I am a Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Salzburg. My main areas of research interest include political developments in former communist countries, political institutions and their measurement, women's political representation, as well as the impact of state capacity on democratization.
I completed a Ph.D in political science at McGill University in 2008 under the supervision of Juliet Johnson, after which I was awarded a post-doctoral research fellowship from the Fond Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture, which I held at the University of Lüneburg. I also held positions as visiting chair in Comparative Government at the University of Mannheim (2010-11) and was a Senior Researcher at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (2009-2013).
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April 2019:
New article looking at the stability of different measurements of political knowledge over time and across countries! Spoiler alert: it is even less pretty than you think. https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ijpor/edz005/5475494
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February 2019:
"Nur keine Angst vor der Quote" - in einem Gastbeitrag für Die Zeit.Online argumentiere ich mit Prof. Berthold Rittberger warum Frauenquoten in der Politik sinnvoll sind.
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April 2018:
Short blog entry about our article explaining the national-local gender gap in representation in Germany in Democratic Audit!
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February 2018: Short blog entry about your newest article tracing the limits to women's representation in Germany!
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September 2017:
new book published! Demokratie – Ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt
Visit us at the book launch conference! 27.09.2017
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July 2017:
The presidential power blog has published a condensed summary of a recent book chapter on presidents in post-communist countries!
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April 2017:
Short blog entry about our newest research on electoral fraud with Philipp Harfst and Sarah Dingler on the PSA's EPOP blog, and also on the Making electoral democracy work blog!
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March 2017:
JEPP has published a video-blog produced by Thorsten Faas, where he summarizes some of the main findings of our joint EP debate-paper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWEal2fJCBI&feature=youtu.be). The paper is also ungated until the end of March (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2016.1268643).
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June 2016:
Counting Counts our academic blog run by the team of ‘Electoral System Change in Modern Democracies’ is now online!!
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December 2015:
Based on my recent research on gender and representation in the European Parliament (published in the European Journal of Political Research, I co-authored a short piece in the Democratic Audit blog on gender imbalance in candidate recruitment.
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June 2015:
I held my inaugural lecture to the University of Salzburg on the 9th June. The lecture can be viewed here. The slides are here.
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January 2015:
Based on my recent research on gender and representation in European legislatures (recently published in European Union Politics), I co-authored a short piece in the LSE's EUROPP blog on the gender imbalance between the European Parliament and national parliaments.
I completed a Ph.D in political science at McGill University in 2008 under the supervision of Juliet Johnson, after which I was awarded a post-doctoral research fellowship from the Fond Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture, which I held at the University of Lüneburg. I also held positions as visiting chair in Comparative Government at the University of Mannheim (2010-11) and was a Senior Researcher at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (2009-2013).
**** Research news ****
April 2019:
New article looking at the stability of different measurements of political knowledge over time and across countries! Spoiler alert: it is even less pretty than you think. https://academic.oup.com/ijpor/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ijpor/edz005/5475494
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February 2019:
"Nur keine Angst vor der Quote" - in einem Gastbeitrag für Die Zeit.Online argumentiere ich mit Prof. Berthold Rittberger warum Frauenquoten in der Politik sinnvoll sind.
****
April 2018:
Short blog entry about our article explaining the national-local gender gap in representation in Germany in Democratic Audit!
****
February 2018: Short blog entry about your newest article tracing the limits to women's representation in Germany!
****
September 2017:
new book published! Demokratie – Ein interdisziplinäres Forschungsprojekt
Visit us at the book launch conference! 27.09.2017
****
July 2017:
The presidential power blog has published a condensed summary of a recent book chapter on presidents in post-communist countries!
****
April 2017:
Short blog entry about our newest research on electoral fraud with Philipp Harfst and Sarah Dingler on the PSA's EPOP blog, and also on the Making electoral democracy work blog!
****
March 2017:
JEPP has published a video-blog produced by Thorsten Faas, where he summarizes some of the main findings of our joint EP debate-paper (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWEal2fJCBI&feature=youtu.be). The paper is also ungated until the end of March (http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2016.1268643).
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June 2016:
Counting Counts our academic blog run by the team of ‘Electoral System Change in Modern Democracies’ is now online!!
****
December 2015:
Based on my recent research on gender and representation in the European Parliament (published in the European Journal of Political Research, I co-authored a short piece in the Democratic Audit blog on gender imbalance in candidate recruitment.
****
June 2015:
I held my inaugural lecture to the University of Salzburg on the 9th June. The lecture can be viewed here. The slides are here.
****
January 2015:
Based on my recent research on gender and representation in European legislatures (recently published in European Union Politics), I co-authored a short piece in the LSE's EUROPP blog on the gender imbalance between the European Parliament and national parliaments.
