This article examines whether German respondents in an interactive vignette experiment prefer immigrants who are ethno-racially more proximate to the majority population versus whether immigrants find acceptance in German society
Apr 2022
Authoritarianism, economic threat, and the limits of multiculturalism in post-migration crisis Germany
The purpose of this article is to investigate the associations between submissive authoritarianism, multiculturalism, and perceived economic threat. More specifically, it explores whether the effects of multiculturalism on authoritarianism are
Mar 2021
‘Walk a mile in my shoes!’ Ethno-cultural Empathy, Welfare Chauvinism and the Limits of Community in Post-migration Crisis Germany
A rich literature has emerged over the last three decades examining citizen’s varied willingness in industrialized democracies to fund the welfare state in the face of increasing immigration-induced diversity. Initially
Apr 2020
Coveting Uniformity in a Diverse World: The Authoritarian Roots of Welfare Chauvinism in Postmigration Crisis Germany
To explore the links between authoritarian personality traits and welfare chauvinism by controlling for a host of alternative explanations while also investigating whether these links are additive or interacting with
Dec 2018
Postindustrial Cleavages and Electoral Change in an Advanced Capitalist Democracy: The Austrian Case
Theories on post-industrialism generally agree that post-industrial societies are characterized first, a shift from the production of manufactured goods to the production of services, and second by a “new centrality”
May 2017
European Democracies
European Democracies is an introduction to the politics and governments of Western, Central, and Eastern Europe. Organized thematically rather than country-by-country, this fully revised edition examines topics such as electoral systems,
