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Viola Neu (born 1964 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) is a German political scientist. She works as an election and party researcher at the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS).

Viola Neu studied Political Science, Public Law and German Studies in Mannheim from 1984 to 1991. Her master's thesis, a study on the voting behavior of migrants, was awarded the Karin Islinger Prize of the University of Mannheim. From 1991 to 1992, she was managing director of the Research Center for Social Developments there.

Since 1992, she has worked for the KAS, first as a research assistant, later as head of the department for empirical political research and since 2003 as coordinator for election and party research in Berlin. Since 2011 she has been head of the Empirical Social Research team, since 2017 she has also been deputy head of the Department of Politics and Consulting and since 2020 deputy head of Analysis and Consulting and head of Electoral and Social Research.

In 2003 she was awarded a Doctorate (PhD). From 2006 to 2019 she was on the board of de'ge'pol - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Politikberatung e.V., then on the advisory board

Publications (selection)[edit]

Theoretische Erklärungsansätze des Wahlverhaltens in den neuen Ländern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, No. 41/1992, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), Sankt Augustin 1992
Die PDS zwischen Linksextremismus und Linkspopulismus, Interne Studien Nr. 76/1994, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), Sankt Augustin 1994 (together with Patrick Moreau)
Auferstanden aus Ruinen...? Die PDS nach dem Super-Wahljahr 1994, Interne Studien Nr. 111/1994, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), Sankt Augustin 1995 (together with Jürgen P. Lang, Patrick Moreau)
Die PDS nach dem Superwahljahr 1994: Zwischen Aufbruch und Stagnation, Occasional Papers in German Studies, Number 6, 1995, University of Alberta, Canada 1995
Politische Beteiligung in der Volkspartei - Erste Ergebnisse einer repräsentativen Untersuchung unter CDU-Mitgliedern, Interne Studien Nr. 113/1995, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), Sankt Augustin, 1995, (together with Hans-Joachim Veen)
Die Mitglieder der CDU. Internal Study No. 148/1997, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), Sankt Augustin 1997 (together with Wilhelm P. Bürklin, Hans-Joachim Veen)
Acting separately, marching together? Die Diskussion über ein Linksbündnis bei SPD, Grünen und PDS, InterneStudie Nr. 162/1998, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (Hrsg.), Sankt Augustin 1998 (together with Jürgen Hoffmann)
Am Ende der Hoffnung? Die PDS im Westen, in: Zukunftsforum Politik, No. 10, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), Sankt Augustin, August 2000
Die PDS und ihr Verhältnis zum Grundgesetz, in: Die politische Meinung, 388/2002, pp. 51-56 (with Jürgen P. Lang). Text online
Das Janusgesicht der PDS: Wähler und Partei zwischen Demokratie und Extremismus (= Schriftenreihe Extremismus & Demokratie, vol. 9), Baden-Baden 2004.
Handbuch der deutschen Parteien, ed.: Frank Decker/Viola Neu, Wiesbaden, 2007
Linksextremismus in Deutschland_ Erscheinungsbild und Wirkung auf Jugendliche (PDF; 463 kB), Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (ed.), Sankt Augustin 2012

External links[edit]

Literature by and about Viola Neu in the German National Library catalogue
Works by and about Viola Neu in the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library)
Search for "Viola Neu" in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz)
Viola Neu at perlentaucher.de – das Kulturmagazin (in German)
Personal details on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website