projects

third-party funded research projects and partnerships

Grants Above EUR 30,000

(Re)distributive Politics after the AI Revolution (REPAIR)

  • Funding: European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant
  • Period: January 2026-December 2030
  • Budget: EUR 1,500,000
  • Role: Principal Investigator
  • Summary: First systematic cross-national analysis of how artificial intelligence reshapes welfare state politics in advanced democracies. The project studies how AI functions as a driver of distributive conflict, and how institutions and political actors condition policy responses.

False Words, Threatened Democracies?

  • Funding: Swedish Research Council
  • Period: April 2026-March 2029
  • Budget: SEK 5,000,000
  • Role: Co-applicant
  • Summary: Comparative institutional analysis and large-scale digital data are used to examine how party strategies, media environments, and institutional safeguards shape misinformation production, diffusion, and political effects across democracies.

European Welfare States and the Challenge of Platform Work

  • Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
  • Period: January 2023-December 2026
  • Budget: CHF 621,047
  • Role: Co-applicant
  • Summary: Cross-national project on how labor market regulation and welfare institutions shape the scale, quality, and organization of platform labor in Europe, combining comparative platform data with public and worker survey evidence.

The Impact of Populist Right-Wing Parties on Immigrants’ Social Rights

  • Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation, Doc.Mobility
  • Period: September 2017-June 2018
  • Budget: CHF 37,317
  • Role: Principal Investigator

Project Partner Roles

A Cross-National Study to Promote Democratic Dialogue on Social Media Using Generative Artificial Intelligence

  • Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation, Trans-Atlantic Platform
  • Period: September 2024-August 2026
  • Budget: CHF 230,552
  • Role: Project partner
  • Lead applicant: Aniko Hannak

The Politics of Equal-Opportunity Policy in Compulsory Education in Switzerland

  • Funding: Swiss National Science Foundation, Project funding
  • Period: August 2023-July 2026
  • Budget: CHF 283,128
  • Role: Project partner
  • Lead applicant: Flavia Fossati

Research Themes Across Projects

  • Welfare chauvinism and migrant deservingness
  • Populist radical-right parties, misinformation, and democratic institutions
  • Platform work, labor market transformation, and welfare adaptation
  • AI-driven structural change and redistributive politics