Marco R. Steenbergen, PhD
Social Scientist Because It Matters
Hailing from the Netherlands and educated there and in the United States, I currently hold the Chair of Political Methodology at the University of Zurich in beautiful Switzerland. I am a passionate social scientist, believing that the current global challenges can only be solved with an adequate understanding of political and social behavior.
The Latest Headlines
New article published in the British Journal of Political Science
March 20, 2022
New article published in the European Journal of Political Research
March 20, 2022
New article in Electoral Studies
March 20, 2022
Research
A list of ongoing research projects with links to publications and working papers.
Political Parties
What are party positions structured? How do parties polarize? What is the nature of populism across political parties? How do we measure party positions? These are the questions that drive my research on the crucial political mediators that are political parties.
Data Science
How do we best analyze data of various types? How do we model complex social interactions? What is the connection between measurement and data science? These are the central questions of my methodological research.
Voting Behavior
How do voters navigate their way through a crowded field of candidates and political parties? How do these decision processes affect electoral democracy? These have been and continue to be central questions in my research.
Democratic Innovation
Is it possible to build a large-scale collaborative and deliberative platform to increase citizen participation in politics? This SNF-funded Sinergia-project involving computer science, law, and political science will provide the answer.
Teaching Materials
Lecture notes and code snippets
Get in Touch
Department of Political Science (IPZ)
University of Zurich
Affolternstrasse 56
Zurich 8050
Switzerland
+41 44 634 58 53
