Janek Treiber, Research Fellow

Research Associate
NameMr Janek Treiber M.A.
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Career:
- Born in 1998 in Mühlhausen/Thüringen
- 2016 to 2021 studies of political science and sociology at the TU Dresden
- since 08/2021 Research Fellow at the Chair of Political Systems and Comparative Politics
- since 12/2021 Doctoral student, focus on party expulsions
Work and core research areas:
- Scientific monitoring and evaluation of citizen dialogs
- Political culture and political protest in Saxony and Thuringia
- Internal organization of political parties
Interviews and media appearances (selection):
Supra-regional politics
- 19.06.2024 Eastern state elections (ntv)
- 29.08.2024 Voter demographics in eastern Germany (Deutschlandfunk Nova)
- 02.09.2024 Party systems in the eastern German states (rbb24 Inforadio)
- 02.09.2024 Blocking minority of the AfD (Deutschlandfunk)
- 13.10.2024 Retreat of the SPD federal executive committee (Deutschlandfunk)
- 07.11.2024 Collapse of German "Ampel" coaliation (Sächsische Zeitung podcast)
- 23.11.2024 Challenges for small parties in the face of early elections (WDR 5)
- 28.11.2024 Right-wing extremist protests against queer pride events (Die Zeit)
- 04.12.2024 Government statement by Olaf Scholz after the Ampel break (phoenix)
- 14.02.2025 Membership growth among parties in the run-up to the 2025 federal election (MDR Aktuell)
- 24.02.2025 Review of the 2025 federal election ("High Noon" talk, Tagesspiegel)
- 12.03.2025 Special assets of the CDU/CSU and SPD (phoenix)
- 13.03.2025 Course of the black-red coalition negotiations (DLF nova)
Politics in Saxony
- 12.06.2024 Consequences of the local and European elections for Saxony (Sächsische Zeitung podcast)
- 02.08.2024 Situation of the Saxon SPD (ZDF)
- 23.08.2024 Review of the "Kenya coalition" (ZDF )
- 01.09.2024 State election in Saxony (phoenix)
- 02.09.2024 Results of the state elections (Sächsische Zeitung podcast)
- 02.09.2024 Incompatibility of offices in the election of a mayor as a member of the state parliament (MDR)
- 22.10.2024 Formation of government in Saxony (phoenix)
- 04.12.2024 Presentation of the coalition agreement (phoenix)
- 18.12.2024 Challenges for Saxony's minority government (Sächsische Zeitung podcast)
- 18.12.2024 Re-election of Michael Kretschmer as Minister President (Deutschlandfunk)
- 03.02.2025 Challenges of postal voting in Dresden care homes (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten)
- 10.02.2025 Consultation mechanism of the CDU-SPD minority government (MDR Aktuell)
- 19.02.2025 Ban on advertising for the Bundeswehr in Zwickau (LRT) [Lithuanian]
- 24.02.2025 Results of the 2025 federal election from a Saxon perspective (Sächsische Zeitung podcast)
Publications:
- 2025. East Germany in the light of the state elections. Does the East vote abnormally? [forthcoming]
- 2024. Expelling controversies: assessing the effectiveness of party expulsion procedures to resolve internal conflicts. European Politics and Society, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/23745118.2024.2395840 (Open Access)
- 2023. (mit A. Tietze, T.-M. Weber und P. Schweizer-Strobel, Hrsg.). Kommunale Konfliktmoderation. Ein Praxisleitfaden für kommunale Verwaltungen, zivilgesellschaftliche Institutionen, Moderatorinnen und Moderatoren. Abrufbar bei SpringerLink
- 2022. "Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Kantine abzureißen". Bürgerbeteiligung auf Basis falscher Tatsachen. In: Bochmann, C. (Hrsg.), Bürgerdialoge in Zeiten der Krise. Ethnomethodologische Fallstudien aus Sachsen. Abrufbar bei SpringerLink
- 2022. Unbeugsamer Protest? Umgang mit Coronaleugner*innen und Maßnahmengegner*innen aus Sicht der Bürgerbeteiligung in Sachsen, in: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen 1/22, 237-249. De Gruyter
- Various publications in cooperation with the Saxon State Center for Political Education
Courses:
- Policy analysis of intergenerational justice (seminar, winter semester 2021/2022)
- Political stakeholders in the social media (seminar, winter semester 2022/2023 | summer semester 2024)
- Policy analysis of transport policy (seminar, summer semester 2023)
- Protest and extremism in Saxony (seminar, winter semester 2023/2024)