Professor René Lindstädt

Please contact Guvinder Kaur Rajania by phone (+44 (0)121 414 8227) or e-mail (g.rajania@bham.ac.uk) to schedule an appointment.

Professor of Government and Data Science

• PhD in Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis
• MA in Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis
• MA in European Studies, Washington University in St. Louis

Professor Lindstädt’s main research and teaching areas are American politics and political institutions, political economy, and political methodology, with particular interests in political accountability and representation, data science, social learning and diffusion and strategic communication and cooperation.

His research has been published in, among others, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies.

Professor Lindstädt’s ongoing research includes, among others, projects on ideological congruence and representation, the electoral politics of war, and electoral competitiveness.

In his free time, he is an avid fan of American sports.

Work in Progress

• “Presidents Protect Swing Counties from the Human Costs of War.” (With Douglas B. Atkinson, Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)
• “Measuring Ideological Congruence.” (With Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)
• “Out of Touch: How the ‘Perception Gap’ Drives Unequal Representation.” (With Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)
• “The Pitfalls of Using Comparative Manifesto Data to Study Congruence.” (With Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)
• “How Partisan Attachments Affect Mass-Elite Congruence.” (With Kevin Fahey and Zach Warner)