I am a doctoral student at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute. This Spring Term, I am visiting New York University (NYU). In my work, I seek to answer the question of how authoritarian actors create popular support. 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. Goodbye Comrades: Political Economy of Military Presence

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

Work in Progress

1. Buying Loyalty, Sowing Dissent: The Political Consequences of Land Reform in East Germany

2. Winning Hearts and Pockets: Economic Strategies of Authoritarian Rule

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

4. Economic Risk and the Heating Transition: The Electoral Politics of Asset Bans (with Martín Alberdi)

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

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