About

Mads Thau is senior research fellow at the Institute for Social Research Oslo in Norway. Thau is broadly interested in democratic politics and public administration. Specifically, his research focuses on political behavior (voting and opinion formation, party strategies, and mass-elite linkages), but also public administration issues such as public service delivery, organizational learning, and citizens’ performance evaluations. Thau has previously worked at the Dept. of Political Science, Aarhus University and at VIVE – The Danish Center for Social Science Research. Google scholar site: https://scholar.google.dk/citations?user=bKfClZQAAAAJ&hl=en Institutional site: https://www.samfunnsforskning.no/english/people/res/madstha/index.html

Research Interests

Civil Society, Cleavages, Comparative Politics, Elites, Government, Local Government, Party Manifestos, Political Psychology, Public Administration, Voting, Catch-all, Methods, Quantitative, Electoral Behaviour, Experimental Design, Public Opinion, Survey Experiments, Survey Research, Voting Behaviour

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Public Opinion and Voting Behaviour in a Comparative Perspective