Professor Ren茅 Lindst盲dt

Professor Ren茅 Lindst盲dt

Department of Political Science and International Studies
Head of the School of Government
Professor of Government and Data Science

Contact details

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School of Government
Room 645, Muirhead Tower
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Edgbaston, Birmingham
United Kingdom
B15 2TT

René Lindstädt is Head of the School of Government and Professor of Government and Data Science. He also serves as one of the editors of the .

Feedback and office hours

Please contact Guvinder Kaur Rajania by phone (+44 (0)121 414 8227) or e-mail (g.rajania@bham.ac.uk) to schedule an appointment.

Qualifications

Professor of Government and Data Science

  • PhD in Political Science,
  • MA in Political Science,
  • MA in European Studies,

Biography

Professor Lindstädt’s main research and teaching areas are American politics and political institutions, political economy, and political methodology, with particular interests in political accountability and representation, data science, social learning and diffusion and strategic communication and cooperation.

His research has been published in, among others, the , , the , the , and Comparative Political Studies.

Professor Lindstädt’s ongoing research includes, among others, projects on ideological congruence and representation, the electoral politics of war, and electoral competitiveness.

In his free time, he is an avid fan of American sports.

Research

Work in Progress

  • “Presidents Protect Swing Counties from the Human Costs of War.” (With Douglas B. Atkinson, Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)
  • “Measuring Ideological Congruence.” (With Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)
  • “Out of Touch: How the ‘Perception Gap’ Drives Unequal Representation.” (With Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)
  • “The Pitfalls of Using Comparative Manifesto Data to Study Congruence.” (With Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)
  • “How Partisan Attachments Affect Mass-Elite Congruence.” (With Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)

Publications

Selected Publications

2018. “.” Political Science Research and Methods. (With Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan B. Slapin)

2017. “.” Political Science Research and Methods 5:3, 511-27. (With Ryan J. Vander Wielen and Matthew Green)

2017. “.” International Interactions 43:4, 619-42. (With Julia Gray and Jonathan B. Slapin)

2015. “.” Political Analysis 23:2, 242-53. (With Mark Andreas Kayser)

2015. “.” American Journal of Political Science 60:1, 5-29. (With Kevin Arceneaux, Martin Johnson and Ryan J. Vander Wielen)

Expertise

Professor Lindstädt is an expert on United States politics and has provided commentary on the topic on TV, the radio and in print.