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Patricia F. Zauchner, PhD

Current Position and Education

Since September 2025 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Potsdam
April 2023 PhD in Social Sciences, University of Bremen
February 2016 M.A. in Sociology, University of Vienna
May 2011 B.A. in Sociology, University of Vienna

Teaching Experience

Behavioral Economics (Spring 2026)
Decision Support Systems (Spring 2024 & Spring 2025), Session on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), course by Prof. Dr. Dr. Björn Niehaves, Dr. Marc Wyszynski, Dr. Gerhard Klassen, Sebastian Weber, MSc
Introduction to Academic Research and Writing in Political Science (Fall 2021/22 & Fall 2016/17)
Principles of Distributive Justice (Spring 2021)
Reading Rawls (Spring 2021 & Spring 2018)
Meeting, Assembly, Protest: Theory and Practice of Collective Action, Deliberation and Decision-Making (Fall 2017/18) with Dr. Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele & Prof. Dr. Frank Nullmeier
The Unconditional Basic Income (Spring 2017)
Various Statistics Tutorials (2009–2015, with interruptions)

Publications

Zauchner, P. F. (2024). Raising the acceptance of rank reversing redistributions: The role of need considerations. Springer VS. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-45085-4


Ceron, T., Barić, A., Blessing, A., Haunss, S., Kuhn, J., Lapesa, G., Padó, S., Papay, S., & Zauchner, P. F. (2024). Automatic analysis of political debates and manifestos: Successes and challenges. In P. Cimiano, A. Frank, M. Kohlhase, & B. Stein (Eds.), Robust argumentation machines: First international conference, RATIO 2024, Bielefeld, Germany, June 5–7, 2024, proceedings (pp. 71–88). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63536-6_5


Pritzlaff-Scheele, T., Zauchner, P. F., & Nullmeier, F. (2024). Deliberation and need-based distribution. In B. Kittel & S. Traub (Eds.), Priority of needs? An informed theory of need-based justice (pp. 151–176). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53051-7_6


Pritzlaff-Scheele, T., & Zauchner, P. F. (2017). Meeting needs: An experimental study on need-based justice and inequality (FOR 2104 Working Paper 2017-07). https://epub.sub.uni-ham-burg.de/epub/volltexte/202h0/100422/