The presentation will take place in a hybrid format via zoom interface or in person in the room K13-14 on 03.10.2024, from 13.00.
Speaker: Theresa Gessler
BIO: Theresa Gessler is a tenure-track assistant professor for Comparative Politics at European University Viadrina. Her current research focuses on democracy, digital politics and immigration, often through the lens of party politics. Most of her research studies European countries, especially Central-Eastern Europe. Next to classical political science methods, she uses (and teaches) text-as-data, webscraping and various types of digital trace data in her research. Until July 2022, she was a postdoc in political science at the University of Zurich and the Digital Democracy Lab. Her research has been published, among others, in the European Journal of Political Research, Political Science Research and Methods, the Journal of European Public Policy and Democratization.
Title: How citizens perceive democratic backsliding
