C Ziller
Biographic Data
| ID | 20168 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Ziller |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ziller |
| SIGNATURE | ZILLER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2282-636X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Following Political Science Students Through Their Methods Training: Statistics Anxiety, Student Satisfaction, and Final Grades in the Covid Year 2021/22
Teaching empirical social research methods as a compulsory part of a curriculum involves several challenges. Students are often unaware of the relevance of methodological training for their political science education and its value as a transferable skill. In addition, some students are afraid of the mathematical components of their applied statistics training. These challenges can have a diminishing effect on student success. We examine three di…
Willingness to share personal data online: The role of social influence and sustainability
Political support in times of progressive policy change and radical-right populist party success
Exploring the role of social openness for pro‐diversity attitudes in urban and rural places
Neighborhoods are important spaces where people participate in social interactions, and existing research has demonstrated that the social and physical environment plays a pivotal role in shaping residents' social and political attitudes. This study investigates the influence of social openness in neighborhoods, defined as residents' perceptions of their co‐residents being open to change, on attitudes toward diversity. Building on existing resear…
Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline
Public discourse on immigrant integration often refers to cultural differences between immigrants and members of receiving societies, particularly immigrants from predominantly Islamic countries. This study employs a survey experiment in Germany that presents respondents with two different parenting styles, one involving physical discipline while the other one does not. We investigate differences in the acceptance of these parenting styles betwee…
Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance
A wealth of recent research in comparative politics examines how spatial variation in historical conditions shapes modern political outcomes. In an article in the American Political Science Review, Homola, Pereira, and Tavits argue that Germans who live nearer to former Nazi concentration camps are more likely to display out-group intolerance. Clarifying the conceptual foundations of posttreatment bias and reviewing the historical record on postw…
Setting limits to tolerance: An experimental investigation of individual reactions to extremism and violence
Tolerating others' opinions, even if disliked, is a cornerstone of liberal democracy. At the same time, there are limits to political tolerance as tolerating extremists and groups who use violence would threaten the foundations of tolerance itself. We study people's willingness to set limits to tolerance in case of violence and extremism (scope of tolerance)—under different conditions regarding ideological groups (left-wing, right-wing, religious…
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants' national identification
Considered effective? How policy evaluations and threat perceptions affect support for surveillance in the context of terrorism
Surveillance policies aimed at combating terrorism and improving public security can also lead to constraints on civil liberties. In view of this trade‐off between the potential benefits and risks of surveillance, it is particularly important to study how effectiveness considerations shape public support for surveillance. We argue that effectiveness perceptions enhance policy support, but that the manner in which citizens view policy effectivenes…
Quality of local government and social trust in European cities
Communities are responsible for a range of public services and represent critical experiential contexts for social interactions between residents. However, the role of local governance and public service provision for creating social trust has received limited attention so far. This study examines how quality, efficiency and fairness of local public service provision relates to social trust. Using multilevel models on repeated cross-sectional sur…
Grenzen politischer Repräsentation: Determinanten der Wahlbeteiligung bei Integrationsratswahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Die Wahl der Integrationsräte auf Kommunalebene ist für Nicht-EU-Ausländerinnen und -Ausländer faktisch die einzige Möglichkeit elektoraler politischer Interessenartikulation. Gleichzeitig sind die politischen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten von Integrationsräten begrenzt und die Wahlbeteiligung bei Integrationsratswahlen ist typischerweise deutlich geringer als die Wahlbeteiligung bei Kommunalwahlen. Das dadurch entstehende Repräsentationsdefizit für e…
Established and Excluded? Immigrants’ Economic Progress, Attitudes toward Immigrants, and the Conditioning Role of Egalitarianism and Intergroup Contact
Immigrants’ economic progress, on the one hand, serves as an indicator of successful integration and should serve to mitigate natives’ concerns about potential economic or welfare state–related burdens of immigration. On the other hand, the fact of immigrants improving their social status may also induce perceptions of competition and group-related relative deprivation. This study examines whether immigrants’ progress leads either to improved att…
