Elena Schulz-Ruhtenberg is a PhD candidate supervised by Prof. Mark Kayser. Her research interest lies in the field of comparative electoral behaviour and vote modelling. Specifically, she studies how the public support for post-material issues like climate protection develops in times in which material security is compromised, for instance due to an economic crisis or war. Her work examines how the cyclic nature of support for post- material concerns affects voting behaviour and party competition around green issues. She aims to contribute to the literature on the‘luxury goods voting model’, which was introduced by her supervisor Mark Kayser and Cassandra Grafström (University of Michigan). Previously she studied at Sciences Po Paris and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston.
Main supervisor: Prof. Mark Kayser, PhD
