The Political Consequences of the Great Recession
I was a member of the ERC-funded research project POLCON, which studied the political consequences of the Great Recession. The project combined a comparative-static analysis of 30 European countries with a dynamic analysis of political conflict in 12 countries. For this purpose, we studied both elections and political protest in the shadow of the Great Recession and analyzed the issue-specific public interaction between both political arenas. The key question that the project addressed was whether the Great Recession changed the long-term trends of political conflict in Europe. For this purpose, we utilized survey data as well as original content anlysis of protest events, election campaigns, and issue-specific public contestations.
In co-authored papers, I worked on different aspects of this research project. On the one hand, I worked on comparative-static analyses of the electoral consequences of the Great Recession. I was responsible for the analysis of the consequences of the economic crisis on protest and electoral politics and the interaction of both. To better understand these consequences, I also zoomed in and studied the political consequences of specific economic policies during the Great Recession, namely austerity and structural reforms. On the other hand, I analyzed the development of political conflicts in comparative case studies. In particular, I have worked on chapters in edited volumes that studied the development of political conflicts in the context of the crisis in Germany, Greece, Spain, and the UK.
Publications:
- “Who still likes social democracy? The support base of social democratic parties reconsidered” (with Line Rennwald) Party Politics, 2022.
Preprint version / online appendix - “The effect of austerity packages on government popularity during the Great Recession” (with Abel Bojar, Hanspeter Kriesi and Chendi Wang). British Journal of Political Science 52(1):181-199, 2022.
Pre-print version / online appendix / replication material - “Dynamics of protest and electoral politics in the Great Recession” (with Swen Hutter, and Hanspeter Kriesi). European Journal of Political Research 59(4):842-866, 2020.
Pre-print version / online appendix / replication material - “Electoral punishment and protest politics in times of crisis” (with Swen Hutter and Hanspeter Kriesi). In Hanspeter Kriesi, Jasmine Lorenzini, Bruno Wüest, and Silja Häusermann (eds.), Contention in Times of Crises: Comparing Political Protest in 30 European Countries, 2000-2015. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- “The restructuring of British and German party politics in times of crisis” (with Julia Schulte-Cloos). In Hutter, Swen and Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.), European Party Politics in Times of Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- “From boom to bust: A comparative analysis of Greece and Spain under austerity” (with Guillem Vidal). In Doxiadis, Evdoxios and Aimee Placas (eds.). Living Under Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018.