Expertise
- Democracy
- Political parties
- Right to vote
- Participation
- Populism
Active Projects
Short Vita
Robert Vehrkamp has been Senior Advisor on the Future of Democracy at the Bertelsmann Stiftung since 2016. He joined the foundation in 2003 as a political expert. He is an expert on the reform of German electoral law. From 2016 to 2020, he was a visiting researcher in the Democracy and Democratisation Department at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB). Since 2022, he has been a visiting professor at the Centre for Democracy Research at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Robert Vehrkamp's research and publications focus on democracy, elections and voting rights, participation and populism.
Publications
- EINWURF 2/2014 - Wählen, Mitmachen, Entscheiden - wie die neue Vielfalt unsere Demokratie stärkt
- EINWURF 1/2013 - Ziemlich unpolitische Freunde - wer in Deutschland warum nicht mehr wählt
- EINWURF 2/2013 - Bundestagswahl 2013 – warum die niedrige Wahlbeteiligung der Demokratie schadet
- Generation Wahl-O-Mat
- Vielfältige Demokratie
- Gespaltene Demokratie
- Prekäre Wahlen