Ms. Anne Sophie Puers is a doctoral research fellow in comparative politics at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, University of Cologne, Germany, with Prof. Dr. André Kaiser. She studied psychology (M.Sc.) at Trier University, Germany, and political science (M.A.) at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich and Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University Bonn, Germany. She also holds a certificate in European studies from Trier University and spent a research stay at the University of Turin, Italy, with Prof. Dr. Marco Tamietto. Her research interests include political attitudes, autocratisation, populism, and political participation.