Philip is Professor of Comparative Political Economy at the University of Bremen. He is interested in a wide range of topics across the humanities and the social sciences. His main research areas include the role of the welfare state in the political economy of advanced industrialized countries, political symbolism, modern parliamentarism, electoral systems, and the theory of democracy. In his research, he deals with extensive data sets and complex statistical methods. Philip was elected to the Social Science Class of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and invited to the Center of Excellence at the University of Konstanz, Cultural Foundations of Integration (2017/2018). From 2014 to 2015, he was a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

At THE NEW INSTITUTE Philip was involved in the program “The Future of Democracy“.