Anja Rieker

Anja Rieker is a doctoral student and Academic Staff Member at the University of Stuttgart's Institute of Social Sciences, specializing in the Department of Political Theory and Empirical Democracy Research. She contributes to the project "Designing Democracy on Mars and Earth" and serves as a tutor for "Quantitative Research Practice." Her research focuses on developing and validating measurement methods for democratic preferences, emphasizing quantitative approaches and computational tools.

• Education: Bachelor of Arts (2015-2019) and Master of Arts (2019-2022) in Social Sciences/Political Research from the University of Stuttgart

Her work integrates compositional data analysis and natural language processing to explore citizens' democratic preferences, particularly ambivalent attitudes. She has supported academic projects like Terra Incognita with statistical analysis in R, survey design, and literature curation.

While her 2022 publication in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research examines political trust and pandemic policy acceptance, her current research expands into methodological innovations for democracy studies. Her expertise bridges computational social science with empirical analysis of political behavior.