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Matthias Mader

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ID3718070
NAMEMatthias Mader
GIVEN NAMESMatthias
FAMILY NAMEMader
SIGNATUREMADER M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Mannheim
ORCID0000-0002-4593-2392
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS279
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX10
  • Populist attitudes and foreign policy postures

    Open Access•Pierangelo Isernia, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•European Political Science Review•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 57

    This article explores how populist attitudes are correlated with foreign policy postures at the public level in four European countries: France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy. We provide first evidence adjudicating between two rivalling perspectives. One perspective focuses on the ideational core of populism and argues that it entails substantive beliefs and values that may inform foreign policy preferences – just like any other ideology. Ano…

  • Can Social Identity Theory Address the Measurement Tangle in Survey‐Based National Identity Research

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Marlene Mußotter•ARTICLE•Nations and Nationalism•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 74

    Survey‐based research on national identity has long grappled with a ‘tangle’ of conflicting concepts, inconsistent use of measures and inconclusive empirical findings. This article addresses the measurement side of this tangle, evaluating whether social identity theory (SIT) can serve as a conceptual framework to clarify and organize existing indicators. Drawing on methods from content validity analysis, we examine survey instruments from the Nat…

  • Increased support for collective defence in times of threat

    Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Policy Studies•2024•Cited by: 11•References: 36

    Were European public reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in line with the external threat hypothesis? Accordingly, the invasion should have increased the perception of threat from Russia’s territorial ambitions and support for collective defence. We review survey data from a diverse sample of ten European countries, collected before and after the event, showing that this was indeed the case. Threat perceptions and attitudes toward various a…

  • Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Moritz Neubert et al.•ARTICLE•European Union Politics•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 51

    In surveys, Europeans routinely express high levels of support for a common security and defence policy of the European Union. Do these responses reflect real demands or superficial support that would crumble if the issue was politicised? This article provides new answers to this question. We conducted pre-registered survey experiments with more than 40,000 respondents from 25 European countries in which we randomly varied whether respondents rec…

  • International threats and support for European security and defence integration

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Konstantin Gavras et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2024•Cited by: 22•References: 62

    When member states of the European Union face serious international threats, does this serve as a catalyst or obstacle for European integration in the security and defence domain? To gain purchase on this question, this paper examines public opinion from a common instrument fielded in 24 EU member states (and the United Kingdom) with a total sample size of more than 40,000 respondents. We argue that theoretical accounts of perceived threat produc…

  • Subjective losers of globalization

    Open Access•Nils D Steiner, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2024•Cited by: 20•References: 41

    Recent political changes in established democracies have led to a new cleavage, often described as a juxtaposition of ‘winners’ and ‘losers of globalization’. Despite a growing interest in subjective group membership and identity, previous research has not studied whether individuals actually categorize themselves as globalization winners or losers and what effect this has. Based on survey data from Germany, we report evidence of a division betwe…

  • Stability of National‐Identity Content

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 64

    A neglected topic in empirical research on national identity is its stability at the individual level, and this is especially true for its content, that is, the meaning elements that people associate with the concept of nation. In this article, we study the stability of key dimensions of national‐identity content. We ask three simple questions: How stable is national‐identity content—as captured in the ethnic/civic framework—at the level of indiv…

  • European public opinion

    Open Access•Catarina Thomson, Catarina P Thomson et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2023•Cited by: 9

    How strong is public support for Ukraine in Europe? Given reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be 'playing for time' in the hopes that weary publics will demand an end to supporting Ukraine, this is an important question. • In February 2023, we conducted a survey of public attitudes in ten major European countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Italy and Spain. • Our findings suggest …

  • Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018

    Open Access•Konstantin Gavras, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•European Union Politics•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 27

    Since the end of the Cold War, the EU aims to advance to a relevant and autonomous actor in international politics—especially concerning security and defense politics. Scholars interested in whether the EU member states actually converge in their security and defense preferences often analyze strategy papers qualitatively, focusing on selected countries at specific points in time. In this article, we propose a dictionary approach for analyzing th…

  • Foreign Anti-Mainstream Propaganda and Democratic Publics

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Nikolay Marinov et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2022•Cited by: 8•References: 56

