Sebastian Jungkunz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 377555 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sebastian Jungkunz |
| PRENOMES | Sebastian |
| SOBRENOME | Jungkunz |
| ASSINATURA | JUNGKUNZ S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bamberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1040-8635 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 343 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
The age of virtue signaling
Moral grandstanding—the use of moral discourse to enhance one's status—has become a central feature of contemporary political expression. Drawing on representative survey data from Germany, France, Greece, and Hungary ( N = 8420), this study examines how grandstanding motivations vary across age, gender, and political affiliation. I distinguish between two motivational dimensions: prestige‐seeking, which aims to inspire admiration, and dominance‐…
A comparison of individual needs and support of violence among radicals, extremists and fundamentalists in Western Europe
In the light of increasing extremist attacks in Western Europe, we take a step back and provide the first large-scale, systematic, and cross-national investigation of commonalities and differences between people who hold left- or right-wing radical, political extremist, or religious fundamentalist attitudes. Using survey data from Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, we investigate to what extent these attitudes can be explained by simila…
Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries
This 68-country survey ( n = 71,922) examines science information diets and communication behavior, identifies cross-country differences, and tests how such differences are associated with sociopolitical and economic conditions. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most countries, except those with democratic-corporatist media systems where news media tend to be used more widely. People in collectivist soc…
Parental income moderates the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest in adolescents
The political involvement of adolescents is characterized by a substantial socioeconomic gradient already at a young age with enduring effects into adulthood. This study investigates whether high parental income creates an enhancing environment that increases the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest using the German TwinLife study (2014-2020, age 10-29, n = 6,174, 54% female, 19% migration background). While 30-40% of the total…
The geography of discontent
Deprivation has long been associated with lower levels of political involvement, with much of the existing research focusing on individual factors such as socio-economic status. However, the impact of relative local deprivation—how individuals perceive their neighborhood’s socio-economic conditions in comparison to nearby, more affluent areas—has remained underexplored. This article addresses that gap by examining the role of relative local depri…
Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim, i.e., victim justice sensitivity (VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373) indicated a positive association between VJS and conspiracy mentality beyond conceptually related c…
Pathways to politics
Economic Hardship Increases Justification of Political Violence
Acts of political violence have reached a new level of intensity with the storming of the United States Capitol in 2021. In this paper, I investigate whether and how economic hardship affects political violence justification. Using an original two-wave panel survey around the 2020 US Presidential election, two studies from the American National Election Survey (ANES), and an original study from Germany, the results show substantial support for po…
Populist Attitudes, Conspiracy Beliefs and the Justification of Political Violence at the US 2020 Elections
The months around the US 2020 presidential election were characterized by polarization, populism, conspiracy theories, and violent acts, far exceeding usual out-party animosity in western democracies. Using an original two-wave panel survey fielded before the election in November 2020 (n = 3111) and after the inauguration in January 2021 (n = 3384), supported with data from the American National Election Study (ANES, n = 3080), we investigate the…
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…
Measuring Implicit Political Extremism through Implicit Association Tests
We develop the first implicit association test (IAT) to measure general implicit extremist attitudes in Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. We find that implicit extremist attitudes are positively but weakly correlated with existing explicit measures. This indicates that implicit measures capture different parts of the population, for example, cases in which associations are based on automated cognitive processes instead of conscious tho…
Populist Attitudes among Teenagers
While the origins and consequences of populist attitudes in adults are being studied extensively, it is still unknown when populist attitudes might emerge in a person’s life. Drawing on the existing literature on political socialization, we focus on populist attitudes during adolescence and explore the contributing role of negative relationships with parents, peers, and teachers. We provide the first comprehensive analysis of populist attitudes a…
Material deprivation in childhood and unequal political socialization
Long-term socialization patterns are considered a key explanation for socio-economic inequalities in political participation. Material conditions in youth and childhood are assumed to contribute to rather stable trajectories of political apathy or involvement and lay the foundations for unequal participation from before voting age and far into adulthood. However, our understanding of when such inequalities begin to become noticeable, the importan…
Bildung und Partizipation
Democracy has to be learned and lived - school is the ideal place for this. This book shows where pupils in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can have a say in their schools and how they learn tolerance, empathy and self-efficacy in the process. The study reveals that participation usually takes place outside of the classroom, although young people are particularly interested in greater involvement in classroom topics.
