Emmy Lindstam

Emmy Lindstam is an Assistant Professor at the School of Global and Public Affairs. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Mannheim in 2022. During her studies, she was a visiting PhD candidate at UC Berkeley and a pre-doctoral fellow at CESS-Nuffield Flame University in Pune. She holds a master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Mannheim and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Public Administration from the University of Barcelona.

Emmy carries out research in the areas of comparative politics and political psychology, with a focus on identity politics and regional interest in India. She is motivated by questions such as: How do changes in textbook content, street names and public symbols honoring different heroes affect minorities’ sense of belonging? And does a social group’s perceived centrality to the nation condition group members' ability to speak and be heard in the public sphere? To answer these questions, she employs various causal research designs involving surveys, lab experiments and natural experiments. Her work is published in outlets such as the British Journal of Political Science, Electoral Studies and the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• PH.D., Political Science (Summa Cum Laude), University of Mannheim Mannheim, Germany, 2016 – 2022

• M.A., Political Science, University of Mannheim Mannheim, Germany, 2014 – 2016

• B.A., Political Science, University of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain, 2010 – 2014

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, IE University, Madrid, Spain, Aug. 2022 – Present

Selected PUBLICATIONS

• 2022 Democracy in Hard Times: Economic Decline, Social Capital and Resilience Against Far‑Right Nationalism, with Francesc Amat. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy 3(1): 23‑59 

• 2021 Conceptions of National Identity and Ambivalence in Opinions towards Immigration, with Matthias Mader and Harald Schoen. British Journal of Political Science 51(1): 93‑114 

• 2021 Redistribution and Equality: The Role of the Territorial Conflict Dimension, with Francesc Amat. Chapter in the Edward Elgar Handbook on Decentralization, Devolution and the State 

• 2019 Signalling Issue Salience: Explaining Niche Party Support in Second‑Order Elections, Electoral Studies 60: 102026