Or Tuttnauer, PhD.

Or Tuttnauer
MZES Fellow
Former Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow
Or.Tuttnauer [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2809
Fax: 
+49-621-181-2866
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
Postfach
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:209
68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

Or Tuttnauer joined the MZES as a research fellow in Research Department B in March 2023. His office is located in room A-209, extension -2809. His research interests include legislative studies, electoral behaviour, electoral institutions, and political parties. Or Tuttnauer studied political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he received his PhD in 2018 on the topic of parliamentary opposition. From 2018 to 2023, he was a guest scholar at the MZES with fellowships from DAAD, Max Planck Society’s Minerva Stiftung, and the Humboldt Foundation. Before that, he was a teaching and research assistant at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute.

  • An updated CV file can be found here. 

Projects

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.2406
The Electoral Advantages of Being a Prime Minister Candidates' Party

B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions

B2.2214
Dynamics of Government–Opposition Parliamentary Relations and Public Attitudes

Publications

Journal Articles

Debus, Marc, and Or Tuttnauer (2024): Negative campaign statements, coalition heterogeneity, and the support for government parties. Electoral Studies, 87, (article no. 102738). more
Tuttnauer, Or, and Reuven Y. Hazan (2024): Government–Opposition Relations and the Vote of No Confidence. Political Studies, 72, issue 3, pp. 984-1004. more
Harsgor, Liran, Reut Itzkovitch-Malka and Or Tuttnauer (2023): Do coalition and formateur expectations affect vote switching?. European Political Science Review, 15, issue 1, pp. 96–115. more
Oshri, Odelia, Liran Harsgor, Reut Itzkovitch-Malka and Or Tuttnauer (2023): Risk Aversion and the Gender Gap in the Vote for Populist Radical Right Parties. American Journal of Political Science, 67, issue 3, pp. 701-717. more
Tuttnauer, Or, and Gideon Rahat (2023): Servants of two (or more) masters: Accounting for the complexity of intraparty candidate selection methods. Party Politics, 29, issue 1, pp. 185–192. more
Tuttnauer, Or, and Simone Wegmann (2022): Voting for Votes: Opposition Parties’ Legislative Activity and Electoral Outcomes. American Political Science Review, 116, issue 4, pp. 1357-1374. more
Kedar, Orit, Liran Harsgor and Or Tuttnauer (2021): Permissibility of Electoral Systems: A New Look at an Old Question. The Journal of Politics, 83, issue 2, pp. 439–452. more
Louwerse, Tom, Ulrich Sieberer, Or Tuttnauer and Rudy B. Andeweg (2021): Opposition in Times of Crisis: COVID-19 in Parliamentary Debates. West European Politics, 44, issue 5-6, pp. 1025–1051. more
Tuttnauer, Or (2020): Government–opposition relations in a fragmented, personalized, and multidimensional setting: The case of Israel. Party Politics, 26, issue 2, pp. 203-214. more
Tuttnauer, Or, and Avital Friedman (2020): Unnatural partners: coalescence in Israeli local government. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 30, issue 3, pp. 358-378. more
Tuttnauer, Or (2018): If you can beat them, confront them: Party-level analysis of opposition behavior in European national parliaments. European Union Politics, 19, issue 2, pp. 278-298. more

Book Chapters

Tuttnauer, Or (2024): Candidate Selection Methods and Electoral Systems: Between Collegialism and Personalism. Pp. 41–59 in: Chen Friedberg, Gideon Rahat (Eds.) Collegial Democracy versus Personal Democracy. London, New York: Routledge. more
Tuttnauer, Or, and Chen Friedberg (2021): Israel: Legislative Debates in a Personalized Parliament. Pp. 484–504 in: Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus, Jorge M. Fernandes (Eds.) The Politics of Legislative Debates. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more
Kenig, Ofer, Gideon Rahat and Or Tuttnauer (2015): Competitiveness of Party Leadership Selection Processes. Pp. 50–72 in: William Cross, Jean-Benoit Pilet (Eds.) The Politics of Party Leadership. Oxford: Oxford University Press. more

Conference Presentations

Tuttnauer, Or, Lukas Warode and Tom Louwerse (2024): The dynamics of parliamentary conflict in response to electoral information. [14th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Köln, July 04th to July 06th, 2024] more
Warode, Lukas, Or Tuttnauer and Julian Bernauer (2024): Government-Opposition Affective Polarisation: A New Measure. [29. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Göttingen, September 24th to September 27th, 2024] more
Tuttnauer, Or (2023): Government-opposition relations in the German state legislatures and citizens’ attitudes. [8th Conference of the Standing Group on Parliaments (ECPR), Vienna, July 06th to July 08th, 2023] more
Debus, Marc, and Or Tuttnauer (2022): The impact of coalition heterogeneity and negative campaigning on support for government parties. [Annual Conference of the Swiss Political Science Association, (virtual conference), February 03rd to February 04th, 2022] more