Vera Troeger

Vera Troeger is a German political scientist. She holds the Chair of Comparative Political Science at the University of Hamburg. She studies quantitative methods in political science, the gender pay gap, and parental leave policies. In 2019 she was elected President of the European Political Science Association.

Education and early work Troeger obtained a Vordiplom in political science and French literature from the University of Heidelberg in 1997, and then another Vordiplom in statistics and econometrics and one in economics from the University of Konstanz in 2001. She continued to study at the University of Kostanz, earning a master's degree in political science, economics, and statistics in 2002.

In 2019, Troeger was elected President of the European Political Science Association for the 2019–2021 term. She had previously been the editor-in-chief of the European Political Science Association's flagship journal, Political Science Research and Methods, The Washington Post, and Times Higher Education. Her decision to leave Britain after Brexit, after working for 14 years in the United Kingdom, was the focus of an article by The Guardian.

Selected works "Panel data analysis in comparative politics: Linking method to theory", European Journal of Political Research, with Thomas Plümper and Philip Manow (2005) "Efficient Estimation of Time-Invariant and Rarely Changing Variables in Finite Sample Panel Analyses with Unit Fixed Effects", Political Analysis, with Thomas Plümper (2007) "Why is There No Race to the Bottom in Capital Taxation?", International Studies Quarterly, with Thomas Plümper and Hannes Winner (2009)