Christian SchnaudtUniversity of Mannheim · Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung
Christian Schnaudt
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Christian Schnaudt is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim, Germany. Previously, he acted as interim professor at Heidelberg university, lecturer at the University of Mannheim, and project manager of the European Social Survey Germany.
His research interests are located in the areas of political behavior (with a focus on electoral integrity, political support and participation), comparative politics, and survey methodology.
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Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of representative democracy. In recent years, however, elections in many advanced democracies have increasingly come under attack by populist actors and rhetoric questioning the integrity of the electoral process. While scholarly attention has so far largely focused on expert surveys measuring and documen...
This study investigates whether and how experiences of winning and losing at the ballot box shape voters' views about the integrity of the electoral process in Germany's mixed-member proportional system. Relying on comprehensive data from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) 2021, the analysis provides evidence for a consistent winner-lose...
Elections in many democracies have come under attack "from within", with political elites challenging the integrity of the electoral process and calling its outcomes into question. Such allegations may delegitimize democratic outcomes and compromise citizens' confidence in elections. Yet aside from their rhetoric, little is known about political el...
Extant research shows that belief in conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking are negatively related to citizens’ perceptions about the fairness and integrity of elections. However, by exclusively focusing on the United States as only one important empirical case, previous studies have left unanswered crucial questions on the scope, generali...
What if citizens feel that election outcomes are the result of electoral manipulation and fraud rather than the outcome of a genuinely democratic process? Do they still obey the laws and regulations of newly elected governments, or do they refuse to give governments their allegiance? Analyzing individual-level survey data from Germany, this study s...
Elections and citizens’ participation in the electoral process are at the heart of representative democracy. In the absence of free and fair elections, citizens lack a meaningful opportunity to take part in the selection of political representatives and, hence, are deprived of an effective means to influence the direction of public policies in thei...
In which ways and under what conditions do the procedural and economic performance of political systems matter for citizens’ political trust? While this question has been a recurring theme in research on political support, we still lack a clear understanding of the conditional nature of the performance-trust nexus. In this study, we focus on the af...
Deliberative democracy's core practice of political discussion is often claimed to entail beneficial 'self-transformative' effects on its participants. We examine the assumption that political talk leads to 'better citizens' with a focus on democratic orientations. Drawing on extant research on political culture and participation, we conceptualize...
According to normative theorists, informal conversations between strangers are the most basic manifestation of the political public sphere and truest to the deliberative democratic ideal. Yet systematic empirical evidence on citizens’ everyday political talk outside their social networks is largely missing. Using a unique survey, we examine citizen...
Attitudes toward immigrants and immigration are a central explanation for the electoral support of far-right parties. However, while these parties gained strength over the last two decades, European citizens’ views about immigration have not changed much. In this study, we contribute to solving this puzzle by uncovering the flash potential of immig...
The GLES Open Science Challenge 2021 was a pilot project aimed at demonstrating that registered reports are an appropriate and beneficial publication format in quantitative political science that helps to increase transparency and replicability in the research process and thus yields substantial and relevant contributions to our discipline. The pro...
This article discusses the current challenges of conducting a General Social Survey (GSS) in face-to-face mode and evaluates the alternative of fielding these surveys in self-administered mixed-mode (web, mail) instead. Based on data from Germany, it first illustrates the stark decline of participation in face-to-face surveys since 2002 and reports...
Over the last two decades, scholars have investigated norms of citizenship by focussing primarily on ‘dutiful’ and ‘engaged’ norms. In the meantime, contemporary democracies have witnessed growing demands for more sustainable styles of living and increasing public support for authoritarian and populist ideas. These developments point to both a chan...
Previous research underlines that a political system's adherence to principles of distributive and procedural justice stimulates citizens' political trust. Yet, most of what is known about the relationship between justice and political trust is derived from macro-level indicators of distributive and procedural justice, merely presuming that citizen...
Der Beitrag behandelt die Messung politischen Wissens. Zunächst werden die im ALLBUS 2018 verwendeten Wissensfragen vorgestellt und deskriptive Informationen zu den Antworten präsentiert. Dabei werden auch die Bearbeitungszeiten, Schwierigkeitsgrade und die Qualität der Distraktoren diskutiert. Anschließend werden auf Grundlage einer Mokken-Analyse...
Für die langfristige Funktions- und Überlebensfähigkeit moderner Demokratien sind politisches Wissen und politisches Vertrauen essenziell. Angesichts der demokratietheoretischen Relevanz, die beiden Konzepten als elementaren Bestandteilen einer funktionierenden Demokratie beigemessen wird, ist es überraschend, dass über das theoretische und empiris...
