Reto Wüest received his PhD from the University of Geneva in 2016. He recently started as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bergen, where he works on a project on the effects of stakeholder consultations on policy-making.  From 2016 to 2019, Reto was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Geneva, funded by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation as well as the ERC grant that supports the Unequal Democracies program.   In collaboration with Jonas Pontusson and other researchers, his work for Unequal Democracies explores the sources and consequences of unequal descriptive misrepresentation by education, occupation, and income through survey experiments, analyses of the placement of candidates on party lists, and analyses of the legislative behavior of members of parliament from different social backgrounds.

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Publications related to Unequal Democracies:

• "Voter preferences as a source of descriptive (mis)representation by social class", European Journal of Political Research (2022). Co-authored with Jonas Pontusson.
  
• "Do Parties Dislike Working-Class Candidates?", Working paper n°14 8(2020).
• "Who Represents the Poor? Evidence from Swiss Direct Democracy", Working paper n°8 (2019). Co-authored with Anouk Lloren
• "Descriptive Misrepresentation by Social Class: Do Voter Preferences Matter", Working paper n°1 (2018). Co-authored with Jonas Pontusson.
• “Are Opinion Leaders Better Represented?”  West European Politics, forthcoming, v. 39, n°4 (2016), 800-834. Co-authored with Anouk Lloren.
• “Descriptive and Substantive Representation of Poor Citizens in Switzerland.”  Swiss Political Science Review, v. 21, no. 2 (2015), 254-260. Co-authored with Anouk Lloren and Jan Rosset.