About
Paul Kindermann is a postdoc at the University of Southampton (Department of Politics) and a visiting fellow at LSE. He works at the intersection of empirical political science and (normative) political theory.
At Southampton, Paul is conducting qualitative fieldwork (focus groups; interviews) and works on survey experiments as part of an ERC-funded project on the formation of political process preferences in Europe (PoPPiE). The project seeks to develop a novel approach towards studying the public resonance of different institutional reforms aimed at addressing disaffection with the functioning of democracy in Europe.
Paul specialises in the comparative study of political participation and institutional design and has a strong interest in the European Union; his first article on the role of democratic innovations in the EU has been published in the Journal of European Public Policy.
Before joining U Southampton in 2025, Paul completed his doctorate at the LSE European Institute. He holds master’s degrees in politics and philosophy from Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Hamburg. During his studies, Paul was a visiting fellow at Princeton University, Northwestern University, and Columbia University.