Saara Inkinen

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Portrait Foto Saara Inkinen (David Außerhofer)
David Außerhofer

Contact

saara.inkinen [at] wzb.eu
Reichpietschufer 50
D-10785 Berlin
room
B 208
Visiting Researcher of the

CV

since 06/2018

Visiting Researcher at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

06/2018–12/2018

Research Fellow (Maternity Leave Cover) in the CRC Project “Transnational Welfare: The Rise, Decay and Renaissance of African Social Policy” at Bremen University

10/2013–05/2018

Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

since 10/2012

PhD candidate at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

02/2012

Master of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki

09/–12/2010

Intern of the research unit “Democracy and Democratization” at the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB)

04/2009

Bachelor of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki

2005–2012

Studies in Political Science, European Studies and Islamic Studies at Åbo Akademi University, University of Helsinki, University of Oslo and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Selected Publications

Inkinen, Saara/Thyen, Kressen (2020): “Regimeperformanz und Politisches Vertrauen in Autokratien. Die Auswirkungen von Wirtschaftswachstum und Repräsentation durch Wahlen”. In:  Claudia Wiesner/Philipp Harfst (Eds.): Legitimation und Legitimität in vergleichender Perspektive. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 315–346.

Inkinen, Saara (2019): “Parties as Agents of Transition”. In: Wolfgang Merkel, Raj Kollmorgen, and Hans-Jürgen Wagener (Eds): Oxford Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 930–938.

Inkinen, Saara/Saari, Juhani (2019): “The Educational Correlates of Voting. A Cross-Sectional Study of Finnish Undergraduates’ Turnout in the 2014 European Parliament Election”. In: Scandinavian Political Studies Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 1–24.

Research fields

Democracy | Autocracy | Political Institutions | Social Science Research Methods