Phd Researcher
Vor 4 Tagen
Particularité
The PhD Researcher will be part of the project “Liberal Democratic Commitment in Europe:
Mass Attitudes, Political Identities, and Behavioural Consequences”, funded by the Swiss
National Science Foundation (2025-2029). The project investigates citizens’ understandings
of democracy and the way they inform their political identities and behaviour. Combining focus
groups and survey-based methods, the project will:
1. Measure and map liberal democratic commitment across eight European countries
2. Assess to what extent democratic commitment amounts to a political identity for
European citizens
3. Evaluate the behavioural consequences of variation in democratic commitment
should contain a motivation letter outlining your research agenda within the overall project,
your CV, writing sample (e.g., MA thesis), copies of university transcripts and/or diplomas, and
the contact details of two people willing to serve as references.
Domaine d'activité
political culture, and a keen interest in the topic of the project. Together with the project team
(the Principal Investigator and two Postdocs), the PhD researcher will be expected to
investigate the heterogeneity of mass attitudes towards democracy in the context of citizens’
responses to emerging threats to liberal democracy.
- Responsibilities:
- Participate actively in the research, publication, and communication activities of the project;
- Design, conduct, analyse, and interpret data from focus groups and survey experiments;
- Collaborate with other members of the research team and of the Department of European Studies and Slavistics;
- Support the administration and organisation of project-related events.
Exigences
- Very good MA/MSc degree in Political Science (or close to completion);
- Strong interest in research on democratic attitudes and challenges to democracy in Europe;
- Solid training in social science methods (preferably both quantitative and qualitative or a willingness to learn quickly);
- Ability to work both independently and in a team;
- Very good working knowledge of English; additional fluency in German and/or French is desirable.
Exigences linguistiques
autre: English
Date d'entrée en fonction:
- 01.02.2026 ou date à convenir
Renseignements:
Prof. Natasha Wunsch
Date limite de réception des offres:
12.11.2025
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