September 2014

Ph.D, Political Science, Northwestern University
Dissertation: Feeling Vulnerable? Affect, Appraisal, and Trust in Times of Economic Insecurity
Committee : Jason Seawright, James Mahoney, Martin Behrens

December 2010

MA, Political Science, Northwestern University
With distinction
Colby College, Waterville, ME

May 2006

B.A. in Economics & International Studies
Cum Laude, Dean’s List, Davis Scholar

Sep 2014-Present

Southern Denmark University, Odense
Postdoc, Department of Political Science and Public Management
Centre for Welfare State Research

• Experimental Lab Assistant for Jason Seawright , Spring 2011
• Country Research and Translation Assistant for Georgia Kernell, Winter 2011
• Survey Design and Data Collection for Jim Mahoney, Winter 2010

• ICPSR Summer School 2012: Introduction to Bayesian Analysis and Regression III

• Conference Coordinator: EspaNet 2015
• Founding Coordinator for the Quantitative Methods Workshop, Northwestern University
• Coordinator for the Comparative Historical Social Science Workshop, Northwestern University
• Peer Review: Journal of European Social Policy

• Council of European Studies – Political Economy and Welfare Research Network
• American Political Science Association

• PSTWA: Wer wählt wen? Populistische Parteiaffinität in Deutschland und im Vergleich (2 Kurse)
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics? - Politische Datenkompetenz gewinnen und vermitteln
• Techniken der Empirischen Parlamentsanalyse in R

• Das politische System Deutschlands im internationalen Vergleich

• Sozialpolitik in Deutschland
• Institutional Analysis: The case of Germany

• Sozialpolitik in Deutschland
• Das politische System Deutschlands im internationalen Vergleich

Project-Lead: "Soziale Kohäsion in Krisenzeiten Die Corona-Pandemie und anti-asiatischer Rassismus in Deutschland" (Social Cohesion in Times of Crisis: The Corona-Pandemic and anti-asian Racism in Germany; german only)

• Link zum Projekt : https://www.dezim-institut.de/projekte/projekt-detail/soziale-kohaesion-in-krisenzeiten-4-06/

• "Decoding German Politics with StateParl—A Text Corpus of Plenary Protocols in the 16 German Länder Parliaments". Politische Vierteljahresschrift.  (2026) (mit Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp, & Antonios Souris) Link
• "To support or punish? Analyzing the relationship between welfare state attitudes and penal punitiveness". Punishment & Society, 28(2), 454–473. (2026) (mit Peter Starke) Link
• "Faktoren der Rückkehrbereitschaft nach gewaltsamer Vertreibung: Eine empirische Untersuchung ukrainischer Geflüchteter". (2025) (mit Jörg Dollmann, Jannes Jacobsen, Sabrina J. Mayer) Link
• "Navigating Peace? Factors Shaping Internationally Displaced Ukrainian Return Intentions". SocArXiv. (2024) (mit Jörg Dollmann, Jannes Jacobsen, Sabrina J. Mayer) Link
• "Navigating conflicting incentives: Discursive strategies of political parties in Germany’s cooperative federalism". Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 54(4), 656–682. (2024) (mit Antonios Souris und Sabine Kropp) Link
• "Angry populists or concerned citizens? How linguistic emotion ascriptions shape affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses to political outgroups". Cognition and Emotion, 37(1), 147–161. (2023) (mit Philipp Wunderlich und Christian von Scheve) Link
• "Attributing blame: how political parties in Germany leverage cooperative federalism." West European Politics, (2023), pp. 1–27 (mit Sabine Kropp und Antonios Souris) Link
• "The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of mmigrant support as the majority population." The British Journal of Sociology, (2023) (mit Sabrina J. Mayer, Jörg Dollmann und Susanne Veit) Link 
• "Prägt Opportunismus das föderale System? Herausforderungen des „bundesfreundlichen Verhaltens“ in der Corona-Krise." In: In Staat, Rechtsstaat und Demokratie : konzeptionelle und aktuelle Diskussionen in der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft, Springer VS, pp.41-66, (2022) (mit Sabine Kropp und Antonios Souris) Link 
• "Angry populists or concerned citizens? How linguistic emotion ascriptions shape affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses to political outgroups," Cognition and Emotion, (2022), pp. 1-15 (mit Philipp Wunderlich und Christian von Scheve) Link
• "The impact of emotions on polarization. Anger polarizes attitudes towards vaccine mandates and increases affective polarization," Research & Politics., vol. 9, no. 3, (2022) (mit Sabrina J. Mayer und Susanne Veit) Link
• "Zusammenhalt Im Bundesstaat? Bundesfreundliche Und Opportunistische Argumentationsstrategien in Der Pandemie.” Der Moderene Staat Dms ; Zeitschrift Für Public Policy, Recht Und Management, vol. 15, no. 1, 2022, pp. 20–41 (mit Sabine Kropp und Antonios Souris) Link

