(2023):
Special Issue Conclusion: The GLES Open Science Challenge 2021 in Hindsight: Experiences Gained and Lessons Learned.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS, 64, issue 1, pp. 207–219.
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Dr. Alexander Wuttke
Former MZES Fellow
Phone:
+49-621-181-2842Profile/Career
What I Study
I investigate political phenomena by using the toolbox of research psychologists. Using a wide array of observational and field-, survey- and quasi-experimental methods, I study political engagement in liberal democracies and current challenges to liberal democracy through the eyes of ordinary citizens.
To understand political engagement in liberal democracies I examine individuals' perceptions and evaluations of the political environment in which they are embedded and how these orientations shape political motivation. In my dissertation, I synthesize psychological theories from motivation studies to investigate why some people want to engage with politics and others do not.
To understand current challenges to liberal democracy, I investigate the conditions under which citizens cease to support the principle and practice of self-governance and become susceptible to non-democratic forms of governing.
How I study it
I put emphasis on conceptual clarity and theorizing of individual-level processes. I am am a catalyst of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Science, one of the co-organizers of the MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019: Practicing New Standards in Transparency and Reproducibility, and one of the co-founders of the Mannheim Open Science Meetup (see Syntaxes and Data).
What I Do
I work for MZES (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research) at the University of Mannheim. I am associated with the Chair for Political Psychology (Harald Schoen) and with the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) where I am involved with GLES online panel surveys.
Projects
RP9 B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens
Publications
(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)
Journal Articles
Schimpf, Christian, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen
(2023):
Neither a Trait nor Wildly Fluctuating: On the Stability of Populist Attitudes and its Implications for Empirical Research.
British Journal of Political Science , 54, issue 3, pp. 979-992.
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Steiner, Nils D., Christian Schimpf and Alexander Wuttke
(2023):
Left Behind and United by Populism? Populism’s Multiple Roots in Feelings of Lacking Societal Recognition.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 64, pp. 107–132.
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Wuttke, Alexander, Christian Schimpf and Harald Schoen
(2023):
Populist Citizens in four European Countries: Widespread Dissatisfaction goes with Contradictory but Pro-democratic Regime Preferences.
Swiss Political Science Review, 29, issue 2, pp. 246-257.
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Breznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Hung Nguyen, Daniel Auer, Oke Bahnsen, Paul C. Bauer, Julian Bernauer, Simon Ellerbrock, Tobias Gummer, Stefanie Heyne, Matthias Mader, Christoph Wolf, Nan Zhang and et al.
(2022):
Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America: PNAS, 119, issue 44, (article no. e2203150119), pp. 1-8.
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Wuttke, Alexander, Konstantin Gavras and Harald Schoen
(2022):
Have Europeans Grown Tired of Democracy? New Evidence from 18 Consolidated Democracies, 1981-2018.
British Journal of Political Science, 52, issue 1, pp. 416-428.
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Gärtner, Lea, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen
(2021):
Who Talks and Who Listens? How Political Involvement Influences the Potential for Democratic Deliberation in Everyday Political Talk.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 17, issue 2, pp. 13-30.
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Rinke, Eike Mark, and Alexander Wuttke
(2021):
Open Minds, Open Methods: Transparency and Inclusion in the Pursuit of Better Scholarship.
PS: Political Science & Politics, 54, issue 2, pp. 281-284.
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2021):
Can we Trust Science and, if so, Why?.
Politics and the Life Sciences, 40, issue 1, pp. 126 - 129.
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2021):
The Pleasure Principle: Why (Some) People Develop a Taste for Politics – Evidence from a pre-registered experiment.
Politics and the Life Sciences, 40, issue 1, pp. 19-39.
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Wuttke, Alexander, Konstantin Gavras and Harald Schoen
(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 and Politics, 7, issue 1, (e-only).
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2020):
Political engagement’s non-political roots: examining the role of basic psychological needs in the political domain.
Motivation and Emotion, 44, issue 1, pp. 135-150.
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Wuttke, Alexander, Christian Schimpf and Harald Schoen
(2020):
When the Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multi-dimensional Constructs.
American Political Science Review, 114, issue 2, pp. 356 - 374.
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Wuttke, Alexander, Christian Schimpf and Harald Schoen
(2020):
When the Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: On the Conceptualization and Measurement of Populist Attitudes and Other Multi-dimensional Constructs.
American Political Science Review, 114, issue 2, pp. 356-374.
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Wuttke, Alexander, Andreas Jungherr and Harald Schoen
(2019):
More than opinion expression: Secondary effects of intraparty referendums on party members.
Party Politics, 25, issue 6, pp. 817–827.
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2019):
New political parties through the voters’ eyes.
West European Politics, 43, issue 1, pp. 22-48.
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2019):
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 Institutional Reform.
Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 60, issue 1, pp. 1-19.
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Jungherr, Andreas, Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen and Alexander Wuttke
(2018):
Context-Driven Attitude Formation: The Difference Between Supporting Free Trade in the Abstract and Supporting Specific Trade Agreements.
