Patrick M Kuhn

I am a Senior Programme Manager at the ETH Zurich's Einstein School of Public Policy. Before my current role, I was Professor of Comparative Politics at Durham University's School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) and a member of the Centre of Institutions and Political Behaviour (CIPB). During this time, I also served as SGIA's Deputy Head of School and Director of Education (2020 and 2022-2025), Head of Ethics and Risk (2017-2020), and Director of the CIPB and Deputy Director of Research (2021-2022).  I have also been the Principal Investigator (PI) on the ESRC/AHRC-funded project "Causes and Consequences of Electoral Violence: Evidence from England and Wales, 1832-1914", which created the first systematic dataset on 19th-century election violence (see digital map).

My research is in Comparative Political Economy, specifically on the relationship between democratic institutions, economic development, and political violence. My research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, British Journal of Political Science, International Organization, Past & Present, Political Analysis, Political Science Research and Methods, Public Opinion Quarterly, Quarterly Journal of Political Science, and other peer-reviewed journals. 

My Google Scholar page is here.