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Dr. Sebastian Jungkunz

CV

• 10/2025 – now: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• 08/2023 – 09/2025: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology, University of Bonn
• 10/2022 – 03/2023: Substituting Professor of Comparative Politics (W3), University of Münster
• 06/2022 – 07/2023: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Chair of Political Sociology, University of Bamberg
• 03/2020 – 11/2022: Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for Socio-Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen
• 01/2019 – 12/2021: Research Associate and Lecturer, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
• 09/2014 – 12/2014: Research Associate, Mannheim Center for European Social Research (MZES)
• 04/2014 – 02/2020: Research Associate 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

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.

Editorial 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 22 (4): 1140-1156.
• 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 courses

Data analysis with Stata (SM3)

Computer applications for sociology: Introduction to R (M2 / FSQ1)

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