Dr. Markus Freitag

Biography

Markus Freitag is a Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Bern. He studied political science and economics at Heidelberg University, obtaining his Magister Artium degree in 1995. He joined the University of Bern as a doctoral candidate and scientific assistant, completing his PhD in 1999. Subsequently, he held post-doctoral lecturer positions at several prestigious institutions, including the Center of European and International Studies at the University of Basel and ETH Zurich, and was a visiting lecturer at the University of Konstanz. From 2004 to 2005, he served as an assistant professor at Humboldt University of Berlin, where he taught courses on comparative politics. He held the Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Konstanz from 2005 to 2011 and became the director of the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern in August 2011. His research interests encompass political sociology, political psychology, and comparative politics, with a focus on data collection and the study of under-researched topics through specifically designed questionnaires. He has published extensively in leading academic journals such as the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, and Public Opinion Quarterly.

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