Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling

picture Marc Helbling
Head of Department A and Project Director
marc.helbling [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-3391
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2804
Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim
A5, 6
Building B
Room:101
68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

Starting from August 2020 "MZES Chair of Sociology of Migration and Integration"

Projects

A3 Focus Groups of Societal Integration: Migration and Ethnic Minorities

A3.2012
Political and Religious Extremism: Measuring and Explaining Explicit and Implicit Attitudes
A3.2025
Research Coordination Within the DeZIM Network

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.2005
Immigration, Integration, and Naturalisation: New Immigrants, Policy Decisions, and Citizens’ Responses

Publications

Journal Articles

Helbling, Marc, Felix Jäger, Rahsaan Maxwell and Richard Traunmüller (In Press): Broad and Detailed Agreement: Public Preferences for German Immigration Policy. International Migration Review, (publ. online before print). more
Helbling, Marc, Rahsaan Maxwell and Richard Traunmüller (2024): Numbers, Selectivity and Generosity. The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences. Comparative Political Studies, 57, issue 2, pp. 187-381. more
Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth, Marc Helbling, Paul Sniderman and Richard Traunmüller (2024): Value Conflicts Revisited: Muslims, Gender Equality and Gestures of Respect. British Journal of Political Science, 54, issue 3, pp. 836-850. more
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Marc Helbling and Mujtaba Isani (2024): Measuring Implicit Political Extremism through Implicit Association Tests. Public Opinion Quarterly, 88, issue 1, pp. 175–192. more
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Marc Helbling and Nina Osenbrügge (2024): Measuring political radicalism and extremism in surveys: Three new scales. Plos One, 19, issue 5, (article no. e0300661) pp.1-16. more
Solano, Giacomo, Samuel D. Schmid and Marc Helbling (2024): Extending Migrants’ Rights but Limiting Long-Term Settlement: Migrant Integration Policy Trends in EU and OECD Countries Between 2010 and 2019. International Migration Review, 58, issue 3, pp. 1568-1591. more
Hau, Matthias, Marc Helbling, Maya Tudor, Andreas Wimmer and Daphne Halikiopoulou (2023): The Consequences of Nationalism: A scholarly exchange. Nations and Nationalism, 29, issue 3, pp. 810–830. more
Helbling, Marc, and Daniel Meierrieks (2023): Global warming and urbanization. Journal of Population Economics, 36, issue 3, pp. 1187–1223. more
Helbling, Marc, Diego Rybski, Jacob Schewe, Stefan Siedentop, Manon Glockmann, Bastian Heider, Bryan Jones, Daniel Meierrieks, Albano Rikani and Peter Stroms (2023): Measuring the effect of climate change on migration flows: Limitations of existing data and analytical frameworks. PLOS Climate , 2, issue 1, (article no. e0000078), pp. 1-10. more
Helbling, Marc, Daniel Meierrieks and Sergi Pardos-Prado (2023): Terrorism and Immigration Policy Preferences. Defence and Peace Economics, 34, issue 5, pp. 646-659. more
Morgenstern, Sandra, and Marc Helbling (2023): Migration aspirations and the perceptions of the political, economic and social environment in Africa. International Migration, 61, issue 6, pp. 102-117. more
Stoetzer, Lukas, Simon Munzert, Will Lowe, Başak Çalı, Anita R. Gohdes, Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell and Richard Traunmüller (2023): Affective partisan polarization and moral dilemmas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Political Science Research and Methods, 11, issue 2, pp. 429-436. more
