Hans Lueders

About

Hans Lueders is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research investigates the political and social consequences of migration in the United States and Western Europe. His current book project examines how domestic migration transforms electoral politics and civic engagement in rich democracies. This work links domestic migration to some of the key challenges that democratic societies are facing today: political polarization, democratic discontent, and the decline in local-level engagement.

In studying immigration to the United States, Lueders is particularly interested in how the policies that local governments implement in response to it influence the lives and integration of immigrants as well as the well-being of the broader communities where they live. This work also involves the study of American public opinion on topics such as immigration, immigrant integration, and deportation.

Lueders also has an interest in the study of authoritarianism. In a series of projects, he analyzes detailed archival data on Communist East Germany to understand how dictators manage their citizens and how citizens can influence policymaking even under conditions where they do not have any democratic means to do so.

Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, Lueders was a postdoctoral research associate at the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice at Princeton University and a postdoctoral scholar at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute.

His research has been published in the American Political Science Review, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, World Politics, the Journal of Politics, Democratization, and the European Political Science Review, among other journals.

Lueders holds a PhD in political science from Stanford University and BA and MA degrees in political science from Heidelberg University, Germany.