Magdalena Breyer

Magdalena Breyer, Dr.

Associated researcher / Assoziierte Forscherin

Curriculum vitae

Magdalena Breyer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Basel. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich. Her research is situated in the fields of comparative politics and political behavior, with a focus on social class and social status, party politics, and gender. Specifically, her postdoctoral research is about political parties’ class appeals and their effectiveness.

Research focus

Comparative politics, political sociology, political behavior, party politics, gender, radical right parties, class, social status

Publications (ZORA)

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Publications

2024
- Breyer, Magdalena (2024). Backlash or Progressive Mobilization? Voter Reactions to Perceived Trajectories of Women’s Representation. Comparative Political Studies, 57(13):2193-2224.
- Breyer, Magdalena (2024). Perceptions of the social status hierarchy and its cultural and economic sources. European Journal of Political Research:1-24.

2023
- Breyer, Magdalena (2023). Populist positions in party competition: Do parties strategically vary their degree of populism in reaction to vote and office loss?. Party Politics, 29(4):672-684.
- Breyer, Magdalena; Palmtag, Tabea; Zollinger, Delia (2023). Narratives of backlash? Perceptions of changing status hierarchies in open-ended survey responses. URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series 15, University of Zurich.
- Breyer, Magdalena (2023). Voter reactions to trajectories of women`s representations. URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series 14, University of Zurich.
- Breyer, Magdalena. Social Status Politics: The Role of Shifting Cultural Hierarchies. 2023, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.

2021
- Abou-Chadi, Tarik; Breyer, Magdalena; Gessler, Theresa (2021). The (re)politicisation of gender in Western Europe. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 4(2):311-314.

Department of Political Science

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