Public support for state surveillance
This study examines citizens’ support for state surveillance, contingent upon factors related to policy design and the context of implementation. While most people want to live in a secure environment, we argue in this study that the support of policies to reach this goal depends on their necessity, extensiveness and reliability. Results from survey experiments in four European countries show that citizens are ready to approve the introduction of…
Personality traits and public support of minority rights
This study investigates how personality relates to citizens’ willingness to extend political, social, and cultural rights for minorities, including voting rights for immigrants, religious rights for Muslims, and affirmative action measures. Moving beyond explanations centred on intergroup relations, we argue that political efficacy (i.e. beliefs about personal political competences and the responsiveness of political elites) operates as a mechani…
Residential Segregation and Social Trust of Immigrants and Natives: Evidence From the Netherlands
This study examines the relationship between residential segregation and social trust of immigrants and natives in the Netherlands. Building on previous studies that have found evidence for a negative segregation-trust link, we present a nuanced narrative by (i) distinguishing between an ethnic minority and majority perspective, (ii) elaborating theoretical foundations on the moderating role of individual exposure in the form of ethnic minority c…
Green Versus Radical Right as the New Political Divide? The European Parliament Election 2019 in Germany
Local Government Efficiency and Anti-immigrant Violence
Communities provide a crucial experiential context for native-immigrant interactions, yet we know little about the impact of local government performance on shaping public responses to immigrants. Building on arguments considering efficient governments as critical factors in facilitating immigrant integration and mitigating denizens' political deprivation, we argue that efficient local governments also play a significant role in reducing anti-imm…
Economic conditions and native-immigrant asymmetries in generalized social trust
Who Is Willing to Share the Burden? Attitudes Towards the Allocation of Asylum Seekers in Comparative Perspective
Europe faces the challenge of enormous recent asylum seeker inflows, and the allocation of these immigrants across European countries remains severely skewed, with some countries having a much larger per capita share of asylum applicants than others. Consequently, there is a debate at the EU level on how to allocate asylum seekers in order to tackle this imbalance. The present study focuses on preferences of European citizens towards the supranat…
Policy Effects on Political Engagement
Antidiscrimination Laws, Policy Knowledge and Political Support
This study investigates how antidiscrimination policy and related policy knowledge influence citizens’ support for the democratic system and its institutions. The article argues that antidiscrimination measures and knowledge about rights to equal treatment foster perceptions of government responsiveness, which increase political support among target groups and citizens who advocate egalitarianism. Utilizing a longitudinal design and more valid me…
Immigration, social trust, and the moderating role of value contexts
Social trust and radical right-wing populist party preferences
Equal Treatment Regulations and Ethnic Minority Social Trust
Immigrants and ethnic minority members typically hold lower levels of social trust than majority members due to fewer socio-economic resources and a higher risk of discrimination. While institutional factors are a strong predictor for different levels of social trust across countries, we know little about whether and how institutional and political contexts influence group-related differences in trust within societies. This study examines how ins…
Societal implications of antidiscrimination policy in Europe
The enactment and implementation of European Union Directives on antidiscrimination have received substantial scholarly attention. However, there is little knowledge about whether and how antidiscrimination measures influence citizens’ experiences and perceptions of discrimination. This study investigates the relationship between antidiscrimination policies, citizens’ knowledge in this policy area, and their handling of discrimination. Using data…
Social trust and radical right-wing populist party preferences
Ethnic Diversity, Economic and Cultural Contexts, and Social Trust: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence from European Regions, 2002–2010
A growing literature investigates the relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust. Comparative research in the European context employing country-level indicators has predominantly produced inconclusive results. This study examines the relationship between immigration-related diversity and social trust at the sub-national level of European regions. The regional perspective allows the capture of relevant variations in ethnic context whi…
Public support for state surveillance
This study examines citizens’ support for state surveillance, contingent upon factors related to policy design and the context of implementation. While most people want to live in a secure environment, we argue in this study that the support of policies to reach this goal depends on their necessity, extensiveness and reliability. Results from survey experiments in four European countries show that citizens are ready to approve the introduction of…
