Frederik Thieme

PhD Candidate in Political Science at DYNAMICS, Research and Teaching Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin.

📍 Humboldt University of Berlin 📬 frederik.thieme@hu-berlin.de 🌤️ @frederikthieme.bsky.social


Hello 👋

I am a PhD candidate with the DYNAMICS Research Training Group and a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Chair of Comparative Political Behavior in the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin.

I study what (de)mobilizes voters for progressive and Green parties, with a particular focus on gender, age, and economic status. I also work on climate politics more broadly, and have a side project in historical political economy on historical Nazism in occupied Europe. My main methodological interests are quantitative research, causal inference and (field) experimental methods.

If you want to talk about my research, hit me up on Bluesky 🔵 or via mail.

You can find my CV here.

Working Papers

  • The mobilization of young voters: Evidence from a field experiment (with Heike Klüver). Under Review.
  • The effectiveness of tailored online campaigning: Evidence from a field experiment targeting women (with Heike Klüver). Presented at EPSA 2025.
  • The Shadow of Occupation: From Latent to Active Ideological Support (with Salma Mahamed). Presented at EPSA 2025.
  • Economic Decline and Climate Trade-Offs: Voter Behavior and Green Party Dynamics. Under Review.
  • Helping the Cause? The Effect of Female Top Candidate Nominations on Voters with Heike Klüver and Jae-Jae Spoon. Under Review.

Ongoing Work

  • Young, Female, and Resistant: How Gen Z Women Push Left in Europe’s Rightward Turn. To be presented at EPSS 2026.
  • Does Climate Change Increase Hate Crimes? Evidence from Germany with Maurice Baudet von Gersdorff and Heike Klüver. To be presented at EPSS 2026.

Teaching

All syllabi are available upon request.

  • Climate Change & Political Behavior (Seminar), Humboldt University (Summer 2026)
  • Experiments and Causal Inference Methods (Lecture & Seminar) together with Tim Wappenhans, Humboldt University (Winter 2025/26)
  • International and Comparative Politics (Introductory Seminar), Humboldt University (Summer 2025)
  • Experiments and Causal Inference Methods (Lecture & Seminar) together with Tim Wappenhans, Humboldt University (Winter 2024/25)
  • In this economy? Economic inequality and political behavior (Seminar), Humboldt University (Summer 2024)
  • Empirical Social Sciences: Experiments and Causal Inference (Lecture & Seminar) together with Tim Wappenhans Humboldt University (Winter 2023/24)
  • Political scandals, voters’ attitudes and behavior: from successful accountability to inconsequence (Seminar), Humboldt University (Summer 2023)

This website uses the minimal theme and is inspired by Shiro Kuriwaki's website, Sascha Riaz's website, and Tim Wappenhans' website.