Leuphana

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

Jakob Schwörer is 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. He teaches introduction into political science, comparative political science, the political system of  Germany, populism, methodological courses and academic writing. His research focuses on communication strategies of populist and radical right parties and on mainstream parties' positional and discursive reaction in Western Europe.
In 2016, his 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, his 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, his 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".