Helbling, Marc, and Daniel Meierrieks (2022): Terrorism and Migration: An Overview. British Journal of Political Science, 22, issue 2, pp. 977-996. more
Helbling, Marc, Rahsaan Maxwell, Simon Munzert and Richard Traunmüller (2022): The importance of citizenship for deserving COVID-19 treatment. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9, (article no. 302) e-only. more
Traunmüller, Richard, and Marc Helbling (2022): Backlash to policy decisions. How citizens react to the permission and banning of immigrants’ right to demonstrate. Political Science Research and Methods, 10, issue 2, pp. 279–297. more
Hanson, Tim, Marc Helbling, Rahsaan Maxwell, Richard Traunmüller, Kostas Gemenis and Levente Littvay (2021): Developing a COVID-19 module for the European Social Survey. Measurement instruments for the social sciences, 3, (article no. 9), pp. 1-6, e-only. more
Helbling, Marc, and Giacomo Solano (2021): Assembling—not reinventing—the wheel. New developments in the field of migration policy indice. Global Policy, 12, issue 3, pp. 325-326. more
Helbling, Marc, Daniel Auer, Daniel Meierrieks, Malcolm Mistry and Max Schaub (2021): Climate change literacy and migration potential: micro-level evidence from Africa. Climatic Change, 169, issue 1-2, (article no. 9). more
Helbling, Marc, Daniel Auer, Daniel Meierrieks, Malcolm Mistry and Max Schaub (2021): Climate Change Literacy and Migration Potential: Micro-Level Evidence from Africa. Climatic Change, 169, (article no. 9, 2021), pp. 1-13. more
Helbling, Marc, and Daniel Meierrieks (2021): How climate change leads to emigration: Conditional and long-run effects. Review of Development Economics, 25, issue 4, pp. 2323-2349. more
Ziller, Conrad, and Marc Helbling (2021): Public Support for State Surveillance. European Journal of Political Research, 60, issue 4, pp. 994-1006. more
Helbling, Marc (2020): Attitudes Towards Climate Change Migrants. Climatic Change , 160, issue 1, pp. 89-102. more
Helbling, Marc, Stephan Simon and Samuel D. Schmid (2020): Restricting immigration to foster migrant integration? A comparative study across 22 European countries. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46, issue 13, pp. 2603-2624. more
Helbling, Marc, and Sebastian Jungkunz (2020): Social Divides in the Age of Globalization. West European Politics, 43, issue 6, pp. 1187-1210. more
Helbling, Marc, and Daniel Meierrieks (2020): Transnational Terrorism and Restrictive Immigration Policies. Journal of Peace Research, 57, issue 4, pp. 564–580. more
Helbling, Marc, and Richard Traunmüller (2020): What is Islamophobia? Disentangling Citizens’ Feelings Towards Ethnicity, Religion and Religiosity Using a Survey Experiment. British Journal of Political Science, 50, issue 3, pp. 811-828. more
Silva, Bruno Castanho, Sebastian Jungkunz, Marc Helbling and Levente Littvay (2020): An Empirical Comparison of Seven Populist Attitudes Scales. Political Research Quarterly, 73, issue 2, pp. 409-424. more
Helbling, Marc, and Richard Traunmüller (2016): How State Support of Religion Shapes Attitudes Toward Muslim Immigrants. New Evidence from a Subnational Comparison. Comparative Political Studies , 49, issue 3, pp. 391-424. more
Carol, Sarah, Marc Helbling and Ines Michalowski (2015): A Struggle over Religious Rights? How Muslim Immigrants and Christian Natives View the Accommodation of Religion in Six European Countries. Social Forces, 94, issue 2, pp. 647-671. more

