My research is situated in the fields of political behavior, comparative politics and political sociology. I work on the implications of shifting class and status structures for voting behavior and party competition. In my postdoc, I assess political parties’ class appeals, with a focus on (new) working class appeals and their effectiveness. My PhD project investigated the implications of shifting social status hierarchies for political attitudes and behavior, with a focus on shifts in cultural structural hierarchies like gender and race/ethnicity. The focus is on the connection between perceptions of status threat and radical right voting on the one hand and on perceptions of status gains and voting for socioculturally progressive parties on the other hand. I use quantitative methods such as survey experiments and text analysis.

Dr. Magdalena Breyer

Teaching Bachelor/Master