Nathalie Giger received her PhD from the University of Bern.  Before taking up her current position as associate professor at the University of Geneva, she held a postdoc fellowship at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research.  Nathalie has published on a range of themes related to the linkage of citizens and political elites, unequal representation and party competition.  Recently funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, her main research project for the next four years focuses on the political consequences of perceptions of inequality.

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Publications related to Unequal Democracies:

• "Looking for information? A survey experiment on citizens' information seeking behaviour", Working paper n°47 (2023). Co-authored with Elisa Volpi.
  
• "A Distorting Mirror: Ideological preferences and mis-perceptions of economic inequality", Working paper n°32 (2022). Co-authored with Elisa Volpi.
• "Social Status, Political Priorities and Unequal Representation", European Journal of Political Research (2021). Co-authored with Denise Traber, Miriam Hänni and Christian Breunig.
• "The Diminishing Value of Representing the Disadvantaged: Between Group Representation and Individual Career Paths",. Co-authored with Stefanie Bailer, Christian Breunig and Andreas M. Wüst.
• "Do poor and rich vote differently?", Working paper n°28 (2021). Co-authored with Jan Rosset and Anna-Sophie Kurella.
• "Introducing the Inequality and Politics Survey: Preliminary Findings", Working paper n°16 (2020). Co-authored with Jonas Pontusson, Jan Rosset and Davy-Kim Lascombes.
• "Democracy or Oligarchy? Unequal Representation of Income Groups in European Institutions", Politics and Governance, 08 (01): 19-27 (2020). Co-authored with Zoe Lefkofridi.
• "Growing income inequality, growing legitimacy: A longitudinal approach to perceptions of inequality", Working paper n°11 (2019). Co-authored with Davy-Kim Lascombes.
• "What rich and poor consider important and how this matters for representation", Working paper n°9 (2019). Co-authored with Denise Traber, Miriam Hänni and Christian Breunig.
• “How economic crises affect political representation: declining party-voter congruence in times of constrained government”, West European Politics, forthcoming https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2017.1378984 (2018). Co-authored with Denise Traber and Silja Häusermann.
• “I the people? Self-interest and attitudes towards responsiveness”, Comparative Political Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0010414015621078 (2016). Co-authored with Jan Rosset and Julian Bernauer.
• “Mind the Gap: Do Proportional Electoral Systems Foster a More Equal Representation of Women and Men, Poor and Rich?”, International Political Science Review. 36(1), 78-98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192512113498830 (2015). Co-authored with Julian Bernauer and Jan Rosset.
• “More Money, Fewer Problems? Cross-Level Effects of Economic Deprivation on Political Representation”, West European Politics, 36(4), pp. 817-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2013.783353 (2013). Co-authored with Jan Rosset, and Julian Bernauer.
• “The Poor Representation of the Poor in a Comparative Perspective”, Representation 48(1), pp. 47-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2012.653238 (2012). Co-authored with Jan Rosset and Julian Bernauer.