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The German Society for Electoral Studies (DGfW) is a self-organized body of German academic electoral researchers. The DGfW was founded on 12 June 2007 in Mainz and was formally recognized as a registered, non-profit, public service association on 20 July 2007.

In accordance with its articles, the DGfW aims to support social scientific inquiry by providing research-based, supranationally and internationally relevant services to social science researchers in general and academic electoral researchers in particular.

To achieve this goal, the DGfW has set itself the following primary tasks:

to establish, institutionalize and permanently maintain a national electoral study
to continuously monitor elections and analyze electoral behavior, based on national electoral study data, using social science methodology
to provide high-quality data for the public
to secure and expand its cooperation with international electoral researchers
to contribute to the establishment of an effective infrastructure for nationally and internationally comparative research
to promote and support young scientists, and consolidate German academic electoral research