About

Fabian Habersack is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Innsbruck. In 2021, he received his PhD from the University of Salzburg for his dissertation entitled A Nativist Zeitgeist? Explaining Party Adaptation to the Success of the Populist Radical Right. Previously, Fabian Habersack studied at the University of Salzburg and Sciences Po, Paris. His research, which has been published in Environmental Politics, European Politics and Society, Party Politics, Political Studies among others, focuses primarily on the influence of populism on party competition and democracy and democratic representation, with a special research interest in quantitative empirical methods.

Research Interests

Civil Society, Comparative Politics, Contentious Politics, Democracy, Elections, European Politics, Extremism, Globalisation, Government, Institutions, Media, National Identity, Parliaments, Party Manifestos, Political Competition, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Psychology, Populism, Representation, Social Movements, Voting, Political Sociology, Campaign, Candidate, Identity, Immigration, Methods, Quantitative, Social Media, Causality, Climate Change, Electoral Behaviour, Euroscepticism, Experimental Design, Field Experiments, Mixed Methods, Mobilisation, Party Systems, Policy Change, Public Opinion, Survey Experiments, Survey Research, Voting Behaviour, Big Data, Empirical

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Extremism and Democracy
• Political Parties
• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective
• Political Methodology
• Parliaments