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Tobias Risse
Postdoctoral Fellow


Institute of Political Science

University of St. Gallen



Ongoing Research


Under Review

Right-Wing Terrorism, Party Responses, and Citizens’ Blame Attributions to Far-Right Parties (with Valentin Daur).

National Security vs. Human Security: Intrastate Conflict and States’ Rhetoric on Conventional Arms Control in the United Nations General Assembly.

Diverting Terror in Its Tracks: Cross-National Experimental Evidence on Moral Decision-making in Battlefield Trolley Dilemmas  (with James W. Davis). 

Work in Progress

The Valence Costs and Benefits of Parties’ Positional Shifts in Dynamic Political Environments (with Valentin Daur).

Outsourcing the Outrage: Public Opinion and Plausible Deniability of Foreign Interference by Proxy (with Ondřej Rosendorf).

Challenging Universality: How Cultural Relativism Shapes Public Opinion on Human Rights (with Christoph Steinert and Stefanie Walter).

Pushing the Button? Military and Civilian Decision-Making in Drone Warfare (with James W. Davis and Erik Lin-Greenberg).

Cross-National Differences in Elite Responsiveness to Public Opinion on Military Spending: Experimental Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries (with Ondřej Rosendorf).

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