Monographies
Jungkunz, Sebastian (2022): The Nature and Origins of Political Extremism in Germany and Beyond. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
also published in German: Jungkunz, Sebastian (2023): Politischer Extremismus. Struktur und Ursachen links- und rechtsextremer Einstellungen in Deutschland. Cham: Springer.
Rattinger, Hans, Harald Schoen, Fabian Endres, Sebastian Jungkunz, Matthias Mader, and Jana Pötzschke (2016): Old Friends in Troubled Waters: Policy Principles, Elites, and U.S.-German Relations at the Citizen Level after the Cold War. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Edited Volumes
Quenzel, Gudrun, Michael Beck, and Sebastian Jungkunz (eds.) (2023): Bildung und Partizipation. Bedingungen, Ausmaß und Folgen der Mitbestimmung von Schülerinnen und Schülern in der Schule. Opladen: Budrich.
Journal Articles
Mede, Niels, Viktoria Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John Besley, ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al. (forthcoming): Public communication about science in 68 countries: Global evidence on how people encounter and engage with information about science, in: Science Communication.
Aczel, Balazcs, Barnabas Szaszi, Harry T. Clelland, ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al.: Investigating the analytical robustness of the social and behavioral sciences (conditionally accepted at Nature).
Jungkunz, Sebastian and Paul Marx (2025): Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement, in: West European Politics.
Toribio-Flórez, Daniel, Marlene S. Altenmüller, Karen M. Douglas ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al. (2025): Victims of conspiracies? A cross-national examination of the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and victim justice sensitivity, in: European Journal of Social Psychology.
Cologna, Viktoria, Simona Meiler, Chahan M. Kropf, ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al. (2025): The relationship between extreme weather events and support for climate policies across 68 countries, in: Nature Climate Change.
Breznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al. (2025): The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions, in: Royal Society Open Science 12 (241038).
Cologna, Viktoria, Niels G. Mede, Sebastian Berger ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al. (2025): Trust in scientists and their role in society across 68 countries, in: Nature Human Behaviour.
Mede, Niels G., Viktoria Cologna, Sebastian Berger ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al. (2025): Perceptions of Science, Science Communication, and Climate Change Attitudes in 68 Countries: The TISP Dataset, in: Scientific Data 12 (114).
Jungkunz, Sebastian and Paul Marx (2025): Parental income moderates the influence of genetic dispositions on political interest in adolescents, in: Politics and the Life Sciences.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Robert A. Fahey, and Airo Hino (2025): Populist Attitudes, Conspiracy Beliefs and Support for Political Violence at the US 2020 Elections, in: Political Studies 73 (2): 592-611.
Jungkunz, Sebastian (2025): Economic Hardship Increases Justification of Political Violence, in: Representation, 61 (1): 131-141.
Jungkunz, Sebastian (2024): Asymmetric polarization by vaccination status identification during the COVID-19 pandemic, in: PLOS One 19 (11): e0311962.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Marc Helbling, and Nina Osenbrügge (2024): Measuring political radicalism and extremism in surveys: three new scales, in: PLOS One, 19 (5): e0300661.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, and Julia Weiß (2024): Populist Attitudes Among Teenagers: How Negative Relationships with Socialization Agents are Linked to Populist Attitudes, in: Perspectives on Politics.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Marc Helbling, and Mujtaba Isani (2024): Measuring Implicit Political Extremism through Implicit Association Tests, in: Public Opinion Quarterly, 88 (1): 175-192.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, and Paul Marx (2024): Material Deprivation in Childhood and Unequal Political Socialization: The Effect of Children's Economic Hardship on Future Voting, in: European Sociological Review, 40 (1): 72-84.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Florian Fastenrath, and Paul Marx (2023): Politicization of redistributive policies and political behavior of the poor in German elections, in: Electoral Studies, 86 (102704).
Breznau, Nate, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al. (2022): Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty, in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119 (44): e2203150119.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, and Paul Marx (2022): Income changes do not influence political involvement in panel data from six countries, in: European Journal of Political Research, 61 (3): 829-841.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Robert A. Fahey, and Airo Hino (2021): How Populist Attitudes Scales Fail to Capture Support for Populists in Power, in: PLoS ONE, 16 (12): e0261658.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, and Paul Marx (2021): The Negative Influence of Individual Socio-Economic Problems on Political Knowledge, in: International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 33 (4), 891-910.
