Publikationen
Monographs
- Sikk, Allan & Köker, Philipp. (2023). Party People: Candidates and Party Evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [publisher link] [Oxford Scholarship Online] [electoralcandidates.org]
- Köker, Philipp. (2017). Presidential Activism and Veto Power in Central and Eastern Europe. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. [publisher link]
Edited volumes
- Ledeneva, Alena, Bratu, Roxana & Köker, Philipp. (Hrsg.) (2017). Innovations in Corruption Studies. Cambridge: MHRA. [Simultaneously published as a Special Issue in Slavonic and East European Review, 95(1)] [publisher link]
Textbooks
- Köker, Philipp & Harmening Morten (2024). Studentisches Publizieren in den Sozialwissenschaften: Von der Haus- und Abschlussarbeit zur wissenschaftlichen Publikation. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
[publisher link] [www.studentisches-publizieren.de]
Journal articles (peer reviewed)
- Köker, Philipp & Springer, Frederik (forthcoming). Electoral closeness and voter turnout in presidential run-off elections. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.
- Köker, Philipp, Swalve, Tilko, Huber, Merle, Hönnige, Christoph, & Nyhuis, Dominic. (2025). Populists before power: delegitimization strategies against independent judiciaries. Democratization, 1-18 (Online First). [Open Access]
- Fruhstorfer, Anna, Köker, Philipp, Kamenskih, Anna. (2024) Presidential activism on social media: multidimensional analysis and empirical examination of presidential twitter use in Europe. Political Studies Review [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp, Weiher, Nele & Schollmeyer, Anja (2024). The Gender Gap in Civil State Decorations: A Comparative Study of the Baltic States, 1994–2020. Politics & Gender 20(2), 363-390. [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2023). The Temporary Transfer of Presidential Powers in the Czech Republic. Review of Central and East European Law 48(1), 1-31. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Hönnige, Christoph, Nyhuis, Dominic, Meyer, Philipp, Köker, Philipp & Shikano, Susumu. (2020). Dominating the Debate: Visibility Bias and Mentions of British MPs in Newspaper Reporting on Brexit. Political Research Exchange, 2(1), Online. [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2020). Why dictators veto: Legislation, legitimation and control in Kazakhstan and Russia. Democratization, 27(2), 204-223. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Sikk, Allan & Köker, Philipp. (2019). Party Congruence and Novelty: A New Approach to Measuring Party and Party System Change. Party Politics, 25(6), 759–770. [publisher link][Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2019). Risk vs Reward strategies in indirect presidential elections: Political parties and the selection of presidential electors in Germany, 1949-2017. German Politics, 28(4), 602-620. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2019). The effects of majority requirements, selectorate composition and uncertainty in indirect presidential elections: The case of Estonia. East European Politics, 35(2): 238-258. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Ledeneva, Alena, Bratu, Roxana & Köker, Philipp. (2017) Corruption Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Paradigm Shifts and Innovative Approaches. Slavonic and East European Review, 95(1): 1-20. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2014). Semi-structured elite interviews in a nested analysis framework: Studying presidential activism in Central and Eastern Europe. SAGE Research Methods Cases, Online, DOI:10.4135/978144627305014534927. [publisher link] [Open Access]
Journal articles & essays (editorial review)
- Köker, Philipp. (2022). Remembering Robert Elgie: a blogging academic. French Politics, 20 (2): 291-297. [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp, & Harmening, Morten. (2021). Und wo sind die Wahlfrauen? Defizite deskriptiver Repräsentation bei der Wahl der deutschen Bundespräsidenten. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 52(3), 575-595. [publisher link] [Open Access]
Book chapters
