Participation in the Cluster of Excellence Field of research B Religious diversity and legal-political unity Theory platforms Inequality and Conflict Head of project B3-38 Religious conservatism and the support for right-wing populist parties
Research Areas Responsivness of the German BundestagAnxieties of DemocracyVoting Age and Voter TurnoutPolitical Geography of Voter Turnout PublicationsBooks (Monographs)Schäfer, A, Zürn, M. 2021. Die demokratische Regression. Die politischen Ursachen des autoritären Populismus. 1st Ed. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag.Research articles (journals)Schäfer A, Roßteutscher S, Abendschön S. 2020. ‘Rising Start-up Costs of Voting. Political Inequality among First-time Voters.’ West European Politics 43, No. 4: 819–844. doi: 10.1080/01402382.2019.1638141.Schwander H, Gohla D, Schäfer A. 2020. ‘Fighting Fire with Fire? Inequality, Populism and Voter Turnout.’ Politische Vierteljahresschrift 61: 261–283. doi: 10.1007/s11615-020-00247-1.Schäfer A, Schwander H. 2019. ‘“Don’t play if you can’t win”—Does economic inequality undermine political equality?’ European Political Science Review 11: 395–413. doi: 10.1017/S1755773919000201.Elsässer L, Schäfer A. 2018. „Die politische Repräsentation von Frauen und der Umbau des Sozialstaats.“ Politische Vierteljahresschrift 59: 659–680. doi: 10.1007/s11615-018-0108-6.