voTUM
Project Description
As Team voTUM, we are dedicated to exploring what factors influence individuals' wishes regarding fiscal policy. We want to understand how information about Argentina's young voter choices might impact young voters' views in the Czech Republic before their parliamentary election in October 2025.
Our Team
Members
| Emre Ilhan | B.Sc. Electrical Engineering |
| Niya Lafazanska | M.Sc. Urbanism |
| Mario Alberto Rodríguez Cervantes | B.Sc. Physics |
| Jonathan Ross | M.Sc. Electrical Engineering |
| Franka Spitczok von Brisinski | B.Sc. Informatics |
| Jasper Veil | B.Sc. Management & Technology (Specialization: Informatics) |
| Rupert Zeps | M.Sc. Politics & Technology |
Tutors
| Rosa Weidenspointer | Alexander Sobieska |
| Biochemistry Master Student TUM | Research associate and doctoral student at the Chair of Ethics of AI and Neuroscience at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine TUM |
| get.med.tum.de/people/alexander-sobieska/ |
Supervisors
| Prof. Dr. Tim Büthe | Prof. Dr. Niklas Potrafke |
| Chair of International Relations Munich School of Politics and Public Policy TUM | Professor of Economics Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| www.hfp.tum.de/ir/team/prof-dr-tim-buethe/ | www.econ.lmu.de/de/personen/kontaktseite/niklas-potrafke-3bd1576c.html |
Current Poster
Important Sources
| Voting outcomes in Argentina: | AtlasIntel. (2023, November 10). National-level poll on the 2023 presidential elections. https://www.atlasintel.org/poll/argentina-national-2023-11-10 |
| Year on year inflation rates: | Trading Economics. (n.d.). Czech Republic inflation rate. Retrieved 05.04.2025, from https://tradingeconomics.com/czech-republic/inflation-cpi Trading Economics. (n.d.). Argentina inflation rate. Retrieved 05.04.2025, from https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi |
| Temporal discounting in voting: | Jacobs, A. M., & Matthews, J. S. (2012). Why do citizens discount the future? Public opinion and the timing of policy consequences. British Journal of Political Science, 42(4), 903–935. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123412000117 |
| The influence of foreign voter choices on domestic voting: | Malet, G. (2022). Cross-national social influence: How foreign votes can affect domestic public opinion. Comparative Political Studies, 55(14), 2416–2446. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140221088846 |
| Experimental study design: | Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (4th ed.). SAGE. |
Contact
votum@ja.tum.de