Kathrin Ackermann
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1134842 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kathrin Ackermann |
| NOMBRES | Kathrin |
| APELLIDO | Ackermann |
| FIRMA | ACKERMANN K |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Siegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8697-0184 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 310 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Living Up to Your Own Standards? Patterns of Civic Norms and Volunteering in Germany
One of the most significant challenges facing contemporary societies is the increasing polarization of social and political ideologies. Against this backdrop, it is highly important to understand the foundations of social cohesion in order to effectively address this trend. One of the fundamental pillars of social cohesion is volunteering, which entails contributing to a collective good through unpaid work in an organization or association. While…
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy
Much of what we know about public support for democracy is based on survey questions about “democracy,” a term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts uncritically supportive responses. This paper proposes a new approach to measuring support for democracy. We develop a battery of 17 survey questions that cover all eight components of liberal democracy as defined by the V-Dem project. We then ask respondents from 19 national sam…
Caring Communities in Times of Crisis. Fostering a Sustainable Culture of Care
Aging Western societies face a growing care crisis, prompting a reevaluation of care as a collective social responsibility and driving the emergence of new care models. The concept of “caring communities” envisions care as a shared societal task, fostering mutual support and solidarity. While widely discussed in theory, empirical studies on their conditions for success and sustainability remain scarce. This qualitative, exploratory study examines…
Can we aggregate voters’ perceptions of political parties’ left–right positions? Formal and probabilistic tests of the left–right scale as a unidimensional common space on cross-national and longitudi…
Tradition and Transformation
Demographic change in aging societies makes it urgent to ask how care can be understood as a social task. This is where the concept of caring communities comes in, which understands care as a task of many, indeed, of society as a whole, and aims to offer mutual care in communities. While the concept has been described in theory many times, empirical studies are rare. In pluralistic Western societies, the church as an institution is becoming less …
Crafting Social Integration? Welfare State and Volunteering Across Social Groups and Policy Areas in 23 European Countries
The beneficial role of voluntary work for social integration makes it an important aspect of social cohesion. Thus, there is broad interest in understanding the individual and contextual foundations of volunteering. With regard to the latter, a particular focus is on the role of policies and institutions of the welfare state. They might set incentives for civic engagement and create new scope for voluntary work (crowding-in thesis), but they migh…
The federal election 2021
Wahlen und politische Einstellungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Psychological roots of political consumerism
Political consumerism is currently one of the most prevalent forms of non-institutionalized political engagement in Western democracies. This article aims to understand its psychological roots. We expect interindividual differences in psychological dispositions to be particularly relevant for political consumerism due to the individualized and cause-oriented nature of this form of political action. Our empirical evidence supports this claim: Open…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy
Research dealing with citizens’ preferences for different conceptions of democracy has grown and diversified greatly. This has resulted in a highly fragmented field in which empirical evidence cannot easily be integrated into a consistent larger picture. This systematic review takes stock of this research to uncover the roots of existing inconsistencies and to show how future research can avoid them. It maps three decades of research regarding co…
Voting in the Echo Chamber? Patterns of Political Online Activities and Voting Behavior in Switzerland
Understanding the political consequences of digitalization is among the key challenges for modern societies. A pressing issue is the question whether political online activities make individuals more close‐minded and less willing to consider alternative arguments. We examine this question using a peculiarity of the Swiss electoral system – the possibility to split votes – as a behavioral outcome measure. We argue that political online activities …
Direct democracy, political support and populism–attitudinal patterns in the German Bundesländer
Empirical insights on the attitudinal correlates of direct democracy are inconclusive. On the one hand, direct democracy bears a conceptual resemblance with populist ideas. On the other hand, participatory democrats advocate the use of direct democracy precisely on grounds that it promises to educate citizens. This paper complements tests of arguments positing an educative potential of direct democracy with tests of its populist potential. We mak…
