Philipp M. Lutscher

Philipp M. Lutscher

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Oslo

Biography

I am assistant professor/postdoctoral fellow in the Emergence, Life, and Demise of Autocratic Regimes (ELDAR) project at the University of Oslo and a non-resident fellow at the Digital Democracy Lab as part of the Digital Society Initiative at the University of Zurich.

I work at the intersection between comparative politics, political communication and applied data science. More specifically, I mainly study the use and impact of digital technologies such as online censorship and propaganda with a specific focus on authoritarian regimes. More recently, I have increasingly become interested in studying to what extent these and other authoritarian strategies are also used in democracies.

My research has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Political Science Research and Methods, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Journal of Peace Research, among others.

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Interests
  • Communication and Information Technology
  • Authoritarian Regimes
  • Contentious Politics
  • Quantitative Methods
Education
  • PhD in Political Science, 2020

    University of Konstanz, Germany

  • MSc in Conflict Resolution, 2016

    University of Essex, United Kingdom

  • MA in Politics and Public Administration, 2016

    University of Konstanz, Germany

  • BA in Politics and Public Administration, 2014

    University of Konstanz, Germany

Publications

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(2024). Censorship. Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication.

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(2024). Education Policies and Systems Across Modern History: A Global Dataset. Comparative Political Studies.

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Contact

  • philipp.lutscher[at]stv.uio.no
  • University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1097 Blindern, Oslo, 0317