Bildung und Partizipation
Demokratie muss gelernt und gelebt werden – ein idealer Ort dafür ist die Schule. Das vorliegende Buch zeigt, wo Schülerinnen und Schüler in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in ihren Schulen mitbestimmen können und wie sie hierbei Toleranz, Empathie und Selbstwirksamkeit erlernen. Die Studie macht deutlich, dass Mitbestimmung in der Regel außerhalb des Unterrichts stattfindet, obwohl für junge Menschen gerade eine stärkere Beteiligung an U…
Politischer Extremismus
Am Beispiel Deutschlands werden in diesem Buch die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen den Ideologien der extremen Linken und Rechten analysiert.
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections
The Nature and Origins of Political Extremism In Germany and Beyond
Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. Based on nine panel datasets from six countries, this research note asks whether income changes trigger short‐term effects on political involvement. Irrespective of indicator, specification, and method (hybrid random effects models, fixed effects models with lags and leads, and error correction models), there are few significant short‐term effects of income changes…
Political Polarization During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Affective polarization has increased substantially in the United States and countries of Europe over the last decades and the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to drastically reinforce such polarization. I investigate the degree and dynamic of affective polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic through a two-wave panel survey with a vignette experiment in Germany fielded in April/May and July/August 2020. I 1) compare the …
The Negative Influence of Individual Socio-Economic Problems on Political Knowledge
This article addresses hitherto overlooked factors that might contribute to lower political knowledge among citizens with socio-economic problems. Based on findings in psychology and behavioral economics, we argue that economic worries undermine the motivation and cognitive resources to acquire knowledge. The argument is tested in a representative online survey and an experiment during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in Germany. The results of the sur…
Social divides in the age of globalization
In recent decades, a new integration-demarcation cleavage has emerged in Europe, pitting political parties in favour of globalisation against those opposing globalisation. Although a lot is known about the socio-structural basis and the political organisation of this cleavage, we do not know the extent to which these political divides have led to social divides. Therefore, this article investigates how losers and winners of globalisation oppose e…
An Empirical Comparison of Seven Populist Attitudes Scales
With the recent upsurge of populism in developed and transition democracies, researchers have started measuring it as an attitude. Several scales have been proposed for this purpose. However, there is little direct comparison between the available alternatives. Scholars who wish to measure populist attitudes have little information available to help select the best scale for their purposes. In this article, we directly compare seven populist atti…
Whose ideas are worth spreading? The representation of women and ethnic groups in TED talks
We investigate the representation of women and ethnic groups in TED talks, which reach a large online audience on YouTube with science-related content and topics on societal change. We argue that gaps in representation can create a misleading perception of science and the respective topics discussed in these talks. We validate annotations from an image recognition algorithm for identifying speaker ethnicity and gender to compile a data set of 233…
Towards a Measurement of Extreme Left-Wing Attitudes
Previous research on left-wing extremism relied largely on measurements that are unsuitable to detect and track extreme attitudes. In the absence of a clearly defined instrument for left-wing extremism, researchers based their predictions largely on indicators like voting behaviour or the left—right self-placement scale. Building on a large-scale investigation of data from the past 20 years, the paper shows that such indicators do not serve as ad…
An Empirical Comparison of Seven Populist Attitudes Scales
With the recent upsurge of populism in developed and transition democracies, researchers have started measuring it as an attitude. Several scales have been proposed for this purpose. However, there is little direct comparison between the available alternatives. Scholars who wish to measure populist attitudes have little information available to help select the best scale for their purposes. In this article, we directly compare seven populist atti…
Social divides in the age of globalization
In recent decades, a new integration-demarcation cleavage has emerged in Europe, pitting political parties in favour of globalisation against those opposing globalisation. Although a lot is known about the socio-structural basis and the political organisation of this cleavage, we do not know the extent to which these political divides have led to social divides. Therefore, this article investigates how losers and winners of globalisation oppose e…
Xenophobia before and after the Paris 2015 attacks
In light of ongoing debates that discuss the link between Muslim migration and terrorist attacks in various European cities, this paper investigates how attitudes toward (Muslim) immigrants have been affected by these attacks. We draw on a German student survey conducted immediately before and after the attacks in Paris in November 2015. The experimental vignette design allows us to further differentiate between attitudes toward Syrian migrants f…
Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. Based on nine panel datasets from six countries, this research note asks whether income changes trigger short‐term effects on political involvement. Irrespective of indicator, specification, and method (hybrid random effects models, fixed effects models with lags and leads, and error correction models), there are few significant short‐term effects of income changes…
Political Polarization During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Affective polarization has increased substantially in the United States and countries of Europe over the last decades and the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to drastically reinforce such polarization. I investigate the degree and dynamic of affective polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic through a two-wave panel survey with a vignette experiment in Germany fielded in April/May and July/August 2020. I 1) compare the …
Populist Attitudes among Teenagers
While the origins and consequences of populist attitudes in adults are being studied extensively, it is still unknown when populist attitudes might emerge in a person’s life. Drawing on the existing literature on political socialization, we focus on populist attitudes during adolescence and explore the contributing role of negative relationships with parents, peers, and teachers. We provide the first comprehensive analysis of populist attitudes a…
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…
Populist Attitudes, Conspiracy Beliefs and the Justification of Political Violence at the US 2020 Elections
The months around the US 2020 presidential election were characterized by polarization, populism, conspiracy theories, and violent acts, far exceeding usual out-party animosity in western democracies. Using an original two-wave panel survey fielded before the election in November 2020 (n = 3111) and after the inauguration in January 2021 (n = 3384), supported with data from the American National Election Study (ANES, n = 3080), we investigate the…
Material deprivation in childhood and unequal political socialization
Long-term socialization patterns are considered a key explanation for socio-economic inequalities in political participation. Material conditions in youth and childhood are assumed to contribute to rather stable trajectories of political apathy or involvement and lay the foundations for unequal participation from before voting age and far into adulthood. However, our understanding of when such inequalities begin to become noticeable, the importan…
Pathways to politics
Towards a Measurement of Extreme Left-Wing Attitudes
Previous research on left-wing extremism relied largely on measurements that are unsuitable to detect and track extreme attitudes. In the absence of a clearly defined instrument for left-wing extremism, researchers based their predictions largely on indicators like voting behaviour or the left—right self-placement scale. Building on a large-scale investigation of data from the past 20 years, the paper shows that such indicators do not serve as ad…
The Negative Influence of Individual Socio-Economic Problems on Political Knowledge
This article addresses hitherto overlooked factors that might contribute to lower political knowledge among citizens with socio-economic problems. Based on findings in psychology and behavioral economics, we argue that economic worries undermine the motivation and cognitive resources to acquire knowledge. The argument is tested in a representative online survey and an experiment during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in Germany. The results of the sur…
Parental income moderates the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest in adolescents
The political involvement of adolescents is characterized by a substantial socioeconomic gradient already at a young age with enduring effects into adulthood. This study investigates whether high parental income creates an enhancing environment that increases the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest using the German TwinLife study (2014-2020, age 10-29, n = 6,174, 54% female, 19% migration background). While 30-40% of the total…
Economic Hardship Increases Justification of Political Violence
Acts of political violence have reached a new level of intensity with the storming of the United States Capitol in 2021. In this paper, I investigate whether and how economic hardship affects political violence justification. Using an original two-wave panel survey around the 2020 US Presidential election, two studies from the American National Election Survey (ANES), and an original study from Germany, the results show substantial support for po…
Measuring Implicit Political Extremism through Implicit Association Tests
We develop the first implicit association test (IAT) to measure general implicit extremist attitudes in Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. We find that implicit extremist attitudes are positively but weakly correlated with existing explicit measures. This indicates that implicit measures capture different parts of the population, for example, cases in which associations are based on automated cognitive processes instead of conscious tho…
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections
Whose ideas are worth spreading? The representation of women and ethnic groups in TED talks