- Köker, Philipp (forthcoming). Presidential Politics in Poland. in: Grzybowska-Walecka, Katarzyna, Guerra, Simona & Casal Bertoa, Fernando (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Köker, Philipp. (2024). Impeachment in Central and Eastern Europe. in: Huq, Aziz, Flinders, Matthew & Monaghan, Chris (eds.). Impeachment in a Global Context: Law, Politics, and Comparative Practice. Abingdon: Routledge. 239–254. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp, & Cartens, Hiske J. L. (2021). Acting Presidents and Temporary Presidential Succession in European Republics. in: Challenging traditional constitutional ideas in terms of Modern State and Politics, Đorđević, Miroslav. (ed.). Belgrad: lnstitute for Comparative Law. 245-258. [Open Access]
Book reviews
- Köker, Philipp (2024). Book Review: Christopher A. Martínez. Why Presidents Fail. Political Parties and Government Survival in Latin America. Party Politics. [publisher link]
- Köker, Philipp. (2023). Review: Csergő, Zs., Eglitis, D. S. & Pickering, P. M. (eds), Central & East European Politics. Changes and Challenges. 5th edition. Europe-Asia Studies, 75(3), 532-534. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2023). Triple Review: Beyond Presidentialism and Parliamentarism. By Steffen Ganghof; Democracy and Executive Power. By Susan Rose-Ackerman; Dilemmas of Collective Government. By Patrick Weller, Dennis C. Grube, and R.A.W. Rhodes. Perspectives on Politics, 21(1), 380-382. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2019). Chaisty, P., N. Cheeseman and T.J. Power. Coalitional Presidentialism in Comparative Perspective. Europe-Asia Studies, 71(9): 1613-1615. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2016). Gwiazda, A. 2016. Democracy in Poland. Representation, participation, competition and accountability since 1989. East European Politics, 32(3): 401-402. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2015). Nikolenyi, Cs. 2014. Institutional Design and Party Government in Post-Communist Europe. Europe-Asia Studies, 67(10): 1727-1728. [publisher link] [Open Access]
- Köker, Philipp. (2015). Hloušek, V. (ed.). 2014. Presidents above Parties? Presidents in Central and Eastern Europe, Their Formal Competencies and Informal Power. CEU Political Science Journal, 10(1-2): 147-150. [Open Access]
Blog posts
- Ca. 100 blog posts on presidential politics in Europe, Presidential Power Blog, 2013-2021, https://www.presidential-power.net
- Die eigene Hausarbeit veröffentlichen: eine wertvolle Erfahrung für das Studium und darüber hinaus, TIB Blog, 15 Juli 2024, https://blog.tib.eu/2024/07/15/die-eigene-hausarbeit-veroeffentlichen-eine-wertvolle-erfahrung-fuer-das-studium-und-darueber-hinaus/
- Law Reviews: Studentisches Publizieren als Examensvorbereitung, TIB Blog, 4 Jun 2024, https://blog.tib.eu/2024/06/04/law-reviews-studentisches-publizieren-als-examensvorbereitung/
- Editing a scholarly journal: Studentisches Publizieren als Seminarinhalt, TIB Blog, 30 May, https://blog.tib.eu/2024/05/30/editing-a-scholarly-journal-studentisches-publizieren-als-seminarinhalt/
- Studentisches Publizieren: Neue Impulse für Wissenschaft und Hochschullehre, TIB Blog, 6 May 2024, https://blog.tib.eu/2024/05/06/studentisches-publizieren-neue-impulse-fuer-wissenschaft-und-hochschullehre/
- Party Politics In Flux: We Need To Talk About Party People, UCL Europe Blog, 22 April 2024, https://ucleuropeblog.com/2024/04/22/party-politics-in-flux-we-need-to-talk-about-party-people/
- Open Access Champions an der LUH: Philipp Köker, PhD, TIB Blog, 10 May 2020, https://blogs.tib.eu/wp/tib/2022/05/10/open-access-champions-an-der-luh-philipp-koeker-phd/
- How balanced was the debate over Brexit?, UK and EU, 13 Jul 2020, https://ukandeu.ac.uk/how-balanced-was-the-debate-over-brexit/
- A warning shot, not yet a crisis for German democracy, CCCU Expert Comment, 25 Sep 2017, https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/a-warning-shot-not-yet-a-crisis-for-german-democracy/
- The deterioration of Poland’s democracy, CCCU Expert Comment, 24 Jul 2017, https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/the-deterioration-of-polands-democracy/
- Hung parliaments are democracy in action, CCCU Expert Comment, 9 Jun 2017, https://blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/expertcomment/hung-parliaments-are-democracy-in-action/
- Politics and social media: why Eastern Europe’s politicians are all atwitter, UCL SSEES Research Blog, 13 Feb 2013, https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/2013/02/13/politics-and-social-media-why-eastern-europes-politicians-are-all-atwitter/
- Fieldwork interviews: From phonebooks to fascists (with Erin Saltman), UCL SSEES Research Blog, 8 Nov 2012, https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/ssees/2012/11/08/fieldwork-interviews-from-phonebooks-to-fascists/