Anna Koukal, post-doctoral researcher
Anna Koukal is a post-doctoral researcher at the Swiss Distance University Institute. Besides here research activity, she supports students at the Swiss Distance University Institute in their own first academic projects. She is also the President of the European Association of Young Economists (EAYE).
Anna Koukal completed her thesis in 2019 at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and also works there as a post-doctoral researcher.
Key research themes
The causes and consequences of power-sharing in the form of extension of the vote in the political process have been central to her research up to now.
Civil rights have been very much connected with traditional forms of nation statehood up to now, despite increasing globalisation and digitisation. If groups (e.g. women, foreigners or young people) are excluded from political voting and election rights, this damages institutional congruence, and potentially therefore also the quality of political, social and economic outcomes. A core element of her research is the processing of previously unused data on the introduction of voting rights for women and foreigners in Switzerland.
