14/11/2020 Shaken, Not Stirred Wow, we seem to have hit quite a nerve with our “controversial” study on free speech on university campus. But we neither started, nor intended the media stir – honestly! Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Die WELT Die ZEIT Interview with Sueddeutsche Zeitung Bayrischer Rundfunk
17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at PA! What a day: Our paper “Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys” (with Lucas Leemann and Lukas Stoetzer) has just been – conditional upon successful replication – accepted for publication in Political Analysis!
17/08/2020 Conditional Accept at KZfSS! Our paper “Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Evidence from a Most Likely Case” (with Matthias Revers) has just been conditionally accepted for publication in the Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie!
06/07/2020 Our Survey Items on Covid-19 are included in ESS Round 10! Our (Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and myself) survey items on Covid-19 were chosen to be included in the next round of the European Social Survey, due to be fielded across Europe from September 2020. The survey items on government authority and legitimacy in the age of a pandemic will focus on attitudes... View Article
30/06/2020 Short Piece on Moral Dilemmas in the Corona Pandemic A short piece introducing our experiment on moral dilemmas in the Corona pandemic has appeared in WZB Mitteilungen 168 (with M. Helbling, R. Maxwell & S. Munzert). See p. 51 here. The pre-registration document for our study “Does every life count the same? Evidence from a Triage Experiment” can be found here.
08/05/2020 Conditional Accept at PSRM! Our paper “Backlash to Policy Decisions: How Citizens React to Immigrants’ Rights to Demonstrate” (with Marc Helbling) has just been – conditional upon successful replication – accepted for publication in Political Science Research & Methods!
16/04/2020 NORFACE Research Grant Our international collaborative project on “The Rural-Urban Divide in Europe (RUDE)” has received funding by the sixth NORFACE transnational programme on Democratic Governance in a Turbulent Age (with Sigrid Roßteutscher, Frankfurt, Kathrin Ackermann, Heidelberg, Chris Claassen, Glasgow, Markus Freitag, Berne, Guillemo Rico, Barcelona, and Sonja Zmerli, Grenoble)!
26/02/2020 Facebook Research Grant Simon Munzert and I were awarded a Facebook Research Grant to study “Global Preferences for Hate Speech Regulation” using survey experiments in Brazil, Germany, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Philippines, Turkey and the US. (Important disclosure: This is not a quid pro quo. We’re not getting any data from FB. As announced... View Article
17/02/2020 Workshop: Free Speech Regulation and the Politics of Hate This week, we will have our international workshop on “Free Speech Regulation and the Politics of Hate” at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin. See the program here.
31/01/2020 New Article in PSRM! My article with Thomas Plümper on “The Sensitivity of Sensitivity Analysis” is now out in Political Science Research and Methods!