About

Ingrid Mauerer is a Distinguished Researcher at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Málaga. She is the Principal Investigator of an EMERGIA Scholarship under the Excellence Program of the Andalusian Regional Government. In the past, she was Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Munich (LMU) and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona. She has been a visiting researcher at several international institutions, including Harvard University and the University of Naples Federico II. She received her PhD in Political Science and Statistics from LMU Munich. She was shortlisted for the ECPR Jean Blondel PhD Prize in 2017. Since March 2026, she has been an elected member of the Steering Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Methodology. Her research focuses on statistical modeling of political behavior, preference formation, attitudes, and vote choice. She specializes in categorical data analysis, discrete choice models, and item response theory. Her work has been published in journals such as European Economic Review, European Political Science Review, Journal of Choice Modelling, Political Analysis, Statistical Modelling, Statistical Methods & Applications, Sociological Methods & Research, Survey Research Methods, and West European Politics, and has received the Political Analysis Editors' Choice Article Award.

Research Interests

Elections, Political Economy, Political Methodology, Public Choice, Analytic, Methods, Quantitative, Regression, Decision Making, Electoral Behaviour, Euroscepticism, Public Opinion, Survey Research, Voting Behaviour, Empirical

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Political Methodology