Moritz Müller
Biographic Data
| ID | 4016083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Moritz Müller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Moritz |
| FAMILY NAME | Müller |
| SIGNATURE | MÜLLER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7593-3516 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Citizen Science Design in Practice: A Taxonomic Study of Configurations, Clusters, and Disciplinary Influences in German Initiatives
Citizen science encompasses a wide spectrum of practices that differ not only in the degree of participant involvement but also in key design decisions shaping collaboration, communication, and incentives. While prior research has offered influential typologies based on participation levels, comparatively little empirical work has examined the broader configuration of design dimensions. This study addresses this gap by applying a comprehensive ta…
Blue Carbon Ecosystems in Malaysia – Status, Threats, and the Way Forward for Research and Policy
Malaysia hosts some of the most productive blue carbon ecosystems globally. Here we review the status of and known threats faced by local mangroves and seagrass and examine conservation prospects using carbon financing. Based on lessons learnt from blue carbon projects worldwide, Malaysia needs to address governance and financing hurdles that include clarifying land tenureship, ensuring local community involvement and benefits, and obtaining sust…
Drivers and barriers of AI adoption and use in scientific research
We study the early adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific research. Using a large dataset of publications from OpenAlex (all fields, up to 2024) and building on theories of scientific and technical human capital, we identify key factors that influence AI adoption. We find that early adopters were domain scientists embedded in AI-rich collaboration networks and affiliated with institutions with strong AI credentials. Access…
Widening the gap? How socio-economic status moderates the relationship between political participation and trust
This study argues that political participation is a key factor when explaining levels of political trust among citizens. It explores how this relationship is moderated by the socio-economic status (i.e., household income and educational level) of citizens. The article contributes to the field of political trust by employing European Social Survey data from 2016 and 2018. Two findings stand out: firstly, whereas political participation through ins…
Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine
In this paper, we interrogate the sanctions instated against Russian media by the European Union (EU) in response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. We do this in three ways. First, we present the outcome of extensive network measurements that show the heterogeneous implementation of the sanctions in EU Member States. Second, we explain how the sanctions fit the EU's digital sovereignty agenda. And third, we theorise the EU's digital sovereignty …
The core of organisational reputation: Taking Multidimensionality, Audience Multiplicity, and Agency Subunits Seriously
Reputational theory holds that an agency’s reputation is a valuable political asset. However, since Daniel Carpenter’s influential contributions, reputational studies have focused on reactions to reputational threats, rather than on reputation as such. Therefore, there is a curious lacuna at the heart of reputation studies: A lot is known about reactions to reputational threats, but fundamental questions about reputation per se are left unexplore…
Issue segmentation by public agencies: Assessing communication strategies of EU agencies related to Covid‐19
An agency's self‐portrayal can help to protect its jurisdictional turf and strengthen its reputational uniqueness. While prior reputational studies have shown that agencies are attentive to the media and political principals, they have not assessed how inter‐agency dynamics might shape their public outreach and message. This paper argues that if multiple public agencies are confronted with a shared salient issue, such as the Covid‐19 pandemic, th…
Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: Competing policy goals in South African academia
Because discrimination is systemic, efforts to counter it must also be systemic. The South African case is instructive because it is extreme: Apartheid deliberately excluded the majority of the population, Black South Africans, from fully participating in society, but post-Apartheid efforts to achieve transformation have had limited success. This article examines the university system, where transformation involves increasing the size of the syst…
Spreading the word? European Union agencies and social media attention
Public agencies need to distribute information to their manifold audience quickly and directly. The emergence of social media platforms has sparked positive projections about future government-public interactions via the internet and almost every EU agency has created social media presences on the leading social media platforms. However, social media accounts of agencies receive strongly varying amounts of public attention and therefore display v…
