Tobias Gerhard Schminke
Ph.D. student at Dalhousie University
Political Parties | Party Systems | Party Funding | Development Studies
2022-2025 Trudeau Foundation scholar | 2020 Governor-Generals Gold Medal | 2014-2020 Studienstiftung
Founder Europe Elects
Background
I am a political science Ph.D. candidate at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada).
Between high school and my Ph.D., I studied media and communications, political science, and development studies in Europe, East Africa, Israel and Canada.
Research Interests
Comparative politics (elections, voting intention, political parties, party systems, transnational party integration, political funding) as well as global development studies (political economy, labour and development, trade unionism). Media and politics (reception research, political communication).
Quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Honors & Awards
My honours and awards include the 2020 Governor-Generals Gold Medal (GGGM), the 2022-2025 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation scholarship and the 2014-2020 Studienstiftung scholarship.
A full list of honours and awards can be found on my CV.
Europe Elects
With 150,000 followers and subscribers on social media, Europe Elects is one of the most influential grassroots media, research and educational initiatives in the European Union.
I founded the election observatory in 2014, which was incorporated in 2019. Past partners include the Financial Times and Georgia State University.
