Philipp Umek, MA studied Political Science at the University of Innsbruck and is a member of the ICER-Team since June 2015. His main focus was the European Parliament and the European integration process. In his research he was evaluating the role of the EURATOM-Treaties concerning the opportunity structures for the European Parliament.
His Master Thesis studied the effects on voter turnout of differing opening hours of polling places in Austria for European and national elections. The thesis was honoured with the Marianne-Barcal-award by the City of Innsbruck in June 2020.
Currently he is researching voter turnout in Austrian local elections for his PhD project embedded in the Research Center Spheres of Governance: Institutions and Agency (Link).
Publications:
2016
Die Systemgestaltung durch das Europäische Parlament: Eine Analyse der EURATOM Verträge ICER Working Paper Series Volume 2 No. 2 2016
Andreas Maurer et.al.: Status, Überprüfungsmaßstab und Vergleichsanalyse des Gemeinsamen Auslegungsinstruments und der einseitigen Protokollerklärungen zum Umfassenden Wirtschafts- und Handelsabkommen zwischen Kanada einerseits und der Europäischen Union und ihren Mitgliedstaaten andererseits, Studie für die SPÖ-Delegation im Europäischen Parlament
2018
Mehr Wahlbeteiligung durch längere Öffnungszeiten? Eine Analyse des Zugangs zu Wahllokalen in Österreich bei Nationalrats- und Europawahlen, Konferenzbeitrag zum Tag der Politikwissenschaft
2019
Patterns of Participation in Local Elections: Political Competition and Voter Turnout in Austria, Conference paper for the ECPR Joint Session in Mons, Belgien 8.-12.4.2019
2019
Patterns of Participation in Local Elections: Political Competition and Voter Turnout in Austria, Conference paper for Trento Innsbruck European Research Seminars (TIERS) on European Integration, 2nd Seminar in Innsbruck 2.-3. May 2019
2019
Voter Turnout and Political Competition in Local in Austria, Conference paper for the ÖGPW Graduate Conference - Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft in Vienna 29. November 2019
2021 (confirmed)
Local Elections and Voting in Austria, in: Routledge Handbook of Local Elections and Voting in Europe (Edited by Adam Gendźwiłł, Ulrik Kjaer and Kristof Steyvers)
Academic:
since 2015
Member of the Innsbruck Center for European Research
2016
Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science
Tutor for Political Communication and Electoral Studies
2017
Tutor for European Integration and International Relations
2018
Master of Arts (MA) in Political Science: European and International Studies
since 2018
PhD Research at the University of Innsbruck (Electoral Studies)
since 2018
Member of the Research Center Spheres of Governance
2019
Country expert fot the project „CURsE Non elected politics in Europe“ of Jean-Benoit Pilet, Université Libre de Bruxelles (http://politicize.eu/)
since 2019
External lecturer „Statistics and Data Analysis“ at the Institute for Statistics, University of Innsbruck
