Osman Demirbag

Osman Demirbağ

Doctoral Researcher in Sociology

Research on the link between relations of political economies and relations of parties, mostly land/housing/agriculture related.

About

I’m a PhD researcher in sociology at Freie Universität Berlin.

I study how states pursue welfare through land politics, such as 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 to today) datasets to model these historical-political relations.

Research

Land, Agriculture and Housing

Linking national and local state interventions in these markets to political and economic structures and actions.

Historical Sociology Political Sociology Political Economy

Party Politics, 1850 to today

Building and modelling long-run text, space and administrative data to track politics across time and countries.

Text Analysis Spatial Analysis Long-run Politics

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

Code & Data

R and Python repositories for data analyses used in my research.