Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walter

Junior Professor for International and Comparative Political Economy
Institute for Political Science, University of Heidelberg

Bergheimer Str. 58, room 03.033
69115 Heidelberg, Germany

Tel: +49-6221-543726
Email: s.walter -at- uni-heidelberg.de





I am Junior Professor for International and Comparative Political Economy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. After studying Public Policy and Economics in Konstanz, Montréal, and Barcelona, I pursued my doctoral studies in Political Science at ETH Zurich, where I received my PhD for a dissertation on the political economy of currency crises in 2007. I then worked as senior researcher at the Chair of Political Science Methods at the University of Zurich and as Fritz-Thyssen-Fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

In my research, I concentrate on the fields of international and comparative political economy, with a particular focus on how distributional conflicts, policy preferences and institutions affect economic policy outcomes. Current projects examine the political economy of financial crises and  exchange-rate policymaking,  the effect of exposure to international competition on individuals’ policy preferences, and the effects of the global financial and economic crisis on the German federal elections 2009. My work has been published in journals such as Economics & Politics, European Journal of Political Research, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Review of International Political Economy, and World Development.


*** NEWS ***

I have been awarded the "Young Scholar Award" by the Swiss Political Science Association at the SVPW Annual Congress 2012 in Luzern.

You can find a short portrait about myself and my work here.

My paper "Globalization and the Demand-Side of Politics: How globalization shapes individual perceptions of labor market risk and policy preferences" has won the first annual prize for the best paper presented at the 2010 Conference of the International Poltical Economy Society (IPES).

Die neue Website zu meiner Juniorprofessur (auf deutsch) finden Sie hier.
Here is the link for the German website of my research group at the University of Heidelberg. Link

Last Update: 12 March 2012