Prisca Jöst

Prisca is a Postdoc based at the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy and the Center on Global Democracy at Cornell University. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg in June 2021.

Prisca's research broadly focuses on comparative politics and development studies. She studies political and civic participation, social and economic policies and social inequality in Africa. She relies on survey and experimental methods and in-depth field research in her work. Her dissertation studied the role of community norms and social ties in the political participation of poor and unemployed citizens, providing empirical evidence from Tunisia, Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, and the United Kingdom. Her work has appeared in World Development, Comparative Political Studies, Political Studies, PLoS One and Mobilization.

Prisca mainly works on the GLD project Survive, Thrive, or Deprive? Drivers and Outcomes of Resilience During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malawi.