Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

  • Local Economic Consequences of Foreign Direct Investment in Democracies and Autocracies (with Tabea Palmtag, Luca Messerschmidt), International Studies Quarterly, 2025, 69 (2), 1-13. [journal] [paper+appendix]
  • Beyond Economic Development? Foreign Direct Investment and Pre-Election Violence (with Tabea Palmtag, Katrin Paula), Journal of Peace Research, 2025, 62 (2), 246-261. [journal] [paper+appendix]
  • Even in the Best of Both Worlds, You Can’t Have It All: How German Voters Navigate the Trilemma of Mixed-member Proportionality (with Lukas Haffert, Pascal Langenbach), Electoral Studies, 2024, 90 (4), 1-11. [journal] [paper+appendix]
  • Foreign Direct Investment and Political Preferences in Non-Democratic Regimes, Comparative Political Studies, 2024, 57 (8), 1276-1309. [journal] [paper+appendix]
  • Misremembering Weimar: Hyperinflation, the Great Depression, and German Collective Economic Memory (with Lukas Haffert, Nils Redeker), Economics & Politics, 2021, 33 (3), 664-686. [journal] [paper] [appendix]
  • International Trade and Public Protest: Evidence from Russian Regions (with Tabea Palmtag, Stefanie Walter), International Studies Quarterly, 2020, 64 (4), 939-955. [journal] [paper] [appendix]
  • First Impressions: How Leader Changes Affect Bilateral Aid (with Paul Schaudt), Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 185 (5), 1-12. [journal] [paper] [appendix]
  • The Electoral Consequences of Offshoring. How the Globalization of Production Shapes Party Preferences (with Stefanie Walter), Comparative Political Studies, 2018, 51 (5), 621-658. [journal] [paper] [appendix]

Monograph

  • Foreign Direct Investment and the Politics of Autocratic Survival, 2018, PhD Dissertation, University of Zurich.

Policy Papers

  • Government Ideology and Social Policy: Evidence from New Global Data (with Bastian Herre), Social Policy Worldwide, 2023, September 8. [article]
  • Angst vor der Inflation? Über die politische Macht trügerischer Erinnerungen (with Lukas Haffert, Nils Redeker), ifo Schnelldienst, 2021, 74 (9), 23-26. [article]
  • Misremembering Weimar: Unpacking the Historical Roots of Germany’s Monetary Policy Discourse (with Lukas Haffert, Nils Redeker), Jacques Delors Institute Policy Paper, 2019, November 1. [article in English or German]

Manuscripts

  • Ad Machina: Partisanship and Support for Delegating Government Decisions to Autonomous Algorithms (with Matthew DiGiuseppe, Katrin Paula)
  • AI on the Battlefield? Revisiting Public Support for Lethal Autonomous Weapons (with Matthew DiGiuseppe, Katrin Paula)
  • The Electoral Costs of Reforming Political Institutions (with Lukas Haffert, Amy Pond)
  • AI at the Policy Proposal Stage: A Conjoint Experiment
  • ‘Nothing’ is Not a Control Group: On the Need for Placebo Comparisons in Political Science Survey Experiments (with Lukas Haffert, Raphael Reinke)