HEY THERE!

I’M MANUEL

DIAZ GARCIA

I’m a political scientist working as a research associate at Goethe-University Frankfurt and University of Duisburg-Essen. My research focuses on political attitudes and electoral behavior of immigrant-origin individuals as well as on broader questions of political trust in diverse societies.

But most importantly, I’m just excited to learn new things.

What’s new?

Take a look at my latest publications, presentations and other stuff.



Latest Presentation

“The conditional effect of candidate-centered electoral systems on political trust”
at: ECPR General Conference 2023, Charles University Prague


My path.

Education


2023 - Today
PhD Candidate in Political Science

Goethe-University Frankfurt

2020 - 2022
MA in Political Management, Public Policy, and Public Administration

University of Duisburg-Essen
Thesis: “The Social Identities of Biden and Trump Sympathizers - A Multilevel-Analysis of the Candidate Preference in the U.S. Presidential Election 2020“

2015 - 2020
BA in Political Science

University of Duisburg-Essen
Thesis: “From Dictatorship to Democracy? A Qualitative Content Analysis of Individual Interviews on Political Integration with People of Spanish, Portuguese and Greek Origin“

My path.

Research Experience


2023 - Today
Research Associate in the DFG Project “Trust in Politicians: The Role of Representation“
Goethe-University Frankfurt
PIs: Prof Thomas Zittel and Prof Stefanie Bailer

2023 - Today
Research Associate in the DFG Project “Immigrant German Election Study II“

University of Duisburg-Essen
PIs: Prof Achim Goerres and Prof Sabrina J. Mayer

2021 - 2022
Research Assistant for the PhD program “The Political Economy of Inequality”

University of Duisburg-Essen

2017 - 2022
Research Assistant at the Working Group of Empirical Political Science

University of Duisburg-Essen

Let’s have some fun with data.

Numbers can be endlessly boring. But they don’t have to be. We can still show cool stuff with it.


How Germans of Turkish Descent Voted in Germany and Turkey in 2017.

Working Paper with Achim Goerres, Sabrina J. Mayer and Jonas Elis: The Political Behaviour of a Large and Fast-Growing Group of Immigrant-Origin Voters in a Reluctant Country of Immigration: Germans of Turkish Descent between 1999 and 2021


Ethnic Diversity, Unemployment Rate, and Partisan Lean in U.S. States in 2020.

Master’s Thesis: The Social Identities of Biden and Trump Sympathizers – A Multilevel-Analysis of the Candidate Preference in the U.S. Presidential Election 2020


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