Tim Lars Allinger is an incoming Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chair of Comparative Politics and Empirical Democracy Research, and a current PhD Candidate in Political Science at Aarhus University. He previously studied Political Science at the University of Mannheim (MA) and Social Science the University of Cologne (BSc). His research lies at the intersection of comparative politics and political behavior, addressing the growing challenges contemporary democracies face. He studies how political and societal conflicts evolve within and beyond the electoral arena, with a particular focus on the forms of political participation citizens consider legitimate and engage in - ranging from conventional practices to extremist and antidemocratic expressions.