Christoph G. Nguyen

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and current working papers. See also Google Scholar and ORCID.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

2026 Federalism and citizen preferences: A vignette experiment on policy-making in Germany with J. Schnabel, A. Souris & L. Masch · European Political Science Review DOI
2026 Decoding German politics with StateParl: A text corpus of plenary protocols in the 16 German Länder parliaments with E. Beltermann, S. Kropp & A. Souris · Politische Vierteljahresschrift DOI Code
2025 To support or punish? Analyzing the relationship between welfare state attitudes and penal punitiveness with P. Starke · Punishment & Society DOI
2024 Navigating conflicting incentives: Discursive strategies of political parties in Germany's cooperative federalism with A. Souris & S. Kropp · Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 54(4) DOI
2024 Attributing blame: How political parties in Germany leverage cooperative federalism with A. Souris & S. Kropp · West European Politics, 47(7) DOI
2023 The hidden majority/minority consensus: Minorities show similar preference patterns of immigrant support as the majority population with S. J. Mayer, J. Dollmann & S. Veit · The British Journal of Sociology, 74(4) DOI
2023 Angry populists or concerned citizens? How linguistic emotion ascriptions shape affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses to political outgroups with P. Wunderlich & C. von Scheve · Cognition and Emotion, 37(1) DOI
2022 The impact of emotions on polarization: Anger polarizes attitudes towards vaccine mandates and increases affective polarization with S. J. Mayer & S. Veit · Research & Politics, 9(3) DOI
2022 Zusammenhalt im Bundesstaat? Bundesfreundliche und opportunistische Argumentationsstrategien in der Pandemie with S. Kropp & A. Souris · der moderne staat, 15(1) DOI
2021 Angry reactionary narcissists? Anger activates the link between narcissism and right-populist party support with S. J. Mayer · Politics and Governance, 9(3) DOI
2018 Anti-elite parties and political inequality: How challenges to the political mainstream reduce income gaps in internal efficacy with P. Marx · European Journal of Political Research, 57(4) DOI
2018 Does democracy promote capital account liberalization? with D. Steinberg & S. Nelson · Review of International Political Economy, 25(6) DOI
2018 Political participation in European welfare states: Does social investment matter? with P. Marx · Journal of European Public Policy, 25(6) DOI
2017 Labor market insecurity and generalized social trust in welfare state context European Sociological Review, 33(2) DOI
2016 Are the unemployed less politically involved? A comparative study of internal political efficacy with P. Marx · European Sociological Review, 32(5) DOI

Book Chapters & Other Publications

2025 Faktoren der Rückkehrbereitschaft nach gewaltsamer Vertreibung: Eine empirische Untersuchung ukrainischer Geflüchteter with J. Dollmann, J. Jacobsen & S. J. Mayer · Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
2023 Mein rechter, rechter Platz ist leer: Wie Schutzmasken, Geschlecht und zugeschriebene Ethnizität die Sitzplatzwahl in der U-Bahn beeinflussen with S. Veit & S. J. Mayer · DeZIM Insights, 13
2022 From specific worries to generalized anger: The emotional dynamics of right-wing political populism with M. Salmela & C. von Scheve · The Palgrave Handbook of Populism (M. Oswald, Ed.) DOI
2022 Prägt Opportunismus das föderale System? Herausforderungen des "bundesfreundlichen Verhaltens" in der Corona-Krise with S. Kropp & A. Souris · Staat, Rechtsstaat und Demokratie (W. Muno et al., Eds.), Springer VS DOI
2020 Föderale Leitbilder als verfassungspolitischer Handlungsrahmen im deutschen Bundesstaat: Ein Baukasten aus Wettbewerb und Solidarität with S. Kropp · Reformbaustelle Bundesstaat
2020 Political participation in European welfare states: Does social investment matter? with P. Marx · The Future of the Social Investment State
2020 Antiasiatischer Rassismus in Deutschland with K. Suda & S. J. Mayer · Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 70(42/44)
2016 Causality and time in historical institutionalism with J. Mahoney & K. Mohamedali · The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism DOI

Working Papers & Under Review

2024 Navigating peace? Factors shaping internationally displaced Ukrainian return intentions with S. J. Mayer, J. Dollmann & J. Jacobsen · SocArXiv Preprint
2026 Does near equal dear? Introducing the concept of regional affective polarization with A. Souris & J. Schnabel · Under review
2026 Who should decide? The causes and consequences of regional affective polarization with J. Schnabel & A. Souris · Working paper