Credit: Sarah Hähnle
Dr. Marlene Mußotter
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
Chair of Sociology, Migration and Integration
A 5, 6
Building A – room 117
68159 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
Chair of Sociology, Migration and Integration
A 5, 6
Building A – room 117
68159 Mannheim
Research Interests
Political psychology, political behaviour, empirical democracy research
Academic Career
Since 03/ 2025 Principal investigator of the project “Love of (host-)country? Nationalism and patriotism from the perspective of Germans with a migration background”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 10/ 2023 – 02/ 2025 Post-doctoral researcher (100%, 5 SWS), Prof. Ingo Rohlfing, University of Passau 01/ 2022 – 06/ 2022 Guest researcher, University of Oxford (UK) 10/ 2020 – 12/ 2023 PhD in Political Science (summa cum laude), University of Passau Publications
- Piwoni, E., & Mußotter, M. (2025). The duty to remember “it”: How Germans with and without a migrant background discuss the role of the Holocaust. Memory Studies. DOI: 10.1177/17506980251397883
- Mußotter, M. & Piwoni, E. (2025b). “[You are German] when you no longer stick out”: The meaning of being German from the perspective of Germans with and without a migrant background. Nations and Nationalism. DOI: 10.1111/nana.70027
- Mußotter, M. & Piwoni, E. (2025a). “Terms such as true German belong in the history books”: How Germans with and without a migrant background understand concepts used in survey research on national attachments. Political Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/pops.70060
- Mader, M., & Mußotter, M. (2025). Can social identity theory address the measurement tangle in survey-based national identity research? Nations and Nationalism. DOI:10.1111/nana.13113
- Mußotter, M., & Rapp, C. (2025). Nationalism and political support: Longitudinal evidence from the Netherlands. West European Politics. DOI: 10.1080/01402382.2025.2481546.
- Mußotter, M. (2024). On nation, homeland, and democracy: Toward a novel three-factor measurement model for nationalism and patriotism. Evidence from two representative studies. Political Psychology. 45 (6), 903–921.
- Bitschnau, M., & Mußotter, M. (2024b). When perception strikes back: Testing popular agreement with Blank’s and Schmidt’s item categorization. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 65(1), 23–47.
- Bitschnau, M., & Mußotter, M. (2024a). (National) Pride and (conceptual) prejudice: Critical remarks on the distinction between nationalism and patriotism. Journal of Political Ideologies, 29(1), 64–78.
- Mußotter, M. (2023): Über (nationale) Bindungen: Die Trias von Nationalismus, Vaterlandsliebe und demokratischem Patriotismus. Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft, 9(1), 31–68.
- Piwoni, E., & Mußotter, M. (2023). The evolution of the civic-ethnic distinction as a partial success story: lessons for the nationalism-patriotism distinction. Nations and Nationalism, 29(3), 906–921.
- Bruinsma, B., & Mußotter, M. (2023). A move forward: Exploring national identity through non-linear principal component analysis in Germany. Quality & Quantity, 57(1), 885–903.
- Mußotter, M. (2022). We do not measure what we aim to measure: Testing three measurement models for nationalism and patriotism. Quality & Quantity, 56(4), 2177-2197.