Andreas Wiedemann is an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. He studies economic inequality, redistributive politics, and political behavior in rich democracies.
His book, Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics), examines the political causes behind the rise of credit as a private alternative to the welfare state and the political consequences for economic insecurity and social solidarity. Indebted Societies won the William H. Riker Book Award and the Best Book on Class and Inequality Award, both from the American Political Science Association.
Wiedemann’s other work has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and the Journal of Politics, among others.
He is currently working on the affordability crisis in housing markets and a new book project about spatial inequalities and democratic politics across rich democracies.
- Wiedemann, Andreas. 2021. Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies. Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics Series. New York: Cambridge University Press
- Dancygier, Rafaela, and Andreas Wiedemann. The Financialization of Housing and Its Political Consequences. American Journal of Political Science (conditionally accepted)
- Hilbig, Hanno, and Andreas Wiedemann. How Budget Tradeoffs Undermine Electoral Incentives to Build Public Housing. American Journal of Political Science (conditionally accepted)
- Wiedemann, Andreas. 2024. Redistributive Politics Under Spatial Inequality. Journal of Politics 86 (3): 1013-1030
- O'Grady, Tom, and Andreas Wiedemann. 2024. How the Geographic Clustering of Young and Highly-Educated Voters Undermines Redistributive Politics. Journal of Politics 86 (3): 934–52
- Wiedemann, Andreas. 2024. "The Electoral Consequences of Household Indebtedness under Austerity." American Journal of Political Science 68 (2): 354-371
- Jensen, Amalie Sofie, and Andreas Wiedemann. 2023. "Cross-National Support for the Welfare State under Wealth Inequality. Comparative Political Studies 56 (13): 1959-2127
- Wiedemann, Andreas. 2023. "A Social Policy Theory of Everyday Borrowing: On the Role of Welfare States and Credit Regimes." American Journal of Political Science 67 (2): 324-341
- Wiedemann, Andreas. 2022. "How Credit Markets Substitute for Welfare States and Influence Social Policy Preferences. Evidence from U.S. States." British Journal of Political Science, 52 (2): 829-849
- William H. Riker Book Award for the best book in political economy published during the past three years, American Political Science Association, 2022
- Best Book on Class and Inequality Award, American Political Science Association, 2022
- Gabriel A. Almond Award for the Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics, American Political Science Association, 2019
- Ernst B. Haas Dissertation Award for the Best Dissertation, European Politics and Society Section, American Political Science Association, 2019
