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Dr. Sebastian Jungkunz

Kurzvita

• 10/2025  –Post-Doctoral Researcher am Institut für  Soziologie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
• 08/2023 – 09/2025 Post-Doctoral Researcher am Institut für Politikwissenschaft und Soziologie, Universität Bonn
• 10/2022 – 03/2023 Vertretungsprofessor für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft (W3), Universität Münster
• 06/2022 – 07/2023 Post-Doctoral Researcher am Lehrstuhl für Politische Soziologie, Universität Bamberg
• 03/2020 – 11/2022 Post-Doctoral Researcher am Institut für Sozioökonomie, Universität Duisburg-Essen
• 01/2019 – 12/2021 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Lehrbeauftragter, Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen
• 09/2014 – 12/2014  Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES)
• 04/2014 – 02/2020 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Politische Soziologie, Universität of Bamberg

Aktuelle Forschungsprojekte

Political extremism and the justification of political violence in Japan (DAAD)

Growing into politics under material hardship: The impact of socio-economic problems on political socialization (DFG)

Political and religious extremism: Measuring and explaining explicit and implicit attitudes (DFG)

Publikationen

Monographien

• 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.

Herausgeberschaften

• 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 Article

• 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.

Aktuelle Lehrveranstaltungen

Datenanalyse mit Stata (SM3)

EDV-Anwendungen für Soziologien (M2 / FSQ1)

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