Publications

Books

2020: International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament. Hurst/Oxford University Press, with Duncan McDonnell.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

2026 (Accepted): “More social, less material, more influenced by family ties: Why young women join political parties.” European Journal of Political Research with Sofia Ammassari, Duncan McDonnell, Marco Valbruzzi, Reinhard Heinisch, and Carsten Wegscheider.

2025 (Open Access): “Parties’ ideological cores and peripheries: Examining how parties balance adaptation and continuity in their manifestos.” British Journal of Political Science, with Fabian Habersack, first published online 15.12.2025.

2025 (Open Access): “Young Radicals, Moderates, and Aligned: Ideological Congruence and Incongruence in Party Youth Wings.” European Journal of Political Research 64(4): 1759-1782, with Duncan McDonnell, Sofia Ammassari, Marco Valbruzzi, Niklas Bolin, Reinhard Heinisch, Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Carsten Wegscheider.

2025: “Why top politicians are pessimistic or optimistic about democracy and its evolution.” Democratization, with Nino Junius, Karolin Soontjens, Anam Kuraishi, Jean Benoît Pilet, Marija Taflaga, Patrick Dumont, and Stefaan Walgrave, first published online 05.09.2025.

2025 (Open Access): “Do Voters Support Democracy at All Costs? Input and Output Legitimacy in Australia and the United Kingdom.” Australian Journal of Political Science 60(1), 1–19, with Feodor Snagosvky.

2025 (Open Access): “Inside party youth wings: The YOUMEM project.” Party Politics 31(6): 1049-1063, with Duncan McDonnell, Sofia Ammassari, Marco Valbruzzi, Niklas Bolin, Reinhard Heinisch, Ann-Cathrine Jungar, Carsten Wegscheider.

2024 (Open Access): “Ideological Beasts or Effective Organisations? Do Voters’ Views of Democracy Affect Their Expectations of Political Parties?” Democratization 31(4): 741–764, with Reinhard Heinisch.

2024 (50 free prints): “Using Survey Experiments for Construct Validation: ‘Strong Leader’ Questions and Support for Authoritarian Leadership.” Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties 35(4): 893-913, with Feodor Snagovsky.

2024 (Open Access): “Democracy Amid Pandemic: A Survey Experiment on How Covid-19 Affectedness Influences Support for Anti-Liberal Policies.” Politics and Governance Vol 12, with Reinhard Heinisch.

2024: “Cue-taking, populist attitudes, and support for holding a referendum: Evidence from survey experiments.” Contemporary Politics 30(4): 553-575, with Marco Fölsch, Martin Dolezal, Reinhard Heinisch and Carsten Wegscheider.

2024 (Open Access): “The strange bedfellows of populism and liberalism: The effect of populist attitudes on the perception of the COVID-19 pandemic and policies to contain it.” Comparative European Politics 22 (4): 433-458, with Reinhard Heinisch.

2023 (Open Access): “How Rational Are Voters when Expecting Government Parties to Fulfil Pledges? A Cross-National Survey Experiment.” European Journal of Political Research 62: 852–872, with Reinhard Heinisch.

2023 (Open Access): “How non-radical right parties strategically use nativist language: Evidence from an automated content analysis of Austrian, German, and Swiss election manifestos.” Party Politics 29(5): 865-877, with Fabian Habersack.

2023 (Open Access): “Nativism, Civic Nationalism and the Malleability of Voter Attitudes.” Acta Politica 58:424–447, with Glenn Kefford and Benjamin Moffitt.

2022: “Populist Attitudes: Bringing Together Ideational and Communicative Approaches.” Political Studies 70(4): 1006-1027, with Glenn Kefford and Benjamin Moffitt.

2021: “Equivocal Euroscepticism: How populist radical right parties can have their EU cake and eat it.” Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(2): 189-205, first published online 01.06. 2020, with Reinhard Heinisch and Duncan McDonnell.

2021: “Reputation vs Office: Why populist radical right governmental participation differs between Sweden and Denmark,” International Political Science Review 42(5): 613-630, first published online 22.07.2021, with Duncan McDonnell and Malin Karlsson.

2021: “The Effect of Radical Right Fringe Parties on Main Parties in Central Eastern Europe: Empirical Evidence from Manifesto Data.” Party Politics, 27(1): 9-21, , first published online 29.07.2019, with Reinhard Heinisch, Steven Saxonberg & Fabian Habersack.

2020: “Representation in Western Europe: Connecting party-voter congruence and party goals.” British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22(1): 122-142.

2020: “Cure, Poison or Placebo? The Consequences of Populist and Radical Party Success for Representative Democracy.” Representation, 56(3): 293-306, with Heiko Giebler.

2020 (Open Access): “Reclaiming National Sovereignty: The Case of the Conservatives and the Far Right in Austria.” European Politics & Society, 21(2): 163-181, with Reinhard Heinisch & Fabian Habersack.

2019: “What voters want from their parties: Testing the promise-keeping assumption.” Electoral Studies, 57: 186-195. [Received the ‘2019 POP Prize for Best ECR Publication].

2019: “Differently Eurosceptic: Radical right populist parties and their supporters.” Journal of European Public Policy, 26(12): 1761-1778, with Duncan McDonnell.

