Research

Research projects and manuscripts/working papers

Work in progress

Economic inequality, subjective class, and conflict between the rich and the poor (with Daniel Höhmann). Prepared for the Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, June 2023.

Voter Signalling or Coalition Adjustment? Party Competition and Environmental Speeches in the German Bundestag (with Clint Claessen and Martijn Schoonvelde). Prepared for the Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, 24-25 June 2021.

Ongoing and recently completed research projects

1) Class identity politics: the (new) political role of social class in Western Europe, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, Grant number 10001G_212396. CHF 984’135. 2023 –.

2) Swiss Direct Democracy in the 21st Century (SDD-21) (Daniel Kübler, Marc Bühlmann, Lionel Marquis, Denise Traber, Anke Tresch), funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, Grant number 100018_207585. CHF 2’304’464. 2023 –.

3) A Quantitative Textual Approach of the European Consensus Method of Interpretation in the European Court of Human Rights, SNIS Project, with Jon Slapin (Coordinator), Nicole Baerg, Hauke Licht, Vassilis P Tzevelekos, Panos Kapotas, Kushtrim Istrefi and Maria Fanou. Co-Coordinator, 2020-2022.

4) The divided people: polarization of political attitudes in Europe. SNSF Ambizione Project, No PZ00P1\_174067, 2018 — 2021.

5) Hard choices. Preferences, trade-offs and reform opportunities in multidimensional welfare politics, SNSF-Project, with Silja Häusermann (PI), Thomas Kurer and Michael Pinggera, Collaborator, Operative Leader 1st wave of survey, 2015 — 2018.

6) Crisis of democracy? Party politics and representation in times of austerity, SNSF-Project, with Silja Häusermann, Postdoc, 2014 — 2017.