Surfing to help? An empirical analysis of Internet use and volunteering in 27 European societies
With the spread of the Internet, people are more connected than ever before. Against this background, we evaluate the link between Internet use and volunteering as a rather unexplored aspect of social life. Comparing 27 European societies and using data from the Eurobarometer, we show that Internet use is positively related to the probability of undertaking unpaid work in most voluntary organizations. However, our main result has to be qualified …
The personality of stealth democrats
While some scholars call for mechanisms to give citizens a greater voice in politics, others critically question the demand for more citizen participation. Rather, they find that the people do not want to be involved in politics and prefer independent experts to make political decisions. This perspective is captured by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse in their concept of stealth democracy. They describe stealth democrats as people who think that politica…
Online volunteering as a means to overcome unequal participation? The profiles of online and offline volunteers compared
A key question regarding the ongoing process of digitalization is whether it enables societies to overcome patterns of inequality or whether these patterns are fostered in the digital sphere. The article addresses this question for the case of online volunteering by examining the profiles of online and offline volunteers in terms of sociodemographics, resources, networks, and psychological engagement. We apply quantitative methods using a unique …
Personality and Voting for a Right‐Wing Populist Party – Evidence from Switzerland
Many established democracies are currently challenged by populist parties and movements. Switzerland is a particularly interesting case because it has an established right‐wing populist party that is part of the governmental coalition on a regular basis: the Swiss People's Party (SVP). We study the electoral success of theSVPfrom a psychological perspective and argue that dispositions captured by the Big Five personality traits are related to vot…
Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of Ideology
Individual Differences and Political Contexts –The Role of Personality Traits and Direct Democracy in Explaining Political Protest
Building on a growing literature concerned with the link between psychological dispositions and political protest behavior, we argue that this relationship is not universal, but rather depends on contextual factors. Political context factors are able to alter the meaning and understanding of participatory repertoires. This, in turn, leads to differential effects of personality on participation. We argue that direct democracy constitutes such a po…
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Kurzbiographien der Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger
Einleitung
Backmatter
Opting for an open society? Personality traits and attitudes toward the openness of Switzerland
Kitsch und Nation
Das deutsche Wort ?Kitsch± ist in den 1940er Jahren zu einem internationalen Begriff geworden, dessen Bedeutung zwischen ideologiekritischer Ablehnung und postmoderner Affirmation oszilliert. Doch meint das Schlagwort in unterschiedlichen nationalen Diskurstraditionen stets dasselbe? Warum werden bestimmte künstlerische oder alltagsästhetische Produkte aus anderen Kulturen als Kitsch bezeichnet, und wie verhält es sich mit dieser ?Nationalisierun…
Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of Ideology
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy
Research dealing with citizens’ preferences for different conceptions of democracy has grown and diversified greatly. This has resulted in a highly fragmented field in which empirical evidence cannot easily be integrated into a consistent larger picture. This systematic review takes stock of this research to uncover the roots of existing inconsistencies and to show how future research can avoid them. It maps three decades of research regarding co…
Direct Democracy and Institutional Trust
Direct democracy plays a prominent role in the explanation of institutional trust. To date, however, empirical findings on the effects of direct democracy remain inconclusive. In this article, we argue that this inconclusiveness can be partly ascribed to the diverse effects direct democracy has on individuals. In other words, direct democracy influences institutional trust, but how and to what degree depends on individuals’ personality traits. Ru…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Support for Democracy
Much of what we know about public support for democracy is based on survey questions about “democracy,” a term that varies in meaning across countries and likely prompts uncritically supportive responses. This paper proposes a new approach to measuring support for democracy. We develop a battery of 17 survey questions that cover all eight components of liberal democracy as defined by the V-Dem project. We then ask respondents from 19 national sam…