In der Praxis sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung und insbesondere bei der Analyse sozialwissenschaftlicher Umfragedaten sehen sich Wissenschaftler und Wissenschaftlerinnen oftmals mit der Situation konfrontiert, dass für die empirische Erfassung eines theoretischen Konstrukts mehrere verschiedene Frageitems zur Verfügung stehen. Zur Beantwortung de...
This study provides a synopsis of the current fieldwork monitoring practices of large-scale surveys in Germany. Based on the results of a standardized questionnaire, the study summarizes fieldwork monitoring indicators used and fieldwork measures carried out by 17 large-scale social sciences surveys in Germany. Our descriptive results reveal that a...
Diese Broschüre dient der Gesamtschau einiger zentraler politischer, gesellschaftlicher und normativer Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen der Bürger*innen in Deutschland und Europa und beleuchtet deren Entwicklung seit Beginn des European Social Surveys (ESS) im Jahr 2002. Der Fokus liegt auf drei grundlegenden Teilbereichen der Gesellschaft: Wirts...
What are the respective antecedents of individual citizens’ confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities? In the third chapter of his book, Schnaudt analyzes whether the sources of citizens’ confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities are the same or rather different ones. For this purpose, t...
Political confidence establishes a cornerstone of any stable democratic system, as it enhances both the legitimacy and effectiveness of democratic governance. In recent years, however, growing and recurring concerns about low and decreasing levels of political confidence have been echoed among numerous scholars, politicians, and journalists alike....
Does it pay off to rely on a distinction between confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities rather than conflating citizens’ confidence in different institutions and authorities into one single, one-dimensional measure? In the concluding chapter of his book, Schnaudt summarizes the main results of his comprehensive emp...
Do individual citizens make a distinction between confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities? In the second chapter of his book, Schnaudt clarifies the general meaning and nature of the concept political confidence and elaborates on the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the distinction between confidence in r...
What are the respective consequences of individual citizens’ confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities? In the fourth chapter of his book, Schnaudt analyzes whether the attitudinal and behavioral consequences of citizens’ confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities are the same or rather d...
This book examines the antecedents and consequences of citizens’ confidence in different political institutions and authorities. Its main argument states that a distinction between confidence in representative and regulative institutions and authorities is of crucial importance in order to gain novel insights into the relevance of political confide...
One of the central and constantly recurring features of youth participation studies is the depiction of young people and adolescents as the future of democratic politics. According to previous research, however, young people exhibit generally lower levels of political participation than adults and show decreasing trends in their political activitie...
Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene in Deutschland werden häufig als Hauptantriebskraft sinkenden politischen Engagements und zunehmender politischer Entfremdung identifiziert. Allzu oft wird jedoch außer Acht gelassen, dass die Niveaus und Trends der politischen Partizipation junger Menschen erst durch ihren Bezug zu gesamtgesellschaftlichen Entwickl...
Kaum ein anderes Thema hat in den vergangenen zwei Jahren die öffentliche und politische Diskussion in Deutschland und Europa so sehr geprägt wie die Flüchtlingsdebatte. Der enorme Anstieg an Zuwanderern und Flüchtlingen, insbesondere aus den syrischen Kriegsgebieten, stellt nicht nur die politischen Eliten Europas vor eine immense Herausforderung,...
Research concerned with a decline of associational involvement has examined whether the use of social networking sites, such as Facebook, may reinvigorate or crowd out involvement in civil society. Yet, previous studies have not systematically investigated possible effects of Facebook use on associational membership. We posit that the effects of Fa...
This chapter analyses citizens’ identification with local, regional, and national levels. It asks whether these identifications constitute a multidimensional construct, indicating exclusive identifications, or a single unidimensional phenomenon, reflecting multiple identifications. To the extent that multiple identifications exist, it investigates...
In a recently published article in this journal, Ross Campbell argues that adherence to socialist values establishes a hitherto neglected factor when it comes to the explanation of differences in East and West German citizens’ political trust. As the results of his study indicate, adherence to socialist values impacts negatively on citizens’ politi...
„In God We Trust: Everyone Else Pays Cash.“ Vor mehr als 35 Jahren waren dies die einleitenden Worte Jack Citrins in seinem Artikel über „The Political Relevance of Trust in Government“, in welchem er einen stetigen Rückgang des Vertrauens der USamerikanischenBürger in deren Regierung dokumentierte (Citrin 1974, S. 973; vgl.auch Miller 1974a, 1974b...
