Populism and Democratic Deconsolidation
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Schimpf, C.; Wuttke, A.; Schoen, H. (2024): “Neither a trait nor wildly fluctuating: on the stability of populist attitudes and its implications for empirical research”, British Journal of Political Science.
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Schulz, A., Wuttke, A. (2025), Populist Attitudes. In Nai, A., Grömping, M., & Wirz, D. (Eds). Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing. Accepted version.
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Wuttke, A.; Foos, F. (2024): „Making the Case for Democracy“, European Journal of Political Research.
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Steiner, N., Schimpf, C., & Wuttke, A. (2021). Left behind and united by populism? Populism’s multiple roots in feelings of lacking societal recognition. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jk4pe
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Wuttke, A., Schimpf, C., & Schoen, H. (2023). Populist Citizens in four European Countries: Widespread Dissatisfaction goes with Contradictory but Pro-democratic Regime Preferences. Swiss Political Science Review, 29, 246–257. https://doi.org/10.1111/spsr.12548
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Wuttke, A., Gavras, K., & Schoen, H. (2022). Have Europeans Grown Tired of Democracy? New Evidence from Eighteen Consolidated Democracies, 1981–2018. British Journal of Political Science, 52(1), 416-428. doi:10.1017/S0007123420000149
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Wuttke, A., Gavras, K., & Schoen, H. (2020). Leader of the free world or pioneer in democracy’s decline? Examining the democratic deconsolidation hypothesis on the mass level in East and West Germany. Research & Politics, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2053168019900822
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Wuttke, A., Schimpf, C., & Schoen, H. (2020). When the Whole Is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multidimensional Constructs. American Political Science Review, 114(2), 356-374. doi:10.1017/S0003055419000807
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Wuttke, A. (2020) New political parties through the voters’ eyes, West European Politics, 43:1, 22-48, DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2019.1603940
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Wuttke, A., Sichart, F., & Foos, F. (2022, March 29). Null Effects of Pro-Democracy Speeches by U.S. Republicans in the Aftermath of January 6th. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/pd5za
Political Motivation
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Wuttke, A. (2021). The pleasure principle: Why (some) people develop a taste for politics: Evidence from a preregistered experiment. Politics and the Life Sciences, 40(1), 19-39. doi:10.1017/pls.2020.18
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Wuttke, A. Political engagement’s non-political roots: examining the role of basic psychological needs in the political domain. Motiv Emot 44, 135–150 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-019-09801-w
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Wuttke, A. (2017). When the world around you is changing: Investigating the Influence of Alienation and Indifference on Voter Turnout. In: Schoen, Harald (Ed.); Roßteutscher, Sigrid (Ed.); Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger (Ed. ; Weßels, Bernhard (Ed. ; Wolf, Christof(Ed.): Voters and Voting in Context. 2017. - ISBN 978-0-19-879213-0, 146-166.. https:// doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/7ANKJ
Electoral Studies and Political Attitudes
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Kostelka, F.; Krejcová, E.; Sauger, N.; Wuttke, A. (2023): “Election Frequency and Voter Turnout”, Comparative Political Studies.
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Jungherr, Andreas; Mader, Matthias, Schoen, Harald; Wuttke, Alexander (2018):"Context-Driven Attitude Formation: The Difference Between Supporting Free Trade in the Abstract and Supporting Specific Trade Agreements”, Review of International Political Economy
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Gärtner, Lea; Schoen, Harald; Wuttke, Alexander (2020): "Ties That No Longer Bind?Effects and Responsiveness of Party Attachments in a Period of Crises". in: The Changing German Voter, ed. Schmitt -Beck, Rüdiger; Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schoen, Harald Weßels, Bernhard; Wolf, Christof, Cambridge University Press.
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Gärtner, Lea; Wuttke, Alexander; Schoen, Harald(2021): „Who Talks and Who Listens? How Political Involvement Influences the Potential for Democratic Deliberation in Everyday Political Talk”, Journal of Deliberative Democracy.
