Tina Freyburg, Ph.D.

tina.freyburg@unisg.ch

University of St.Gallen

Address: Mueller-Friedbergstrasse 8

City: St.Gallen - 9000

Country: Switzerland

About Me:

I work as Professor of Comparative Politics in the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of St.Gallen. I currently serve as the Academic Director of the MA programme "International Affairs & Governance."

I received my Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2011. Prior to returning to Switzerland in 2015, I was a Max-Weber-Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (2011/2) and then joined the Department of Politics & International Studies at the University of Warwick, first as Leverhulme-Trust-Fellow (2012/3), then Assistant Professor (2013/4) and Associate Professor (2014/5).

Research Interests

Comparative Democratization

European Politics

International Democracy Promotion

Telecommunication Politics

My Research:

In my research, I study the chances and risks that emerge for democracy in a globalizing and digitalizing world. Specifically, I am interested in the perception and the quality of democratic governance beyond the nation-state, as well as the promotion of democratic rules and practices through conditionality and private business. One of my current main projects addresses the role of telecommunications companies, in particular their owner identities, in the implementation of state-ordered internet shutdowns during politically contentious times. Our short video documentary "Citizens Offline - the state, the companies & internet shutdowns" gives an overview of our research into the politics of internet shutdowns.