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Tarik Abou-Chadi

Professorial Fellow
Professor of European Politics

Tarik Abou-Chadi is Professor of European Politics at the Department of Politics and International Relations and Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. He received his PhD in political science from Humboldt University Berlin in 2015. His research focuses on elections, political parties, and the transformation of political competition and democratic representation in post-industrial societies. Before joining the University of Oxford, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, World Politics and the Journal of Politics. He was the Principle Investigator of the project “Social Status and the Transformation of Electoral Behavior in Western Europe” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. He is also an Einstein Visiting Fellow at Humboldt University Berlin.

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Publications

A full list of publications can be found on Tarik's personal website

 

2024

Trade-offs of social democratic party strategies in a pluralized issue space: a conjoint analysis (with Silja Häusermann, Reto Mitteregger, Nadja Mosimann, Markus Wagner). World Politics: Forthcoming.

Measuring and understanding parties' anti-elite strategies (with Hauke Licht, Pablo Barbera, Whitney Hua). Journal of Politics: Forthcoming.

Comparative vote switching: A new framework for studying dynamic multi-party competition (with Denis Cohen, Werner Krause). Journal of Politics: Forthcoming.

2023

The Limits of Issue Entrepreneurship: How the German Greens Failed to Win in 2021 (with Jonne Kamphorst). Electoral Studies: 86: 1-9.

Democracy Challenged. How Different Party Families Emphasize Different Democratic Principles (with Sarah Engler, Theresa Gessler, Lucas Leemann). Journal of European Public Policy: 30(10): 1961-1983.

Does Accommodation Work? Mainstream Party Strategies and the Success of Radical Right Parties (with Werner Krause, Denis Cohen). Political Science Research and Methods: 11(1): 172-179.