About

I am a Research Fellow at the MZES, University of Mannheim. I am also a Co-PI of the research project Democratic Values of Immigrants from Authoritarian Regimes funded by the BMFSFJ. I completed my PhD in Political Science in the Research Training Group DYNAMICS and the Hertie School in Berlin.

My research addresses a central question in times of democratic backsliding: How and why can political regimes shape individual political behaviour? More precisely, my research investigates 1) what types of legacies authoritarian and democratic regimes create for political behaviour drawing on the economics of cultural transmission, and 2) how institutional and economic conditions in contemporary democracies shape political behaviour, particularly around immigration. Methodologically, I employ causal inference approaches and experiments. Some of my work is published in Political Science Research and Methods and Electoral Studies.

Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in these projects or common interests at korinna.lindemann@uni-mannheim.de!

News

• March 2026: I’m currently on a 1-month research stay (until mid April) at Concordia University in Montréal
• Jan. 2026: I’m presenting our project of the public support for national border controls at the Swiss Political Science Conference
• Nov. 2025: I’m giving a presentation on intergenerational social mobility and political participation of immigrants (project w/ Iva Srbinovska) at the Forum sur l’intégration in Montréal