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Dr. Sebastian Jungkunz

Kurzvita

  • 10/2025 – Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
  • 08/2023 - 09/2025 Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn
  • 10/2022 – 03/2023 Deputy Professor of Comparative Politics (W3), University of Münster
  • 06/2022 – 07/2023 Postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Sociology, University of Bamberg
  • 03/2020 - 11/2022 Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Socioeconomics, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • 01/2019 – 12/2021 Research assistant and lecturer, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
  • 09/2014 – 12/2014 Research Associate, Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES)
  • 04/2014 - 02/2020 Research assistant at the Chair of Political Sociology, University of Bamberg

current research projects

  • 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)

    • Publications

    Monographs

    • Jungkunz, Sebastian (2022): The Nature and Origins of Political Extremism in Germany and Beyond. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan     .Also published in German: Jungkunz, Sebastian (2023): Political Extremism. Structure and causes of left-wing and right-wing extremist attitudes in Germany. 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.

    Editorialships

    • Quenzel, Gudrun, Michael Beck,  and Sebastian Jungkunz (eds.) (2023): Education and participation.  Conditions, extent and consequences of student participation at school.  Opladen: Budrich.

    Journal Article

    • Mede, Niels,  Viktoria Cologna, Sebastian Berger, John Besley, ... Sebastian Jungkunz ... et al.


  • 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.

    • Current curses

    Data analysis with Stata (SM3)

    Computer applications for sociology (M2 / FSQ1)

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