Jakob Eicheler

Jakob Eicheler

(né Kemper)

PhD Candidate, Political Science

University of Duisburg-Essen
Department of Political Science
Lotharstraße 65, LF-Building
47057 Duisburg, Germany

jakob.eicheler@uni-due.de
+49 (0) 203 379 1714

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About Me

I research political solidarity, social trust, and experimental methods at the University of Duisburg-Essen. As a project officer for the ERC-funded POLITSOLID project (PI: Prof. Achim Goerres), I investigate what binds citizens in European democracies together.

My methodological focus lies in quantitative analysis and computational social science. In 2021, I analyzed plenary speeches in all German state parliaments using NLP, finding no significant decline in civility following the right-wing populist party AfD's entry. Previously, my 2018 field experiment on German MP responsiveness revealed significant discrimination against constituents with foreign names.

I hold an MA in Methods of Social Science Research from Ruhr University Bochum and a BA in Political Science from the University of Duisburg-Essen. I have also studied at Tulane University (New Orleans, USA).

Publications

Journal Articles
  • Goerres, A. & Eicheler, J. (2025). Do voters on the left show more solidarity behaviour? Novel behavioural evidence from interactive surveys in Austria, West and East Germany. Electoral Studies, 97, 102980. [DOI]
Working Papers
  • Goerres, A., Tepe, M. & Eicheler, J. (2024). Costly Solidarity Behavior and the Identity of Others: The Novel Identity-Solidarity Game in a Large Panel Survey of the German Resident population. [Available at SSRN]
Theses
  • Kemper, J. (2021). Der Einzug der AfD in die Landesparlamente. (The AfD's entry into state parliaments: Loss of debate culture and shifting migration discourse). Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
  • Kemper, J. (2018). Dem „Deutschen“ Volke? (For The ‘German’ people? A field experiment on MP responsiveness to citizens with migration backgrounds). Universität Duisburg-Essen.

Selected Conference Talks

  • 2025 EPSA (Madrid): Local Exposure to Refugees Differentially Affects Welfare Chauvinism: Causal Evidence From German Panel Data.
  • 2025 ESRA (Utrecht): Solidarity, but not for everyone! The Causal Effect of Social Identity on Costly Solidarity Behavior in a Two-Wave Large-Scale Survey Experiment. (w/ A. Goerres & M. Tepe).
  • 2024 EUI – YouGov Solidarity in Europe Conference (Florence): What explains change in individual support for European solidarity over time? A longitudinal test of identity, ideology and economic interest explanations
  • 2023 ECPR (Prague): The effect of priming ethnic or civic national identities on welfare chauvinism: An experimental study
  • 2022 EPSA (Prague): The behavioural consequences of political solidarities: Validating the solidarity game on a representative online sample with real-time interaction in oTree. (w/ A. Goerres, J.K. Höhne & M. Tepe).

Reviewer Activities

Teaching & Outreach