Senior Lecturer in Political Science Otto-Suhr-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin
I study the political psychology of emotions, populism, and federal politics, working with panel data, survey experiments, and computational text analysis.
01Current Research
all projects →Not Like Them
Negational identities: the groups people refuse to belong to, and what these refusals mean for democratic cohesion.
StateParl
A text corpus of plenary protocols from all 16 German state parliaments, opening subnational politics to computational analysis.
FEnDi: Measuring Federalism in Parliamentary Debate
A validated dictionary for measuring references to Germany's federal system in parliamentary debate, and what it reveals about party strategies.
Near Dear: Regional Polarization & Federalism
How territorial identity and perceived regional inequality shape citizens' affective ties across regions and their preferences over the federal system.
Multilevel Responsibility
How voters attribute economic responsibility across levels of government, and why blame travels upward more easily than down.
text-as-data · german politics · parliamentsMaiden Speeches
Who speaks first, and when? Time to first speech as a window on representation in German parliaments.