voTUM
Project Description
In Argentina’s December 2023 elections, almost 80% of all 16- to 24-year-old voters supported Javier Milei – an exceptionally high share, especially given his rather unconventional economic stance: advocating for immediate fiscal austerity (“short-term pain”) in exchange for future relief through lower inflation. As team voTUM, we are dedicated to exploring what factors influence individuals' wishes regarding fiscal policy. Specifically, we want to explore how information about Argentina’s young voters’ choices might influence the views of similarly aged individuals in Europe. We focus on the Czech Republic and the Netherlands, as both countries have recently held parliamentary elections in October 2025, meaning that young people there are likely to be more politically engaged.
Our Team
Members
| Emre Ilhan | B.Sc. Electrical Engineering |
| Niya Lafazanska | M.Sc. Urbanism |
| Mario Alberto Rodríguez Cervantes | B.Sc. Physics |
| Jonathan Ross | M.Sc. Electrical Engineering |
| Franka Spitczok von Brisinski | M.Sc. Mathematics in Data Science |
| Jasper Veil | B.Sc. Management & Technology (Specialization: Informatics) |
| Rupert Zeps | M.Sc. Politics & Technology |
Tutors
| Rosa Weidenspointer | Alexander Sobieska |
| Biochemistry Master Student TUM | Research associate and doctoral student at the Chair of Ethics of AI and Neuroscience at the Institute for History and Ethics of Medicine TUM |
| get.med.tum.de/people/alexander-sobieska/ |
Supervisors
| Prof. Dr. Tim Büthe | Prof. Dr. Niklas Potrafke |
| Chair of International Relations Munich School of Politics and Public Policy TUM | Professor of Economics Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| www.hfp.tum.de/ir/team/prof-dr-tim-buethe/ | www.econ.lmu.de/de/personen/kontaktseite/niklas-potrafke-3bd1576c.html |
Current Poster
Important Sources
| Voting outcomes in Argentina: | AtlasIntel. (2023, November 10). National-level poll on the 2023 presidential elections. https://www.atlasintel.org/poll/argentina-national-2023-11-10 |
| Year on year inflation rates: | Trading Economics. (n.d.). Czech Republic inflation rate. Retrieved 05.04.2025, from https://tradingeconomics.com/czech-republic/inflation-cpi Trading Economics. (n.d.). Argentina inflation rate. Retrieved 05.04.2025, from https://tradingeconomics.com/argentina/inflation-cpi |
| Temporal discounting in voting: | Jacobs, A. M., & Matthews, J. S. (2012). Why do citizens discount the future? Public opinion and the timing of policy consequences. British Journal of Political Science, 42(4), 903–935. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123412000117 |
| The influence of foreign voter choices on domestic voting: | Malet, G. (2022). Cross-national social influence: How foreign votes can affect domestic public opinion. Comparative Political Studies, 55(14), 2416–2446. https://doi.org/10.1177/00104140221088846 |
| Experimental study design: | Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research design: Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches (4th ed.). SAGE. |
Contact
votum@ja.tum.de