2019: “Compulsory voting and ethnic diversity increase invalid voting while corruption does not: an analysis of 417 parliamentary elections in 73 countries.” Democratization, 26(2): 288-308, with Ferran Martinez i Coma.

2019: “Voters’ preferences for party representation: Promise-keeping, responsiveness to public opinion or enacting the common good.” International Political Science Review, 40(4): 486-501, first published online 23.08.2018.

2019: “Do populists represent? Theoretical considerations on how populist parties (might) enact their representative function.” Representation, 55(4): 379-392, with Heiko Giebler.

2019: “Who do populist radical right parties stand for? Representative claims, claim acceptance and descriptive representation in the Austrian FPÖ and German AfD.” Representation, 55(4): 475-492, first published online 16.07.2019, with Reinhard Heinisch.

2018: “Respectable radicals: why some radical right parties in the European Parliament forsake policy congruence.” Journal of European Public Policy, 25(5): 747-763, with Duncan McDonnell.

2016: “Party responsiveness and voter confidence in Australia.” Australian Journal of Political Science, 51(3): 436-457.

2012: “Programmatic Supply and the Autonomy of US State Parties in 2008 and 2010.” Regional & Federal Studies, 22(5): 533-552, with Onawa Promise Lacewell.

2012: “The Supply Side of Second Order Elections. Comparing German National and European Election Manifestos.” German Politics, 21 (1): 91-115, with Sandra Brunsbach and Stefanie John.

2009: “Policies, Institutions and Time. How the European Commission Managed the Temporal Challenge of Eastern Enlargement.”  Journal of European Public Policy, 16(2): 270-285, with Katja Lass-Lennecke.

Book chapters

2021: “Austria: Tracing the Austrian Christian Democrats’ Adaptation to the Silent Counter-Revolution“, In: Bale, T., Rovira Kaltwasser, C. (eds): Riding the Populist Wave. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, with R. Heinisch.

2018: “Decline or Change? Party Types and the Crisis of Representative Democracy.” In: W. Merkel, S. Kneip (eds): Democracy and Crisis. Challenges in Turbulent Times. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, with Heiko Giebler, Onawa Promise Lacewell, Sven Regel.

2016: “Nebenwahleffekte auf der Angebotsseite? Bundestagswahlprogramme 2013 und Europawahlprogramme 2014 im Vergleich.” In: Tenscher, J., Rußmann, U. (eds.): Vergleichende Wahlkampfforschung. Studien anlässlich der Bundestags- und Europawahlen 2013 und 2014. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, with Stefanie John.

2015: “Divided We Fall? Polarization in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election.” In:  Bieber, C., Kamps, K. (eds.): Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2012: Analysen der Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, with Onawa Promise Lacewell.

2013: “Coder Training: Key to Enhancing Coding Reliability and Estimate Validity.” In: Volkens, A., Bara, J., Budge, I., McDonald, MD., Klingemann, H-D. (eds.): Mapping Policy Preferences from Texts: Statistical Solutions for Manifesto Analysts, Oxford University Press, pp. 169-194, with Onawa Promise Lacewell.

2011: “Wahlprogramme im Vergleich.” In: Tenscher, J. (ed.): Superwahljahr 2009: Vergleichende Analysen aus Anlass der Wahlen zum Deutschen Bundestag und zum Europäischen Parlament. Wiesbaden: Springer VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 41–64, with Sandra Brunsbach, Stefanie John, Andrea Volkens.

2010: “Germany.” in: Wojciech Gagatek (Hrsg.) The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament – Country Reports. Florence: European University Institute, pp. 89-93, with Sandra Brunsbach, Stefanie John.

Other publications

2021: “The Kurz affair has uncovered the Trumpian dimension of Austrian politics.” LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) blog, 08.11.2021, with Reinhard Heinisch.

2021: “Localising Political Party Appeals” Book Review of Morgenstern, S. 2017 Are Politics Local? The Two Dimensions of Party Nationalization around the World. European Political Science 20(2): 378-380, first published online 14.03.2020.

2018: “Editorial.” Australian Journal of Political Science, 53(1): 1-2, with Renee Jeffery, John Parkinson, Tracey Arklay.

2017: “Editorial.” Australian Journal of Political Science, 52(1): 1-2, with Cosmo Howard, John Parkinson and Renee Jeffery.

2013: “Mythos ‘Volkspartei’. Was niemals war, kann kaum verschwinden.” WZB-Mitteilungen, No. 139, 17-21, with Heiko Giebler, Onawa Promise Lacewell, Sven Regel.

2015-2016: various versions of “The Manifesto Data Collection: South America.” Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), with Andrea Volkens, Pola Lehmann, Theres Matthiess, Nicolas Merz, Sven Regel.

2011-2016: various versions of “The Manifesto Data Collection. Manifesto Project (MRG/CMP/MARPOR).” Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), with Andrea Volkens, Onawa Promise Lacewell, Pola Lehmann, Theres Matthiess, Nicolas Merz, Sven Regel, Henrike Schultze.

2014: “Manifesto Coding Instructions, 5th fully revised edition.” Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), with Onawa Promise Lacewell, Andrea Volkens.

2011: “Manifesto Coding Instructions, 4th fully revised edition.” Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), with Onawa Promise Lacewell, Andrea Volkens.

2010: “Manifesto Coding Instructions: 3rd fully revised edition.” Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), with Andrea Volkens.