Welfare Through Land Politics
Historical-comparative analysis of land-based welfare systems and its trade-offs with labour-based welfare.
Osman Demirbağ
Doctoral Researcher in Sociology — agrarian political economy, land-based welfare, and party politics.
About
I’m a PhD researcher in sociology (Freie Universität Berlin), studying how states pursue welfare through land politics—agrarian credit, land reform, rural infrastructure, and price supports—and how these interact with labour-based welfare and party competition. I build large-scale historical-comparative (1850–2025) datasets to model long- and short-run political dynamics.
Research
Land, Agriculture and Housing
Linking state interventions in these markets to political and economic structures and actions of actors.
Party Politics, 1890–2025
Building and modelling long-run manifesto, election and administrative data to track politics across time and countries.
Publications & Working Papers
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Welfare Through Land Politics: A historical-comparative approach
Presented at ECPR (in progress) — PDF -
“Trade”-off between Relative Salience of Economy and Culture: Comparative Analysis of Electoral Politics in Western Democracies, 1890–2024
Presented at Mid-term Conference ESA RN09 Economic Sociology (in progress) — Link
Teaching
- WiSe 25/26: Sociology of Agriculture
- WiSe 25/26: Sociology of Land in the United States and Canada
- SoSe 25: Classical Sociology of Class and State
- WiSe 24/25: Methods in Quantitative Text Analysis: Exploring North American Novels
- SoSe 24: Introducing Text Analysis with R through Political Party Manifestos from the US
Projects
Manifestos