    Illiberal regimes use overt and covert political communication to influence public opinion in democracies. We present an argument about how such propaganda impacts targeted publics. We posit that effectiveness depends on whether the source of the message is revealed, on the nature of the issue, and on individual characteristics of the recipients. We test these propositions in Germany, in the context of Kremlin messaging, using eight survey experi…

  • A Source Like Any Other? Field and Survey Experiment Evidence on How Interest Groups Shape Public Opinion

    Open Access•Andreas Jungherr, Alexander Wuttke et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication•2021

    Interest groups increasingly communicate with the public, yet we know little about how effective they are in shaping opinions. Since interest groups differ from other public communicators, we propose a theory of interest group persuasion. Interest groups typically have a low public profile, and so most people are unlikely to have strong attitudes regarding them. Source-related predispositions, such as credibility assessments, are therefore less r…

  • The Polls—Trends

    Open Access•Mirya R Holman, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 10•References: 19

    Since the last review of public opinion on European defense policy and NATO concluded that Europeans wanted both European defense integration and a continuing commitment to NATO, the EU has almost doubled in size and new initiatives have been launched to develop a Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP). We reexamine these issues and trace public opinion trends in all 28 EU member states from 2000 to 2019. With little variation across countries…

  • Conceptions of national identity, turnout and party preference

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Maria Pesthy et al.•ARTICLE•Nations and Nationalism•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 59

    As globalisation makes national boundaries both permeable and contested, conflicts over national identity and related policy issues are bound to increase the salience of citizens' individual national identitiesand, consequently, increase their impact on political attitudes and behaviour. We study the link between ethnocultural and civic dimensions of national identity and turnout and party preferences. After providing a theoretical discussion tha…

  • Conceptions of National Identity and Ambivalence towards Immigration

    Open Access•Emmy Lindstam, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2021•Cited by: 37•References: 70

    National identities are often conceived of as factors that lend structure and stability to citizens’ political opinions on issues such as immigration. While citizens who define national membership in ethno-cultural terms are less likely to support immigration, those with a civic conception are more likely to do so. The authors propose that defining national identity along both ethno-cultural and civic lines may give rise to conflicting considerat…

  • A new measure of the ‘democratic peace’

    Open Access•Peter Gries, Andrew Fox et al.•ARTICLE•Political Research Exchange•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    While the existence of a ‘Democratic Peace’ (DP) is widely accepted, the various DP theories that seek to explain why democracies rarely fight one another are highly contested. A ‘commercial/capitalist peace’ counterargument maintains that the relationship between democratic politics and peace is spurious: the actual driver is greater trade among democracies. Meanwhile, Realists counter that it is alliances among democratic states, not their demo…

  • The globalisation divide in the public mind

    Matthias Mader, Nils D Steiner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 26

    Many studies describe how globalisation—the global integration of the economic, political, and cultural domains of society—transforms party competition in Western Europe. At the citizen level, however, our knowledge about globalisation attitudes and their electoral consequences remains limited. Using data from a large-scale panel survey of the German public, we show that, first, citizens hold stable rather than fluid attitudes towards the concept…

  • Party institutionalization and intra-party preference homogeneity

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Nils D Steiner•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Vergleichende…•2019

  • The European refugee crisis, party competition, and voters’ responses in Germany

    Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen•ARTICLE•West European Politics•2019•Cited by: 33•References: 36

    Studies show that globalisation creates political potentials that can transform electoral competition in Western societies. The specific process of how these potentials become effective is not completely understood. It is argued in the article that attention-grabbing events can trigger the transformation of electoral competition as they force actors to take clear positions and thereby allow citizens to align their partisan preferences and policy …

  • Intra-party heterogeneity in policy preferences and its effect on issue salience

    Open Access•Nils D Steiner, Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Party Politics•2019•Cited by: 17•References: 30

    Quantitative research on party politics often has to assume that parties are unitary actors with homogeneous policy preferences simply because intra-party heterogeneity is difficult to measure. This article proposes a measure of preference heterogeneity based on surveys of party elites. We draw on Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS) data from 28 elections in 21 developed democracies to quantify intra-party heterogeneity and validate this measure.…

  • How political are national identities? A comparison of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the 2010s

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Thomas J Scotto et al.•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 13

    Research demonstrates the multi-dimensional nature of American identity arguing that the normative content of American identity relates to political ideologies in the United States, but the sense of belonging to the nation does not. This paper replicates that analysis and extends it to the German and British cases. Exploratory structural equation modeling attests to cross-cultural validity of measures of the sense of belonging and norms of uncrit…