The Big Five in Context
The paper analyzes the link between personality traits and attitudes of Swiss citizens toward equal opportunities for immigrants. In particular, we examine the extent to which this relationship is moderated by the socio‐structural context. We test the assumption that the direct links between personality traits and attitudes toward equal opportunities are strengthened by perceived ethnic diversity. Based on our empirical analyses, we are able to r…
The personality of stealth democrats
While some scholars call for mechanisms to give citizens a greater voice in politics, others critically question the demand for more citizen participation. Rather, they find that the people do not want to be involved in politics and prefer independent experts to make political decisions. This perspective is captured by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse in their concept of stealth democracy. They describe stealth democrats as people who think that politica…
Individual Differences and Political Contexts –The Role of Personality Traits and Direct Democracy in Explaining Political Protest
Building on a growing literature concerned with the link between psychological dispositions and political protest behavior, we argue that this relationship is not universal, but rather depends on contextual factors. Political context factors are able to alter the meaning and understanding of participatory repertoires. This, in turn, leads to differential effects of personality on participation. We argue that direct democracy constitutes such a po…
Online volunteering as a means to overcome unequal participation? The profiles of online and offline volunteers compared
A key question regarding the ongoing process of digitalization is whether it enables societies to overcome patterns of inequality or whether these patterns are fostered in the digital sphere. The article addresses this question for the case of online volunteering by examining the profiles of online and offline volunteers in terms of sociodemographics, resources, networks, and psychological engagement. We apply quantitative methods using a unique …
Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe
Psychological roots of political consumerism
Political consumerism is currently one of the most prevalent forms of non-institutionalized political engagement in Western democracies. This article aims to understand its psychological roots. We expect interindividual differences in psychological dispositions to be particularly relevant for political consumerism due to the individualized and cause-oriented nature of this form of political action. Our empirical evidence supports this claim: Open…
Personality and Voting for a Right‐Wing Populist Party – Evidence from Switzerland
Many established democracies are currently challenged by populist parties and movements. Switzerland is a particularly interesting case because it has an established right‐wing populist party that is part of the governmental coalition on a regular basis: the Swiss People's Party (SVP). We study the electoral success of theSVPfrom a psychological perspective and argue that dispositions captured by the Big Five personality traits are related to vot…
The consequences of social intolerance on non-violent protest
This paper scrutinizes the impact of intolerance toward diverse ethnic, religious, and cultural groups on an individual’s willingness to actively engage in non-violent protest. Following new insights, we examine the individual as well as the ecological effect of social intolerance on protest behavior. Drawing from insights of social psychology and communication science, we expect that the prevalence of intolerance reinforces the positive effect o…
Opting for an open society? Personality traits and attitudes toward the openness of Switzerland
Crafting Social Integration? Welfare State and Volunteering Across Social Groups and Policy Areas in 23 European Countries
The beneficial role of voluntary work for social integration makes it an important aspect of social cohesion. Thus, there is broad interest in understanding the individual and contextual foundations of volunteering. With regard to the latter, a particular focus is on the role of policies and institutions of the welfare state. They might set incentives for civic engagement and create new scope for voluntary work (crowding-in thesis), but they migh…
Voting in the Echo Chamber? Patterns of Political Online Activities and Voting Behavior in Switzerland
Understanding the political consequences of digitalization is among the key challenges for modern societies. A pressing issue is the question whether political online activities make individuals more close‐minded and less willing to consider alternative arguments. We examine this question using a peculiarity of the Swiss electoral system – the possibility to split votes – as a behavioral outcome measure. We argue that political online activities …
Direct democracy, political support and populism–attitudinal patterns in the German Bundesländer
Empirical insights on the attitudinal correlates of direct democracy are inconclusive. On the one hand, direct democracy bears a conceptual resemblance with populist ideas. On the other hand, participatory democrats advocate the use of direct democracy precisely on grounds that it promises to educate citizens. This paper complements tests of arguments positing an educative potential of direct democracy with tests of its populist potential. We mak…
