About

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Geneva and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the MZES, University of Mannheim. I completed my PhD in Political Science in the Research Training Group DYNAMICS and the Hertie School in Berlin.

My research asks how institutions and their outputs shape citizens’ preferences and behaviour, and how durable those imprints prove. I study this through migration in two ways. The first traces the political legacies migrants carry from authoritarian and democratic regimes, for example how socialist regimes produce a lasting backlash against the left. The second examines how the policies and information environments democracies build around migration shape the attitudes of their own citizens. I use causal inference designs and survey experiments. My work is published in Political Science Research and Methods and Electoral Studies.

Feel free to contact me if you are interested in one of these projects or to talk about common interests at korinna.lindemann[at]unige.ch or korinna.lindemann[at]uni-mannheim.de.

News

• August 2026: New Preprint on attitudes toward national border controls available here.
• July 19, 2026: The Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology has started, happy to be part of the organising team!
• July 2026: I started a new job as a Postdoc at the University of Geneva in an SNSF project on electoral choice and quality evaluations of politicians. I continue working at the MZES as well, where I’ll lead my DFG project among other things.