Theresa Gessler

Assistant Professor

European University Viadrina

Germany

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Theresa Gessler is an Assistant Professor at the European University Viadrina in Germany. Her research focuses on democratic theory, attitudes towards democracy, and the impact of media on political processes, as evidenced by her recent publications on democratic backsliding and political communication. Additionally, she explores the dynamics of gender bias in electoral coverage and the behavior of opposition parties during periods of autocratization.

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Leuphana University of Lüneburg

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The reliability of replications: a study in computational reproductions

A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization

Advocacy campaigns and gender bias in media coverage of elections

The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding

How opposition parties politicize democracy during autocratization

Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary

How Do Populist Radical Right Parties Differentiate their Appeal? Evidence from the Media Strategy of the Hungarian Jobbik Party

Communicating democratic subversions to citizens

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty

How the refugee crisis and radical right parties shape party competition on immigration

Issue Ownership and Agenda Setting in the 2019 Swiss National Elections

Building Research Infrastructures to Study Digital Technology and Politics: Lessons from Switzerland

Social Media and Political Agenda Setting

Democracy challenged: how parties politicize different democratic principles

Social Media and Policy Responses to the COVID‐19 Pandemic in Switzerland

No Country for Asylum Seekers? How Short-Term Exposure to Refugees Influences Attitudes and Voting Behavior in Hungary

Different worlds of contention? Protest in Northwestern, Southern and Eastern Europe

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Sarah Engler

Tarik Abou-Chadi

Amélie Godefroidt

Endre Borbáth

Christof Wolf

Lucas Leemann

Natasha Wunsch

Alexander Wuttke

Jule Adriaans

Cristóbal Moya

Julia Schulte-Cloos

Max Grömping

Stefan Vogtenhuber

Anna O. Pechenkina

Maël Kubli

Nadia Steiber

Oke Bahnsen

Bastian Jaeger

Christian Hunkler

Merlin Schaeffer

Karsten Donnay

Lea Kaftan

Joan Madia

Daniel Auer

Erich Striessnig

Robin Samuel

Eike Mark Rinke

Sophia Hunger

Marta Kołczyńska

Friedolin Merhout

Felix S. Bethke

Andreas Hadjar

Stefan Müller

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