Book Chapters

Jungkunz, Sebastian, and Marc Helbling (2024): Populist Attitudes, Cleavage Identification, and Polarization in Austria and Germany. Pp. 118-139 in: Angelos Chryssogelos, Eliza Tanner Hawkins, Kirk Andrew Hawkins, Levente Littvay (Eds.) The Ideational Approach to Populism: vol.II: Consequences and Mitigation. London, New York: Routledge. more
Misra, Supriya, Christian Larsen, Mark Louis Hatzenbuehler, Marc Helbling, Mikael Hjerm, Nicolas Rüsch and Patrick Simon (2024): How Policies that Impact Migrants Amplify or Mitigate Stigma Processes. Pp. 140-162 in: Lawrence Yang, Maureen A. Eger (Eds.) Migration Stigma: Understanding Prejudice, Discrimination, and Exclusion. Cambridge: The MIT Press. more
Helbling, Marc (2020): Migration Governance at the State Level: Policy Developments and Effects. Pp. 121-136 in: Tim Krieger, Diana Panke, Michael Pregering (Eds.) Environmental Conflicts, Migration and Governance. Bristol: Bristol University Press. more

Conference Presentations

Helbling, Marc, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Paul Sniderman and Richard Traunmüller (2023): The threat of Muslim religious rights and zero-sum thinking. [Kolloquium der Abteilung Migration, Integration, Transnationalisierung (WZB), Berlin, January 11th, 2023] more
Helbling, Marc, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Paul Sniderman and Richard Traunmüller (2022): Inclusion without Assimilation. Open versus Closed Conflicts of Values between Muslims and non-Muslims. [DeZIM FG-Wednesday, (virtual), April 27th, 2022] more
Helbling, Marc (2022): Measuring Immigration Policies and their Effects. [Demscore Workshop, Uppsala University, December 01st to December 02nd, 2022] more
Helbling, Marc, and Sandra Morgenstern (2022): Migration aspirations and the perceptions of the political, economic and social environment in Africa. [Kolloquium der Abteilung Migration, Integration, Transnationalisierung (WZB), (virtual), February 16th, 2022] more
Helbling, Marc, Rahsaan Maxwell and Richard Traunmüller (2022): Numbers, Selectivity and Generosity. The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences. [Public Views of Immigration and Diversity Workshop, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 18th, 2022] more
Helbling, Marc, Rahsaan Maxwell and Richard Traunmüller (2022): Numbers, Selectivity and Generosity. The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences. [DYNAMICS x POLITICS Lecture Series (Hertie School of Governance), (virtual), January 21st, 2022] more
Helbling, Marc, Elisabeth Ivarsflaten, Paul Sniderman and Richard Traunmüller (2022): Sacred Spaces, Social Spaces, Political Spaces: Mosques in Western Europe. [118th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montréal, September 15th to September 18th, 2022] more
Helbling, Marc, Mujtaba Isani and Sebastian Jungkunz (2022): Sensitive Measurements? Investigating Extremism in Europe Using Experiments and Implicit Association Tests. [28th International Conference of Europeanists, Lisbon, June 29th to July 01st, 2022] more
Helbling, Marc, Daniel Auer, Daniel Meierrieks, Malcolm Mistry and Max Schaub (2021): Climate Change Literacy and Migration Potential: Micro-Level Evidence from Africa. [15. General Conference of the ECPR, (virtual conference), August 30th to September 03rd, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc, Rahsaan Maxwell, Simon Munzert and Richard Traunmüller (2021): Does every life count the same? Evidence from a triage experiment. [15. General Conference of the ECPR, (virtual conference), August 30th to September 03rd, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc (2021): How climate change leads to emigration: Individual-level and long-run effects. [Frontiers in Quantitative Migration Research, Joint Seminar at Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research, (virtual seminar), April 29th, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc (2021): Islamophobie in Westeuropa. Angst vor Muslimen oder Fundamentalisten?. [Hans-Blumenberg Lecture, University of Münster, Religion and Politics Cluster of Excellence, (virtual), June 08th, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc (2021): Klimawandel und Migration. [Klimawandel und Klimakommunikation - Seminar für Medienschaffende, Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen, Nonnweiler, October 21st to October 23rd, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc (2021): L'influence des politiques d'immigration et d'intégration sur l'intégration des immigrants. [Forum de l'intégration, Université de Concordia, Québec, April 28th to April 30th, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc, Rahsaan Maxwell and Richard Traunmüller (2021): Numbers, Selectivity and Generosity: The Conditional Nature of Immigration Policy Preferences. [Workshop on Survey Experiments in Migration and Integration, (virtual workshop), January 29th, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc, Mujtaba Isani and Sebastian Jungkunz (2021): Sensitive Measurements? Investigating Extremism Among Minorities in Europe Using Experiments and Implicit Association Tests. [28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, (virtual conference), September 14th to September 16th, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc, Mujtaba Isani and Sebastian Jungkunz (2021): Sensitive Messungen? Die Untersuchung extremistischer Einstellungen mittels direkter Fragen, Umfrageexperimenten und impliziter Assoziationstests. [Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz Wissenschaftskonferenz 2021, Berlin, September 16th to September 17th, 2021] more
Helbling, Marc, Felix Jäger, Rahsaan Maxwell and Richard Traunmüller (2021): The (in)consistency of immigration policy preferences. [117th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition, (virtual conference), September 28th to October 03rd, 2021] more