Review of International Political Economy, 25, issue 2, pp. 215-242.
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Schoen, Harald, Alexander Wuttke, Agatha Kratz and Maria Preißinger
(2018):
Ein Umschwung in den letzten Wochen des Landtagswahlkampfes: Befunde einer mehrwelligen Wiederholungsbefragung zur niedersächsischen Landtagswahl 2017.
Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 49, issue 1, pp. 22-39.
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Book Chapters
Gärtner, Lea, Harald Schoen and Alexander Wuttke
(2020):
Ties That No Longer Bind? Effects and Responsiveness of Party Attachments in a Period of Crises.
Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf
(Eds.)
The Changing German Voter.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
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Gärtner, Lea, and Alexander Wuttke
(2019):
Eingeschlossen in der Filter Bubble? Politische Kommunikationsnetzwerke im Wahlkampf.
Pp. 97-110 in:
Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Harald Schoen, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf
(Eds.)
Zwischen Polarisierung und Beharrung: Die Bundestagswahl 2017.
Baden-Baden:
Nomos.
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Wuttke, Alexander, and Harald Schoen
(2019):
Who were the voters behind the Schulz effect? An analysis of voter trajectories in the run-up to the 2017 German federal election.
Pp. 47-62 in:
Karl-Rudolf Korte, Jan Schoofs
(Eds.)
Die Bundestagswahl 2017: Analysen der Wahl-, Parteien-, Kommunikations- und Regierungsforschung.
Wiesbaden:
Springer.
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2017):
When the world around you is changing: Investigating the Influence of Alienation and Indifference on Voter Turnout.
Pp. 146-166 in:
Harald Schoen, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck, Bernhard Weßels, Christof Wolf
(Eds.)
Voters and Voting in Context: Multiple Contexts and the Heterogeneous German Electorate.
Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
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Thesis
Wuttke, Alexander
(2020):
Political Motivation. Why some citizens engage with politics and others do not.
Mannheim:
University of Mannheim.
(Dissertation)
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Papers / Reports
Jungherr, Andreas, Antonin Finkelnburg, Ralf Güldenzopf, Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen and Alexander Wuttke
(2016):
Wirkung politischer Informationsbriefe in Unterstützung von TTIP.
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Conference Presentations
Gavras, Konstantin, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen
(2019):
Anführer der freien Welt oder Vorbote demokratischer Dekonsolidierung? Die Entwicklung der Demokratieunterstützung in Ost- und West-Deutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung.
[Tagung des DVPW-Arbeitskreises "Wahlen und politische Einstellungen", Mannheim, May 09th to May 10th, 2019]
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Gärtner, Lea, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen
(2018):
Who talks and who listens? Examining moderators of conversation effects on vote choice.
[The Deliberative Quality of Communication Conference, MZES, Mannheim, November 08th, 2018]
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Manger, Lea, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen
(2018):
Dynamische Modellierung politischer Diskussionsnetzwerke.
[Wahlstudientreffen DACH, Lausanne, April 12th to April 13th, 2018]
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Manger, Lea, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen
(2018):
Dynamische Modellierung von politischen Diskussionsnetzwerken und ihr Einfluss auf das Wahlverhalten im Mehrparteiensystem.
[Tagung des AK Wahlen zur Bundestagswahl 2017, WZB, Berlin, May 24th to May 25th, 2018]
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2018):
Soziale Einflüsse auf das Wahlverhalten aus motivationaler Perspektive.
[27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main, September 25th to September 28th, 2018]
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Jungherr, Andreas, Alexander Wuttke, Matthias Mader and Harald Schoen
(2017):
Advocating TTIP: Effects of Interest Groups’ Mailings in the Field.
[113th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Francisco, CA, August 31st to September 03rd, 2017]
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Jungherr, Andreas, Alexander Wuttke, Matthias Mader and Harald Schoen
(2017):
The Persuasive Effects of an Interest Group Mailing: Comparing Evidence from Parallel Survey and Field Experiments.
[75th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 06th to April 09th, 2017]
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Kostelka, Filip, and Alexander Wuttke
(2017):
When Too Much Democracy Kills Participation: Election Frequency and Voter Turnout in Canada and Germany.
[Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, Toronto, May 30th to June 01st, 2017]
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Preißinger, Maria, Agatha Kratz, Harald Schoen and Alexander Wuttke
(2017):
Voter Decision-Making from Election to Election: An Analysis of Voter Trajectories in Germany during the 2013-2017 Period.
[Conference "Elections, Parties, and Public Opinion in a Volatile World: A Comparative Perspective", MZES, Mannheim, November 10th, 2017]
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2017):
Self-determination in political engagement: a motivational perspective on why citizens do (not) engage with politics.
[75th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 06th to April 09th, 2017]
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Wuttke, Alexander
(2015):
Turnout and Electoral Supply.
[GLES-Young Researchers Network, Köln, June 11th to June 12th, 2015]
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