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Konstantin Käppner

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Konstantin Käppner joined the Unequal Democracies project as a postdoctoral researcher after defending his PhD thesis at the University of Konstanz in October 2018. In his thesis, he analyzes the heterogenous effects past political behaviors such as turning out to vote and choosing a party have on future participation and choice. It contrasts different behavioral theories stressing different psychological mechanisms that ultimately imply either a rather unconditional or habitual reinforcement of previous choices or a more conditional type of reinforcement in which different voter groups react differently based on perceived political outcomes leading to more fine-grained empirical and more optimistic normative implications. Apart from that, he is interested in the simultaneous measurement of voter preferences and party positions via scaling techniques and in understanding the influence of organized interests in the policy-making process. He joins the project to analyze cross-national and temporal variation in unequal representation in order to better understand its casuses and determinants.

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