Let’s understand Democracy and its challenges.

Democracy is a system, an attitude, and a form of politics. 
My work as a political scientist is concerned with all of its dimensions.

I am a political scientist interested in the stability and resilience of democracies and the role of political parties in particular.  The focus of my research is on the empirical analysis of illiberal parties in international comparison, the reasons for their electoral success as well as their impact on the institutions and the party system. In detail, my work revolves around illiberal parties’ ideology, voters and elites as well as the counterstrategies of mainstream actors to the illiberal challenge.