Leuphana

Welcome to the official website of Jakob Schwörer, political scientist, born on 11 April 1988 in Lahr, Germany.

I am postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Political Science at the Leuphana University Lüneburg and visiting scholar at the Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX) at Oslo University and at the Department of Government at Uppsala University. I am also mentor and adviser of BA, MA and PhD students at the Cologne Forum for International Relations and Security Policy (KFIBS). I teach introduction into political science, comparative political science, the political system of  Germany, populism, methodological courses and academic writing. My research focuses on communication strategies of populist and radical right parties and on mainstream parties' positional and discursive reaction in Western Europe.
In 2016, my book "Populismi. Il Movimento 5 Stelle e la Alternativa per la Germania" was nominated for the National Award of the Italian Book Association (AIL) in the category Political and Social Sciences. In 2019, my paper "Populistization of mainstream Parties" won the award for the best contribution among non-doctoral scholars at the annual conference of the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA). In 2022, my article "Radical right populism and religion" was selected as one of the ten most impactful contributions in the 50 year old history of the journal "Religion, State and Society".