'. Party Politics. 30 (1): 96-107. doi:10.1177/13540688221136109.

Imre, Michael. 2023. 'Intra-Party Heterogeneity and Voter Perceptions of Party Positions'. Electoral Studies 83. doi:10.1016/j.electstud.2023.102623.

Imre, Michael, Alejandro Ecker, Thomas M. Meyer, and Wolfgang C. Müller. 2023. 'Coalition Mood in European Parliamentary Democracies'. British Journal of Political Science 53 (1): 104–21. doi:10.1017/S0007123421000739.

Bauer, Paul C., Alejandro Ecker, Michael Imre, Camille Landesvatter, and Sonja Malich. 2023. 'Who tweets, and how freely? Evidence from an elite survey among German politicians'. Research & Politics 10 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1177/20531680221144237.

Other Publications

Imre, Michael, Svenja Krauss, and Thomas M. Meyer. 2022. 'Regierung Und Regierungsbildung'. In Das Politische System Österreichs. Basiswissen Und Forschungseinblicke, edited by Katrin Praprotnik and Flooh Perlot, 187–212. Vienna: Böhlau. doi:10.7767/9783205215950.187.