Welcome to my site.
Currently, I am working as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the CRC/SFB 1342: "Global Dynamics of Social Policies" (Project A01) at the University of Bremen. Within the CRC I am involved in developing the Global Welfare State Information System WeSIS - an interactive, web-based information system on global dynamics of social policy. I hold a doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Greifswald.
My research focuses on political parties, party ideology and party policy diffusion. More specifically, I am interested in ideological change of parties, its causes and consequences. In order to analyse change, one needs to locate parties first. For this reason, I am also interested in new ways of measuring "party ideology", in extending current databases on parties and in overcoming the "Western bias" still prevalent in party research. Methodologically, I am firmly rooted in comparative politics and macro-comparative analyses.
If you have any question regarding my work or the data collections, do not hesitate to get in touch. I look forward to your message!
Recent News
Article on Party Policy Diffusion and Text Similarity Accepted
Our paper "The ties that bind. Text similarities and the conditional diffusion of party policies" - together with Martin Rachuj - has been accepted for publication in the British Journal of Political Science! We will release the replication material and additional material beyond the Online Appendix soon.
Posted: 2020-08-17
Data Collection on Elections Global Finished
Elections Global - the "raw" data that served as the base for V-Party - is now available at Harvard Dataverse. It covers some smaller countries beyond V-Dem's scope and may therefore be of interest as well.
Posted: 2020-03-03
Research Stay @ V-Dem
From mid-August to mid-September I was visiting the V-Dem Institute in Gothenburg to push our collaboration for the new expert survey on political parties. The survey will run in January and we expect first results in late spring 2020.
Posted: 2019-10-15
About My Work
Data Collections
Throughout the years I have been involved in several larger data collection efforts, among others CWED2 and PIP (Parties, Institutions and Preferences). I collaborate with Holger Döring on Party Facts and we recently teamed up with V-Dem to conduct a new expert survey on political parties.
Publications
Here you will find a list of publications - from work-in-progress to forthcoming...
Teaching
I have been teaching several courses ranging from introductory and methods courses to courses on research design both at the graduate and undergraduate level.