PUBLICATIONS

Civic education and democracy promotion

Keep Positive and Defend Democracy: Framing Democratic Messages Under Authoritarianism (with Öztürk, A., Finkel, S., and E. Rascon Ramirez). European Journal of Political Research, forthcoming. [w orking paper]

Promoting Democracy in the Context of Terrorism: Experimental Evidence from Burkina Faso (with Yameogo, S. and A. Öztürk). Political Science Research and Methods, forthcoming. [working paper]

Choosing Democracy Over Party? How Civic Education Can Mitigate the Anti-democratic Effects of Partisan Polarization (with Eroglu, M., Finkel, S., Öztürk, A., and E. Rascón Ramírez). British Journal of Political Science, 2025. [link]

Can Online Civic Education Induce Democratic Citizenship? Experimental Evidence from a New Democracy (with Finkel, S. and E. Rascon Ramirez). American Journal of Political Science, 2024. [link] [Appendix][Transcripts of interventions] [Registration]

The Compensation Effect of Civic Education: How School Education Makes Up for Missing Parental Political Socialisation (with Niemi, R. and K. Smets). Political Behavior, 2016. [link] [appendix] [replication material]

Support for democracy and autocracy

Elections Without Constraints? The Appeal of Electoral Autocracy Across the World (with Dahlum, S., Skaaning Fredriksen, K., and A. Öztürk). British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming. [Working paper]

The Impact of Terrorism on Democratic Support in Africa (with Yameogo, S.). Journal of Conflict Resolution, forthcoming. [working paper]

A Loyal Base: Support for Authoritarian Regimes in Times of Crisis (with Öztürk, A., Northmore-Ball, K., Tertytchnaya, K., and J. Gerschewski). Comparative Political Studies, 2024. [link]

Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy: A New Approach (with Claassen, C., Ackermann, K., Bertsou, E., Borba, L., Carlin, R. E., Cavari, A., Dahlum, S., Gherghina, S., Hawkins, D., Lelkes, Y., Magalhães, P. C., Mattes, R., Meijers, M. J., Oross, D., Öztürk, A., Sarsfield, R., Self, D., Stanley, B., and Zechmeister, E.J.). Comparative Political Studies, 2024. [link]

Indoctrination

Varieties of Indoctrination: The Politicization of Education and the Media around the World (with Nazrullaeva, E., Northmore-Ball, K., Tertytchnaya, K., and Kim, W.). Perspectives on Politics, 2024. [link]

Authoritarian legacies

Historical Memory and Radical Right Voting: VOX and the Legacy of Francoism (with Pardos-Prado, S.). Journal of Politics, 2025. [link][working paper]

Winds of Change: Democratic Transitions and Long-term Democratic Support (with Olar, R.O.). Democratization, 2025. [link][working paper]

Revisiting the Impact of Modernization on Support for Women Politicians: The Role of Women’s Political Empowerment (with Shorrocks, R.). Comparative Political Studies, 2022. [link][manuscript][appendix][replication material]

Dictators and Their Subjects: Authoritarian Attitudinal Effects and Legacies (with Pop-Eleches, G.). Comparative Political Studies, 2020. [link][manuscript] [Introductory essay of a guest-edited Special Issue.]

How do Inclusionary and Exclusionary Autocracies Affect Ordinary People? (with Gerschewski, J. and Olar, R.G.). Comparative Political Studies, 2020. [link] [manuscript][appendix][replication material]

The Role of the State in the Repression and Revival of Religiosity in Post-Socialist Societies (with Mueller, T.). Social Forces, 2012. [link] [appendix]

Die Links-Rechts-Dimension auf dem Prüfstand: Ideologisches Wählen in Ost- und Westdeutschland 1990–2008. [Testing the left-right dimension: Ideological voting in East and West Germany, 1990-2008] Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 2011 [Download.pdf] [Part of a special issue ‘Voting in Germany’]

Democracy in Transition: A Micro Perspective on System Change in Post-Soviet Societies. Journal of Politics, 2010. [link] [data] [appendix]

The post-socialist citizen: Adjusting to a new political system. Doctoral Thesisq, University of Essex, 2010. [Download.pdf]

Growing Up on Different Sides of the Wall – A Quasi-experimental Test: Applying the Left-right Dimension to the German Mass Public. German Politics, 2009. [link]

Socialization and generations

Learning to Vote in Democratic and Authoritarian Elections (with Northmore-Ball, K.). Electoral Studies, 2025. [link]

Diversity and Perceptions of Immigration: How the Past Influences the Present (with McLaren, L. and Patterson, I.). Political Studies, 2021. [link][manuscript][appendix][blog post]

The Origins of Redistributive Policy Preferences: Political Socialization With and Without a Welfare State (with Soroka, S.). West European Politics, 2018. [link][manuscript][appendix]

Political Socialization: The Making of Citizens (with Smets, K.). Oxford Handbooks Online, 2017. [link]

Beyond Political Socialization: New Approaches in Age, Period, Cohort Analysis (with Niemi, R.). Electoral Studies, 2014. [link] [Introductory essay of an edited Special Issue.]

