Projects
What I am working on these days.
This project concerns the question of why voters hold polarized views of in- and out-parties, how this affects democracy, and how democratic innovations could be used to mitigate negative effects from polarization.
This project looks into the transformation of political cleavages in response to the knowledge economy. As a result of the transformation, a particularistic-universalistic identity divide has emerged that can explain recent electoral developments.
Digital deliberative Democracy
This project develops a large scale online platform that facilitates deliberation and co-creation in the areas of public consultations and direct democratic initiatives.
This project develops a new theory of elections that views vote choice as a two-stage process combining heuristic and systematic processing steps. It uses the model to derive new insights about electoral democracy.
This project seeks to extract measures of party positions with a high resolution in time and space using large language models. It complements work I have done on the Chapel Hill Expert Survey.