Dr. Nicolas Fliess
Curriculum Vitae
Nicolas Fliess is a postdoctoral researcher at the MPI-MMG. His work focuses on the political inclusion and participation of immigrants and their descendants in relation to political parties, state policies, and elections across Europe, Latin America, and global comparative contexts, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Nicolas holds a PhD in Migration Studies from the University of Sussex and is a member of the research group ‘Transnational Relations, Democratization and Migration’ (TransDeM) at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Previously, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the chair of Comparative Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich (LMU), visiting research fellow at the Institute of Governance and Public Policy at the UAB, and the Department of Political Science and Public Law at the UAB. He holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the UAB, and a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Mannheim.
Research projects
- Diversity assent in urban Germany · DivA
- Political institutions and the challenge of diversity
- Political parties and the representation of social diversity: immigrants on party boards in Germany
Publications
Journal Articles
Fliess, N., & Schönwälder, K. (2025). Widespread, but also popular? Exploring attitudes to diversity policies. European Political Science Review, first view, 1-19. https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0011-2DBD-7
Fliess, N., Kiani, A., and Østergaard-Nielsen, E. (2024). Why do autocracies enfranchise their citizens abroad? A large-N event history analysis, 1990–2010. Democratization, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2024.2383795
Fliess, N. (2021). Campaigning across continents: How Latin American parties link up with migrant associations abroad. Comparative Migration Studies, 9(1), 20. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00227-3
Contributions to a Collected Edition
Fliess, N., and Østergaard-Nielsen, E. (2021). Extension of Voting Rights to Emigrants. In S. Maisel (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756223-0335
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