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!
23/01/2020 New Appointment: University Professor of Empirical Democracy Research at Mannheim Today, I received my appointment certificate and will start my new job as University Professor of Political Science, Empirical Democracy Research at the University of Mannheim next week on February 1st. I feel honored and very happy indeed!
23/01/2020 New Working Paper: The Political Consequences of Wartime Sexual Violence Belen Gonzalez and I just finished our working paper which presents the first systematic study into the political effects of wartime sexual violence, connecting unobtrusive measures from a list experiment to individual survivors’ political action.
02/01/2020 Featuring Our Study on Wartime Sexual Violence Our study on wartime sexual violence using a list experiment is featured in the latest Peace Science Digest: Uncovering the Extent and Nature of Sexual Violence in Wartime Sri Lanka
16/11/2019 New Working Paper: Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Matthias Revers and I finished our working paper on the state of free speech and political viewpoint diversity on university campus. It presents some of the results that have already been picked up by the media (FAZ).