Individually or collectively, members of the department are actively involved in the following international and national research networks:
- Ad hoc Group on Political Extremism of the DVPW
- European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
- European Social Survey (ESS)
- Extreme Right Electorates and Party Success (EREPS)
- German Society for Electoral Studies (DGfW)
- Research Committee on Political Theories and the History of Political Ideas of the DVPW (German Political Science Association)
- The Tampere Club
- Working Group on Elections and Political Attitudes of the DVPW
- Working Group on Empirical Methods of Political Science of the DVPW
- Working Group on Theory of Action and Decision Theory of the DVPW