Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung. Forthcoming. SpringerVS (with Martin Gross and Dominic Nyhuis).
Edited Volumes
Populism: An Introduction 2024. Under contract with SAGE (with Robert A. Huber).
Journal Articles
Support for strategic voting campaigns: Evidence from a survey experiment during the German General Election of 2021. Accepted.Politische Vierteljahresschrift.
When Correlation Is Not Enough: Validating Populism Scores from Supervised Machine-Learning Models. Online First.Political Analysis(with Robert A. Huber).
Populist Parties and the Two-Dimensional Policy Space. Online First. European Journal of Political Research (with Robert A. Huber and Christina-Marie Juen) [open access].
Turning a blind eye on the black sheep. When are voters loyal to corrupt politicians? Online First. Acta Politica (with Christina-Marie Juen and Marcel Lewandowsky) [open access].
Sympathy for the devil? Voter support for illiberal politicians. Online First.European Political Science Review (with Marcel Lewandowsky) [open access].
Slowly adopting: The impact of same-sex marriage legalization on the attitudes of parliamentary candidates in Germany. Online First.European Journal of Politics and Gender[open access].
Explaining Populist Attitudes: The Impact of Issue Specific Discontent and Representation. Online First.Politische Vierteljahresschrift(with Robert A. Huber and Carsten Wegscheider) [open access].
Die Positionen der Parteien zur Bundestagswahl 2021: Ergebnisse des Open Expert Surveys. 2022. Politische Vierteljahresschrift63 (1), 53-72 (with Anna-Sophie Kurella, Christian Stecker, et al.) [open access].
Administrative delegation revisited: Experimental evidence on the behavioural consequences of public service motivation and risk aversion. Online First. International Review of Administrative Sciences (with Maximilian Lutz, Susumu Shikano and Markus Tepe) [open access].
How stable are ‘left’ and ‘right’? A morphological analysis using open-ended survey responses of parliamentary candidates. Online First. Party Politics(with Sebastian Schneider and Markus Tepe). [open access].
Local preferences in candidate selection. Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among party leaders in Germany. 2022. Party Politics 28 (6), 1136–1149 (with Jan Berz) [open access].
Parteiendifferenz in der Wald- und Forstpolitik. Eine Analyse der deutschen Bundesländer. 2022. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 15, 593-615 (with Ulrich Hartung and Jochen Müller) [open access].
Who wants COVID-19 Vaccination to be Compulsory? The Impact of Party Cues, Left-Right Ideology and Populism. Online First. Politics (with Christina-Marie Juen, Robert A. Huber, Markus Tepe, Torren Frank and Leena Maaß) [open access].
Vaccine Alliance Building Blocks: A Conjoint Experiment on Popular Support for International COVID-19 Cooperation Formats. 2022. Policy Sciences 54 (3), 493-506 (with Pieter Vanhuysse and Markus Tepe) [open access].
Ballot Position Effects in Open-List PR Systems: The Moderating Effect of Postal Voting. 2022. Acta Politica 57 (2), 320-340 (with Torren Frank) [open access].
The Impact of Anti-Establishment Parties on the Electoral Success of Independent Local Lists: Evidence from Germany. 2022. Party Politics 28 (1), 127-136 (with Christina-Marie Juen and Markus Tepe) [open access].
Keep it simple! German voters’ limited competence to evaluate electoral systems’ functions. Online First. German Politics (with Eric Linhart and Markus Tepe).
Stimmzettel nutzerfreundlicher gestalten: Empfehlungen auf Grundlage eines Survey-Experiments. 2021. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 62 (1), 93-119 (with Dominic Nyhuis, Felix Münchow, Morten Harmening, Jannik Bruns, Max Holly, Josip Karacic and Christoph Hönnige) [open access].
The Incumbency Advantage in Second-Order PR Elections: Evidence from the Irish Context, 1942-2019. 2021. Electoral Studies 71 (3). (with Stefan Müller).
Abstiegserfahrungen in der Kommune und der Aufstieg Unabhängiger Wähler-gemeinschaften. Neue Befunde aus einem Mehrebenen-Kommunalwahlpanel. 2021. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 52 (1), 59-77 (with Christina-Marie Juen and Markus Tepe).
Model Dependency in the Analysis of Women’s Electoral Success. 2021. Politics and Gender 17 (2), 349-363 (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz).
Representative Bureaucracy and Public Hiring Preferences. Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among German Municipal Civil Servants and Private Sector Employees. 2020. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 30 (4), 596-618 (with Christine Prokop and Markus Tepe).
Conflict Dimensions and Party Positions in Multi-Level Democracies: Evidence from the Local Manifesto Project. 2020. West European Politics 43 (1), 74-101 (with Martin Gross).
NieKom. Eine neue Datenbasis für die kommunale Wahl- und Policyforschung in Niedersachsen. 2019. dms – der moderne staat 12 (2), 465-471 (with Christina-Marie Juen, Florian Erlbruch, and Markus Tepe) [open access].
Welches Wahlsystem wollen die Wähler? Evidenz von einem Conjoint-Experiment. 2019. Politische Vierteljahresschrift 60 (2), 221-243 (with Eric Linhart and Markus Tepe).
