Mathias Poertner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research lies at the intersection of political behavior, democratic representation, political economy, and political methodology, with a regional focus on Latin America and Europe. In his work, he uses a variety of methods, including field and survey experiments, to study how political participation and representation are shaped by identities, such as partisanship, ethnicity, and gender. His first line of research studies these issues by examining how identification with new parties and electoral support for them are shaped by new types of civil society organizations. His second line of research explores the role of social identities in the context of immigrant integration.
He has written two award-winning books, Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America (2024, Cambridge University Press) and Native Bias: Overcoming Discrimination Against Immigrants (with Donghyun Danny Choi and Nicholas Sambanis) (2022, Princeton University Press). His work has also been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, World Development, Political Science Research and Methods, and the Journal of Experimental Political Science.
Mathias Poertner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research lies at the intersection of political behavior, democratic representation, political economy, and political methodology, with a regional focus on Latin America and Europe. In his work, he uses a variety of methods, including field and survey experiments, to study how political participation and representation are shaped by identities, such as partisanship, ethnicity, and gender. His first line of research studies these issues by examining how identification with…