Andreas Juon

Introduction

Andreas has started his PhD at UCL’s Department of Political Science in 2016, with an expected degree date in 2020. He is interested in questions related to ethnic power-sharing and the role of its underlying mode of group determination. In particular, he looks at differences between power-sharing institutions that explicitly rely on ethnic categories and those that use more flexible, liberal criteria. In his work, he investigates their impact on citizens' social identification, societal stability, and democratization. He has also done separate research on how populist parties influence democratic quality. 

Besides his PhD studies at UCL, Andreas also holds a research associate post at University of Zurich (UZH), where he has had the chance to work on several projects related to issues of democratization, most notably related to power-sharing and populist actors. The most recent project at UZH of which he is a part of investigates the causes and effects of power-sharing in authoritarian states ("consociational oligarchies"). 

Andreas holds a Master of Arts in Comparative and International Studies from ETH Zurich and a Bachelor of Science in Geography from University of Zurich with Chinese as a minor. He has also done several study exchanges with Chinese universities, most recently studying Chinese in Guilin for one semester in 2019. Prior to joining UCL, he worked on several research projects in Zurich, including in Prof. Lars-Erik Cederman’s International Conflict Research group (where he worked on the collection and improvement of data regarding ethnic groups’access to power) and in Prof. Daniel Bochsler’s Democratization and Quality of Democracy group (where he worked on the effects of power-sharing on democracy and collected a large data-set on power-sharing rules and practices).

Research

Andreas’ research focuses on the impact of power-sharing on inter-ethnic relations. In particular, he is interested in how ethnically-based power-sharing institutions affect citizens’ perceptions and attitudes (most notably, the salience of ethnic identifications) as well as how they shape elite incentives (most notably the capabilities of ethnic minority politicians). He also asks whether liberal power-sharing institutions might be an institutional alternative that avoids some of the potential pitfalls of ethnically-based ones (in particular, tendencies of ethnic reification and resources given to ethnic entrepreneurs). In his dissertation project, he seeks to investigate these effects and asks what their ramifications are for conflict risks in divided societies. His supervisors are Prof. Kristin Bakke and Dr. Nils Metternich.

Methodologically, Andreas has a quantitative focus, seeking to estimate models that incorporate both time series and cross-sectional aspects of the problems he seeks to investigate. For this purpose, he is collecting a large dataset on constitutional power-sharing around the world since the second world war. However, he is very open to other methods as well, and is currently thinking about possibilities to further investigate potential issues of causality in a more in-depth qualitative case study as well.

PhD title:

Effectiveness vs. inclusiveness, short- vs. long-term? Testing the merits of corporate and liberal types of power-sharing 

Research groups:

Conflict and Change