The Effect of Electing Women on Future Female Candidate Nomination Patterns. Findings from a Regression Discontinuity Design. 2019. Politics and Gender 15 (2), 182-210 (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz and Anna Gwiazda).
To Adapt or to Defend? Comparing Position Shifts among Bundestag Candidates between 2013 and 2017. 2019. West European Politics 42 (4), 895-913 (with Sebastian Schneider and Markus Tepe).
Ineffective and Counterproductive? Evaluating the Impact of Gender Quotas in Open-List PR Systems. 2019. Politics and Gender 15 (1), 1-33 (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz).
Politikpositionen von Regierungen im Ländervergleich. Heterogenität am Beispiel der Agrarpolitik. 2018. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 12 (4): 683-702 (with Stefan Ewert and Jochen Müller).
Die AfD im achten Europäischen Parlament: Eine Analyse der Positionsverschiebung basierend auf namentlichen Abstimmungen von 2014-2016. 2018. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 12 (3): 567-589 (with Marcel Lewandowsky).
Are populist parties fostering women’s political representation in Poland? A comment on Kostadinova & Mikulska. 2018. Party Politics 24 (2), 185-196 (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz).
Ideological Alternative? Analyzing AfD Candidates’ Ideal Points via Blackbox Scaling. 2017. Party Politics 23 (6), 704-716 (with Sebastian Schneider and Markus Tepe).
The Effects of Electoral Rules on Parliamentary Behavior: A Comparative Analysis of Poland and the Czech Republic. 2016. East European Politics and Societies 30 (4), 885-906 (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz and Mary Stegmaier).
Voting for Locals: Voters’ Information Processing Strategies in Open-List PR Systems. 2016. Electoral Studies 43 (3), 72-84.
“All by myself” oder “With a little help from my friends”? Die Integration der Bundespartei in die Wahlkampforganisation auf Landesebene. 2014. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 24 (4), 427-447. (with Marcel Lewandowsky).
Reassessing the European Union in the United Nations General Assembly. 2014. Journal of European Public Policy 21 (10), 1491-1508 (with Nicolas Burmester).
When there’s no Easy Way out: Electoral Law Reform and Ballot Position Effects in the 2011 Hamburg State Elections. 2014. German Politics 23 (1-2), 103-117 (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz).
The Unsolved Puzzle: Pacific Asia’s Voting Cohesion in the United Nations General Assembly – A Response to Peter Ferdinand. 2013. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations 16 (4), 680-689 (with Nicolas Burmester).
The agony of choice? On voter turnout and the new electoral law in the city-state of Hamburg. 2013. Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen 44 (2), 264-275 (with Cord Jakobeit, Philipp Hiller und Nils Thomsen).
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Speechmaking under Preferential-List PR: The Case of Poland. Forthcoming. In: Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus and Jorge Fernandes (Eds.): The Politics of Legislative Debate, Oxford University Press (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz).
O partido de direita radical “Alternativa para a Alemanha” (AfD) nas eleições municipais: desempenho eleitoral, temas enfatizados e tomada de posição Forthcoming. In: Antonio Lavareda and Helcimara Telles (Eds.): Eleições municipais brasileiras e internacionais, Editora FGV (with Martin Gross).
Lokale Wahlprogramme. Ein blinder Fleck der deutschen Kommunalpolitikforschung? 2020. In: Björn Egner und Detlef Sack (Eds.). Neue Koalitionen – alte Probleme. Lokale Entscheidungsprozesse im Wandel, SpringerVS, 101-126 (with Martin Gross).
Die politische Landschaft zur Bundestagswahl 2017. Befunde aus zwei Voting Advice Applications und dem Chapel Hill Expert Survey. 2019. In: Karl-Rudolf Korte and Jan Schoofs (Eds.). Die Bundestagswahl 2017. Analysen der Wahl-, Parteien-, Kommunikations- und Regierungsforschung, SpringerVS, 267-291 (with Jan Philipp Thomeczek and Andre Krouwel).
“…Deutschland eben.” Eine Analyse zur Interpretation des Begriffs ‘rechts’ durch Bundestagskandidaten auf Grundlage von Structural Topic Models. 2019. In: Markus Steinbrecher, Evelyn Bytzek, and Ulrich Rosar (Eds.). Identität – Identifikation – Ideologie, SpringerVS, 141-179 (with Sebastian Schneider and Markus Tepe).
Varieties of Legislative Voting Patterns. The Impact of Majority, Minority, and Caretaker Governments. 2019. Jahrbuch Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie – Band 11, SpringerVS, 33-61 (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz).
Social Heterogeneity and Choice Failure under Condorcet and Borda. 2017. Jahrbuch für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie – Band 10, SpringerVS, 143-166 (with Markus Tepe).
Die Bundestagswahl 2013 im historischen Vergleich. 2015. In: Oliver Strijbis and Kai-Uwe Schnapp (Eds.). Aktivierung und Überzeugung im Bundestagswahlkampf 2013, SpringerVS, 55-78 (with Kamil Marcinkiewicz).