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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, the political system of  Germany, party politics, populism and academic writing. His research focuses on political parties, populist and nativist communication as well as religiously framed discourses of political actors in a comparative perspective.
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 January 2021, he defended his PhD thesis "Populistization of the political mainstream" with magna cum laude (0,7) at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg.