The project’s partners include national team leaders who are managing national data collection (on metrics of exceptionalism and on the impacts of exceptionalism). In the largest countries, especially characterized by decentralized/ federal policy-making, several team leaders are collaborating to collect data.
If you wish to contact the partners, please send us a request for the email or follow the link to email directly.
Austria
Dr. Olga Litvyak, Research Associate
Expertise: election campaigns, issue engagement and party competition, and political communication, in particular framing
Belgium
Prof. Claire Dupuy, national leader
Expertise: federalism, regionalization, comparative public policy, policy feedbacks
Former coder: Tom Massart
Estonia
Dr. Piret Ehin, Associate Professor
Expertise: Political science, comparative politics, European integration, democracy, elections, public opinion, EU institutions and politics
Finland
Dr. Corentin Poyet, Postdoctoral Researcher
Expertise: Representation, comparative analysis, electoral studies, institutional analysis, local governance, quantitative data analysis, political behavior, elections, survey methodology and data analysis
France
Prof. Dr. Sébastian Roche
Expertise: Public policy analysis, governance, security, development studies, child development, sociology, social exclusion, legislation, political sociology, international security
Prof. Dr. Raul Magni-Berton
Expertise: democracy, immigration, protests, redistribution, citizenship, elections
Current coding team: Laura Chazel
Former coding team: Constance Morel, Olivia Debout, Sarah Morretti
Dataviz and Apps for social sciences and the humanities
Mu Numérique develop web and smartphone applications with Otree, Mturk, Prolific, Qualtrics, LimeSurvey and many other tools.
Germany
Patrick Peltz, MA, PhD Researcher
University of Hamburg, Institute of Law and Economics
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, Autocratization and Democratization, States of Emergency, Constitutional Politics
Italy
Expertise: Security and safety, prisons, post-colonial methods and theories, power, migrations, crime & deviance, critical criminology; qualitative methods
Coder: Michela Trichinese, Rossella Vulcano
Malta
Dr. Anna Khakee
Expertise : states of emergency, democratization, democracy promotion
Coder: Christa Callus
Expertise: human rights, humanitarian emergency settings
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Netherlands
Prof Dr Kees Aarts, Professor of Political Institutions and Behaviour, Dean of the Faculty BSS
Expertise: democracy, elections, political behavior
Dr Clara Egger, Assistant Professor
Expertise: comparative politics, international cooperation, human rights
Eugénie de Saint-Phalle, Postdoctoral Researcher
Expertise: automated content analysis, party competition, party image
Dr. Tommaso Caselli, Assistant Professor
Expertise: event extraction, temporal processing, storyline extraction, sentiment analysis, emotion detection
Former research assistants: Thijs Vos, Georgios Tziafas
Poland
Dr. Patrycja Grzebyk, Associate Professor
Expertise: international law (law of armed conflicts, international criminal law, human rights law)
Dr. Wojciech Brzozowski, Associate Professor
Expertise: constitutional law, law and religion, human rights law
Coder team coordinator: Marta Górczyńska
Expertise: Human Rights Law and Refugee Law
Coders: Maksymilian Hau, Oliwia Rybczyńska
Portugal
Dr. Roberto Merrill, Assistant Professor.
Expertise: Ownership democracy, political neutrality, paternalism, pluralism, pre-distribution, basic income, republicanism, applied ethics
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Former coder team: Ricardo Miguel, Rui Porte
Romania
Expertise: Law and legal studies, legal theory, epistemology, interdisciplinarity, comparative studies
Spain
Dr. Cristina Churruca, Associate Professor, University of Deusto
Dr. Gorka Urrutia Asua, Associate Professor, University of Deusto
Dr. Francesc Guillén Lasierra, Open University Catalogna
Dr. Ana María Huesca González, Assistant Collaborator, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Coder team: Anca Cretu, Paloma Villacian Goncer
Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Daniel Kübler, Department of Political Science
Expertise: Urban politics and policy, multi-level governance and democracy, alternative forms of citizen participation, representative bureaucracy, public policy analysis and evaluation (social policy, health policy, spatial development policies)
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