Stefanie Bailer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Basel. Before joining the University of Basel, she served as Assistant Professor of Global Governance at ETH Zurich and worked as Senior Assistant at the University of Zurich. During this time, she also held visiting research positions at the Universities of Michigan and Groningen.

Her professional experience further includes evaluating an EU democracy NGO programme in Ukraine in 2004 and teaching EU politics at the German-Kazakh University in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Her research focuses on comparative politics, with a particular emphasis on parliamentarism, parliamentary decision-making, and political careers. She also studies international decision-making and negotiations, especially within the European Union and other multilateral contexts. In previous projects, she and her team examined trust in politicians in Switzerland, Germany, and the United Kingdom through the SNF- and DFG-funded WEAVE project Trust in Politicians.

Additional research interests include politicians’ use of social media and political imagery, as well as corruption and public perceptions of corruption. She is currently involved in the SNF-funded project Electoral Choice: Which Role Does Legislators’ Quality Play?