Research Projects

List of active projects

2505 German Sexual Identity and Election Study (GSIES)
2504 Love of (Host-)Country? Nationalism and Patriotism from the Perspective of Germans with a Migrant Background
2503 Democratic Values Among Migrants from Authoritarian Regimes
2502 Ethnic and Socio-Economic Background of Candidates for Political Office: Implications for Representation Patterns in Post-Migration Society
2501 Analysis of the Current Situation of Integration in Baden-Württemberg and the Implementation of the Participation and Integration Act
2413 Spatial Inequalities Beyond the Residential Neighbourhood: A Smartphone-Based Assessment of Activity Spaces, Social Support, and Intergroup Contact
2412 Leveraging Large Language Models for Survey Research
2411 Inequality Formation Through Parenthood Transition and Family Policy Constellations in Europe
2410 Misperceptions of Immigration Policies: Bias, Information, and Implications
2409 Changing Work and Retirement Inequalities in an Ageing Europe
2408 Countering Polarization: Exploring the Potential of the Borda Score for Systems of Proportional Representation
2406 The Electoral Advantages of Being a Prime Minister Candidates' Party
2403 How Ethnic Framing Affects Political Support for Welfare Policies: A Field Experiment in Greater Copenhagen
2401 Norms and Normative Expectations in Algorithmic Decision-Support Systems
2311 Beyond (In-)Group Solidarity: Minority-Minority Relationships and Boundary Processes in the Context of Contemporary Immigration and Increasing Diversity (MIMI)
2310 Social Group Appeals: Prevalence, Functions, and Consequences
2309 Politicised Wokeness, Residential Mobility, and Spatial Polarisation
2308 Advancing New Methodological Approaches to Measure Social Decisions: The Case of Eating in a Family Context
2307 Gender Discrimination in Hiring: An Examination of Mechanisms at the Intersection of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Occupational Status
2306 Human Trafficking in East Africa: Victims, Perpetuators, and the Impact of the Setting
2305 Election Forecasts for the German Federal Election 2025
2304 Responsible Terrorism Coverage – Part 2 (ResTeCo-2)
2301 Acceptance of Smartphone Technologies for Social Science Data Collection
2216 The Knowledge Network on Racism Research – Exchange and further development of racism research. Subproject: Regional Network South (WinRa)
2214 Dynamics of Government–Opposition Parliamentary Relations and Public Attitudes
2213 Attitudes towards Human Rights in European Foreign Policy
2212 Challenges of Radical Left and Left-wing Populist Parties for Party Competition and Coalition Politics in Western Europe
2211 Political Identities in an Era of Alternative News
2210 I Do(n’t) Have a Choice: Gender and Migration Decision Making in a Quantitative Micro-perspective
2209 Integrating Data Donation in Survey Infrastructure: Quantifying, Explaining, and Addressing Errors in Representation and Measurement
2208 Utilizing the Potentials of Twin Studies to Improve Our Understanding of Satisficing Response Behaviour in Surveys
2207 Does (National) Religiosity Ease the Psychological Burden of Lower SES?
2206 Prediction-based Adaptive Designs for Panel Surveys
2205 ACT: Why are the Big Two of Agency and Communion so Fundamental to Human Psychology?
2204 Implicit and Explicit Racism in News and Social Media
2202 Seeing your Religion—Regional Variation of Anti-Muslim Racism in the German Labour Market
2201 Party Policy Ambiguity and its Consequences for Political Representation and Satisfaction with Democracy
2112 Understanding, Measuring, and Alleviating Inequalities in Digital Technology Use
2107 The Impact of Social Structure, Discrimination and Violence on the German Muslim Community
2106 RISS CoRE—Conceptualizing Reconfiguration for Empirical Research
2105 Making Diversity Work: New Behavioural Indicators of Social Cohesion in Multiethnic Communities
2025 Research Coordination Within the DeZIM Network
2022 Causes and Consequences of Prime Ministerial Change
2019 Political Reactions to Local Housing Market Dynamics
2018 Security Threats and Fragile Commitments: Stress-Testing Public Support for Human Rights at Home and Abroad
2016 Objective and Subjectively Experienced Financial Inequalities in Income and Wealth and Their Consequences
2015 Perceptions, Prevalence and Consequences of Everyday Discrimination
2012 Political and Religious Extremism: Measuring and Explaining Explicit and Implicit Attitudes
2004 Issue Evolution in Multiparty Systems
2002 Social Conflicts and Dynamics of Party Competition in Times of Migration and Integration
1909 Pretty Integrated? The Causes and Consequences of Immigrants’ Physical Attractiveness on Integration Outcomes
1908 CAIUS: Consequences of AI-Based Decision Making for Urban Societies
1906 Education, Poverty and Inequality in South Asia
1833 Textual Measures of Populism (TEMPOP) for the Analysis of Party Competition and Political Behaviour
1824 The Conversations of Democracy. Citizens' Everyday Communication in the Deliberative System
1822 (GLES) Campaign Dynamics of Media Coverage and Public Opinion
1820 Immigrants’ Career Changes in German Organizations
1819 Partnership Formation in the Context of Recent Refugee Migration (PARFORM)
1816 UNICON—Understanding Nutrition Inequalities in Context: Momentary and Persistent Processes
1811 Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU)
Aspiring Migrant Entrepreneurs in Germany—Potentials and Pitfalls in the Start-Up Process
Integration of Migrants and Attitudes Towards the Welfare State