My research is interdisciplinary and follows the paradigm of theoretically based empirical research. I am interested in the meaning, determinants, and consequences of social identities, especially national/ethnic identity as well as party identification for social cohesion and political behaviour. I also analyze the effects of other determinants (e.g. political knowledge, social norms, personality, negative voting) on (comparative) electoral behaviour. Furthermore, my research interests also lie in the field of Science Studies.
Currently I am working on these topics (** revision, * under review):
Determinants of political attitudes and voting behaviour
- Campaign effects amongst voters with and without migration background (with Achim Goerres)
- Voting behaviour of Turkish origin individuals in Germany (with Achim Goerres & Manuel Diaz Garcia)
- Mobilisation effects through trusted local actors* (with Achim Goerres & Manuel Diaz Garcia)
- Political ideology and AI attitudes* (with Verena Benoit, Valentin Berger & Philipp Hoffmann)
Social identities and representation
- Maiden Speeches Beyond Westminster: Timing, Style, and
Self-Representation in German Parliaments (with Alex Herzog & Christoph G Nguyen) - The concept of negative social identities (with Christoph G Nguyen)
- Negative partisanship towards a populist radical right party (with Kai Arzheimer)
- The psychological bases of negative party identification
(Political) Methodology
- Various projects on survey incentives (with Almuth Lietz, Jörg Dollmann & Jannes Jacobsen)
- Challenges of quantitative surveys among hard-to-survey populations – A pladoyer for mixed-mode designs (with Laura Scholaske)
Social inequality and discrimination
- The longlasting effects of negative contact with governmental actors (with Christian Czymara & Lisa Walter)