Book
Downplaying Extremism? How the State Approaches Right-Wing and Left-Wing Extremist Threats. (2026)With Rafaela Dancygier and Jonathan Homola. Cambridge University Press (Elements in European Politics).
Washington Post article based on the book
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
The Electoral Politics of Immigration and Crime.(Early view) American Journal of Political Science.
Winner of the Best Graduate Student Paper Award, APSA Migration and Citizenship Section
Why Do Security Forces Vote for Far-Right Parties? Evidence from Europe.(2026) With Raquel Rego. European Political Science Review 18(3): 553-563.
Does Political Violence Undermine Descriptive Representation? The Case of Women in Politics.(2025) With Fabio Ellger, Marius Grünewald, and Thomas Tichelbaecker. European Journal of Political Research 64(4): 2106-2121.
Do Politicians Discriminate Against Constituents with an Immigration Background? Field Experimental Evidence from Germany.(2022) With Fabio Ellger. Journal of Politics 84(3): 1823-1827.
JOP blogpost about the article
National Penalties Reversed: The Local Politics of Citizenship and Politician Responsiveness to Immigrants.(2021) With Rafaela Dancygier and Ruth Ditlmann. Journal of Politics 83(3): 867-883.
Interview with EGAP about the article
Quality Certification for Nonprofits, Charitable Giving, and Donor's Trust: Experimental Evidence. (2019) With Maja Adena, Frauke Bohnert, Julian Harke, and Fabio Mesters. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 159: 75-100.
Working Papers
How Framing Shapes Anti-Far-Right Mobilization.With Fabio Ellger. Revise and Resubmit at Political Behavior.
Guarding the State: How Militant Democracy Constrains the Far Right. With Thomas Tichelbaecker.
Work in Progress
Party Positioning on Immigration and Immigrant Voting. With Janice Ngiam.
When Immigrants Oppose Immigration: Legality, Criminality, and the Politics of Respectability in Germany and the US. With Paris Boo, Fabio Ellger, Jan-Paul Heisig, and Tae Kyeong Meixner-Yun.
Cultural Recognition and Immigration Attitudes: A Field Experiment in a German Museum. With Oguzhan Turkoglu and Ruth Ditlmann.