We investigate the representation of women and ethnic groups in TED talks, which reach a large online audience on YouTube with science-related content and topics on societal change. We argue that gaps in representation can create a misleading perception of science and the respective topics discussed in these talks. We validate annotations from an image recognition algorithm for identifying speaker ethnicity and gender to compile a data set of 233…
The geography of discontent
Deprivation has long been associated with lower levels of political involvement, with much of the existing research focusing on individual factors such as socio-economic status. However, the impact of relative local deprivation—how individuals perceive their neighborhood’s socio-economic conditions in comparison to nearby, more affluent areas—has remained underexplored. This article addresses that gap by examining the role of relative local depri…
Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim, i.e., victim justice sensitivity (VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373) indicated a positive association between VJS and conspiracy mentality beyond conceptually related c…
Whose ideas are worth spreading? The representation of women and ethnic groups in TED talks
We investigate the representation of women and ethnic groups in TED talks, which reach a large online audience on YouTube with science-related content and topics on societal change. We argue that gaps in representation can create a misleading perception of science and the respective topics discussed in these talks. We validate annotations from an image recognition algorithm for identifying speaker ethnicity and gender to compile a data set of 233…
Towards a Measurement of Extreme Left-Wing Attitudes
Previous research on left-wing extremism relied largely on measurements that are unsuitable to detect and track extreme attitudes. In the absence of a clearly defined instrument for left-wing extremism, researchers based their predictions largely on indicators like voting behaviour or the left—right self-placement scale. Building on a large-scale investigation of data from the past 20 years, the paper shows that such indicators do not serve as ad…
Xenophobia before and after the Paris 2015 attacks
In light of ongoing debates that discuss the link between Muslim migration and terrorist attacks in various European cities, this paper investigates how attitudes toward (Muslim) immigrants have been affected by these attacks. We draw on a German student survey conducted immediately before and after the attacks in Paris in November 2015. The experimental vignette design allows us to further differentiate between attitudes toward Syrian migrants f…
Social divides in the age of globalization
In recent decades, a new integration-demarcation cleavage has emerged in Europe, pitting political parties in favour of globalisation against those opposing globalisation. Although a lot is known about the socio-structural basis and the political organisation of this cleavage, we do not know the extent to which these political divides have led to social divides. Therefore, this article investigates how losers and winners of globalisation oppose e…
An Empirical Comparison of Seven Populist Attitudes Scales
With the recent upsurge of populism in developed and transition democracies, researchers have started measuring it as an attitude. Several scales have been proposed for this purpose. However, there is little direct comparison between the available alternatives. Scholars who wish to measure populist attitudes have little information available to help select the best scale for their purposes. In this article, we directly compare seven populist atti…
Political Polarization During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Affective polarization has increased substantially in the United States and countries of Europe over the last decades and the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic have the potential to drastically reinforce such polarization. I investigate the degree and dynamic of affective polarization during the COVID-19 pandemic through a two-wave panel survey with a vignette experiment in Germany fielded in April/May and July/August 2020. I 1) compare the …
The Negative Influence of Individual Socio-Economic Problems on Political Knowledge
This article addresses hitherto overlooked factors that might contribute to lower political knowledge among citizens with socio-economic problems. Based on findings in psychology and behavioral economics, we argue that economic worries undermine the motivation and cognitive resources to acquire knowledge. The argument is tested in a representative online survey and an experiment during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak in Germany. The results of the sur…
The Nature and Origins of Political Extremism In Germany and Beyond
Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries
The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. Based on nine panel datasets from six countries, this research note asks whether income changes trigger short‐term effects on political involvement. Irrespective of indicator, specification, and method (hybrid random effects models, fixed effects models with lags and leads, and error correction models), there are few significant short‐term effects of income changes…
Bildung und Partizipation
Democracy has to be learned and lived - school is the ideal place for this. This book shows where pupils in Germany, Austria and Switzerland can have a say in their schools and how they learn tolerance, empathy and self-efficacy in the process. The study reveals that participation usually takes place outside of the classroom, although young people are particularly interested in greater involvement in classroom topics.
