Juniorprofessur für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Die Professur untersucht Politik aus vergleichender Perspektive. Im Mittelpunkt unserer Forschung und Lehre steht die theoriegeleitete empirische Analyse demokratischer Systeme, Prozesse und des Verhaltens von Bürgern und politischen Eliten. Dazu greifen wir auf eine Reihe von Werkzeugen zurück, darunter traditionelle quantitative Forschungsmethoden, Textanalyse, digitale Daten und computational methods.

Thematisch konzentriert sich die Arbeit der Professur auf drei Themen: Demokratie und democratic backsliding; Migration und Rechtspopulismus; sowie Digitalisierung von Politik. Forschungsfragen sind unter anderem: Wie und warum stehen demokratische Systeme in der Kritik? Steckt die Demokratie in Europa in der Krise? Wie prägt Immigration politische Konflikte in Europa? Können rechte Parteien die Politik beeinflussen? Wie verändert die Digitalisierung Prozesse der Meinungsbildung und die Kommunikation zwischen Eliten und Bürgern?

Aktuelle Veröffentlichungen

Herausgeberschaften:

• Bojar, A., Gessler, T., Hutter, S., & Kriesi, H. (Hrsg.). (2021). Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity: Studying the Dynamics of Government–Challenger Interactions: Bd. forthcoming. Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/contentious-episodes-in-the-age-of-austerity/3266F797F80705A8652E556ED2FE38B4; Neu als Taschenbuch

Zeitschriftenartikel:

• Gessler, T., & L. Kaftan (2023). Communicating democratic subversions to citizens. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, Online First

• Gessler, T., & Wunsch, N. (2023). Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters´ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary. Democratization, Online First.

• Engler, S., Gessler, T., Abou-Chadi, T., & Leemann, L. (2022). Democracy challenged: how parties politicize different democratic principles. Journal of European Public Policy, Online First.

• Gessler, T., & Hunger, S. (2022). How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration. Political Science Research and Methods, 10(3), 524–544. https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2021.64

• Gilardi, F., Gessler, T., Kubli, M., & Müller, S. (2022). Social Media and Political Agenda Setting. Political Communication, 39(1), 39–60. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2021.1910390.

• Gilardi, F., Gessler, T., Kubli, M., & Müller, S. (2021). Social Media and Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Switzerland. Swiss Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12458

• Gilardi, F., Baumgartner, L., Dermont, C., Donnay, K., Gessler, T., Kubli, M., Leemann, L., & Müller, S. (2021). Building Research Infrastructures to Study Digital Technology and Politics: Lessons from Switzerland. PS: Political Science & Politics, First View, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049096521000895

• Gilardi, F., Gessler, T., Kubli, M., & Müller, S. (2022). Issue Ownership and Agenda Setting in the 2019 Swiss National Elections. Swiss Political Science Review, 28(2), 190–208. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12496

• Gessler, T., Tóth, G., & Wachs, J. (2021). No Country for Asylum Seekers? How Short-Term Exposure to Refugees Influences Attitudes and Voting Behavior in Hungary. Political Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09682-1

• Borbáth, E., & Gessler, T. (2021). How Do Populist Radical Right Parties Differentiate their Appeal? Evidence from the Media Strategy of the Hungarian Jobbik Party. Government and Opposition, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/gov.2021.28

• Abou-Chadi, T., Breyer, M., & Gessler, T. (2021). The (re)politicisation of gender in Western Europe. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 4(2), 311–314. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510821X16177312096679

• Borbáth, E., & Gessler, T. (2020). Different worlds of contention? Protest in Northwestern, Southern and Eastern Europe. European Journal of Political Research, 59(4), 910–935. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12379

Buchkapitel:

• Kriesi, H., Hutter, S., Bojar, A., Altiparmakis, A., Gessler, T., Hunger, S., Pilati, K., & Schulte-Cloos, J. (2021). Introduction: A New Approach for Studying Political Contention – Contentious Episode Analysis. In A. Bojar, H. Kriesi, S. Hutter, & T. Gessler (Hrsg.), Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity: Studying the Dynamics of Government–Challenger Interactions (S. 3–23). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004367.003

• Gessler, T., & Hutter, S. (2021). Actor Configurations and Coalitions in Contentious Episodes. In A. Bojar, H. Kriesi, S. Hutter, & T. Gessler (Hrsg.), Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity: Studying the Dynamics of Government–Challenger Interactions (S. 91–109). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004367.008

• Gessler, T., & Hutter, S. (2021). Conceptualizing, Measuring, and Mapping Contentiousness. In A. Bojar, H. Kriesi, S. Hutter, & T. Gessler (Hrsg.), Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity: Studying the Dynamics of Government–Challenger Interactions (S. 67–90). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009004367.007

• Gessler, T., & Kyriazi, A. (2019). Hungary – A Hungarian Crisis or Just a Crisis in Hungary? In S. Hutter & H. Kriesi (Hrsg.), European Party Politics in Times of Crisis (S. 167–188). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108652780.008

• Gessler, T., & Schulte-Cloos, J. (2020). The Return of the Economy?: Issue Contention in the Protest Arena. In B. Wüest, H. Kriesi, J. Lorenzini, & S. Hausermann (Hrsg.), Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries (S. 128–146). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108891660.007

• Hutter, S., & Gessler, T. (2019). The Media Content Analysis and Cross-Validation. In S. Hutter & H. Kriesi (Hrsg.), European Party Politics in Times of Crisis (S. 53–72). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108652780.003