Polls: Do they measure or do they influence voting intentions?
Polls are ubiquitous. Here in Germany, these are the final days of the run-up to the federal elections and each and every day we wake up to a new poll. There ar...
Autor: Alexander Wuttke
Personal engagement and scholarly insights on misperceptions: Launching the fact-checking platform stimmtdas.org
Acting as a scholar in the public sphere and speaking out on political issues is a complicated matter; particularly as a political scientist. Taking a public st...
New publication: „When the world around you is changing: Investigating the Influence of Alienation and Indifference on Voter Turnout“
This chapter investigates the amount of variability in individual turnout decisions over time and its dependence on the changing characteristics of political pa...
Wahlkampf-Panel Deutsche Wahlstudie, Welle 2: Der Schulz-Effekt
Die Deutsche Wahlstudie ist eine zentrale wissenschaftliche Instanz zur Beobachtung des Wahlverhaltens in Deutschland und gehört zu den umfangreichsten Wahlstud...
Talking persuasion and participation at #MPSA2017
Conferences are the sweet treat of academic life. At MPSA in Chicago I had the chance discuss a paper on electoral integrity and to present two of our own ongoi...
German Campaign Panel 2017: Wave 1 (N=18.000) is now publicly available.
Great news! Wave 1 of the German Campaign Panel 2017 is now available and waiting to be analyzed by you. About 18.000 respondents were surveyed online in Octobe...
Testing persuasion in the real world
The effectiveness of political actors in influencing public opinion by specific persuasive appeals is poorly understood. From laboratory experiments we have lea...
Launch of the German Longitudinal Election Study´s panel component
This week we have launched the first wave of the German Longitudinal Election Study´s panel component. What makes the German Election Study so appealing is its ...
Towards a Self-determination Theory of Political Motivation
The Self-determination Theory of Political Motivation proposes a new perspective on the origins of political engagement. Based on Self-determination Theory by D...
Winterschool on Elections and Electoral Behavior
Some weeks after my research stay at André Blais´ Chair for Electoral Studies had begun, the Winter School on Voting Behavior happened to take in Montréal as we...