Konstantin Käppner

Konstantin was a PhD Student at the Graduate School of Decision Sciences, with a specialization in Information Processing and Statistical Analysis. His PhD project tried to disentangle endogeneous dynamics in turnout and voting. Specifically, he work on explaining the extent to which and reasons why some individuals repeat their turnout decision or vote choice while others do not. To do so, he applied novel dynamic panel data methods and longitudinal Item-Response techniques to different kinds of voter data. He completed his dissertation under the supervision of Susumu Shikano. Apart from that, Konstantin is interested in the development of flexible unfolding scaling techniques for respondent preferences in surveys and questions of political representation and interest groups.

Konstantin completed his PhD at University of Konstanz in October 2018 and he is currently a postdoc at the University of Geneva. He holds a B.A. and an M.A. in political science from the University of Konstanz and have been a visiting student, research intern and researcher at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, at the German Socio-economic Panel Study at the Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Berlin and at Duke University North Carolina.