About

I am a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Democracy Studies at the University of Zurich, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Geneva and a research associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. I am an expert on democratic governance, and deliberative democracy, in both representative and direct democratic systems with strong expertise in democratic innovations.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Comparative Politics, Democracy, Extremism, Governance, Government, Policy Analysis, Political Methodology, Political Participation, Political Psychology, Political Violence, Referendums and Initiatives, Representation, Social Movements, Methods, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Quantitative, Regression, Climate Change, Mixed Methods, Mobilisation, Policy Change, Public Opinion, Survey Experiments, Survey Research, Policy-Making, Political Cultures

Current/Upcoming Events

Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Democratic Innovations
• Methods of Normative Political Theory
• Political Methodology