Member of a PhD. Thesis Committee, together with Scott Pruysers, Ruben Zaiotti, Robert Finbow, Kristin Good, and Nik Thomas (Dalhousie University, Canada). The PhD. Thesis, titled “The Different Worlds of Direct Public Funding of Political Parties: Empirical Application of a Novel Typological Framework”, was successfully defended by Tobias Schminke (Dalhousie University).