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Jungherr, Andreas; Wuttke, Alexander; Mader, Matthias;Schoen, Harald (2021): "A source like any other? Field-and survey-experimental evidence on how interest groups shape public opinion",Journal of Communication.
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Gärtner, Lea; Wuttke, Alexander (2019)*:"Politische Kommunikationsnetzwerke im Wahlkampf" [Political Communication Networks During the Election Campaign]. in: Die Bundestagswahl 2017, ed. Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schmitt-Beck, Rüdiger; Schoen, Harald Weßels, Bernhard; Wolf, Christof, S. 101-112, Nomos.
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Wuttke, Alexander; Schoen, Harald (2019)*:"Who were the voters behind the Schulz effect? An analysis of voter trajectories in the run-up to the 2017 German federal election" in Die Bundestagswahl 2017, ed. Korte/Schoofs, Springer.
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Schoen, Harald; Wuttke, Alexander; Kratz, Agatha; Preißinger, Maria (2018)*:„Ein Umschwung in den letzten Wochen des Landtagswahlkampfes: Befunde einer mehrwelligen Wiederholungsbefragung zur niedersächsischen Landtagswahl 2017“ [A swing in the final weeks of the campaign: evidence from a multi-wave panel survey on the 2017 state election in Lower Saxony.], Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen.
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Wuttke, A., Jungherr, A., & Schoen, H. (2019). More than opinion expression: Secondary effects of intraparty referendums on party members. Party Politics, 25(6), 817-827. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354068817745729
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Jungherr, Andreas; Finkelnburg, Antonin; Güldenzopf, Ralf; Mader, Matthias; Schoen, Harald; Wuttke, Alexander (2016)*: "Wirkung politischer Informationsbriefe in Unterstützung von TTIP", Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung.
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Wuttke, A. (2013). Die Prekarität des Partizipationsversprechens der Piratenpartei in: Protest und Dempokratie - Politische Soziologie. Deutsche Nachwuchsgesellschaft für Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft e.V. (Hg.), 157-174.
Methodology and Meta-Research
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Bucher, H., Stroppe, AK., Burger, A.M. et al. Special Issue Conclusion. Polit Vierteljahresschrift 64, 207–219 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-022-00437-z
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Breznau, N.; Rinke, E.; Wuttke, A. et al. (2022): "Observing many researchers with the same data and hypothesis reveals the hidden universe of data analysis“
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Rinke, E., & Wuttke, A. (2021). Open Minds, Open Methods: Transparency and Inclusion in Pursuit of Better Scholarship. PS: Political Science & Politics, 54(2), 281-284. doi:10.1017/S1049096520001729
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Wuttke, A. (2020). Can we Trust Science and, if so, Why?. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/7fmt9
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Wuttke, A. Why Too Many Political Science Findings Cannot Be Trusted and What We Can Do About It: A Review of Meta-Scientific Research and a Call for Academic Reform. Polit Vierteljahresschr 60, 1–19 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11615-018-0131-7
Work in progress / under review
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Breznau, N.; Rinke, E.; and Wuttke, A. et al.: “How Many Replicators Does It Take to Achieve Reliability? Investigating Researcher Variability in a Crowdsourced Replication”
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Jungherr, Rauchfleisch, Wuttke : "Deceptive uses of Artificial Intelligence in elections strengthen support for AI ban", Nature Machine Intelligence.
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Dahlum, Hanson, Johnsen, Kotsadam, Wuttke [revise and resubmit]: "Is Support for Authoritarian Rule Contagious? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments", American Journal of Political Science.
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Diehl, Revers , Traunmueller,Weidmann, Wuttke[reject and resubmit]: "Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination trumps professional standards and prosocial concerns", PNAS.
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Wuttke, A. [submitted]: “Democratic Support as Truism: Ordinary Citizens’ Vulnerability to Anti-democratic Temptations”, Public Opinion Quarterly.
