Manuel Schwaninger new scientific staff member

Since November 2020, Manuel Schwaninger has been working as a researcher in the project “RISKOPIA: Coping with Uncertainty in Representative Democracy” (B2.2023) at the MZES.

Manuel Schwaninger studied economics at the University of Vienna. In his Master’s thesis, he examined whether individuals who actively choose direct-democratic institutions are more likely to obtain costly information to cast more qualified votes. In his PhD thesis, he studies how social preferences of coalition members influence distribution decisions of simple majorities.