Lucas Leemann

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Lucas Leemann studied Political Science and Economics at the University of Bern and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. After a short visit at the Center for Applied Statistics at Washington University St. Louis he studied at Columbia University where he graduated with a PhD in 2014. He held the position of lecturer for quantitative methods at University College London and then joined the University of Essex as a reader. In January 2018 he joined the University of Zurich and was promoted in 2021 and is now Extraordinarius for Comparative Politics & Empirical Democracy Research.

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Comparative politics, comparative political economy, historical political economy, representation, direct democracy, data science, survey methodology.

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2022
- Stoetzer, Lukas F; Leemann, Lucas; Traunmueller, Richard (2022). Learning from Polls During Electoral Campaigns. Political Behavior:Epub ahead of print.
- Engler, Sarah; Gessler, Theresa; Abou-Chadi, Tarik; Leemann, Lucas (2022). Democracy challenged: how parties politicize different democratic principles. Journal of European Public Policy:Epub ahead of print.
- Emmenegger, Patrick; Leemann, Lucas; Walter, André (2022). Direct democracy, coalition size and public spending. Journal of Public Policy, 42(2):224-246.
- Gilardi, Fabrizio; Baumgartner, Lucien; Dermont, Clau; Donnay, Karsten; Gessler, Theresa; Kubli, Mael; Leemann, Lucas; Müller, Stefan (2022). Building research infrastructures to study digital technology and politics: lessons from Switzerland. PS: Political Science, 55(2):354-359.
- Leemann, Lucas; Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle (2022). Satisfaction with democracy: when government by the people brings electoral losers and winners together. Comparative Political Studies, 55(1):93-121.
- Broniecki, Philipp; Leemann, Lucas; Wüest, Reto (2022). Improved multilevel regression with post-stratification through machine Learning (autoMrP). The Journal of Politics, 84(1):597-601.
- Leemann, Lucas (2022). Démocratie directe et congruence. In: Magni Berton, Raul; Morel, Laurence. Démocraties directes. Bruxelles: Les Éditions Bruylant, 165-172.
2021
- Yin, Jenny; Willi, Thomas; Leemann, Lucas (2021). Prepaid postage using pre-stamped envelopes to affect turnout costs. Electoral Studies, 74:102405.
- Leemann, Lucas; Stoetzer, Lukas F; Traunmueller, Richard (2021). Eliciting beliefs as distributions in online surveys. Political Analysis, 29(4):541-553.
- Leemann, Lucas; Wasserfallen, Fabio. Die schwierige Frage nach der Qualität von Umfragen. In: NZZ, 25 August 2021, p.19.
- Emmenegger, Patrick; Leemann, Lucas; Walter, André (2021). No direct taxation without new elite representation: Industrialization and the domestic politics of taxation. European Journal of Political Research, 60(3):648-669.
- Baccini, Leonardo; Leemann, Lucas (2021). Do natural disasters help the environment? How voters respond and what that means. Political Science Research and Methods, 9(3):468-484.
- Engler, Sarah; Brunner, Palmo; Loviat, Romane; Abou-Chadi, Tarik; Leemann, Lucas; Glaser, Andreas; Kübler, Daniel (2021). Democracy in times of the pandemic: explaining the variation of COVID-19 policies across European democracies. West European Politics, 44(5-6):1077-1102.
2020
- Leemann, Lucas (2020). Survey data and multilevel modeling: advances and new tools. In: Departemental Seminar Economics, University of Basel, Basel, 17 November 2020, Universität Basel.
- Leemann, Lucas; Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle (2020). Satisfaction with democracy: when government by the people brings electoral losers and winners together. In: ECPR General Conference, Virtual General Conference 2020, 24 August 2020 - 28 August 2020, European Consortium for Political Research.
- Leemann, Lucas; Stoetzer, Lukas; Traunmueller, Richard (2020). Learning from polls. In: EPSA Annual Conference, Virtual, 18 June 2020 - 19 June 2020, EPSA.
- Leemann, Lucas; Wasserfallen, Fabio (2020). Measuring attitudes: multilevel modeling with post-stratification (MrP). In: Curini, Luigi; Franzese, Robert. Sage Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. Los Angeles: Sage Publications, 371-384.
- Broniecki, Philipp; Leemann, Lucas; Wüest, Reto (2020). Improved multilevel regression with post-stratification through machine learning. In: MrP Conference Columbia University, New York, 3 April 2020 - 4 April 2020, Columbia University.
- Leemann, Lucas; Stoetzer, Lukas F; Traunmueller, Richard (2020). Learning from polls. In: Swiss Political Science Association. Annual Meeting, Luzern, 3 February 2020 - 4 February 2020, SPSA.
2019
- Leemann, Lucas; Dermont, Clau; Gilardi, Fabrizio (2019). Öffentliche Meinung zur eID – September 2019. Zürich: Universität Zürich - Digital Society Initiative (DSI).

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