Hannah Werner

Hannah Werner is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science, University of Zurich, Faculty of Philosophy. Her research focuses on democratic representation, deliberative democracy, public policy, and political trust, often employing experimental methods to analyze legitimacy perceptions and citizen engagement in democratic processes.

Her recent publications emphasize reproducibility in computational research, the effectiveness of deliberative minipublics, and the dynamics of political loss acceptance in policy controversies. She teaches courses such as Democracy Theories, Citizens Democratic Commitment in Times of Crisis, and contributes to the CIS Research Colloquium.

The trends in her work reflect a consistent interest in the intersection of procedural fairness, political efficacy, and institutional legitimacy, with a methodological emphasis on experimental design and empirical validation. While no scientific awards or student advising details are explicitly listed in the provided text, her research has been published in leading journals like Royal Society Open Science and European Journal of Political Research.