I am a visiting Ph.D. researcher from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard for the fall semester of 2024. In my dissertation, I analyze party competition on environmental issues in Europe, particularly in Germany. I examine the shifting attention to climate policy as it competes with other political priorities and investigate how Green parties, traditionally seen as the ‘issue owner’ on climate, are losing their monopoly on competence as the debate becomes more ‘positional’—shifting from whether climate change should be addressed to how it should be tackled. To explore these questions, I utilize European election surveys and data from various survey experiments.
Contact
eschulzruhtenberg@fas.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
Comparative Politics
Academic Interests
Climate Change | Data Science and Political Methodology | Environmental Policy | Parties, Campaigns and Elections | Public Opinion | Voter Behavior
Research Methods
Experiments | Quantitative Methods | Surveys
Geographic Regions of Study
Europe