Hanno Hilbig

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis
hhilbig@ucdavis.edu

Curriculum Vitae
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I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. My research lies at the intersection of Comparative Politics and Political Economy. I examine how economic transformations, such as labor market shifts, the transition to renewable energy, regional inequality, and housing crises, shape politics in established democracies. My work leverages a range of research designs and data sources, including natural experiments, large-scale surveys and administrative data.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. I graduaded with a PhD from the Department of Government at Harvard University in 2022.

Publications

  1. How Budget Tradeoffs Undermine Electoral Incentives to Build Public Housing (with Andreas Wiedemann). Conditionally Accepted, American Journal of Political Science. [Abstract]  
  2. Does Rent Control Turn Tenants Into NIMBYs?. (with Anselm Hager and Robert Vief). Conditionally Accepted, Journal of Politics. [Abstract]  
  3. Local Newspaper Decline and Political Polarization in Multi-Party Systems (With Fabio Ellger, Sascha Riaz and Philipp Tillman). Accepted, British Journal of Political Science. [Abstract]  
  4. Wealth of Tongues: Why Peripheral Regions Vote for the Radical Right in Germany (with Daniel Bischof and Daniel Ziblatt). 2024. American Political Science Review, 118 (3): 1480–1496. [Abstract] [Preprint]  
  5. Refugee Labor Market Access Increases Support for Migration (with Anselm Hager and Sascha Riaz). 2024. Comparative Political Studies, 57 (5): 749–777. [Abstract]  
  6. Natural Disasters and Green Party Support. 2024. (With Sascha Riaz). Journal of Politics., 86 (1): 241-256. [Abstract] [Preprint]  
  7. Government Spending and Voting Behavior. 2024. (With Anselm Hager). World Politics. 76 (1): 88-124. [Abstract]
  8. Local News Monopolies Increase Misperceptions about Immigration. 2023. (with Sascha Riaz). Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(17): 4536-4558. [Abstract] [Preprint]  
  9. Freedom of Movement Restrictions Inhibit the Psychological Integration of Refugees. 2022. (with Sascha Riaz). Journal of Politics., 84(4): 2288-2293. [Abstract] [Preprint]  
  10. Locked Out of College: When Admissions Bureaucrats Do and Do Not Discriminate. 2022. (with Jacob Brown). British Journal of Political Science, 52(3): 1436-1446. [Abstract] [Preprint]  
  11. Does Public Opinion Affect Political Speech? 2020. (with Anselm Hager). American Journal of Political Science, 64 (4): 921-937. [Abstract]  
  12. Do Inheritance Customs Affect Political and Social Inequality? 2019. (with Anselm Hager). American Journal of Political Science, 63 (4): 758-773. [Abstract]  

Working Papers & Work in Progress

  1. Estimating Controlled Direct Effects with Panel Data: An Application to Reducing Support for Discriminatory Policies. (with Matthew Blackwell, Adam Glynn and Connor Phillips). Revise & Resubmit, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A. [Abstract]  
  2. Place-Based Policies, Local Responses, and Electoral Behavior (with Vincent Heddesheimer and Andreas Wiedemann). [Abstract]  
  3. The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines (with Vincent Heddesheimer and Erik Voeten). [Abstract]  
  4. Party Biased Party Nominations as a Source of Women's Electoral Underperformance (with Pia Raffler and Thomas Fujiwara) [Abstract]  
  5. Do Autocrats Respond to Citizen Demands? Petitions and Housing Construction in the GDR (with Hans Lueders and Sascha Riaz) [Abstract]  
  6. Political and Social Correlates of Covid-19 Mortality (with Constantin Manuel Bosancianu, Macartan Humphreys, Sampada KC, Nils Lieber and Alex Scacco) [Abstract]