About

Nicolas Fliess is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen (Germany). He holds a PhD from the University of Sussex and is a research affiliate of the ERC-funded MIGRADEMO project at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His research interests are political participation and inclusion of migrants with a focus on political parties, elections and civil society organisations. In his doctoral dissertation, Nicolas studied the political transnational activities of Latin American emigrants and political parties in Spain. Methodologically, he employs both quantitative and qualitative methods commonly used in political sociology.

Research Interests

Comparative Politics, Democratisation, Elections, Integration, Latin America, Migration, Political Participation, Political Parties, Political Sociology, Immigration, Party Members, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Qualitative, Quantitative, Comparative Perspective, Electoral Behaviour, Mobilisation, Political Engagement, Voting Behaviour

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Parties
• Migration and Ethnicity
• Latin American Politics
• Citizenship