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My new article, coauthored with Alyssa Taylor, Mia Gandenberger, and Juliana Chueri, on how psychological predispositions drive opposition to welfare rights for immigrants is now forthcoming in Political Studies and available for free (open access): https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217241228456.

Research

Attitudes toward immigrants

Much of my current research is concerned with immigrant integration and public attitudes toward immigrants, and relies mainly on surveys and survey experiments.

One recent study analyzes hiring discrimination against refugees and looks specifically at whether male or female refugees face more discrimination by recruiters (forthcoming in the International Migration Review; open access). Earlier, Flavia Fossati, Gemma Scalise, Gerda Hooijer, and I co-edited a special issue in the Journal of European Social Policy which studies how employers and trade unions influence the inclusion of immigrants into welfare states and labor markets. A book chapter (access) I wrote with Philipp Lutz summarizes the existing research on how countries can (or cannot) reconcile open borders and generous welfare states.

Other studies (e.g., on how discriminatory attitudes toward immigrants are linked to right-wing populist voting, or on stereotypes about immigrants) are currently under review or in preparation for submission.

"Solidarity in Times of Crisis": Political attitudes in Switzerland during COVID-19

Together with Giuliano Bonoli, Flavia Fossati, Mia Gandenberger, and Philipp Trein, I studied how the Swiss public thought about the COVID-19 pandemic and the government's response to it. To this end, we conducted original public opinion surveys, which included survey experiments on people's attitudes toward important issues such as the allocation of ICU beds among COVID-patients, travel restrictions, and financial aid to small companies. Our results are published in articles in Social Science & Medicine, the Journal of Social Policy, the Journal of European Social Policy, and the Swiss Political Science Review (see the list of my publications below).

You can find additional results and data presented on our interactive data dashboard, and you can download our data here.

"Quantifying Workfare"

As part of my doctoral research, I co-led a research project that was concerned with constructing systematic cross-country comparative measurements of the strictness of job-search and work-availability requirements and sanction rules for unemployment benefit claimants in 21 advanced democracies between 1980 and 2012.

You can find the dataset, a more detailed description of the project, and key findings and publications based on it on the dedicated project homepage.

I also collaborated with Herwig Immervoll on the OECD's related data collection activities on activation requirements for jobseekers. The data can be acccessed from OECD.Stat. The main findings are described in two working papers (see below).

A brief bio

Originally from the south of Germany (here), I got to study political science in Mannheim, Barcelona, and Konstanz (2007-2012), and then to do a PhD in political science in Lund, Sweden (2012-2017). After two subsequent stints as a postdoctoral researcher in Bremen and Lausanne, I moved to Stavanger, Norway in early 2021 to start my current position as an associate professor (førsteamanuensis) of political science.

You can find more details about my work and background in my CV [Download].

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed academic journals
Editorships
Chapters in edited volumes
Reports, working papers, etc.
Blog posts & similar

Conferences, workshops, invited talks (most recent)

Other activities

Reviews

Comparative Political Studies, European Sociological Review, Socio-Economic Review, Journal of Politics, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Journal of Social Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, Social Indicators Research, Journal of Social Policy Research/Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, Social Policy & Administration, Social Policy & Society, European Societies, Poverty & Public Policy, Journal of European Public Policy, Interest groups & Advocacy, Norsk statsvitenskapelig tidskrift, National Science Foundation, Social Science & Medicine, West European Politics, Political Research Exchange, International Journal of Public Administration, Kyklos, Applied Economics Letters, Swiss Political Science Review, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, International Political Science Review, Scandinavian Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly

Side projects

Data sources for political and social research: I've been putting together a (long but non-exhaustive) list of data sources that may be useful for term papers, BA or MA theses, or research projects. The focus is mostly on comparative politics and welfare state research/comparative political economy, but the list includes also many sources on other topics (e.g., peace & conflict or EU politics). My list likely overlaps here and there with the (excellent!) Dataset of Political Datasets.

R package 'bst290': Learning statistics and working with a statistical programming language such as R can be tough. To make this a bit easier, I put together a package to help students tabulate data with three easy-to-use functions, practice calculating statistical tests and interpreting their results (via an interactive Shiny dashboard), and "de-bugging" code chunks (with interactive learnr tutorials). The package can be installed from Github: https://github.com/cknotz/bst290.

R package 'cjointdatachecks': Since I've been working quite a bit with data from conjoint survey experiments recently, I wrote some R functions to check these data for potential problems (so called carryover effects and randomization problems). These are now bundled in an R package called 'cjointdatachecks', which can be installed from GitHub. The package includes also a vignette, which illustrates how the functions can be used and reproduces results from the Hainmueller et al. (2014, Political Analysis) article.

Generative art: I've been pretending to be an artist using the aRtsy package for R. Some first results can be found here: https://cknotz.github.io/pseudoart.

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