In my book project, I ask what explains the enfranchisement of emigrants, immigrants, and youth. I develop a theory on party positioning that applies across these to-be-enfranchised groups. My account draws on extensive archival records from three European case studies. An earlier version of the manuscript won the Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award by the APSA European Politics and Society section as well as an Honourable Mention for the Best Dissertation Award by the APSA Migration and Citizenship section. My book workshop is scheduled for May 2025.

In another strand of research, I assess to the impact that parallel referendums have on voter behavior. The first paper emerging from this strand combines an experiment, qualitative case studies, and observational quantitative data. It won the Best Paper Award at the annual NCCR Graduate Conference in July 2022 as well as the John Sullivan Award for the best graduate paper in the APSA Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behaviour section. I recently obtained a grant to pursue follow-up ideas.

Beyond this, I am involved in ongoing collaborative projects. Together with Leonardo Carella, I am studying the introduction of proportional representation. This project is supported by a British Academy Small Grant. With Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero and Rainer Bauböck, I helped collect the most comprehensive dataset on migrant electoral rights over the past few years. Stay tuned for the release of our open access dataset and our working papers!

In September 2024, I started as the Democratic Innovations Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies. A year earlier, I had joined the Department of Government at the University of Vienna as a postdoc. I completed my DPhil dissertation with no corrections at the University of Oxford in 2023.

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