Anna-Lena Hönig

Anna-Lena Hönig is a postdoctoral researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" at the University of Konstanz. Her research examines autocracies with a focus on actors in political protest, repression, and cooperation. In her research and teaching, she focuses on social network analysis, survey experiments, and causal inference. She is a co-founder of the annual Workshop on Conflict Dynamics and a board member of the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK).

Before joining the University of Konstanz, she completed her PhD at the University of Mannheim. She was a member of the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) and the Research School on Peace and Conflict at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).

Research Interests:

  • Comparative authoritarian politics and democratization
  • Dynamics of resistance and repression
  • Cooperation between non-state actors (including NGOs, social movements, and terrorist organizations).