Portrait
Nicolas Binder is doing his doctorate at the Department of Politics and Public Administration on the topic of populism in Western democracies. He is specifically investigating the connection between the economy and populism. As part of his doctorate, Binder is receiving a doctoral scholarship from the University of Konstanz in accordance with the Landesgraduiertenförderungsgesetz (LGFG). In 2018, he successfully completed his Master's degree in Political and Administrative Science (M.A.). He had previously completed a Bachelor's degree in the same subject area (B.A.) at the University of Konstanz and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematical Financial Economics (B.Sc.) in 2013.
Publications
Koos, Sebastian and Nicolas Binder. 2021. who supports the "lateral thinkers"? The Corona Protests in the Mirror of Public Opinion. In The community of mistrust of the "lateral thinkers". The Corona Protests from a Cultural and Social Science Perspective, ed. Reichardt, Sven, 295-319. Frankfurt/New York: Campus Verlag.
Binder, Nicolas. Economic and socio-political attitudes and populism: Vertical axes of conflict instead of ideological consistency. Polit. Vierteljahresschrift (2023). doi.org/10.1007/s11615-023-00513-y
Research interests
Nicolas Binders research interests concern the interfaces between politics, economics and sociology. The focus of his doctorate is on populism research. Quantitative methods are another focus, so Nicolas Binders research is strongly empirical.