  • Context-driven attitude formation

    Andreas Jungherr, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2018•Cited by: 20•References: 43

    Many studies use the same factors to explain attitudes toward specific trade agreements and attitudes toward the principle of free trade and thus treat both objects as interchangeable. Contemporary trade agreements, however, often reach beyond trade in the narrow sense. Consequently, factors unrelated to free trade may affect citizens’ evaluations of these agreements. We propose a model of attitude formation toward specific trade agreements that …

  • Öffentliche Meinung zu Auslandseinsätzen der Bundeswehr

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•BOOK•Öffentliche Meinung zu…•2017

  • Citizens’ Perceptions of Policy Objectives and Support for Military Action

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2017•Cited by: 10•References: 35

    This article is concerned with the role of perceived policy objectives in German citizens’ attitude formation toward military action in Afghanistan. While some scholars have claimed that public opinion is prudent because citizens assess the effectiveness of a mission on the basis of these perceptions, micro-level tests of this kind of prudence remain scare. Drawing on two cross-sectional surveys of the German population conducted in 2008 and 2009…

  • Öffentliche Meinung zu Auslandseinsätzen der Bundeswehr

    Matthias Mader•BOOK•Öffentliche Meinung zu…•2016

  • Stabilität und Wandel der nationalen Identität in der deutschen Bevölkerung

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 28

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  • Conceptions of National Identity and Ambivalence towards Immigration

    Open Access•Emmy Lindstam, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2021•Cited by: 37•References: 70

    National identities are often conceived of as factors that lend structure and stability to citizens’ political opinions on issues such as immigration. While citizens who define national membership in ethno-cultural terms are less likely to support immigration, those with a civic conception are more likely to do so. The authors propose that defining national identity along both ethno-cultural and civic lines may give rise to conflicting considerat…

  • The European refugee crisis, party competition, and voters’ responses in Germany

    Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen•ARTICLE•West European Politics•2019•Cited by: 33•References: 36

    Studies show that globalisation creates political potentials that can transform electoral competition in Western societies. The specific process of how these potentials become effective is not completely understood. It is argued in the article that attention-grabbing events can trigger the transformation of electoral competition as they force actors to take clear positions and thereby allow citizens to align their partisan preferences and policy …

  • International threats and support for European security and defence integration

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Konstantin Gavras et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2024•Cited by: 22•References: 62

    When member states of the European Union face serious international threats, does this serve as a catalyst or obstacle for European integration in the security and defence domain? To gain purchase on this question, this paper examines public opinion from a common instrument fielded in 24 EU member states (and the United Kingdom) with a total sample size of more than 40,000 respondents. We argue that theoretical accounts of perceived threat produc…

  • The globalisation divide in the public mind

    Matthias Mader, Nils D Steiner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 26

    Many studies describe how globalisation—the global integration of the economic, political, and cultural domains of society—transforms party competition in Western Europe. At the citizen level, however, our knowledge about globalisation attitudes and their electoral consequences remains limited. Using data from a large-scale panel survey of the German public, we show that, first, citizens hold stable rather than fluid attitudes towards the concept…

  • Subjective losers of globalization

    Open Access•Nils D Steiner, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2024•Cited by: 20•References: 41

    Recent political changes in established democracies have led to a new cleavage, often described as a juxtaposition of ‘winners’ and ‘losers of globalization’. Despite a growing interest in subjective group membership and identity, previous research has not studied whether individuals actually categorize themselves as globalization winners or losers and what effect this has. Based on survey data from Germany, we report evidence of a division betwe…

  • Context-driven attitude formation

    Andreas Jungherr, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2018•Cited by: 20•References: 43

    Many studies use the same factors to explain attitudes toward specific trade agreements and attitudes toward the principle of free trade and thus treat both objects as interchangeable. Contemporary trade agreements, however, often reach beyond trade in the narrow sense. Consequently, factors unrelated to free trade may affect citizens’ evaluations of these agreements. We propose a model of attitude formation toward specific trade agreements that …

  • Intra-party heterogeneity in policy preferences and its effect on issue salience

    Open Access•Nils D Steiner, Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Party Politics•2019•Cited by: 17•References: 30

