Postdoc position: Inequality and Support for Long-Term Investment Policies, Universität Konstan[...]

Focus : computational social science, analysis of political text, future-oriented policies (broadly conceived), rhetoric and positions of parties and social movements.

We want to examine how social and economic inequalities influence support for long-term policies. The project explores whether and why individuals, political parties, interest groups and social movements differ in their willingness to prioritise the future when resources are limited. The prospective postdoc will work on mapping collective actors’ long-term investment policy positions; building on existing, extending, and analyzing corpus data. Our aim is to find out how parties, interest groups, and social movements position themselves on long-term investment policies, how these positions align with public attitudes, and affect policies. The position requires expertise in computational social science and/or text-as-data methods, excellent written and oral communication skills in English, and the ability to work independently and contribute proactively and effectively to team-based research. The three-year position comes without a teaching obligation.

Start date Oct. 1st, applications by June 5 th