Local Government Efficiency and Anti-immigrant Violence
Communities provide a crucial experiential context for native-immigrant interactions, yet we know little about the impact of local government performance on shaping public responses to immigrants. Building on arguments considering efficient governments as critical factors in facilitating immigrant integration and mitigating denizens' political deprivation, we argue that efficient local governments also play a significant role in reducing anti-imm…
Immigration, social trust, and the moderating role of value contexts
Equal Treatment Regulations and Ethnic Minority Social Trust
Immigrants and ethnic minority members typically hold lower levels of social trust than majority members due to fewer socio-economic resources and a higher risk of discrimination. While institutional factors are a strong predictor for different levels of social trust across countries, we know little about whether and how institutional and political contexts influence group-related differences in trust within societies. This study examines how ins…
Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance
A wealth of recent research in comparative politics examines how spatial variation in historical conditions shapes modern political outcomes. In an article in the American Political Science Review, Homola, Pereira, and Tavits argue that Germans who live nearer to former Nazi concentration camps are more likely to display out-group intolerance. Clarifying the conceptual foundations of posttreatment bias and reviewing the historical record on postw…
Residential Segregation and Social Trust of Immigrants and Natives: Evidence From the Netherlands
This study examines the relationship between residential segregation and social trust of immigrants and natives in the Netherlands. Building on previous studies that have found evidence for a negative segregation-trust link, we present a nuanced narrative by (i) distinguishing between an ethnic minority and majority perspective, (ii) elaborating theoretical foundations on the moderating role of individual exposure in the form of ethnic minority c…
Societal implications of antidiscrimination policy in Europe
The enactment and implementation of European Union Directives on antidiscrimination have received substantial scholarly attention. However, there is little knowledge about whether and how antidiscrimination measures influence citizens’ experiences and perceptions of discrimination. This study investigates the relationship between antidiscrimination policies, citizens’ knowledge in this policy area, and their handling of discrimination. Using data…
Antidiscrimination Laws, Policy Knowledge and Political Support
This study investigates how antidiscrimination policy and related policy knowledge influence citizens’ support for the democratic system and its institutions. The article argues that antidiscrimination measures and knowledge about rights to equal treatment foster perceptions of government responsiveness, which increase political support among target groups and citizens who advocate egalitarianism. Utilizing a longitudinal design and more valid me…
Established and Excluded? Immigrants’ Economic Progress, Attitudes toward Immigrants, and the Conditioning Role of Egalitarianism and Intergroup Contact
Immigrants’ economic progress, on the one hand, serves as an indicator of successful integration and should serve to mitigate natives’ concerns about potential economic or welfare state–related burdens of immigration. On the other hand, the fact of immigrants improving their social status may also induce perceptions of competition and group-related relative deprivation. This study examines whether immigrants’ progress leads either to improved att…
Personality traits and public support of minority rights
This study investigates how personality relates to citizens’ willingness to extend political, social, and cultural rights for minorities, including voting rights for immigrants, religious rights for Muslims, and affirmative action measures. Moving beyond explanations centred on intergroup relations, we argue that political efficacy (i.e. beliefs about personal political competences and the responsiveness of political elites) operates as a mechani…
Willingness to share personal data online: The role of social influence and sustainability
Economic conditions and native-immigrant asymmetries in generalized social trust
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants' national identification
Quality of local government and social trust in European cities
Communities are responsible for a range of public services and represent critical experiential contexts for social interactions between residents. However, the role of local governance and public service provision for creating social trust has received limited attention so far. This study examines how quality, efficiency and fairness of local public service provision relates to social trust. Using multilevel models on repeated cross-sectional sur…
Political support in times of progressive policy change and radical-right populist party success
Exploring the role of social openness for pro‐diversity attitudes in urban and rural places
