Alexander Pries

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Research Fellow Freie Universität Berlin of the
Center for Civil Society Research

Alexander Pries is a PHD researcher at the Center for Civil Society Research. His research interests focus on political sociology, particularly on the mobilization of new political identities and the role of civil society in the ongoing reorganization of the social and political landscape in Europe. He is also interested in structuring party competition and historically conditioned differences within Germany and between European countries.

Alexander Pries studied Political Science and Sociology at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and completed his master's degree in Sociology (Quantitative Analysis and Social Data Science) at KU Leuven. He has worked as a student assistant in the Department of Political Science at CAU and for the Heinrich Böll Foundation and Alliance 90/The Greens in the field of data analysis. Currently, he teaches the Cleavage Theory in the Master's program in European Societies at the Free University of Berlin.

His methodological focus is on quantitative survey research and advanced analytical tools, including multilevel models, structural equation modeling, and multiple correspondence analysis.