Comparative Politics, United Nations Politics, Data Science
My primary area of research is comparative politics, with an emphasis on quantitative methods and computational text analysis. In particular, I study institutions, such as presidential term limits, bicameralism, and sub-national institutions; national political leaders across regime types; as well as political communication and regime legitimation in comparative politics and in multilateral organizations, such as in the United Nations. My research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Peace Research, among others.
My research received funding from the Velux Fonden, Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond, the Irish Research Council, the Open Society Institute, and the Human Studies Institute, inter alia; it was profiled in the Washington Post, Tages-Anzeiger, Bloomberg, and other international media. I am also one of the authors of the United Nations General Debate Corpus (UNGDC).
Over the years I have held visiting fellowships or visiting professorships at Aarhus University (Denmark), Australian National University (Australia), University of Pennsylvania (USA), Essex University (UK), and the University of Leiden (Netherlands). At the moment I serve as a co-editor of the Comparative Politics series, published by the the Oxford University Press together with the European Consortium of Political Research.
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