Cautious communicators: Strategic communication of European Union commissioners in regulatory decision-making
The bureaucratic reputation literature stipulates that bureaucracies strategically aim to maximize reputational benefits and minimize reputational damages through targeted communication strategies. Departing from this assumption and using an extensive dataset on the media coverage of 54 legislative acts, we examine the conditions under which commissioners appear in the news and which communication strategies they pursue. Our analyses show that co…
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy
A recently emerging literature demonstrates that reputational concerns explain why regulatory agencies strategically communicate and engage with their manifold audience. We complement this literature by examining the potential of strategic communication as a reputational and regulatory strategy. Based on a reputational approach to public agencies, we assume agencies to strategically diversify between proactively or reactively engaging with public…
Signaling expertise through the media? Measuring the appearance of corporations in political news through a complexity lens
This paper analyses how corporations appear in media coverage on six policy domains through a complexity lens in two major British newspapers between 2012 and 2017. Corporations are often thought to avoid press coverage, though another strand of literature indicates that they dominate the news compared to other organized interests. We argue that corporations use multiple lobby strategies including media strategies in order to maximize influence. …
Bandwagons and Quiet Corners in Regulatory Governance: On regulation-specific and institutional drivers of stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder engagement is often considered an essential component of regulatory policymaking and governance. Our main aim in this paper is to explain variation in stakeholder engagement across regulatory trajectories. More specifically we aim to assess why some regulatory policymaking processes attract a larger and more diverse set of stakeholders, while others attract much smaller and more homogenous regulatory crowds. We build on a newly establ…
Die IG Metall im Diskurs um die Humanisierung des Arbeitslebens
Sustainable management of cultivated peatlands in Switzerland: Insights, challenges, and opportunities
Holocene relative sea-level records from coral microatolls in Western Borneo, South China Sea
The spatial variability of Holocene relative sea level (RSL) in the South China Sea is unknown, with data restricted to Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and a few other isolated sites. In this study, we present new continuous RSL records for Borneo using surveyed and U–Th dated coral microatolls from four sites in western Sarawak. The record spans 450 years of RSL from 7450 to 7000 yr BP. Our data suggest that RSL was higher than present and rapid …
Can soil-less crop production be a sustainable option for soil conservation and future agriculture
Innovator Networks
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy
A recently emerging literature demonstrates that reputational concerns explain why regulatory agencies strategically communicate and engage with their manifold audience. We complement this literature by examining the potential of strategic communication as a reputational and regulatory strategy. Based on a reputational approach to public agencies, we assume agencies to strategically diversify between proactively or reactively engaging with public…
Signaling expertise through the media? Measuring the appearance of corporations in political news through a complexity lens
This paper analyses how corporations appear in media coverage on six policy domains through a complexity lens in two major British newspapers between 2012 and 2017. Corporations are often thought to avoid press coverage, though another strand of literature indicates that they dominate the news compared to other organized interests. We argue that corporations use multiple lobby strategies including media strategies in order to maximize influence. …
The core of organisational reputation: Taking Multidimensionality, Audience Multiplicity, and Agency Subunits Seriously
Reputational theory holds that an agency’s reputation is a valuable political asset. However, since Daniel Carpenter’s influential contributions, reputational studies have focused on reactions to reputational threats, rather than on reputation as such. Therefore, there is a curious lacuna at the heart of reputation studies: A lot is known about reactions to reputational threats, but fundamental questions about reputation per se are left unexplore…
Spreading the word? European Union agencies and social media attention
Public agencies need to distribute information to their manifold audience quickly and directly. The emergence of social media platforms has sparked positive projections about future government-public interactions via the internet and almost every EU agency has created social media presences on the leading social media platforms. However, social media accounts of agencies receive strongly varying amounts of public attention and therefore display v…
