Mathias Poertner is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Texas A&M University. 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. More specifically, 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 ethnic and gender identities in the context of immigration. Through a series of articles and a second book project, he studies the causes of discrimination towards immigrants and explore how shared norms can reduce inter-group conflict between immigrants and natives. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Experimental Political Science.
Mathias Poertner is an Assistant Professor of International Affairs at Texas A&M University. 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. More specifically, his first line of research studies these issues by examining how identification with new parties and electoral…