Welcome
I am a researcher at the Center for Comparative and International Studies of the University of Zurich. Currently I am working in the project National Political Change in a Globalizing World, which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In this project, we try to assess the transformation of the cleavage structure in Western European countries induced by globalization.
My research has two main focuses. On the one hand, I study the processes of economic liberalization in a comparative perspective. Here, I am particularly interested in party politics and the analysis of social cleavages. On the other hand, I concentrate on the explotation of computional linguistic methods and tools for content analyses in the field of social sciences.