Election Campaigns and Welfare State Change: Democratic Linkage and Leadership Under Pressure

Staffan Kumlin is full Professor in Political Science at University of Oslo. Kumlin's research concerns comparative political behaviour, public opinion, and democracy in European welfare states. He is the author of The Personal and the Political: How Personal Welfare State Experiences Affect Political Trust and Ideology (Palgrave-Macmillan 2004) co-editor of How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public: Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Attitudes (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014). He has also published in numerous scientific journals such as British Journal of Political Science and Comparative Political Studies. He co-designed the "welfare state module" in the 2016 European Social Survey 2016. In 2005 Staffan Kumlin became the first political scientist to receive a Pro Futura Fellowship from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.


Achim Goerres (PhD, LSE) has been full Professor of Empirical Political Science at the University of Duisburg-Essen since 2011. Goerres is a political scientist, political sociologist and political demographer who works at the intersection of comparative political behaviour and welfare state research with an emphasis on ageing and immigration. He is the Principal Investigator of POLITSOLID (2021-25), a project on political solidarities funded by a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council and Co-Principal Investigator of the Immigrant German Election Studies I & II (2016 - 2024) funded by the German Research Foundation. He published in major journals, such as the British Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of European Social Policy, Journal of Social Policy and Electoral Studies.