Jungkunz, Sebastian (2021): Political Polarization During the COVID-19 Pandemic, in: Frontiers in Political Science, 3 (622512).
Helbling, Marc, and Sebastian Jungkunz (2020): Social Divides in the Age of Globalization, in: West European Politics, 43 (6), 1187-1210.
Castanho Silva, Bruno, Sebastian Jungkunz, Marc Helbling, and Levente Littvay (2020): An Empirical Comparison of Seven Populist Attitudes Scales, in: Political Research Quarterly, 73 (2), 409-424.
Schwemmer, Carsten, and Sebastian Jungkunz (2019): Whose ideas are worth spreading? The representation of women and ethnic groups in TED talks, in: Political Research Exchange, 1 (1), 1646102.
Jungkunz, Sebastian (2019): Towards a Measurement of Extreme Left-Wing Attitudes, in: German Politics, 28 (1), 101-122.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Marc Helbling, and Carsten Schwemmer (2019): Xenophobia Before and After the Paris 2015 Attacks. Evidence from a Natural Experiment, in: Ethnicities, 19 (2), 271-291.
Work in progress
Jungkunz, Sebastian: How Local Deprivation Shapes Political Support. A New Approach Combining Survey and Geo Data (revise and resubmit at Social Forces).
Helbling, Marc, Sebastian Jungkunz, and Nina Osenbrügge: A comparison of individual needs and support of violence among radicals, extremists and fundamentalists in Western Europe (revise and resubmit at Humanities and Social Sciences Communications).
Jungkunz, Sebastian and Sabrina Mayer: When happiness induction techniques make respondents unhappy: Failing to induce happiness in Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War (revise and resubmit at Survey Research Methods).
Jungkunz, Sebastian: Does labor market participation increase political interest among migrants in western democracies? (under review).
Jungkunz, Sebastian: The Age of Virtue Signaling: Moral Grandstanding Across Age Groups, Gender Differences, and Vote Choice (under review).
Jungkunz, Sebastian and Marc Helbling: Beyond Self-Reports: Exploring Implicit Biases in Right-Wing Political Extremism (accepted for the Festschrift for Thomas Saalfeld).
Helbling, Marc, Sebastian Jungkunz, and Nina Osenbrügge: Support for extremist politicians in Europe. Evidence from vignette survey experiments (in preparation).
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Marc Helbling, and Nina Osenbrügge: Implicit and explicit political extremism in Europe (in preparation).
Jungkunz, Sebastian, Marc Helbling, and Nina Osenbrügge: Sensitive measurements? Comparing extremism between Muslim minorities and native groups in Europe using experiments and implicit association tests (in preparation).
Selected Chapters in Edited Volumes
Jungkunz, Sebastian, and Marc Helbling (2025): Populist Attitudes, Cleavage Identification, and Polarization in Austria and Germany, in: Nina Wiesehomeier, Kirk A. Hawkins, Eliza Hawkins, Angelos Chryssogelos and Levente Littvay (eds.): The Ideational Approach to Populism: Consequences and Mitigation. Routledge, 118–139.
Jungkunz, Sebastian, and Nadja Wehl (2023): Socio-Economic Status, in: Marco Giugni, and Maria Grasso (eds.): The Encyclopedia of Political Sociology. Edward Elgar, 564–567.
Jungkunz, Sebastian (2023): Measuring Left-Wing Extremist Attitudes, in: José Pedro Zúquete (ed.): The Palgrave Handbook of Left-wing Extremism. Palgrave, 141–156.
Jungkunz, Sebastian (2022): Links- und rechtsextreme Einstellungen in Deutschland seit 1994. Ein asymmetrischer Vergleich, in: Backes, Uwe, Alexander Gallus, Eckhard Jesse, and Tom Thieme (eds.): Jahrbuch Extremismus & Demokratie 34. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 65–80.
Rupp, Marina, and Sebastian Jungkunz (2013): Einstellungen von Müttern, in: Tanja Mühling, Harald Rost and Martina Rupp (eds.): Berufsrückkehr von Müttern. Lebensgestaltung im Kontext des neuen Elterngeldes. Opladen: Budrich, 139–160.