Dr. Alexander Schmotz

Alex is a postdoc in the Department of Global Governance since April 2023 and works on international drivers of democratic backsliding, primarily using quantitative methods. He has worked as a postdoc (2017-2022) and PhD candidate (2011-2014) in WZB’s democracy units, and at King’s College London as a postdoc in the ERC-project “International Dimensions of Authoritarian Rule”. He received his PhD from Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt-University Berlin for a thesis on institutional sources of the survival of hybrid regimes. His work has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, and Democratization, among others.