Publications
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
forthcoming. “The Moderating Role of Government Heuristics in Public Preferences for Redistribution”. Journal of European Social Policy. With Hung H.V. Nguyen, Tom Knuf, and Lisa Heukamp. WORKING PAPER
2023. “Teaching Constructive Replications with Quantitative Data in the Social and Behavioral Sciences”. Teaching of Psychology (online first). OPEN ACCESS
2023. “Urban Fiscal Crisis and Local Emergency Management: Tracking the Color Line in Michigan.” Issues in Race and Society: An Interdisciplinary Global Journal, 11(1):9-47. With L. Owen Kirkpatrick. PREPRINT
2023. “The Replication Crisis Has Led to Positive Structural, Procedural and Community Changes.” Communications Psychology, 1(3):1-13. With Flavio Azevedo et al. OPEN ACCESS
2022. “Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. With Eike Mark Rinke and Alexander Wuttke et al. OPEN ACCESS
2022. “Integrating Computer Prediction Methods in Social Science: A Comment on Hofman et al. (2021).” Social Science Computer Review, 40(3): 844-853. PREPRINT
2021. “Locked Down or Locked In? Institutionalized Public Preferences and Pandemic Policy Feedback in 32 Countries.” Social Policy Review, 33:11-20. With Hung H.V. Nguyen and Lisa Heukamp. DOI PREPRINT
2021. “Does Sociology Need Open Science?” Societies, 11(1):1-9. OPEN ACCESS
2021. “I Saw You in the Crowd: Credibility, Reproducibility and Meta-Utility.” PS Political Science & Politics, 52(2):309-313. OPEN ACCESS
2021. “The Welfare State and Risk Perceptions: The Novel Coronavirus Pandemic and Public Concern in 70 Countries.” European Societies, 23(s1):33-46. OPEN ACCESS
2020. “Full Shelves, Good Skills? Immigration, Adolescent Language Aptitude and New Evidence on Books in the Home from Four European Countries.” Comparative Sociology, 19(4-5):465-508. With Lisa Sauter and Zerrin Salikutluk DOI PREPRINT
2019. “No Generalizable Effect of Income Inequality on Public Support for Redistribution among Rich Democracies, 1987-2010.” Social Science Research, 81:170-191. With Carola Hommerich. DOI PREPRINT
2019. “A Review of Attitudes toward Redistributive Policy: Special Issue Introduction.” Societies, 9(3):1-12. With Liza A. Steele. OPEN ACCESS
2019. “The Underlying Public Attitude toward Government Responsibility to Intervene in Socio-Economics, Thirty-Years of Evidence from the ISSP.” International Journal of Sociology, 49(3):182-203. DOI PREPRINT
2019. “The Limits of Income Inequality: Public Support for Social Policy across Rich Democracies.” International Journal of Social Welfare, 28(2):138-151. With Carola Hommerich. DOI PREPRINT
2018. “Simultaneous Feedback Models with Macro-Comparative Cross-Sectional Data.” Methods, Data, Analyses, 12(2): 265-308. OPEN ACCESS
2017. “Positive Returns and Equilibrium: Simultaneous Feedback between Public Opinion and Social Policy.” Policy Studies Journal, 45(4):583-612. DOI PREPRINT
2017. “Immigration and the Welfare State: A Cross-Regional Analysis of European Welfare Attitudes.” International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 58(5):440-463. With Maureen A. Eger. DOI PREPRINT
2016. “Immigrant Presence, Group Boundaries and Support for the Welfare State in Western European Societies.” Acta Sociologica, 59(3):195-214. With Maureen A. Eger. DOI PREPRINT
2016. “Secondary Observer Effects: Idiosyncratic Errors in Small-N Secondary Data Analysis.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 19(3): 301-18. DOI PREPRINT
2015. “The Missing Main Effect of Welfare State Regimes: A Replication of ‘Social Policy Responsiveness in Developed Democracies’ by Brooks and Manza.” Sociological Science, 2: 420-441. OPEN ACCESS
2011. “A Clash of Civilizations? Preferences for Religious Political Leaders in 86 Nations.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 50(4):671-691. With Valerie A. Lykes, M.D.R Evans and Jonathan Kelley. DOI PREPRINT
2010. “Economic Equality and Social Welfare: Policy Preferences in Five Nations.” International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 22(4):458-484. DOI PREPRINT
2002. “Constructing Common Cultures: The Ontological and Normative Dimensions of Law in the European Union and Mercosur.” European Law Journal, 8:574-95. With Francesco Duina DOI
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2023. “Work-Injury Policy: Communism and Enslaved Labor Production in the Global Development of Work Accident Insurance”. Chapter in Mossig, I. and H. Obinger (eds), Mapping Global Dynamics of Social Policy, pp. 11-14, University of Bremen. With Felix Lanver. OPEN ACCESS
2023. “Institutional Trajectories of the Welfare State: Returns from Social Policy Inception to Modern Public Opinion.” Chapter in Roosma, F. and T. Laenen (eds), A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare. Edward Elgar. PREPRINT
2023. “Review of Information and Democracy by Stuart N. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien.” Public Opinion Quarterly. DOI
2022. “Reply to Mathur et al.: Many-analyst studies should consider effect sizes and CIs.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 120(3). With Eike Mark Rinke and Alexander Wuttke. DOI
2022. “Reply to Engzell et al: Researcher Variability - Maybe in Sight, But Out of Focus.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 120(2). With Eike Mark Rinke. DOI
2021. “Workers and Work-Injury Law: The Genesis of Welfare States Globally”, pp. 39-58 Networks and Geographies of Global Social Policy Diffusion. Global Dynamics of Social Policy eds. Windzio M., Mossig I., Besche-Truthe F., Seitzer H. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham: London. With Felix Lanver DOI PREPRINT
2020. “Review of Public Opinion by David L. Weakliem.” Public Opinion Quarterly. DOI
2012. “Review of Welfare States and Public Opinion: Perceptions of Healthcare Systems, Family Policy and Benefits for the Unemployed and Poor in Europe by Claus Wendt, Monika Mischke and Michaela Pfeifer.” European Sociological Review 29(2):402-3
WORKING PAPERS
“Enter The Theory Multiverse: Economizing Research Design Through Meta-Analysis of Theories”. SocArXiv Working Paper. WORKING PAPER
“Pre-Registered Analysis Plan: Is the Inter-Researcher Variability in Social Scientific Results Explicable? An Adversarial Collaboration and Joint Effort to Parse Model and Estimate Dispersion”. MetaArXiv Working Paper. With Katrin Auspurg, Josef Brüderl, Felix Holzmeister, Gustav Nilsonne, Balazs Aczel, Cory J Clark, Hung H. V. Nguyen, and Eric Luis Uhlmann. WORKING PAPER
“The Reliability of Replications: A Study in Computational Reproductions”. With Eike Mark Rinke and Alexander Wuttke et al. WORKING PAPER
“Bi-Directional Feedback to the Welfare State and Public Opinion”. WORKING PAPER