    Quantitative research on party politics often has to assume that parties are unitary actors with homogeneous policy preferences simply because intra-party heterogeneity is difficult to measure. This article proposes a measure of preference heterogeneity based on surveys of party elites. We draw on Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS) data from 28 elections in 21 developed democracies to quantify intra-party heterogeneity and validate this measure.…

  • Conceptions of national identity, turnout and party preference

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Maria Pesthy et al.•ARTICLE•Nations and Nationalism•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 59

    As globalisation makes national boundaries both permeable and contested, conflicts over national identity and related policy issues are bound to increase the salience of citizens' individual national identitiesand, consequently, increase their impact on political attitudes and behaviour. We study the link between ethnocultural and civic dimensions of national identity and turnout and party preferences. After providing a theoretical discussion tha…

  • Increased support for collective defence in times of threat

    Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Policy Studies•2024•Cited by: 11•References: 36

    Were European public reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in line with the external threat hypothesis? Accordingly, the invasion should have increased the perception of threat from Russia’s territorial ambitions and support for collective defence. We review survey data from a diverse sample of ten European countries, collected before and after the event, showing that this was indeed the case. Threat perceptions and attitudes toward various a…

  • The Polls—Trends

    Open Access•Mirya R Holman, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 10•References: 19

    Since the last review of public opinion on European defense policy and NATO concluded that Europeans wanted both European defense integration and a continuing commitment to NATO, the EU has almost doubled in size and new initiatives have been launched to develop a Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP). We reexamine these issues and trace public opinion trends in all 28 EU member states from 2000 to 2019. With little variation across countries…

  • Citizens’ Perceptions of Policy Objectives and Support for Military Action

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2017•Cited by: 10•References: 35

    This article is concerned with the role of perceived policy objectives in German citizens’ attitude formation toward military action in Afghanistan. While some scholars have claimed that public opinion is prudent because citizens assess the effectiveness of a mission on the basis of these perceptions, micro-level tests of this kind of prudence remain scare. Drawing on two cross-sectional surveys of the German population conducted in 2008 and 2009…

  • European public opinion

    Open Access•Catarina Thomson, Catarina P Thomson et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2023•Cited by: 9

    How strong is public support for Ukraine in Europe? Given reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be 'playing for time' in the hopes that weary publics will demand an end to supporting Ukraine, this is an important question. • In February 2023, we conducted a survey of public attitudes in ten major European countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Italy and Spain. • Our findings suggest …

  • Stability of National‐Identity Content

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 64

    A neglected topic in empirical research on national identity is its stability at the individual level, and this is especially true for its content, that is, the meaning elements that people associate with the concept of nation. In this article, we study the stability of key dimensions of national‐identity content. We ask three simple questions: How stable is national‐identity content—as captured in the ethnic/civic framework—at the level of indiv…

  • Foreign Anti-Mainstream Propaganda and Democratic Publics

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Nikolay Marinov et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2022•Cited by: 8•References: 56

    Illiberal regimes use overt and covert political communication to influence public opinion in democracies. We present an argument about how such propaganda impacts targeted publics. We posit that effectiveness depends on whether the source of the message is revealed, on the nature of the issue, and on individual characteristics of the recipients. We test these propositions in Germany, in the context of Kremlin messaging, using eight survey experi…

  • Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Moritz Neubert et al.•ARTICLE•European Union Politics•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 51

    In surveys, Europeans routinely express high levels of support for a common security and defence policy of the European Union. Do these responses reflect real demands or superficial support that would crumble if the issue was politicised? This article provides new answers to this question. We conducted pre-registered survey experiments with more than 40,000 respondents from 25 European countries in which we randomly varied whether respondents rec…

  • National Identities and Mass Belief Systems on Foreign and Security Policy in Germany

    Matthias Mader, Jana Pötzschke•ARTICLE•German Politics•2014•Cited by: 6

    The article analyses how German citizens' national identities are linked to their belief systems regarding foreign and security policy. Previous research has pointed out that citizens' belief systems are not unconstrained, but organised hierarchically. Especially domain-specific predispositions have been shown to structure policy attitudes. Against the backdrop of the prominence national history is granted in public discourse, the article argues …

  • Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018

    Open Access•Konstantin Gavras, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•European Union Politics•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 27

    Since the end of the Cold War, the EU aims to advance to a relevant and autonomous actor in international politics—especially concerning security and defense politics. Scholars interested in whether the EU member states actually converge in their security and defense preferences often analyze strategy papers qualitatively, focusing on selected countries at specific points in time. In this article, we propose a dictionary approach for analyzing th…

