Sophia Hunger
A5073089093- Populism, Right-Wing Movements
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Media and Politics
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Media Influence and Politics
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Communism, Protests, Social Movements
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Hungarian Social, Economic and Educational Studies
- Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics
- Data Analysis with R
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Labor Movements and Unions
- COVID-19 impact on air quality
- Forecasting Techniques and Applications
- Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
- Gender Politics and Representation
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
University of Bremen
2021-2025
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
2021-2024
Freie Universität Berlin
2024
University of Leeds
2021
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2021
European University Institute
2017
This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden lens to emphasize idiosyncrasy conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make during data analysis. coordinated 161 73 research teams observed their as they used same independently test prominent social hypothesis: greater immigration reduces support for policies among public. In this typical case...
Abstract While the structure of party competition evolves slowly, crisis-like events can induce short-term change to political agenda. This may be facilitated by challenger parties who might benefit from increased attention issues they own. We study dynamic such shifts through mainstream parties’ response 2015 refugee crisis, which strongly affected public debate and election outcomes across Europe. Specifically, we analyse how changed their issue emphasis positions regarding immigration...
The Covid-19 pandemic triggered polarisation across Europe. While most citizens supported governments' containment measures, others took to the streets and voiced their dissatisfaction. article focuses on mobilisation potential related this heterogenous protest wave. It examines individuals that show sympathy are willing engage in anti-containment demonstrations based 16 waves of a rolling cross-section survey fielded Germany 2020/2021. results considerable stable potential: every fifth...
This study investigates researcher variability in computational reproduction, an activity for which it is least expected. Eighty-five independent teams attempted numerical replication of results from original policy preferences and immigration. Reproduction were randomly grouped into a ‘transparent group’ receiving code or ‘opaque only method description no code. The transparent group mostly verified (95.7% same sign p -value cutoff), while the opaque had less success (89.3%). Second-decimal...
Abstract Measures to cope with the COVID‐19 pandemic have put a sudden halt street protests and other forms of citizen involvement in Europe. At same time, has increased need for solidarity, motivating citizens become involved on behalf people at risk vulnerable more generally. This research note empirically examines tension between demobilisation activation potential crisis. Drawing original survey data from seven Western European countries, we examine extent, forms, drivers citizens’...
This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions problems in science focus on systematic biases. We broaden lens to include conscious and unconscious decisions that researchers make during data analysis may lead diverging results. coordinated 161 73 research teams observed their as they used same independently test prominent social hypothesis: greater immigration reduces support for policies among public. In this typical...
Abstract When mainstream parties accommodate radical-right parties, do citizens grow more concerned about immigration? Based on a rich literature, we argue that challenger parties’ ability to affect party positions, particularly immigration, is associated with greater public salience of immigration and voter positivity towards challengers exists. We use Comparative Manifesto Project Study Electoral Systems data in order show issue entrepreneurship, accommodation are concern for issues. These...
Zusammenfassung Die Corona-Krise hat Fridays for Future (FFF) – wie auch andere soziale Bewegungen mit nicht absehbaren und einschneidenden Einschränkungen konfrontiert. Inwiefern kam es aufgrund dieser radikal veränderten Situation zu einer Anpassung des Handlungsrepertoires von FFF? Und ermöglichen online bzw. hybride Protestaktionen eine Ausweitung Mobilisierungspotentials durch die Einbindung geographischen Einheiten, bisher an Bewegung angeschlossen waren? Diesen Fragen nähern wir uns...
The study presents results from a survey experiment on how different protest forms and frames in environmental mobilization affect public opinion the German context.
This paper reports findings from a crowdsourced replication. Eighty-five independent teams attempted computational replication of results reported in an original study policy preferences and immigration by fitting the same statistical models to data. The involved experimental condition. Random assignment put participating into either transparent group that received code, or opaque receiving only methods section, rough description no code. mostly verified numerical with sign p-value threshold...
In an era of mass migration, social scientists, populist parties and movements raise concerns over the future immigration-destination societies. What impacts does this have on policy solidarity? Comparative cross-national research, relying mostly secondary data, has findings in different directions. There is a threat selective model reporting lack replicability. The heterogeneity countries obscures attempts to clearly define data-generating models. P-hacking HARKing lurk among standard...
Populism has been a much-studied concept in Social Science research. A great share of research on the dedicated to measuring occurrence populism political text. In this article, I propose novel measure that considers established theoretical assumptions, i.e. presenting people as morally superior and elite evil. This moral framing antagonistic groups is necessary identify populist discourse while keeping it separate from empirically related concepts, e.g. radical right-wing ideology. The...
The increasing availability of digital video material has led to its widespread use in the social sciences, especially research adopting processual and relational approaches. However, methodological reflection not developed at same pace. In this article, we propose ways extend classical protest event analysis using videos contentious events. Our novel method, video-enhanced (vPEA), expands on two frontiers. First, researchers can vPEA extractively, contributing source triangulation validity...