Symposium on ‚Opening Political Science‘
What is Open Science? Why is openness an epistemological value? Does political science need to become more open and how can we put Open Science principles into ...
Autor: Alexander Wuttke
Dr. Wuttke
It’s done. A few days after my defense, the second paper of my dissertation was published at Politics and the Life Sciences. Because the following visual...
Are citizens turning away from democracy?
Democracy is under stress. Over the past ten years, there were more nations moving towards autocracy than countries moving towards democracy. In the past year a...
ZEIT Wissen: „Forschung wird glaubwürdiger“
Ein kleiner, feiner Text in 02/2020 ZEIT Wissen diskutiert die Bewegung zu offener, verlässlicher Wissenschaft mit Referenz. Artikel als PDF Link zur referenzi...
When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts
In a new study, now published with the American Political Science Review, we show how established operationalization strategies of multi-dimensional concepts ca...
New publication: ‚Political engagement’s non‑political roots: examining the role of basic psychological needs in the political domain‘
Why do some grow into liking politics where other couldn’t care less about the current events in Washington, Brussels or Berlin. In a new study I argue fo...
Poster: Why do some people enjoy politics while others do not?
Political Psychologists will gather in beautiful Lisbon this week. Against the backdrop of uheaval in contemporary democracies, psychology and political science...
Democracy without democrats?
One-third of the world population lives in countries that move away from liberal democracy. Apparently, liberal self-governance is under stress. Democracy’s une...
Politics is back – Interview with local newspaper [german]
In Germany’s province of Baden-Württemberg, the European Elections were held concurrently with the municipal elections, leading to long queues at the voti...
Publication in West European Politics: New political parties through the voters’ eyes
Why do citizens at the ballot box prefer new political parties over established political parties? Scholars mainly studied the formation of political parties on...