Bildung und Partizipation
Demokratie muss gelernt und gelebt werden – ein idealer Ort dafür ist die Schule. Das vorliegende Buch zeigt, wo Schülerinnen und Schüler in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz in ihren Schulen mitbestimmen können und wie sie hierbei Toleranz, Empathie und Selbstwirksamkeit erlernen. Die Studie macht deutlich, dass Mitbestimmung in der Regel außerhalb des Unterrichts stattfindet, obwohl für junge Menschen gerade eine stärkere Beteiligung an U…
Politischer Extremismus
Am Beispiel Deutschlands werden in diesem Buch die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen den Ideologien der extremen Linken und Rechten analysiert.
Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections
Measuring Implicit Political Extremism through Implicit Association Tests
We develop the first implicit association test (IAT) to measure general implicit extremist attitudes in Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands. We find that implicit extremist attitudes are positively but weakly correlated with existing explicit measures. This indicates that implicit measures capture different parts of the population, for example, cases in which associations are based on automated cognitive processes instead of conscious tho…
Populist Attitudes among Teenagers
While the origins and consequences of populist attitudes in adults are being studied extensively, it is still unknown when populist attitudes might emerge in a person’s life. Drawing on the existing literature on political socialization, we focus on populist attitudes during adolescence and explore the contributing role of negative relationships with parents, peers, and teachers. We provide the first comprehensive analysis of populist attitudes a…
Material deprivation in childhood and unequal political socialization
Long-term socialization patterns are considered a key explanation for socio-economic inequalities in political participation. Material conditions in youth and childhood are assumed to contribute to rather stable trajectories of political apathy or involvement and lay the foundations for unequal participation from before voting age and far into adulthood. However, our understanding of when such inequalities begin to become noticeable, the importan…
A comparison of individual needs and support of violence among radicals, extremists and fundamentalists in Western Europe
In the light of increasing extremist attacks in Western Europe, we take a step back and provide the first large-scale, systematic, and cross-national investigation of commonalities and differences between people who hold left- or right-wing radical, political extremist, or religious fundamentalist attitudes. Using survey data from Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands, we investigate to what extent these attitudes can be explained by simila…
Public Communication about Science in 68 Countries
This 68-country survey ( n = 71,922) examines science information diets and communication behavior, identifies cross-country differences, and tests how such differences are associated with sociopolitical and economic conditions. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most countries, except those with democratic-corporatist media systems where news media tend to be used more widely. People in collectivist soc…
Parental income moderates the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest in adolescents
The political involvement of adolescents is characterized by a substantial socioeconomic gradient already at a young age with enduring effects into adulthood. This study investigates whether high parental income creates an enhancing environment that increases the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest using the German TwinLife study (2014-2020, age 10-29, n = 6,174, 54% female, 19% migration background). While 30-40% of the total…
The geography of discontent
Deprivation has long been associated with lower levels of political involvement, with much of the existing research focusing on individual factors such as socio-economic status. However, the impact of relative local deprivation—how individuals perceive their neighborhood’s socio-economic conditions in comparison to nearby, more affluent areas—has remained underexplored. This article addresses that gap by examining the role of relative local depri…
Victims of Conspiracies? An Examination of the Relationship Between Conspiracy Beliefs and Dispositional Individual Victimhood
Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim, i.e., victim justice sensitivity (VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373) indicated a positive association between VJS and conspiracy mentality beyond conceptually related c…
Pathways to politics
Economic Hardship Increases Justification of Political Violence
Acts of political violence have reached a new level of intensity with the storming of the United States Capitol in 2021. In this paper, I investigate whether and how economic hardship affects political violence justification. Using an original two-wave panel survey around the 2020 US Presidential election, two studies from the American National Election Survey (ANES), and an original study from Germany, the results show substantial support for po…
Populist Attitudes, Conspiracy Beliefs and the Justification of Political Violence at the US 2020 Elections
The months around the US 2020 presidential election were characterized by polarization, populism, conspiracy theories, and violent acts, far exceeding usual out-party animosity in western democracies. Using an original two-wave panel survey fielded before the election in November 2020 (n = 3111) and after the inauguration in January 2021 (n = 3384), supported with data from the American National Election Study (ANES, n = 3080), we investigate the…
Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries
Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns with a preregistered 68-country survey of 71,922 respondents and found that in most countries, most p…
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