Prof. Dr. Richard Traunmüller

Project director
traunmueller [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2288
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
Postal Address
University Mannheim
68131  Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University Mannheim
A5, 6
Building A
Room:332
68159  Mannheim

Projects

A2 Dimensions of Societal Integration: Social Stratification and Social Inequalities

A2.2106
RISS CoRE—Conceptualizing Reconfiguration for Empirical Research

B1 Conditions of Democratic Governance: Behaviour and Orientations of Citizens

B1.2005
Immigration, Integration, and Naturalisation: New Immigrants, Policy Decisions, and Citizens’ Responses
B1.2107
The Impact of Social Structure, Discrimination and Violence on the German Muslim Community
B1.2108
Pressure to Conform, Self-Censorship, and the Concealment of Discriminatory Attitudes in the Everyday Life of Authorities

Publications

Monographs

Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Religion und Sozialkapital. Ein doppelter Kulturvergleich. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more

Journal Articles

González, Belén, and Richard Traunmüller (In Press): The political consequences of wartime sexual violence: Evidence from a list experiment. Journal of Peace Research, (publ. online before print). more
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
Bucher, Hannah, Anne-Kathrin Stroppe, Axel M. Burger, Thorsten Faas, Harald Schoen, Marc Debus, Sigrid Roßteutscher, Denis Cohen, Robert Huber, Michael Jankowski, Melvin John, Jan Menzner, Christian Schimpf, Christian Schnaudt, Nils D. Steiner, Richard Traunmüller, Fabienne Unkelbach, Vera Vogel, Carsten Wegscheider, Robert Welz and Alexander Wuttke (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. more
Grunow, Daniela, Patrick Sachweh, Uwe Schimank and Richard Traunmüller (2023): Social Integration: Conceptual Foundations and Open Questions. An Introduction to this Special Issue. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , 75, issue Suppl 1 (July 2022), pp. 1-34. more
Grunow, Daniela, Patrick Sachweh, Uwe Schimank and Richard Traunmüller (2023): What We Have Learned About Social Integration: Conclusion. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie , 75, issue Suppl 1 (July 2022), pp. 415-430. more
Menzner, Jan, and Richard Traunmüller (2023): Subjective Freedom of Speech: Why Do Citizens Think They Cannot Speak Freely?. Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS, 64, issue 1, pp. 155–181. more
Murr, Andreas, Richard Traunmüller and Jeff Gill (2023): Computing quantities of interest and their uncertainty using Bayesian simulation. Political Science Research and Methods, 11, issue 3, pp. 623 - 632. 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
Helbing, Marc, Felix Jäger and Richard Traunmüller (2022): Muslim Bias or Fear of Fundamentalism? A Survey Experiment in Five Western European Democracies. Research & Politics, 9, issue 1, (e-only). 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
Leemann, Lucas, Lukas Stoetzer and Richard Traunmüller (2021): Eliciting Beliefs as Distributions in Online Surveys. Political Analysis, 29, issue 4, pp. 541-553. more
Traunmüller, Richard, and Matthias Revers (2021): Meinungsfreiheit an der Universität: Unschärfen und Strohmänner (Antwort auf Lars Meier). Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 73, issue 1, pp. 137-146. more
Villa, Paula-Irene, Richard Traunmüller and Matthias Revers (2021): Lässt sich ‘Cancel Culture’ empirisch belegen? Impulse für eine pluralistische Fachdebatte. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte , 71, issue 46 , pp. 26-33. more
Claassen, Christopher, and Richard Traunmüller (2020): Improving and Validating Survey Estimates of Religious Demography Using Bayesian Multilevel Models with Poststratification. Sociological Methods & Research, 49, issue 3, pp. 603–636. 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
Plümper, Thomas, and Richard Traunmüller (2020): The Sensitivity of Sensitivity Analysis. Political Science Research & Methods, 8, issue 1, pp. 149-159. more
Revers, Matthias, and Richard Traunmüller (2020): Is Free Speech in Danger on University Campus? Some Preliminary Evidence from a Most Likely Case. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 72, issue 3 , pp. 471-497. more
Traunmüller, Richard, Sara Kijewski and Markus Freitag (2019): The Silent Victims of Sexual Violence During War: Evidence from a List Experiment in Sri Lanka. Journal of Conflict Resolution , 63, issue 9, pp. 2015-2042. 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
Traunmüller, Richard, Andreas Murr and Jeff Gill (2015): Modeling Latent Information in Voting Data with Dirichlet Process Priors. Political Analysis , 23, issue 1, pp. 1-20. more
Gundelach, Birte, and Richard Traunmüller (2014): Beyond Generalized Trust: Norms of Reciprocity as an Alternative Form of Social Capital in an Assimilationist Integration Regime. Political Studies, 62, issue 3, pp. 596-617. more
Krech, Volkhard, Markus Hero, Stefan Huber, Kimmo Ketola and Richard Traunmüller (2013): Religious Diversity and Religious Vitality: New Measuring Strategies and Empirical Evidence. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 9, pp. article 3. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2013): Religiöse Diversität und Sozialintegration im internationalen Vergleich. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 65, issue 1, suppl., pp. 437-465. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2012): Zur Messung von Staat-Kirche-Beziehungen. Eine vergleichende Analyse neuerer Indizes. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft/Comparative Governance and Politics, 6, issue 1, Suppl., pp. 207-231. more
Stadelmann-Steffen, Isabelle, and Richard Traunmüller (2011): Der religiöse Faktor in der Familienpolitik. Ein empirischer Test klassischer und neuerer Ansätze im Vergleich von 27 OECD-Ländern. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform , 57, issue 4, pp. 383-408. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2011): Moral Communities? Religion as a Source of Social Trust in a Multilevel Analysis of 97 German Regions. European Sociological Review, 27, issue 3, pp. 346-363. more
Traunmüller, Richard, and Markus Freitag (2011): State Support of Religion: Making or Breaking Faith-Based Social Capital?. Comparative Politics, 43, issue 3 , pp. 253-269. more
Freitag, Markus, and Richard Traunmüller (2009): Spheres of Trust. An Empirical Analysis of the Foundations of Particularized and Generalized Trust. European Journal of Political Research, 48, issue 6, pp. 782-803. more
Freitag, Markus, Nicolas Grießhaber and Richard Traunmüller (2009): Vereine als Schulen des Vertrauens? Eine empirische Analyse zur Zivilgesellschaft in der Schweiz. Swiss Political Science Review, 15, issue 3, pp. 495-527. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Individual Religiosity, Religious Context, and the Creation of Social Trust in Germany. Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies , 129, issue 2, pp. 357-365. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2009): Religion und Sozialintegration. Eine empirische Analyse der religiösen Grundlagen sozialen Kapitals. Berliner Journal für Soziologie, 19, issue 3, pp. 435-468. more
Freitag, Markus, and Richard Traunmüller (2008): Sozialkapitalwelten in Deutschland. Soziale Netzwerke, Vertrauen und Reziprozitätsnormen im subnationalen Vergleich. Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft/Comparative Governance and Politics, 2, issue 1 , pp. 221-256. more
Stoetzer, Lukas, Lucas Leemann and Richard Traunmüller Learning From Polls during Electoral Campaigns. Political Behavior, 46, issue 1, pp. 543–564. more

