Cornelius Erfort

I'm a Postdoc at Witten/Herdecke University, working on the DFG-funded project zweitstimme.org. I'm also affiliated with the Humboldt Governance Lab.

My research sits at the intersection of comparative politics and quantitative methods. I study voter targeting, interest groups, and voting behavior, with a broader interest in how democratic representation works in practice—and how political competition, information, and organization shape whose preferences are heard.

Beyond individual papers, I care about building research infrastructure that others can use. With PARTYPRESS, providing data is important to me: I want to create lasting value for the research community through transparency, reproducibility, and open data (and, where possible, open-source workflows). I'm especially interested in innovative data sources and new ways of measuring politics—treating data as something we can discover in many places, not only in familiar datasets, and turning it into well-documented resources that others can reuse and build on.

Friends, collaborators, and other researchers I follow — in the spirit of Simon Munzert’s links page.

• Nicolai Berk. Media effects. Immigration politics. Text as data.
• Moritz Bondeli. Democratic resilience. Political violence. Historical political science.
• Zachary P. Dickson. Climate politics. Public opinion. Computational text analysis.
• Fabio Ellger. Polarization. Voter mobilization. Comparative politics.
• Christina Gahn. Political targeting. Party competition. Public opinion polls.
• Thomas Gschwend. Electoral behavior. Election forecasting. Quantitative methods.
• Violeta Haas. Politics of belonging. Immigration and LGBTQ+ rights. Causal inference.
• Linus Hagemann. Data and politics. EU politics. Election forecasting.
• Felix Hartmann. Political economy. Migration. Quantitative methods.
• Alba Huidobro. Comparative politics. Elites and gender. Government formation.
• Heike Klüver. Comparative European politics. Parties and interest groups. Text analysis.
• Elias Koch. Public opinion. Election forecasting. Political behavior.
• Markus Kollberg. Populist parties. Party systems. Democratic resilience.
• Đorđe Milošav. Political behavior. Political psychology. Trust and democracy.
• Simon Munzert. Survey methodology. Web data. Computational social science.
• Hannah Rajski. Election forecasting. Quantitative methods. Political behavior.
• Lukas F. Stoetzer. Voting behavior. Coalition signals. Quantitative methods.
• Jan Stuckatz. Political economy. Lobbying. Trade politics.
• Frederik Thieme. Young voters. Climate politics. Experiments.
• António Valentim. Comparative politics. Behavioral political economy. Climate politics.
• Tim Wappenhans. Political behavior. Radical right. Experimental methods.