Laurenz GUENTHER

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I am a Postdoc at Bocconi in the Department of Economics and affiliated with IGIER and IEP. In 2023, I received my Ph.D. from Bonn university.

I am a political economist specialized in empirical methods. Much of my work studies (lack of) political representation and its effects on political and economic outcomes.

I will be on the 2024/2025 Job Market

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Do parliaments in Europe do what their voters and citizens want? My Job Market paper “Political Representation Gaps and Populism” suggests that the answer is “No.”

I document large, significant, and systematic “political representation gaps.” As can be seen in the figure on the right, most mainstream parties are much more culturally liberal than the mean voter. My paper also provides evidence that these representation gaps are associated with political distrust and filled by populists.

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Policy positions of European voters and parties relative to the national mean voter of their country. Higher values on the vertical axis indicate more culturally conservative positions. Higher values on the horizontal axis indicate more economically right-wing positions.

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