The Hierarchies of Age-period-cohort Research: Political Context and the Development of Generational Turnout Patterns (with Smets, K.). Electoral Studies, 2014. [link]

Homemade Citizens: The Development of Political Interest During Adolescence and Young Adulthood (with Smets, K. and García-Albacete, G.). Acta Politica, 2013. [link]

Attitudinal dynamics and party support

Elite Cues and Economic Policy Attitudes: The Mediating Role of Economic Hardship (with Cavaille, C.). Political Behavior, 2023. [link][manuscript][appendix][replication material] Pervious version: NICEP Working Paper.

The Impact of Covid-19 on Trump's Electoral Demise: The Role of Economic and Democratic Accountability (with Pardos-Prado, S.). Perspectives on Politics, 2022. [Link][Registration][Appendix]

Core Political Values and the Long-Term Shaping of Partisanship (with Evans, G.). British Journal of Political Science, 2020. [link][manuscript][appendix]

When the Pound in People’s Pockets Matters: How Actual Income and Employment Changes Affect Voters’ Party Preferences (with Tilley, J. and Hobolt, S.). Journal of Politics, 2018. [link][manuscript] [appendix]

The Micro-foundations of Party Competition and Issue Ownership: The Reciprocal Effects of Citizens’ Issue Salience and Party Attachments (with Adams, J.). British Journal of Political Science, 2018. [link][appendix] [replication material]

When Does Valence Matter? On Heightened Valence Effects for Governing Parties During Election Campaigns(with Abney, R., Adams, J., Clark, M., Easton, M., Ezrow, L., Kosmidis, S.). Party Politics, 2013. [link]

The Individual Level Dynamics of Bounded Partisanship (with Stegmueller, D. and Scotto, T.J.). Public Opinion Quarterly, 2011. [link] [Runner-up winner of the 2012 SOEP Best Paper Award]

Methods and Data

Enhancing Transparency and Replicability in Data Collection: Lessons from Three Education Datasets (with Del Rio Rodriguez, A., Kim, W., Knutsen, C.H., Nazrullaeva, E., Paglayan, A.). Perspectives on Politics, 2025. [link]

Advertising Online Surveys on Social Media: How Your Advertisements Affect Your Samples (with Öztürk, A.). Public Opinion Quarterly, 2025. [link][working paper]

How to Improve Representativeness and Cost-effectiveness in Samples Recruited through Meta: A Comparison of Advertisement Tools (with Öztürk, A.). PLOS ONE, 2023. [link]

Varieties of Political Indoctrination in Education and the Media (V-Indoc) Dataset V1 (with Nazrullaeva, E., Northmore-Ball, K., Tertytchnaya, K., Kim, W., Benavot, A., Bromley, P., Knutsen, C.H., Lutscher, P., Marquardt, K., Paglayan, A., Pemstein, D., Seim, B., and Rydén, O.). DEMED Project, 2023. [Download] [Codebook]

Recruiting Research Participants through Facebook Advertisements: A Handbook (with Öztürk, A.). 2021. [link]

Other publications

Indoctrination in Russia. Russland Analysen, 2024. [Short paper]

Book review: Political Leaders and Democratic Elections. West European Politics, 2012. [link]

The dynamics of party identification in turbulent times: The rise and fall of support for New Labour (with Stegmueller, D. and T.J. Scotto). ISER Working Paper, 2016.

The Price of Sharing: Support for Universal and Equal Access to Health Care in Diversifying Neighborhoods(with C. Cavaille). ISER Working Paper, 2016.

The Making of Political Generations: Party Preferences and Governmental Socialisation in Western Democracies(with Smets, K.). Nuffield Working Paper Series, 2012. [link]

Hochschulen im Wettbewerb: Innenansichten über die Herausforderungen des deutschen Hochschulsystems[Universities in competition: Analysing the challenges of Germany’s higher education system] (edited volume with Zeller, J. and Zado, J.). Dietz-Verlag, 2009. [link]

Blog posts

The invasion of Ukraine has upended Russian education, The Monkey Cage at Washington Post (2022, Sep 14)

Anti-immigration attitudes are disappearing among younger generations in Britain, The Conversation (2019, July 4)

Going from a sprint to a marathon: academic career advice, UoN Blogs, Student Life (2018, January 15)

Young voters and their “never Tory” mindset: the making of a Labour generation? LSE British Politics and Policy (2017, July 3)

Getting the most from political panel data. ISER Blog (2016, July 20)

How to reverse the civic empowerment gap of young people? Teach them about politics in school! LSE Democratic Audit (2016, May 6)

Young people are detached from politics – schools can be the solution. The Conversation (2016, May 3)

Introducing a new Nottingham project on the legacy of dictatorships. Ballots & Bullets (2016, Feb 23)

Britain has the chance to turn young people into voters – here’s how. The Conversation (2015, Nov 18)

Let the millennials grow up (the apathetic youth, and other myths). Monkey Cage (2014, May 14)

Picturing Politics: Berlin by night. Ballots & Bullets (2013, Nov 6)