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Elisa Deiss-Helbig is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Stuttgart. Since October 2021, she has been leading the DFG-funded project Group targeting and citizens’ responses to electoral promises and their realization (GROUPTA), and co-leading the DFG-ANR project Unequal mandate responsiveness? How electoral promises and their realizations target groups in France and Germany (UNEQUALMAND) since 2022. Her work bridges political representation, candidate selection mechanisms, and minority inclusion in parliamentary systems.
- Current projects focus on electoral pledge responsiveness and group-targeted policy implementation
- Previously coordinated the Franco-German cooperative degree program in Social Sciences
- Expertise in analyzing ethnic/gender representation and asylum seeker integration
Research Interests include:
- Political representation congruence between citizens and elected officials
- Impact of candidate selection methods on minority representation
- Electoral systems and demographic diversity in legislatures
- Public attitudes toward asylum seekers and intergroup contact theory
Her publications span experimental analyses of ethnic/gender effects on voting, longitudinal studies of candidate selection, and comparative French-German parliamentary research. She has taught courses on social science methods, party system evolution, and right-wing populist parties.