Neighborhoods are important spaces where people participate in social interactions, and existing research has demonstrated that the social and physical environment plays a pivotal role in shaping residents' social and political attitudes. This study investigates the influence of social openness in neighborhoods, defined as residents' perceptions of their co‐residents being open to change, on attitudes toward diversity. Building on existing resear…
Green Versus Radical Right as the New Political Divide? The European Parliament Election 2019 in Germany
Policy Effects on Political Engagement
Setting limits to tolerance: An experimental investigation of individual reactions to extremism and violence
Tolerating others' opinions, even if disliked, is a cornerstone of liberal democracy. At the same time, there are limits to political tolerance as tolerating extremists and groups who use violence would threaten the foundations of tolerance itself. We study people's willingness to set limits to tolerance in case of violence and extremism (scope of tolerance)—under different conditions regarding ideological groups (left-wing, right-wing, religious…
Societal implications of antidiscrimination policy in Europe
The enactment and implementation of European Union Directives on antidiscrimination have received substantial scholarly attention. However, there is little knowledge about whether and how antidiscrimination measures influence citizens’ experiences and perceptions of discrimination. This study investigates the relationship between antidiscrimination policies, citizens’ knowledge in this policy area, and their handling of discrimination. Using data…
Ethnic Diversity, Economic and Cultural Contexts, and Social Trust: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence from European Regions, 2002–2010
A growing literature investigates the relationship between ethnic diversity and social trust. Comparative research in the European context employing country-level indicators has predominantly produced inconclusive results. This study examines the relationship between immigration-related diversity and social trust at the sub-national level of European regions. The regional perspective allows the capture of relevant variations in ethnic context whi…
Social trust and radical right-wing populist party preferences
Equal Treatment Regulations and Ethnic Minority Social Trust
Immigrants and ethnic minority members typically hold lower levels of social trust than majority members due to fewer socio-economic resources and a higher risk of discrimination. While institutional factors are a strong predictor for different levels of social trust across countries, we know little about whether and how institutional and political contexts influence group-related differences in trust within societies. This study examines how ins…
Who Is Willing to Share the Burden? Attitudes Towards the Allocation of Asylum Seekers in Comparative Perspective
Europe faces the challenge of enormous recent asylum seeker inflows, and the allocation of these immigrants across European countries remains severely skewed, with some countries having a much larger per capita share of asylum applicants than others. Consequently, there is a debate at the EU level on how to allocate asylum seekers in order to tackle this imbalance. The present study focuses on preferences of European citizens towards the supranat…
Policy Effects on Political Engagement
Antidiscrimination Laws, Policy Knowledge and Political Support
This study investigates how antidiscrimination policy and related policy knowledge influence citizens’ support for the democratic system and its institutions. The article argues that antidiscrimination measures and knowledge about rights to equal treatment foster perceptions of government responsiveness, which increase political support among target groups and citizens who advocate egalitarianism. Utilizing a longitudinal design and more valid me…
Immigration, social trust, and the moderating role of value contexts
Residential Segregation and Social Trust of Immigrants and Natives: Evidence From the Netherlands
This study examines the relationship between residential segregation and social trust of immigrants and natives in the Netherlands. Building on previous studies that have found evidence for a negative segregation-trust link, we present a nuanced narrative by (i) distinguishing between an ethnic minority and majority perspective, (ii) elaborating theoretical foundations on the moderating role of individual exposure in the form of ethnic minority c…
Green Versus Radical Right as the New Political Divide? The European Parliament Election 2019 in Germany
Local Government Efficiency and Anti-immigrant Violence
Communities provide a crucial experiential context for native-immigrant interactions, yet we know little about the impact of local government performance on shaping public responses to immigrants. Building on arguments considering efficient governments as critical factors in facilitating immigrant integration and mitigating denizens' political deprivation, we argue that efficient local governments also play a significant role in reducing anti-imm…
Economic conditions and native-immigrant asymmetries in generalized social trust
Public support for state surveillance
This study examines citizens’ support for state surveillance, contingent upon factors related to policy design and the context of implementation. While most people want to live in a secure environment, we argue in this study that the support of policies to reach this goal depends on their necessity, extensiveness and reliability. Results from survey experiments in four European countries show that citizens are ready to approve the introduction of…
