focuses on party politics and electoral campaigns in Europe. I want to understand how new parties, especially those on the populist radical right, are changing the political landscape, and how mainstream parties react to those shifts. My work focuses on quantitative comparative research, usually across countries, including various text analysis methods and work relying on survey data.
On this site, you’ll find a list of research projects, published papers, and forthcoming works I am involved in. Please feel free to approach me with any questions or follow-ups on these works! Note that some of the works mentioned on this page are work in progress. If you wish to cite a paper listed as forthcoming, please contact me ahead to ensure you are working with the newest version of the paper.
Wildi, D. N. (2024): Not everyone suffers equally: The effect of electoral overlap on mainstream party responses to radical right parties. Party Politics 31(4), 634-645. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540688241247123
Wildi, D. N.: Negative Campaigning against the European Radical Right. To be published in a forthcoming edited volume.
Wildi, D. N.: Can the Radical Right be Threatened from the Left? To be submitted for reviews by 2026.
The New Climate Divide: DFG project led by Endre Borbath, hosted at the University of Heidelberg. Member of the project as a postdoctoral researcher since June 2025.
Strategic Responses of Mainstream Parties to the Radical Right in Europe: One-man PhD project led and carried out by myself, supervised by Thomas Däubler at University College Dublin, between January 2021 and March 2025.