Bandwagons and Quiet Corners in Regulatory Governance: On regulation-specific and institutional drivers of stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder engagement is often considered an essential component of regulatory policymaking and governance. Our main aim in this paper is to explain variation in stakeholder engagement across regulatory trajectories. More specifically we aim to assess why some regulatory policymaking processes attract a larger and more diverse set of stakeholders, while others attract much smaller and more homogenous regulatory crowds. We build on a newly establ…
Can soil-less crop production be a sustainable option for soil conservation and future agriculture
Widening the gap? How socio-economic status moderates the relationship between political participation and trust
This study argues that political participation is a key factor when explaining levels of political trust among citizens. It explores how this relationship is moderated by the socio-economic status (i.e., household income and educational level) of citizens. The article contributes to the field of political trust by employing European Social Survey data from 2016 and 2018. Two findings stand out: firstly, whereas political participation through ins…
Issue segmentation by public agencies: Assessing communication strategies of EU agencies related to Covid‐19
An agency's self‐portrayal can help to protect its jurisdictional turf and strengthen its reputational uniqueness. While prior reputational studies have shown that agencies are attentive to the media and political principals, they have not assessed how inter‐agency dynamics might shape their public outreach and message. This paper argues that if multiple public agencies are confronted with a shared salient issue, such as the Covid‐19 pandemic, th…
Cautious communicators: Strategic communication of European Union commissioners in regulatory decision-making
The bureaucratic reputation literature stipulates that bureaucracies strategically aim to maximize reputational benefits and minimize reputational damages through targeted communication strategies. Departing from this assumption and using an extensive dataset on the media coverage of 54 legislative acts, we examine the conditions under which commissioners appear in the news and which communication strategies they pursue. Our analyses show that co…
Sustainable management of cultivated peatlands in Switzerland: Insights, challenges, and opportunities
Innovator Networks
Can soil-less crop production be a sustainable option for soil conservation and future agriculture
Holocene relative sea-level records from coral microatolls in Western Borneo, South China Sea
The spatial variability of Holocene relative sea level (RSL) in the South China Sea is unknown, with data restricted to Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, and a few other isolated sites. In this study, we present new continuous RSL records for Borneo using surveyed and U–Th dated coral microatolls from four sites in western Sarawak. The record spans 450 years of RSL from 7450 to 7000 yr BP. Our data suggest that RSL was higher than present and rapid …
Die IG Metall im Diskurs um die Humanisierung des Arbeitslebens
Sustainable management of cultivated peatlands in Switzerland: Insights, challenges, and opportunities
Bandwagons and Quiet Corners in Regulatory Governance: On regulation-specific and institutional drivers of stakeholder engagement
Stakeholder engagement is often considered an essential component of regulatory policymaking and governance. Our main aim in this paper is to explain variation in stakeholder engagement across regulatory trajectories. More specifically we aim to assess why some regulatory policymaking processes attract a larger and more diverse set of stakeholders, while others attract much smaller and more homogenous regulatory crowds. We build on a newly establ…
Guiding or Following the Crowd? Strategic Communication as Reputational and Regulatory Strategy
A recently emerging literature demonstrates that reputational concerns explain why regulatory agencies strategically communicate and engage with their manifold audience. We complement this literature by examining the potential of strategic communication as a reputational and regulatory strategy. Based on a reputational approach to public agencies, we assume agencies to strategically diversify between proactively or reactively engaging with public…
Signaling expertise through the media? Measuring the appearance of corporations in political news through a complexity lens
This paper analyses how corporations appear in media coverage on six policy domains through a complexity lens in two major British newspapers between 2012 and 2017. Corporations are often thought to avoid press coverage, though another strand of literature indicates that they dominate the news compared to other organized interests. We argue that corporations use multiple lobby strategies including media strategies in order to maximize influence. …
Spreading the word? European Union agencies and social media attention
Public agencies need to distribute information to their manifold audience quickly and directly. The emergence of social media platforms has sparked positive projections about future government-public interactions via the internet and almost every EU agency has created social media presences on the leading social media platforms. However, social media accounts of agencies receive strongly varying amounts of public attention and therefore display v…
