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
Academic Career
| 03/ | Principal investigator of the project ‘Love of (host-)country? Nationalism and patriotism from the perspective of Germans with a migrant background’, funded by the German Research Fund (DFG), Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) |
| 10/ | Post-doctoral researcher (5 SWS), Chair for Methods of Empirical Social Sciences (Prof. Ingo Rohlfing, University of Passau) |
| 10/ | PhD in Political Science (summa cum laude), University of Passau |
| 01/ | Visiting researcher, University of Oxford, UK |
Publications
- Mußotter, M., & Piwoni, E. (2025). “Terms such as ‘true German’ […] belong in the history books”: How Germans with and without migrant backgrounds understand concepts used in survey research on national attachments. Political Psychology. DOI: doi.org/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.
- Reviewer for peer-reviewed Journals such as European Journal of Political Research, Political Psychology, Social Problems, Quality & Quantity, Nations and Nationalism, Survey Research Methods, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Pennsylvania University Press, Politics & Governance.