  • How political are national identities? A comparison of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the 2010s

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Thomas J Scotto et al.•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 13

    Research demonstrates the multi-dimensional nature of American identity arguing that the normative content of American identity relates to political ideologies in the United States, but the sense of belonging to the nation does not. This paper replicates that analysis and extends it to the German and British cases. Exploratory structural equation modeling attests to cross-cultural validity of measures of the sense of belonging and norms of uncrit…

  • Populist attitudes and foreign policy postures

    Open Access•Pierangelo Isernia, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•European Political Science Review•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 57

    This article explores how populist attitudes are correlated with foreign policy postures at the public level in four European countries: France, Germany, Great Britain, and Italy. We provide first evidence adjudicating between two rivalling perspectives. One perspective focuses on the ideational core of populism and argues that it entails substantive beliefs and values that may inform foreign policy preferences – just like any other ideology. Ano…

  • Stabilität und Wandel der nationalen Identität in der deutschen Bevölkerung

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 28

  • A new measure of the ‘democratic peace’

    Open Access•Peter Gries, Andrew Fox et al.•ARTICLE•Political Research Exchange•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    While the existence of a ‘Democratic Peace’ (DP) is widely accepted, the various DP theories that seek to explain why democracies rarely fight one another are highly contested. A ‘commercial/capitalist peace’ counterargument maintains that the relationship between democratic politics and peace is spurious: the actual driver is greater trade among democracies. Meanwhile, Realists counter that it is alliances among democratic states, not their demo…

  • Predispositions, Mission-Specific Beliefs, and Public Support for Military Missions

    Alexander Jedinger, Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 21

    This article analyses the nexus of public attitudes toward military missions abroad, specific beliefs about the respective missions, and political predispositions. While some studies have argued that specific beliefs such as success expectations are the most important explanatory factors of attitudes, others have stressed the role of party-related predispositions in shaping both beliefs and attitudes. Using the case of German citizens’ attitudes …

  • The German federal election, September 2013

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Electoral Studies•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 2

  • Can Social Identity Theory Address the Measurement Tangle in Survey‐Based National Identity Research

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Marlene Mußotter•ARTICLE•Nations and Nationalism•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 74

    Survey‐based research on national identity has long grappled with a ‘tangle’ of conflicting concepts, inconsistent use of measures and inconclusive empirical findings. This article addresses the measurement side of this tangle, evaluating whether social identity theory (SIT) can serve as a conceptual framework to clarify and organize existing indicators. Drawing on methods from content validity analysis, we examine survey instruments from the Nat…

  • Predispositions, Mission-Specific Beliefs, and Public Support for Military Missions

    Alexander Jedinger, Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•International Journal of Public…•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 21

    This article analyses the nexus of public attitudes toward military missions abroad, specific beliefs about the respective missions, and political predispositions. While some studies have argued that specific beliefs such as success expectations are the most important explanatory factors of attitudes, others have stressed the role of party-related predispositions in shaping both beliefs and attitudes. Using the case of German citizens’ attitudes …

  • National Identities and Mass Belief Systems on Foreign and Security Policy in Germany

    Matthias Mader, Jana Pötzschke•ARTICLE•German Politics•2014•Cited by: 6

    The article analyses how German citizens' national identities are linked to their belief systems regarding foreign and security policy. Previous research has pointed out that citizens' belief systems are not unconstrained, but organised hierarchically. Especially domain-specific predispositions have been shown to structure policy attitudes. Against the backdrop of the prominence national history is granted in public discourse, the article argues …

  • The German federal election, September 2013

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Electoral Studies•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 2

  • On the relationship between strategic cultures and support for European defence

    Open Access•Fabian Endres, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Political…•2015•References: 6

    Recent developments at its borders have reasserted the question whether and how the European Union (EU) should further its integration in the domain of foreign and security policy. Especially, the unfolding of the Ukraine crisis has led many observers, politicians and pundits alike, to put the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), as well as its major sub-component, the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), back onto the agenda.1 The EU…

  • Öffentliche Meinung zu Auslandseinsätzen der Bundeswehr

    Matthias Mader•BOOK•Öffentliche Meinung zu…•2016

  • Stabilität und Wandel der nationalen Identität in der deutschen Bevölkerung

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für…•2016•Cited by: 4•References: 28

