Thomas Tichelbaecker, M.Sc.
Curriculum Vitae
since 01/2025 | Post-Doctoral Researcher in the project Legacies of democratic transformation at the Junior Professorship for Political Science Research Methods at TU Chemnitz | |
since 09/2019 | Ph.D. candidate, Department of Politics, Princeton University | |
04/2019 - 08/2019 | Junior Data Scientist, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) | |
2016 - 2019 | M.Sc. Economics, Humboldt University Berlin | |
2012 - 2016 | B.Sc. International Economics, Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen |
Research Focuses
- Political elites & party organizations
- Drivers and consequences of political polarization
- Far-right parties
Publications
- Adams, James, Noam Gidron, Will Horne, and Thomas Tichelbaecker. Forthcoming. “Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment That Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization.” British Journal of Political Science (conditionally accepted)
- Alizade, Jey, Fabio Ellger, Marius Grünewald, and Thomas Tichelbaecker. Forthcoming. “Exposure to Political Violence Does Not Reduce Political Involvement Among Women.” European Journal of Political Research (conditionally accepted)
- Gidron, Noam, and Thomas Tichelbaecker. 2025. "The European Ideological Space in Voters’ Own Words." Cambridge University Press.
- Juan, Alexander De, Felix Haass, Carlo Koos, Sascha Riaz, and Thomas Tichelbaecker. 2024. “War and Nationalism: How WW1 Battle Deaths Fueled Civilians’ Support for the Nazi Party.” American Political Science Review 118(1): pp. 144–162. doi:10.1017/S000305542300014X.
- Auer, Daniel, Lea Portmann, and Thomas Tichelbaecker. 2023. “Electoral Discrimination, Party Rationale, and the Underrepresentation of Immigrant‐Origin Politicians.” American Journal of Political Science: ajps.12817. doi:10.1111/ajps.12817.
- Tichelbaecker, Thomas, Noam Gidron, Will Horne, and James Adams. 2023. “What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization across Countries?” Public Opinion Quarterly 87(3): pp. 803–815. doi:10.1093/poq/nfad033.