Publications

Peer-reviewed

Backlash or progressive mobilization? Voter reactions to perceived trajectories of women’s representation. Comparative Political Studies 57:13, 2024. Open Accesss, DOI: 10.1177/00104140231223745; Replication files DOI: 10.7910/DVN/5AWTXE.

Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources. European Journal of Political Research, 2024, Early View. Open Access, DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12712; Replication files DOI: 10.7910/DVN/8JFKC1.

Populist positions in party competition: Do parties strategically vary their degree of populism in reaction to vote and office loss? Party Politics, 2023, 29(4). Open Access, DOI: 10.1177/13540688221097082; Replication files DOI:10.7910/DVN/1F861L.

Other

Narratives of backlash? Perceptions of changing status hierarchies in open-ended survey responses (with Tabea Palmtag and Delia Zollinger). URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series, No. 15, 2023, URL.

The (re)politicization of gender in Western Europe (with Tarik Abou-Chadi and Theresa Gessler). Gender Update, in: European Journal of Politics and Gender 4(2), 2021, p. 311-314. DOI: 10.1332/251510821X16177312096679.

Dissertation

Social Status Politics: The Role of Shifting Cultural Hierarchies. Cumulative PhD Thesis, Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich, defended in May 2023. DOI: 10.5167/uzh-234049.


Working papers

Class

The mobilizing effect of class appeals to the new and old working class (co-authored with Robin Weisser and Denise Traber), Conference Paper.

Status

Who deserves recognition? How the discrepancy between perceived and desirable changes to the social hierarchy relates to vote choice (co-authored with Tabea Palmtag and Delia Zollinger).

Gender and sexuality

Progressive momentum and the dynamics of political competition: The case of #metoo (with Theresa Gessler and Tarik Abou-Chadi), Conference Paper.

Cultural backlash? Belief correction about same-sex marriage (co-authored with Thomas Kurer, Tarik Abou-Chadi, and Reto Mitteregger), Conference Paper.


Outreach

Appearance on the podcast Political Science? No problem et al.!: Episode 3 - Magdalena Breyer on Women’s Representation and its Effects on Political Behavior, March 2024, URL.

Wieso Identität, «Wokeness» und Gender mit Status und Anerkennung zusammenhängen. Post on DeFacto, a Swiss science communication blog, December 2023, URL.

The strategic use of populism. Interview on the blog Populism Observer, October 2022, URL.