I am interested in the impact of occupational change and economic modernization on social hierarchies, how changes in the economic and societal position affect political behavior, and how a changing composition of the labor force shapes welfare state policy in post-industrial democracies.

In Progress

Can Government Policies Moderate Political Backlash to Structural Change? (with Reto Bürgisser, Silja Häusermann and Susana de Pinho Tavares). URPP Working Paper #67 [pdf]

White-Collar Automation: Labor Market Entry and Political Preferences (with Reto Bürgisser)

Skill Change: The Shifting Landscape of Labor Market Insecurity in the Knowledge Economy

Proximity to Peril: How Local Layoffs Shape Economic Perceptions (with Pedro Martin, Kattalina Berriochoa and Valentina Consiglio)

Published

Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? (with Valentina Consiglio). British Journal of Political Science, accepted for publication (2025).

Rental Market Risk and Radical Right Support (with Tarik Abou-Chadi and Denis Cohen). Comparative Political Studies, online first (2024). Open Access. Covered in the Guardian

How technological change affects regional voting patterns (with Niko Schoell). Political Science and Research Methods, 12(1): 94-112. (2024). OpenAccess.

Aspiration versus Apprehension: Economic Opportunities and Electoral Preferences (with Silja Häusermann and Delia Zollinger). British Journal of Political Science, 53(4):1230-1251. (2023). OpenAccess.

Place-based campaigning: The political impact of real grassroots mobilization (with Daniel Bischof). The Journal of Politics, 85(3): 984-1002. (2023). Pre-Print (OSF)

Disappointed Expectations: Downward Mobility and Electoral Change (with Briitta van Staalduinen). American Political Science Review (2022). FirstView.

Automation, Digitalization, and Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace: Implications for Political Behavior (with Aina Gallego). Annual Review of Political Science (2022). FirstView.

Neither Left-Behind nor Superstar: Ordinary Winners of Digitalization at the Ballot Box (with Aina Gallego and Niko Schoell). Journal of Politics, Ahead of print (2021). Pre-Print [OSF]

Economic Risk within Households and Voting for the Radical Right. (with Tarik Abou-Chadi). World Politics: 73(3), 482-511 (2021). Pre-Print

Insider-Outsider Representation and Social Democratic Labor Market Policy (with Reto Bürgisser).  Socio-Economic Review, 19(3): 1065-1094 (2021). Pre-Print

The Declining Middle. Occupational Change, Social Status and the Populist Right. Comparative Political Studies, 53:10-11, 1798–1835 (2020). Pre-Print
Covered in the New York Times, Deutsche Welle

Shrinking and Shouting: The Political Revolt of the Declining Middle in Times of Employment Polarization (with Bruno Palier).
Research & Politics, 6:1 (2019). Covered in the LSE-Blog on European Policy and Politics

Distributional Consequences of Technological Change: Worker-Level Evidence (with Aina Gallego).
Research & Politics, 6:1 (2019).

The Politics of Trade-offs: Studying the Dynamics of Welfare State Reform with Conjoint Experiments (with Silja Häusermann and Denise Traber).
Comparative Political Studies, 52:7, 1059-1095 (2019). Pre-Print

Economic Grievances and Political Protest (with Matthias Enggist, Silja Häusermann, and Bruno Wüest).
European Journal of Political Research, 58:3, 866-892 (2019). Pre-Print

Participation in hard times: how constrained government depresses turnout among the highly educated (with Silja Häusermann and Bruno Wüest).
West European Politics, 41:2, 448-471 (2018).

Sharing the Risk? Households, Labor Market Vulnerability, and Social Policy Preferences in Western Europe (with Silja Häusermann and Hanna Schwander).
Journal of Politics, 78:4, 1045-1060 (2016).

High-skilled outsiders? Labor market vulnerability, education and welfare state preferences (with Silja Häusermann and Hanna Schwander).
Socio-Economic Review, 2015, Vol. 13, No. 2, 235–258 (2015).