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German legal, social, and political studies

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Rising Stars

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Rising Stars Researchers

Anna-Sophie Heinze

Universität Trier

Léonie de Jonge

University of Cambridge

Julia Haas

Google (United States)

Patricia Rams

Unknown

Julia Schuler

Leipzig University

Karin Johanna Zienert‐Eilts

New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Seda Demiralp

School of International Relations

Unknown

Rising Stars Papers

Drivers of radicalisation? The development and role of the far-right youth organisation ‘Young Alternative’ in Germany

International Political Science Review|2024

43 cit.

Paradox of optimism: opposition coordination against autocratic incumbents in Turkey’s 2019 and 2023 elections

Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies|2024

14 cit.

Is the far right a global phenomenon? Comparing Europe and Latin America: A scholarly exchange

Nations and Nationalism|2024

11 cit.

The Netherlands: Political Developments and Data in 2023

European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook|2024

9 cit.

Fortuyn versus Wilders versus Baudet: the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands

European Political Science Review|2025

6 cit.

Snap Out of It? Governmental Instability and Far‐Right Mainstreaming in the Dutch and French Elections of 2023/2024

JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies|2025

2 cit.

Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right

European Journal of Political Research|2026

2 cit.

Bücher des Wissens in der Fischer Bücherei (1952–1970)

Leipziger Jahrbuch zur Buchgeschichte|2024

1 cit.

The Netherlands: Political Developments and Data in 2024

European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook|2025

1 cit.

Book Review: Restrained Radicals: Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government

Party Politics|2024

0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

Carl Berning

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Thomas Siomos

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Edit Zgut

Center for the Study of Democracy

James Dennison

European University Institute

David Cadier

École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr

Alexandra Homolar

University of Warwick

Sabrina Jasmin Mayer

The Expert Council of German Foundations on Integration and Migration

Jeremy Blackburn

Binghamton University

Mattia Zulianello

University of Trieste

Luca Manucci

Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

Emerging Leaders Papers

Explaining Europe’s transformed electoral landscape: structure, salience, and agendas

European Political Science Review|2023

47 cit.

The Gospel according to Q: Understanding the QAnon Conspiracy from the Perspective of Canonical Information

Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media|2022

46 cit.

Foreign Policy as the Continuation of Domestic Politics by Other Means: Pathways and Patterns of Populist Politicization

Foreign Policy Analysis|2023

46 cit.

Blurred positions: The ideological ambiguity of valence populist parties

Party Politics|2023

42 cit.

Building legitimacy: why the populist radical right engages in grassroots activism at the local level

Journal of Contemporary European Studies|2023

40 cit.

Emotions: functions and significance for attitudes, behaviour, and communication

Migration Studies|2023

32 cit.

Re-thinking the drivers of regular and irregular migration: evidence from the MENA region

Comparative Migration Studies|2022

30 cit.

Informal Exercise of Power: Undermining Democracy Under the EU’s Radar in Hungary and Poland

Hague Journal on the Rule of Law|2022

28 cit.

The Reverse Backlash: How the Success of Populist Radical Right Parties Relates to More Positive Immigration Attitudes

Public Opinion Quarterly|2023

28 cit.

The Demand and Supply of Pandemic Populism: A Global Overview

Government and Opposition|2023

26 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Papers

A 4-item measure of depression and anxiety: Validation and standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population

Journal of Affective Disorders|2009

2.5k cit.

A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press

Discourse & Society|2008

1.9k cit.

Populism as political communication style: An empirical study of political parties' discourse in Belgium

European Journal of Political Research|2007

1.4k cit.

Critical discourse analysis: history, agenda, theory, and methodology.

Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)|2009

1.3k cit.

Legitimizing Immigration Control: A Discourse-Historical Analysis

Discourse Studies|1999

1.1k cit.

Extreme right‐wing voting in Western Europe

European Journal of Political Research|2002

1k cit.

The Discursive Construction of National Identities

Discourse & Society|1999

953 cit.

Ethnic Exclusionism in European Countries. Public Opposition to Civil Rights for Legal Migrants as a Response to Perceived Ethnic Threat

European Sociological Review|2002

846 cit.

Social support in the general population: standardization of the Oslo social support scale (OSSS-3)

BMC Psychology|2018

797 cit.

Achievement Inequality and the Institutional Structure of Educational Systems: A Comparative Perspective

Annual Review of Sociology|2010

791 cit.

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