Surfing to help? An empirical analysis of Internet use and volunteering in 27 European societies
With the spread of the Internet, people are more connected than ever before. Against this background, we evaluate the link between Internet use and volunteering as a rather unexplored aspect of social life. Comparing 27 European societies and using data from the Eurobarometer, we show that Internet use is positively related to the probability of undertaking unpaid work in most voluntary organizations. However, our main result has to be qualified …
Tradition and Transformation
Demographic change in aging societies makes it urgent to ask how care can be understood as a social task. This is where the concept of caring communities comes in, which understands care as a task of many, indeed, of society as a whole, and aims to offer mutual care in communities. While the concept has been described in theory many times, empirical studies are rare. In pluralistic Western societies, the church as an institution is becoming less …
The federal election 2021
Von der philosophisch-moralischen Erzählung zur modernen Novelle
The treatise deals with the pre-history of the modern French novella, which has constituted a new paradigm of genre history within the field of short narrations since 1829. Contrary to claims that Mérimée's, Stendhal's, and Balzac's novellas have nothing in common with the narrative of the 18th and early 19th century, it is intended to demonstrate that the latter provides an arsenal for the renewal of the genre around 1830. A relatively stable co…
The Big Five in Context
The paper analyzes the link between personality traits and attitudes of Swiss citizens toward equal opportunities for immigrants. In particular, we examine the extent to which this relationship is moderated by the socio‐structural context. We test the assumption that the direct links between personality traits and attitudes toward equal opportunities are strengthened by perceived ethnic diversity. Based on our empirical analyses, we are able to r…
Inhalt
Kurzbiographien der Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger
Einleitung
Backmatter
Opting for an open society? Personality traits and attitudes toward the openness of Switzerland
Kitsch und Nation
Das deutsche Wort ?Kitsch± ist in den 1940er Jahren zu einem internationalen Begriff geworden, dessen Bedeutung zwischen ideologiekritischer Ablehnung und postmoderner Affirmation oszilliert. Doch meint das Schlagwort in unterschiedlichen nationalen Diskurstraditionen stets dasselbe? Warum werden bestimmte künstlerische oder alltagsästhetische Produkte aus anderen Kulturen als Kitsch bezeichnet, und wie verhält es sich mit dieser ?Nationalisierun…
Direct Democracy and Institutional Trust
Direct democracy plays a prominent role in the explanation of institutional trust. To date, however, empirical findings on the effects of direct democracy remain inconclusive. In this article, we argue that this inconclusiveness can be partly ascribed to the diverse effects direct democracy has on individuals. In other words, direct democracy influences institutional trust, but how and to what degree depends on individuals’ personality traits. Ru…
The consequences of social intolerance on non-violent protest
This paper scrutinizes the impact of intolerance toward diverse ethnic, religious, and cultural groups on an individual’s willingness to actively engage in non-violent protest. Following new insights, we examine the individual as well as the ecological effect of social intolerance on protest behavior. Drawing from insights of social psychology and communication science, we expect that the prevalence of intolerance reinforces the positive effect o…
Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of Ideology
Individual Differences and Political Contexts –The Role of Personality Traits and Direct Democracy in Explaining Political Protest
Building on a growing literature concerned with the link between psychological dispositions and political protest behavior, we argue that this relationship is not universal, but rather depends on contextual factors. Political context factors are able to alter the meaning and understanding of participatory repertoires. This, in turn, leads to differential effects of personality on participation. We argue that direct democracy constitutes such a po…
Online volunteering as a means to overcome unequal participation? The profiles of online and offline volunteers compared
A key question regarding the ongoing process of digitalization is whether it enables societies to overcome patterns of inequality or whether these patterns are fostered in the digital sphere. The article addresses this question for the case of online volunteering by examining the profiles of online and offline volunteers in terms of sociodemographics, resources, networks, and psychological engagement. We apply quantitative methods using a unique …
Personality and Voting for a Right‐Wing Populist Party – Evidence from Switzerland
