Populism and Democratic Deconsolidation
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Dahlum, Hanson, Johnsen, Kotsadam, Wuttke [accepted]: „Is Support for Authoritarian Rule Contagious? Evidence from Field and Survey Experiments”, American 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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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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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
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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
AI and Digitalization
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Rauchfleisch, Adrian; Jungherr, Andreas; Wuttke, Alexander (accepted): "Explaining Public Preferences for Regulating Artificial Intelligence in Election Campaigns: Evidence from the U.S. and Taiwan", Telecommunications Policy.
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Jungherr, A., Rauchfleisch, A., & Wuttke, A. (2026). Artificial Intelligence in Election Campaigns: Perceptions, Penalties, and Implications. Political Communication, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2611913
Political Motivation
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Wuttke, Alexander (2021): "Why do (some) citizens find pleasure in politics? Introducing the need-based model of intrinsic political motivation", Politics and the Life Sciences.
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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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Diehl, C.; Revers, M.; Traunmueller, R.; Weidmann, N.; Wuttke, A. (2025): „Students’ motives for restricting academic freedom: Viewpoint discrimination and prosocial concerns”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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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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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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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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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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Breznau, Nate; Rinke, Eike; Wuttke, Alexander et al. (2025): “The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions”, Royal Society Open Science.
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Wuttke, Aßenmacher, Klamm, Lang, Würschinger, Kreuter (2025): „AI Conversational Interviewing: Transforming Surveys with LLMs as Adaptive Interviewers“, LaTeCH-CLfL 2025.
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Bucher, Hannah, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe, Axel Burger, Thorsten Faas, Harald Schoen, Marc Debus, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Denis Cohen, Robert Huber, Michael Jankowski, Melvin John, Jan Menzner, Christian Schimpf, Christian Schnaudt, Nils D. Steiner, Richard Traunmüller, Fabienne Unkelbach, Carsten Wegscheider, Robert Welz, Alexander Wuttke und Vera Vogel (2022)*: Concluding Remarks on the GLES Open Science Challenge 2021 - The GLES Open Science Challenge 2021 in Hindsight: Experiences Gained and Lessons Learned. Politische Vierteljahresschrift.
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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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Wuttke, Jungerr, Rauchfleisch [revise and resubmit]: “Artificial Intelligence in Government: Why People Feel they Lose Control”, Journal of European Public Policy
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Wuttke, Freitag, Kiemes, Biester, Binder, Buitkamp, Dyk, Ehrlich, Lesiv, Poliandri, Schneider, Brenner, Samarskiy [revise and resubmit]: „Observing many students using difference-in-differences designs on the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty”, Plos One.
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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"How to Foster Citizen Support for Democracy?”, Gesis Lecture Series, 16/03/2021.
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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.