Alexander Wuttke

Alexander Wuttke
Researcher
Alexander.Wuttke [at] mzes.uni-mannheim.de
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49-621-181-2820
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49-621-181-2845
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+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim, MZES
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6
Building A
Room:312
68159  Mannheim

Profile/Career

What I Study

Political Psychology is the common thread running through my research projects, that is: I investigate political phenomena by using the psychologists‘ toolbox.

How I study it

Working with experimental and observational survey data, I value methodological rigour. I put emphasis on conceptual clarity and place importance on proper theorizing of individual-level processes. I am Open Science advocate (see MZES Open Social Science Conference 2019:  Practicing New Standards in Transparency and Reproducibility). I believe that research practices must be transparent and reproducible.

What I Do

I work for MZES (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research) and Gesis(Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) in Mannheim. I am associated with the Chair for Political Psychology (Harald Schoen), one of the Principal Investigators for the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES). In the run-up to the 2017 federal elections, I was responsible for programming and implementing the GLES online panel surveys. As of now, as Local GLES Coordinator we are handing over the German Election Study to Gesis, where it will have its new permanent institutional home.

Curriculum Vitae

Projects

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.1823
(GLES) Long- and Short-term Panel Studies

RP9 B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

RP9
Attitudes on Foreign and Security Policy in the U.S. and Germany: A Comparison at the Mass and Elite Level

Publications

Journal Articles

Wuttke, Alexander, Andreas Jungherr and Harald Schoen (In Press): More than opinion expression: Secondary effects of intraparty referendums on party members. Party Politics, (publ. online before print). more
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. more
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. more
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. more
Wuttke, Alexander New political parties through the voters’ eyes. West European Politics. more

Book Chapters

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. more
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: Die Bundestagswahl 2017: Analysen der Wahl-, Parteien-, Kommunikations- und Regierungsforschung. Wiesbaden: Springer. more
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. more

Papers / Reports

Jungherr, Andreas, Antonin Finkelnburg, Ralf Güldenzopf, Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen and Alexander Wuttke (2016): Wirkung politischer Informationsbriefe in Unterstützung von TTIP. more

Conference Presentations

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] more
Manger, Lea, Alexander Wuttke and Harald Schoen (2018): Dynamische Modellierung politischer Diskussionsnetzwerke. [Wahlstudientreffen DACH, Lausanne, April 12th to April 13th, 2018] more
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] more
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] more
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] more
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] more
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] more
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] more
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] more
Wuttke, Alexander (2015): Turnout and Electoral Supply. [GLES-Young Researchers Network, Köln, June 11th to June 12th, 2015] more