Publications (Selection)

Articles (peer-reviewed)

• Should We Include Margins of Error in Public Opinion Polls? (with Christina Gahn). 2023. European Journal of Political Research. Forthcoming, 1-26. [Article] [Replication Material]


• Comparative Vote Switching. A New Framework for Studying Dynamic Multi-Party Competition (with Denis Cohen and Tarik Abou-Chadi). 2023. Journal of Politics. Forthcoming, 1-26. [Article] [Free Version] [Replication Material]


• Does Right-Wing Violence Affect Public Support for Radical Right Parties? Evidence from Germany (with Miku Matsunaga). 2023. Comparative Political Studies. 56 (14), 2269-2305. [Article] [Replication Material]


• Does Accommodation Work? Mainstream Party Strategies and the Success of Radical Right Parties (with Denis Cohen and Tarik Abou-Chadi). 2023. Political Science Research and Methods. 11 (1), 172-179. [Article] [Replication Material]


• Voter Turnout Decline and Party Responsiveness (with Lawrence Ezrow). 2023. British Journal of Political Science. 53 (1), 85-103. [Article] [Replication Material]


• Putting Electoral Competition Where it Belongs: Comparing Vote-Based Measures of Electoral Competition (with Aiko Wagner). 2023. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties. 33 (2), 210–227. [Article] [Replication Material]


• Becoming Part of the Gang? Established and Nonestablished Populist Parties and the Role of External Efficacy (with Aiko Wagner). 2021. Party Politics. 27 (1), 161-173. [Article] [Replication Material]


• The Causal Effect of Radical Right Success on Mainstream Parties’ Policy Positions: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (with Tarik Abou-Chadi). 2020. British Journal of Political Science, 50 (4), 829-847. [Article] [Replication Material]
• WZB Best Paper Award
• Appearing Moderate or Radical? Radical Left Party Success and the Two-Dimensional Political Space. 2020. West European Politics, 43 (7), 1365-1387. [Article] [Replication Material]


• Shifting Welfare Policy Positions: The Impact of Radical Right Populist Party Success Beyond Migration Politics (with Heiko Giebler). 2020. Representation, 56 (3), 331-348. [Article] [Replication Material]
• Representation Best Paper Prize - Honorable Mention
• Women's Participation in Peace Negotiations and the Durability of Peace (with Jana Krause and Piia Bränfors). 2018. International Interactions, 44 (6), 985-1016. [Article] [Replication Material]

Articles in Edited Volumes

• The Supply Side. Mainstream Right Party Policy Positions in a Changing Political Space in Western Europe (with Tarik Abou-Chadi). 2021. In: Riding the Populist Wave: Europe's Mainstream Right in Crisis, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and Tim Bale (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 67-90. [Article]


• Strukturiert sozio-ökonomische Ungleichheit die Legitimitätswahrnehmungen und Wahlentscheidungen der Bürgerinnen? In: Legitimitätsprobleme. Zur Lage der Demokratie in Deutschland, Sascha Kneip, Wolfgang Merkel and Bernhard Weßels (eds.). Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 125-152. [Article]


• Crisis of Democracy? Views of Experts and Citizens (with Wolfgang Merkel). 2018. In: Democracy and Crisis. Challenges in Turbulent Times, Wolfgang Merkel and Sascha Kneip (eds.). Cham: Springer, 31-47. [Article]

Working Papers

• The Bombing of Hospitals and Local Violence Dynamics in Civil Wars: Evidence from Syria (with Regine Schwab & Samer Massoud). HiCN Working Paper Series. 2023 (403), 1-55. [Manuscript]


• Privatizations Spark Socialist Backlash: Evidence from East Germany’s Transformation (with Anselm Hager, Moritz Hennicke & Lukas Mergele). CESifo Working Paper. No. 10030, 1-47. [Manuscript]

Book Reviews

• Strategien gegen Rechtspopulismus? Der Umgang mit der AfD in Landesparlamenten. 2021. German Politics. Online First. [Article]

Software

• nuts: Convert European Regional Data. Version: 2024v1. WZB Berlin Social Science Center (with Moritz Hennicke). R package version 1.0.0. doi:10.5281/zenodo.10885973 [Vignette] [Github Repository] [Manual] [CRAN]

Data Sets

• PPEG. Database "Political Parties, Presidents, Elections, and Governments". Version: 2024v1. WZB Berlin Social Science Center (with Robert Stelzle and Bernhard Weßels). [Link to Data]


• The Manifesto Data Collection. Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR). Versions 2018b-2021a. Berlin: WZB - Berlin Social Science Center (with Andrea Volkens, Tobias Burst, Pola Lehmann, Matthieß, Nicolas Merz, Sven Regel, Lisa Zehnter and Bernhard Weßels). [Link to Data]


• The Manifesto Data Collection: South America. Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR). Versions 2018b-2020b. Berlin: WZB - Berlin Social Science Center (with Tobias Burst, Pola Lehmann, Matthieß, Nicolas Merz, Sven Regel, Lisa Zehnter and Bernhard Weßels). [Link to Data]


• Manifesto Corpus. Versions 2018-2 - 2021-1. Berlin: WZB - Berlin Social Science Center (with Tobias Burst, Pola Lehmann, Matthieß, Nicolas Merz, Sven Regel and Lisa Zehnter). [Link to Data]