New website and publications
This website is a bit outdated, in terms of substance and technology. I am in the process of moving to a Quarto-based publication platform. In the meantime, not...
This website is a bit outdated, in terms of substance and technology. I am in the process of moving to a Quarto-based publication platform. In the meantime, not...
Why do many populist movements manage to assemble coalitions of societal groups that cut across ideological and socio-economic divides? In a new Registered Repo...
A few days after the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2020, former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger published a video message on democracy. With ref...
What can politicians, journalists and other actors with communicative power do to strengthen citizen commitment to democracy? In a new study, Florian Foos (LSE)...
Why do many populist movements manage to assemble coalitions of societal groups that cut across ideological and socio-economic divides? In a new Registered Repo...
We invite colleagues to participate in a collaborative research effort among scholars with conflicting viewpoints to jointly devise and conduct a quantitative s...
Democracy is under stress. Over the past ten years, there were more nations moving towards autocracy than countries moving towards democracy. In the past year a...
In a new study, now published with the American Political Science Review, we show how established operationalization strategies of multi-dimensional concepts ca...
One-third of the world population lives in countries that move away from liberal democracy. Apparently, liberal self-governance is under stress. Democracy’s une...