Book Chapters

Gill, Jeff, and Richard Traunmüller (2020): Bayesianische Inferenz als Alternative zur klassischen Statistik. Pp. 671-697 in: Claudius Wagemann, Achim Goerres, Markus Siewert (Eds.) Handbuch Methoden der Politikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2020): Datenvisualisierung für Exploration und Inferenz. Pp. 619-650 in: Claudius Wagemann, Achim Goerres, Markus Siewert (Eds.) Handbuch Methoden der Politikwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Traunmüller, Richard (2020): Visualizing Data in Political Science. Pp. 436-460 in: Luigi Curini, Robert Franzese (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Research Methods in Political Science and International Relations. London: Sage. more

Web Publications

Meyer, Cosima, and Richard Traunmüller (2019): Data Visualization with R, MZES Methods Bites - Blog of the MZES Social Science Data Lab, https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialsciencedatalab/article/datavis/ more
Meyer, Cosima, and Richard Traunmüller (2019): Visual Inference with R, MZES Methods Bites - Blog of the MZES Social Science Data Lab, https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/socialsciencedatalab/article/visinference/ more

Conference Presentations

Debus, Marc, and Richard Traunmüller (2023): Former social democratic partisanship, working-class background and support for radical right-wing parties. [CfP IASGP 2023 Annual Conference – “Shocks to the German system? German politics in 2023”, Mannheim, November 30th to December 01st, 2023] more
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, 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, 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, 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, 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
Ellerbrock, Simon, Richard Traunmüller and Christopher Claassen (2019): Estimating the Opinion of Religious Minority Groups Using Bayesian Multilevel Models with Poststratification. [9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Belfast, June 20th to June 22nd, 2019] more
Traunmüller, Richard (2013): Changes in Religious Regulation in 31 European Democracies, 1990 - 2011. [3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013] more
Traunmüller, Richard, Andreas Murr and Jeff Gill (2013): Modeling Latent Information in Voting Data using Dirichlet Process Priors. [3rd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Barcelona, June 20th to June 22nd, 2013] more
Traunmüller, Richard (2013): The Dynamics of Social Context on Political Preferences in Germany. [71st Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Il., April 11th to April 14th, 2013] more