  • Öffentliche Meinung zu Auslandseinsätzen der Bundeswehr

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•BOOK•Öffentliche Meinung zu…•2017

  • Citizens’ Perceptions of Policy Objectives and Support for Military Action

    Open Access•Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Journal of Conflict Resolution•2017•Cited by: 10•References: 35

    This article is concerned with the role of perceived policy objectives in German citizens’ attitude formation toward military action in Afghanistan. While some scholars have claimed that public opinion is prudent because citizens assess the effectiveness of a mission on the basis of these perceptions, micro-level tests of this kind of prudence remain scare. Drawing on two cross-sectional surveys of the German population conducted in 2008 and 2009…

  • How political are national identities? A comparison of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany in the 2010s

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Thomas J Scotto et al.•ARTICLE•Research & Politics•2018•Cited by: 5•References: 13

    Research demonstrates the multi-dimensional nature of American identity arguing that the normative content of American identity relates to political ideologies in the United States, but the sense of belonging to the nation does not. This paper replicates that analysis and extends it to the German and British cases. Exploratory structural equation modeling attests to cross-cultural validity of measures of the sense of belonging and norms of uncrit…

  • Context-driven attitude formation

    Andreas Jungherr, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2018•Cited by: 20•References: 43

    Many studies use the same factors to explain attitudes toward specific trade agreements and attitudes toward the principle of free trade and thus treat both objects as interchangeable. Contemporary trade agreements, however, often reach beyond trade in the narrow sense. Consequently, factors unrelated to free trade may affect citizens’ evaluations of these agreements. We propose a model of attitude formation toward specific trade agreements that …

  • Party institutionalization and intra-party preference homogeneity

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Nils D Steiner•ARTICLE•Zeitschrift für Vergleichende…•2019

  • The European refugee crisis, party competition, and voters’ responses in Germany

    Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen•ARTICLE•West European Politics•2019•Cited by: 33•References: 36

    Studies show that globalisation creates political potentials that can transform electoral competition in Western societies. The specific process of how these potentials become effective is not completely understood. It is argued in the article that attention-grabbing events can trigger the transformation of electoral competition as they force actors to take clear positions and thereby allow citizens to align their partisan preferences and policy …

  • Intra-party heterogeneity in policy preferences and its effect on issue salience

    Open Access•Nils D Steiner, Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Party Politics•2019•Cited by: 17•References: 30

    Quantitative research on party politics often has to assume that parties are unitary actors with homogeneous policy preferences simply because intra-party heterogeneity is difficult to measure. This article proposes a measure of preference heterogeneity based on surveys of party elites. We draw on Comparative Candidates Survey (CCS) data from 28 elections in 21 developed democracies to quantify intra-party heterogeneity and validate this measure.…

  • A new measure of the ‘democratic peace’

    Open Access•Peter Gries, Andrew Fox et al.•ARTICLE•Political Research Exchange•2020•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    While the existence of a ‘Democratic Peace’ (DP) is widely accepted, the various DP theories that seek to explain why democracies rarely fight one another are highly contested. A ‘commercial/capitalist peace’ counterargument maintains that the relationship between democratic politics and peace is spurious: the actual driver is greater trade among democracies. Meanwhile, Realists counter that it is alliances among democratic states, not their demo…

  • The globalisation divide in the public mind

    Matthias Mader, Nils D Steiner et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of European Public Policy•2020•Cited by: 21•References: 26

    Many studies describe how globalisation—the global integration of the economic, political, and cultural domains of society—transforms party competition in Western Europe. At the citizen level, however, our knowledge about globalisation attitudes and their electoral consequences remains limited. Using data from a large-scale panel survey of the German public, we show that, first, citizens hold stable rather than fluid attitudes towards the concept…

  • A Source Like Any Other? Field and Survey Experiment Evidence on How Interest Groups Shape Public Opinion

    Open Access•Andreas Jungherr, Alexander Wuttke et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Communication•2021

    Interest groups increasingly communicate with the public, yet we know little about how effective they are in shaping opinions. Since interest groups differ from other public communicators, we propose a theory of interest group persuasion. Interest groups typically have a low public profile, and so most people are unlikely to have strong attitudes regarding them. Source-related predispositions, such as credibility assessments, are therefore less r…

