I am a doctoral student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. In my work, I seek to answer the question of why citizens support authoritarian actors. Using various research designs and causal inference methods, I focus on former communist Europe and study how authoritarian actors shape attitudes towards authoritarianism, political conflicts and identities. This research aims to improve our understanding of how authoritarian regimes function and how they can leave behind a pro-authoritarian bias.

Working Papers

1. From Military Rule to Local Benefits: How Authoritarian Actors Garner Support

2. Going Through The Roof: Difference-in-Differences Designs in Contexts of Natural Boundaries (with Joris Frese)

3. On Solid Footing: How Communist Legacies Facilitate Democratic Backsliding

4. The Price of Incompetence: How Policy Mismanagement Fuels a Climate Backlash (with Martín Alberdi)

5. Winner of Transformations (with Hans Lueders and Eda Keremoglu)

Work in Progress

1. Roots of Authority: The Political Consequences of Land Reform in East Germany

2. Between Guilt and Victimhood: The Political Effects of WWII Memory (with Anna Clemente)

3. Dimensions of Gender Equality: Unpacking Sozialization Experiences (with Hans Lueders and Eda Keremoglu)

4. WWII Legacies and Support for Russia: Evidence from Slovakia