Editorial work
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Rinke, E., Breznau., N., Wuttke, A. et al.: „Opening Political Science“, Symposium in PS: Political Science & Politics.
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Special Editor for Registered Reports, Journal of Politics.
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Head of the Working Group on Open Science policies, Journal of Politics
Other Publications
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Jungherr, Andreas; Mader, Matthias, Schoen, Harald; Wuttke, Alexander (2018). “For free trade, but against TTIP: public opinion and the backlash against globalization”, LSE Business Review
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Wuttke, Alexander (2018). "Wie Partizipation wirkt: Attraktivere Parteien durch mehr Mitbestimmung?”, DeFacto –Belegt, was andere meinen,
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Wuttke, Alexander (2018). "The Roots of Why Some People Care About Politics And Other do Not”, International Society of Political Psychology Blog.
Survey data
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Roßteutscher, S.; Schmitt-Beck, R.; Schoen, H.; Weßels, B.; Wolf, C.; Preißinger, M.; Kratz, A.; Wuttke, A. (2018): Long-term Panel 2013-2017 (GLES). GESIS Data Archive. ZA5770. http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.13018
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Roßteutscher, Sigrid; Schmitt-Beck, R.; Schoen, H. ; Weßels, B.; Wolf, C.; Preißinger, M.; Rudnik, A.; Wuttke, A. (2017): Short-term Campaign Panel 2017 (GLES). GESIS Data Archive, Cologne, ZA6804 Data file. http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.12776
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Wuttke, A.; Jungherr, A.; Schoen, H. (2017): Longitudinal party member survey, CDU Berlin. GESIS Data Archive. http://dx.doi.org/10.7802/1533
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Rattinger, H.; Roßteutscher, S.; Schmitt-Beck, R.; Schoen, H.; Weßels, B.; Wolf, C.; Blumenstiel, J. E.; Gärtner, L.; Kratz, A.; Plischke, T.; Preißinger, M.; Wiegand, E.; Wuttke, A. (2018): Repeatedly questioned respondents of the Short-term Campaign Panel 2013 and 2017 (GLES). GESIS Data Archive. ZA6827. http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.13129
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Roßteutscher, S.; Schmitt-Beck, R.; Schoen, H.; Weßels, B.; Wolf, C.; Preißinger, M.; Kratz, A.; Wuttke, A. (2018): Short-term Campaign Panel – Lower Saxony election wave (GLES 2017). GESIS Data Archive. http://dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.13008
Invited talks
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"Peer effects on authoritarianism", Yale American and Comparative Political Behavior Workshop, 06/10/2023
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"Against Conjoints!", Defining Democracy Workshop Stuttgart, 12/09/2023
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"Computational Methods for the Study of Democracy", I2SC Kick Off Event Saarbrücken, 07/09/2023
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"Can we rely on citizens to stand up for democracy?" Stuttgart Social Science Research Colloquium, 23/05/2023
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"Overcoming the Futility of Scientific Dispute. An Introduction to Pre-registered Adversarial Collaborations?", Mannheim Open Science Meetup, 22/10/2021
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"Are citizens turning away from democracy?", University of Gothenburg, 30/03/2021.
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"Overcoming the Futility of Scientific Dispute. An Introduction to Pre-registered Adversarial Collaborations?", Mannheim Open Science Meetup, 22/10/2021
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"Open Social Science A Primer on Conducting Transparent and Reliable Research", V-DEM Institute
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"Open Science: Warum wir Forschungsbefunden oft nicht trauen können und was wir dagegen tun können", presented at Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing, 11/23/2018 in Heidelberg.
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"Testing the power of interest group persuasion – A parallel field- and survey experiment", presented at „WZB Berlin Social Science Center“, 11/17/2016 in Berlin
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"Why too many social scientific findings cannot be trusted and what we can do about it", presented at IKMZ. Zurich, 09/24/2016 in Zurich.