Many established democracies are currently challenged by populist parties and movements. Switzerland is a particularly interesting case because it has an established right‐wing populist party that is part of the governmental coalition on a regular basis: the Swiss People's Party (SVP). We study the electoral success of theSVPfrom a psychological perspective and argue that dispositions captured by the Big Five personality traits are related to vot…
Surfing to help? An empirical analysis of Internet use and volunteering in 27 European societies
With the spread of the Internet, people are more connected than ever before. Against this background, we evaluate the link between Internet use and volunteering as a rather unexplored aspect of social life. Comparing 27 European societies and using data from the Eurobarometer, we show that Internet use is positively related to the probability of undertaking unpaid work in most voluntary organizations. However, our main result has to be qualified …
The personality of stealth democrats
While some scholars call for mechanisms to give citizens a greater voice in politics, others critically question the demand for more citizen participation. Rather, they find that the people do not want to be involved in politics and prefer independent experts to make political decisions. This perspective is captured by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse in their concept of stealth democracy. They describe stealth democrats as people who think that politica…
Direct democracy, political support and populism–attitudinal patterns in the German Bundesländer
Empirical insights on the attitudinal correlates of direct democracy are inconclusive. On the one hand, direct democracy bears a conceptual resemblance with populist ideas. On the other hand, participatory democrats advocate the use of direct democracy precisely on grounds that it promises to educate citizens. This paper complements tests of arguments positing an educative potential of direct democracy with tests of its populist potential. We mak…
Wahlen und politische Einstellungen in Ost- und Westdeutschland
Psychological roots of political consumerism
Political consumerism is currently one of the most prevalent forms of non-institutionalized political engagement in Western democracies. This article aims to understand its psychological roots. We expect interindividual differences in psychological dispositions to be particularly relevant for political consumerism due to the individualized and cause-oriented nature of this form of political action. Our empirical evidence supports this claim: Open…
Conceptualizing and Measuring Citizens’ Preferences for Democracy
Research dealing with citizens’ preferences for different conceptions of democracy has grown and diversified greatly. This has resulted in a highly fragmented field in which empirical evidence cannot easily be integrated into a consistent larger picture. This systematic review takes stock of this research to uncover the roots of existing inconsistencies and to show how future research can avoid them. It maps three decades of research regarding co…
Voting in the Echo Chamber? Patterns of Political Online Activities and Voting Behavior in Switzerland
Understanding the political consequences of digitalization is among the key challenges for modern societies. A pressing issue is the question whether political online activities make individuals more close‐minded and less willing to consider alternative arguments. We examine this question using a peculiarity of the Swiss electoral system – the possibility to split votes – as a behavioral outcome measure. We argue that political online activities …
Crafting Social Integration? Welfare State and Volunteering Across Social Groups and Policy Areas in 23 European Countries
The beneficial role of voluntary work for social integration makes it an important aspect of social cohesion. Thus, there is broad interest in understanding the individual and contextual foundations of volunteering. With regard to the latter, a particular focus is on the role of policies and institutions of the welfare state. They might set incentives for civic engagement and create new scope for voluntary work (crowding-in thesis), but they migh…
The federal election 2021
Caring Communities in Times of Crisis. Fostering a Sustainable Culture of Care
Aging Western societies face a growing care crisis, prompting a reevaluation of care as a collective social responsibility and driving the emergence of new care models. The concept of “caring communities” envisions care as a shared societal task, fostering mutual support and solidarity. While widely discussed in theory, empirical studies on their conditions for success and sustainability remain scarce. This qualitative, exploratory study examines…
Can we aggregate voters’ perceptions of political parties’ left–right positions? Formal and probabilistic tests of the left–right scale as a unidimensional common space on cross-national and longitudi…
Political science (22 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Politics (14 obras) · Psychology (14 obras) · Social Psychology (13 obras) · Sociology (13 obras) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (12 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Economics (9 obras) · Social Media and Politics (9 obras)