New website and publications
This website is a bit outdated, in terms of substance and technology. I am in the process of moving to a Quarto-based publication platform. In the meantime, not...
Kategorie: democracy
Registered Report on Populism published
Why do many populist movements manage to assemble coalitions of societal groups that cut across ideological and socio-economic divides? In a new Registered Repo...
Pre-Print „Null Effects of Pro-Democracy Speeches by U.S. Republicans in the Aftermath of January 6th“
A few days after the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2020, former governor Arnold Schwarzenegger published a video message on democracy. With ref...
Pre-Print: „How to Make the Case for Democracy“ (Field-experiment with Florian Foos)
What can politicians, journalists and other actors with communicative power do to strengthen citizen commitment to democracy? In a new study, Florian Foos (LSE)...
Registered Report: „Left behind and united by populism?“
Why do many populist movements manage to assemble coalitions of societal groups that cut across ideological and socio-economic divides? In a new Registered Repo...
Freedom of Speech on Campus: A pre-registered adversarial collaboration
We invite colleagues to participate in a collaborative research effort among scholars with conflicting viewpoints to jointly devise and conduct a quantitative s...
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...
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...
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...