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Overview

Stefanie Bailer is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland and has contributed extensively to the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and related subfields. Their research spans areas including political science and international relations, gender studies, strategy and management, communication, and economics and econometrics.

Their recent publications cover various aspects of political behavior and representation. Notable papers include:

  • The Diminishing Value of Representing the Disadvantaged: Between Group Representation and Individual Career Paths (2021, British Journal of Political Science)
  • Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives' Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries (2022, The Journal of Politics)
  • The winners of legislative mandate: An analysis of post-parliamentary career positions in Germany and the Netherlands (2020, European Journal of Political Research)
  • Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter (2021, Electoral Studies)
  • Projection in Politicians' Perceptions of Public Opinion (2023, Political Psychology)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers. Their most common coauthors include Christian Breunig, Tomas Turner-Zwinkels, Nathalie Giger, Stefaan Walgrave, and Jean-Benoît Pilet.

Stefanie Bailer's work has been published predominantly in the following academic venues:

  • European Journal of Political Research
  • American Political Science Review
  • British Journal of Political Science
  • The Journal of Politics
  • Electoral Studies

Main topics covered in their research involve aspects of electoral systems and political participation, gender politics and representation, political influence and corporate strategies, social media and politics, game theory and voting systems, policy transfer and learning, and social policy and reform studies.

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Social Media and Politics
  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Policy Transfer and Learning
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies

Stefanie Bailer's research includes 37 publications classified broadly under social sciences, with 19 specifically in political science and international relations. The distribution across subfields indicates a multidisciplinary approach that bridges political science with gender studies and strategic management.

Best Publications

  • Bargaining Success in the European Union: The Impact of Exogenous and Endogenous Power Resources

    Stefanie Bailer

  • Money Makes the EU Go Round: The Objective Foundations of Conflict in the Council of Ministers

    Stefanie Bailer;Mikko Mattila;Gerald Schneider

  • Bargaining Power in the European Union: An Evaluation of Competing Game-Theoretic Models

    Gerald Schneider;Daniel Finke;Stefanie Bailer

  • People's Voice or Information Pool? The Role of, and Reasons for, Parliamentary Questions in the Swiss Parliament

    Stefanie Bailer

  • Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries

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  • Nash versus Schelling? The Importance of Constraints in Legislative Bargaining

    Stefanie Bailer;Gerald Schneider

  • What factors determine bargaining power and success in EU negotiations

    Stefanie Bailer

  • Interviews and Surveys in Legislative Research

    Stefanie Bailer

  • The Diminishing Value of Representing the Disadvantaged : Between Group Representation and Individual Career Paths

    Stefanie Bailer;Christian Breunig;Nathalie Giger;Andreas M. Wüst

  • Party animals, career changers and other pathways into parliament

    Tamaki Ohmura;Stefanie Bailer;Peter Meiβner;Peter Selb

  • A political economy of positions in climate change negotiations: Economic, structural, domestic, and strategic explanations

    Stefanie Bailer;Florian Weiler

  • Explaining governmental preferences on Economic and Monetary Union Reform

    Silvana Târlea;Stefanie Bailer;Hanno Degner;Lisa M. Dellmuth

  • Bargaining success in the reform of the Eurozone

    Magnus Lundgren;Stefanie Bailer;Lisa Maria Dellmuth;Jonas Tallberg

  • Roll-Call Votes in the German Bundestag: A New Dataset, 1949-2013

    Ulrich Sieberer;Thomas Saalfeld;Tamaki Ohmura;Henning Bergmann

  • Exploring, Maintaining, and Disengaging—: The Three Phases of a Legislator's Life

    Stefanie Bailer;Tamaki Ohmura

  • The Power of Legislative Hot Air: Informal Rules and the Enlargement Debate in the European Parliament

    Stefanie Bailer;Gerald Schneider

  • Explaining the Strength of Civil Society: Evidence from Cross-sectional Data

    Stefanie Bailer;Thilo Bodenstein;V. Finn Heinrich

  • To use the whip or not? Whether and when party group leaders use disciplinary measures to achieve voting unity

    Stefanie Bailer

  • Policy or person? What voters want from their representatives on Twitter

    Nathalie Giger;Nathalie Giger;Stefanie Bailer;Adrian Sutter;Tomas Turner-Zwinkels

  • Strategy in the climate change negotiations: do democracies negotiate differently?

    Stefanie Bailer

  • An Agent Dependent on the EU Member States? The Determinants of the European Commission's Legislative Success in the European Union

    Stefanie Bailer

  • Crisis bargaining in the European Union: Formal rules or market pressure?:

    Daniel Finke;Stefanie Bailer

  • The winners of legislative mandate: An analysis of post-parliamentary career positions in Germany and the Netherlands

    Clint Claessen;Stefanie Bailer;Tomas Turner‐Zwinkels

  • Structural, Domestic, and Strategic Interests in the European Union: Negotiation Positions in the Council of Ministers

    Stefanie Bailer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald Schneider
Gerald Schneider University of Konstanz
Jonas Tallberg
Jonas Tallberg Stockholm University
Lisa Maria Dellmuth
Lisa Maria Dellmuth Stockholm University
Thomas Saalfeld
Thomas Saalfeld University of Bamberg
Simon Hug
Simon Hug University of Geneva
Philip Manow
Philip Manow University of Siegen
Christian Breunig
Christian Breunig University of Konstanz

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