• "From Specific Worries to Generalized Anger: The Emotional Dynamics of Right-Wing Political Populism",The Palgrave Handbook of Populism pp. 145-160, (2022), Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (mit Mikko Salmela und Christian von Scheve) Link

• "Angry Reactionary Narcissists? Anger Activates the Link Between Narcissism and Right-Populist Party Support." Politics and Governance, 9:3, (2020), pp. 248-259. (with Sabrina J. Mayer) Link
• "Antiasiatischer Rassismus in Deutschland", Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 70 (2020) ,42-44, (mit Kimiko Suda und Sabrina J. Mayer)
• "Föderale Leitbilder als verfassungspolitischer Handlungsrahmen im deutschen Bundesstaat". In: Knüpling F., Kölling M., Kropp S., Scheller H. (eds) Reformbaustelle Bundesstaat. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. (2020) (mit Sabine Kropp) Link
• "Anti-elite parties and political inequality: How challenges to the political mainstream reduce income gaps in internal efficacy", European Journal of Political Research, forthcoming (mit Paul Marx).
• "Political participation in European welfare states: does social investment matter?" , Journal of European Public Policy, 25:6 (2018), pp. 912-943. Link
• "Labor Market Insecurity and Generalized Social Trust in Welfare State Context", European Sociological Review, 33:2 (2017), pp. 225-239. Link
• "Are the Unemployed Less Politically Involved? A Comparative Study of Internal Political Efficacy", European Sociological Review, 32:5 (2016), pp. 634-648 (mit Paul Marx). Link
• "Causality and Time in Historical Institutionalism", The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, 2016 (mit James Mahoney und Khairunnisa Mohamedali). Link

• Landesparlamente in der Corona-Krise, Berlin University Alliance, (2022) (mit Sabine Kropp und Antonios Souris) Link 
• Economic Voting Reconsidered: Economic Insecurity, Affect, and Responsibility Attribution Democracy and Capital Account Liberalization in the Developing World (mit Steve Nelson und David Steinberg).

• 'Book review: Stephan Mau: Inequality, Marketization and the Majority Class: Why Did the European Middle Classes Accept Neo-Liberalism? , Czech Sociological Review, 53:3 (2017), pp. 484-487. Link

• "Just one Piece of the Puzzle: Leiharbeit and Institutional Change in German Industrial Relations", Perspectives on Europe, 42:2 (Autumn 2012), pp. 83-88.

“It’s not whether you win or lose; it’s how you place the blame: Affect, Appraisal, and Responsibility Attribution”
• Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2015 – Chicago, USA

“Insecurity, Party Position, and Political Behavior”
• Access Europe Workshop on Experimental Methods in Welfare State Research, 2014 – Amsterdam, NL

“Economic Insecurity and Organizational Trust: German Work Councilor's Trust and the
Global economic crisis”
• Meeting of the Council of European Studies, 2014 –Washington, USA
• Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2014 – Chicago, USA
• Austerity and the Crisis: Managing the global Economy at Cardiff Business School, 2013
• WSI Discussion Forum, Hans Böckler Stiftung, 2013 – Düsseldorf, Germany

“Labor-Market Uncertainty, Trust and Redistribution: Connecting Institutional Change and
Individual Attitudes”
• Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 2012 – New Orleans, USA
• Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2012 – Chicago, USA
• Meeting of the Council of European Studies, 2012 – Boston, USA
• Coping with Instability in Market Societies – Science Po , 2011 – Paris, France

“Hard to Coordinate a Free Lunch- Assessing the Effects of European Monetary Union on
central-bank wage-bargaining coordination”
• Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2011– Chicago, USA
• Science Po- Northwestern-Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies Graduate Conference, 2010 – Paris, France