Research Interests
I am a comparative political scientist by training who is interested in global and European politics, especially issues of democratic government and parties in and beyond the nation-state, and crises of as well as challengers to liberal democracies, in Europe, the US, and beyond. I am also interested in global political theory as a critical resource for researching contemporary politics. My interest in the interactions between governments, politics, culture, and society translates into research on a variety of contemporary issues, including the rise of authoritarian populism, (il)liberal democracy, problems of democratic governance, and the crisis of liberal democracy; new political conflicts and the political implications of social value change; the relationship between (trans)national political cultures and sports cultures; global constitutionalism and European (dis)integration; American, European and German governments and parties; authoritarianism, antisemitism, racism, the radical right, and populism in European and American politics; the history of genocide in the age of the Holocaust and its legacy for democratic political cultures, and human rights; and the (comparative) politics of climate change.