Cautious communicators: Strategic communication of European Union commissioners in regulatory decision-making
The bureaucratic reputation literature stipulates that bureaucracies strategically aim to maximize reputational benefits and minimize reputational damages through targeted communication strategies. Departing from this assumption and using an extensive dataset on the media coverage of 54 legislative acts, we examine the conditions under which commissioners appear in the news and which communication strategies they pursue. Our analyses show that co…
Sanctions and infrastructural ideologies: Assessing the material shaping of EU digital sovereignty in response to the war in Ukraine
In this paper, we interrogate the sanctions instated against Russian media by the European Union (EU) in response to Russia's aggression in Ukraine. We do this in three ways. First, we present the outcome of extensive network measurements that show the heterogeneous implementation of the sanctions in EU Member States. Second, we explain how the sanctions fit the EU's digital sovereignty agenda. And third, we theorise the EU's digital sovereignty …
The core of organisational reputation: Taking Multidimensionality, Audience Multiplicity, and Agency Subunits Seriously
Reputational theory holds that an agency’s reputation is a valuable political asset. However, since Daniel Carpenter’s influential contributions, reputational studies have focused on reactions to reputational threats, rather than on reputation as such. Therefore, there is a curious lacuna at the heart of reputation studies: A lot is known about reactions to reputational threats, but fundamental questions about reputation per se are left unexplore…
Issue segmentation by public agencies: Assessing communication strategies of EU agencies related to Covid‐19
An agency's self‐portrayal can help to protect its jurisdictional turf and strengthen its reputational uniqueness. While prior reputational studies have shown that agencies are attentive to the media and political principals, they have not assessed how inter‐agency dynamics might shape their public outreach and message. This paper argues that if multiple public agencies are confronted with a shared salient issue, such as the Covid‐19 pandemic, th…
Overcoming a legacy of racial discrimination: Competing policy goals in South African academia
Because discrimination is systemic, efforts to counter it must also be systemic. The South African case is instructive because it is extreme: Apartheid deliberately excluded the majority of the population, Black South Africans, from fully participating in society, but post-Apartheid efforts to achieve transformation have had limited success. This article examines the university system, where transformation involves increasing the size of the syst…
Blue Carbon Ecosystems in Malaysia – Status, Threats, and the Way Forward for Research and Policy
Malaysia hosts some of the most productive blue carbon ecosystems globally. Here we review the status of and known threats faced by local mangroves and seagrass and examine conservation prospects using carbon financing. Based on lessons learnt from blue carbon projects worldwide, Malaysia needs to address governance and financing hurdles that include clarifying land tenureship, ensuring local community involvement and benefits, and obtaining sust…
Drivers and barriers of AI adoption and use in scientific research
We study the early adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in scientific research. Using a large dataset of publications from OpenAlex (all fields, up to 2024) and building on theories of scientific and technical human capital, we identify key factors that influence AI adoption. We find that early adopters were domain scientists embedded in AI-rich collaboration networks and affiliated with institutions with strong AI credentials. Access…
Widening the gap? How socio-economic status moderates the relationship between political participation and trust
This study argues that political participation is a key factor when explaining levels of political trust among citizens. It explores how this relationship is moderated by the socio-economic status (i.e., household income and educational level) of citizens. The article contributes to the field of political trust by employing European Social Survey data from 2016 and 2018. Two findings stand out: firstly, whereas political participation through ins…
Citizen Science Design in Practice: A Taxonomic Study of Configurations, Clusters, and Disciplinary Influences in German Initiatives
Citizen science encompasses a wide spectrum of practices that differ not only in the degree of participant involvement but also in key design decisions shaping collaboration, communication, and incentives. While prior research has offered influential typologies based on participation levels, comparatively little empirical work has examined the broader configuration of design dimensions. This study addresses this gap by applying a comprehensive ta…
Political science (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Agency (philosophy (4 works)