  • The Polls—Trends

    Open Access•Mirya R Holman, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•Public Opinion Quarterly•2021•Cited by: 10•References: 19

    Since the last review of public opinion on European defense policy and NATO concluded that Europeans wanted both European defense integration and a continuing commitment to NATO, the EU has almost doubled in size and new initiatives have been launched to develop a Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP). We reexamine these issues and trace public opinion trends in all 28 EU member states from 2000 to 2019. With little variation across countries…

  • Conceptions of national identity, turnout and party preference

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Maria Pesthy et al.•ARTICLE•Nations and Nationalism•2021•Cited by: 12•References: 59

    As globalisation makes national boundaries both permeable and contested, conflicts over national identity and related policy issues are bound to increase the salience of citizens' individual national identitiesand, consequently, increase their impact on political attitudes and behaviour. We study the link between ethnocultural and civic dimensions of national identity and turnout and party preferences. After providing a theoretical discussion tha…

  • Conceptions of National Identity and Ambivalence towards Immigration

    Open Access•Emmy Lindstam, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•British Journal of Political…•2021•Cited by: 37•References: 70

    National identities are often conceived of as factors that lend structure and stability to citizens’ political opinions on issues such as immigration. While citizens who define national membership in ethno-cultural terms are less likely to support immigration, those with a civic conception are more likely to do so. The authors propose that defining national identity along both ethno-cultural and civic lines may give rise to conflicting considerat…

  • Convergence of European security and defense preferences? A quantitative text analysis of strategy papers, 1994–2018

    Open Access•Konstantin Gavras, Matthias Mader et al.•ARTICLE•European Union Politics•2022•Cited by: 5•References: 27

    Since the end of the Cold War, the EU aims to advance to a relevant and autonomous actor in international politics—especially concerning security and defense politics. Scholars interested in whether the EU member states actually converge in their security and defense preferences often analyze strategy papers qualitatively, focusing on selected countries at specific points in time. In this article, we propose a dictionary approach for analyzing th…

  • Foreign Anti-Mainstream Propaganda and Democratic Publics

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Nikolay Marinov et al.•ARTICLE•Comparative Political Studies•2022•Cited by: 8•References: 56

    Illiberal regimes use overt and covert political communication to influence public opinion in democracies. We present an argument about how such propaganda impacts targeted publics. We posit that effectiveness depends on whether the source of the message is revealed, on the nature of the issue, and on individual characteristics of the recipients. We test these propositions in Germany, in the context of Kremlin messaging, using eight survey experi…

  • Stability of National‐Identity Content

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Harald Schoen•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2023•Cited by: 8•References: 64

    A neglected topic in empirical research on national identity is its stability at the individual level, and this is especially true for its content, that is, the meaning elements that people associate with the concept of nation. In this article, we study the stability of key dimensions of national‐identity content. We ask three simple questions: How stable is national‐identity content—as captured in the ethnic/civic framework—at the level of indiv…

  • European public opinion

    Open Access•Catarina Thomson, Catarina P Thomson et al.•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2023•Cited by: 9

    How strong is public support for Ukraine in Europe? Given reports that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be 'playing for time' in the hopes that weary publics will demand an end to supporting Ukraine, this is an important question. • In February 2023, we conducted a survey of public attitudes in ten major European countries: France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Finland, Sweden, Italy and Spain. • Our findings suggest …

  • Increased support for collective defence in times of threat

    Matthias Mader•ARTICLE•Policy Studies•2024•Cited by: 11•References: 36

    Were European public reactions to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in line with the external threat hypothesis? Accordingly, the invasion should have increased the perception of threat from Russia’s territorial ambitions and support for collective defence. We review survey data from a diverse sample of ten European countries, collected before and after the event, showing that this was indeed the case. Threat perceptions and attitudes toward various a…

  • Crumbling in the face of cost? How cost considerations affect public support for European security and defence cooperation

    Open Access•Matthias Mader, Moritz Neubert et al.•ARTICLE•European Union Politics•2024•Cited by: 6•References: 51

    In surveys, Europeans routinely express high levels of support for a common security and defence policy of the European Union. Do these responses reflect real demands or superficial support that would crumble if the issue was politicised? This article provides new answers to this question. We conducted pre-registered survey experiments with more than 40,000 respondents from 25 European countries in which we randomly varied whether respondents rec…

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