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Klaus Armingeon is an associate researcher at the IPZ. He has been visiting professor at various universities abroad. He is professor emeritus of comparative and European politics at the University of Bern. He studied political science and Eastern European history in Tübingen, received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz and habilitated at the University of Heidelberg. He has researched and taught in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and the USA. His research focuses on comparative political economy and sociology as well as European integration, where he has worked on the basis of individual and macro data on topics such as the nation state and the EU, Switzerland's political system in international comparison, austerity policy, liberalisation policy, labour relations, trade unions, political participation, inequality and the welfare state.
He has contributed to large international comparative data sets such as the Comparative Political Data Set (https://www.cpds-data.org/) and the Liberalisation Data Set (https://liberalization.org/).
Labour relations, trade unions, welfare state, income inequality, political knowledge, political participation, European integration, austerity and liberalisation policies
