Leonhard Schmidt is a PhD candidate in the Doctoral Programme in Governance at the Hertie School. His main research interests are the behavior of social movements, populist parties and their voters. In his dissertation, he focuses on the use of protest and co-operation with social movements by populist parties in Europe and explores what the consequences of this strategy are for these parties. He graduated with an MA and BA in Social Sciences from Humboldt University Berlin. He has previously worked as a research assistant for the MOTRA protest monitoring project at the Berlin Social Science Center and at the departments for political behavior and empirical social research at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt University.
Main supervisor: Prof. Mark Kayser, PhD