Personality traits and public support of minority rights
This study investigates how personality relates to citizens’ willingness to extend political, social, and cultural rights for minorities, including voting rights for immigrants, religious rights for Muslims, and affirmative action measures. Moving beyond explanations centred on intergroup relations, we argue that political efficacy (i.e. beliefs about personal political competences and the responsiveness of political elites) operates as a mechani…
Considered effective? How policy evaluations and threat perceptions affect support for surveillance in the context of terrorism
Surveillance policies aimed at combating terrorism and improving public security can also lead to constraints on civil liberties. In view of this trade‐off between the potential benefits and risks of surveillance, it is particularly important to study how effectiveness considerations shape public support for surveillance. We argue that effectiveness perceptions enhance policy support, but that the manner in which citizens view policy effectivenes…
Quality of local government and social trust in European cities
Communities are responsible for a range of public services and represent critical experiential contexts for social interactions between residents. However, the role of local governance and public service provision for creating social trust has received limited attention so far. This study examines how quality, efficiency and fairness of local public service provision relates to social trust. Using multilevel models on repeated cross-sectional sur…
Grenzen politischer Repräsentation: Determinanten der Wahlbeteiligung bei Integrationsratswahlen in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Die Wahl der Integrationsräte auf Kommunalebene ist für Nicht-EU-Ausländerinnen und -Ausländer faktisch die einzige Möglichkeit elektoraler politischer Interessenartikulation. Gleichzeitig sind die politischen Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten von Integrationsräten begrenzt und die Wahlbeteiligung bei Integrationsratswahlen ist typischerweise deutlich geringer als die Wahlbeteiligung bei Kommunalwahlen. Das dadurch entstehende Repräsentationsdefizit für e…
Established and Excluded? Immigrants’ Economic Progress, Attitudes toward Immigrants, and the Conditioning Role of Egalitarianism and Intergroup Contact
Immigrants’ economic progress, on the one hand, serves as an indicator of successful integration and should serve to mitigate natives’ concerns about potential economic or welfare state–related burdens of immigration. On the other hand, the fact of immigrants improving their social status may also induce perceptions of competition and group-related relative deprivation. This study examines whether immigrants’ progress leads either to improved att…
Setting limits to tolerance: An experimental investigation of individual reactions to extremism and violence
Tolerating others' opinions, even if disliked, is a cornerstone of liberal democracy. At the same time, there are limits to political tolerance as tolerating extremists and groups who use violence would threaten the foundations of tolerance itself. We study people's willingness to set limits to tolerance in case of violence and extremism (scope of tolerance)—under different conditions regarding ideological groups (left-wing, right-wing, religious…
Local ties that bind: The role of perceived neighborhood cohesion and disorder for immigrants' national identification
Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity and Historical Persistence: Nazi Concentration Camps and Contemporary Intolerance
A wealth of recent research in comparative politics examines how spatial variation in historical conditions shapes modern political outcomes. In an article in the American Political Science Review, Homola, Pereira, and Tavits argue that Germans who live nearer to former Nazi concentration camps are more likely to display out-group intolerance. Clarifying the conceptual foundations of posttreatment bias and reviewing the historical record on postw…
Following Political Science Students Through Their Methods Training: Statistics Anxiety, Student Satisfaction, and Final Grades in the Covid Year 2021/22
Teaching empirical social research methods as a compulsory part of a curriculum involves several challenges. Students are often unaware of the relevance of methodological training for their political science education and its value as a transferable skill. In addition, some students are afraid of the mathematical components of their applied statistics training. These challenges can have a diminishing effect on student success. We examine three di…
Willingness to share personal data online: The role of social influence and sustainability
Political support in times of progressive policy change and radical-right populist party success
Exploring the role of social openness for pro‐diversity attitudes in urban and rural places
Neighborhoods are important spaces where people participate in social interactions, and existing research has demonstrated that the social and physical environment plays a pivotal role in shaping residents' social and political attitudes. This study investigates the influence of social openness in neighborhoods, defined as residents' perceptions of their co‐residents being open to change, on attitudes toward diversity. Building on existing resear…
Political science (22 works) · Law (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Immigration (9 works)