Jean Monnet Professor for Comparative Politics & European Integration, University of Tübingen
Since 2007 Gabriele Abels is professor for comparative politics and European integration at the Institute of Political Science. She holds a Jean Monnet Chair since 2011 and was Director of the the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence PRRIDE (2015-2018). From 2012 to 2015 she was president of the German political science association (DVPW). She was visiting fellow at the University of Osnabrück, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of Missouri-St.Louis, USA, St. Petersburg University, Russia, and Harvard University, USA.
Her research areas include political systems of EU member states, political system of the European Union, democratisation of the European Union & participation and comparative parlamentarism.
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
May 09, 2024 08:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
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