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. What harm do inappropriate emotional displays by political leaders cause? Evidence from an unexpected event during survey design. Electoral Studies, 103: 103143, 2026.

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. Crises and Electoral Accountability: How Do Individual Characteristics of Crises Affect Performance and Responsibility Evaluations among Voters?. Government and Opposition, 61: e19, 2026.

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. Prime Ministers in Central and Eastern Europe. Careers, Context, and Performance.. Oxford University Press, Comparative Politics Series, ISBN: 9780198937227, 2025.

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. Walking the line: Electoral cycles and the shift in legislative priorities among German parliamentarians. Electoral Studies, 83, 2023.

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. Prime Ministers in Europe. Changing Career Experiences and Profiles. Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave Studies in Political Leadership Series, ISBN: 978-3-030-90890-4, 2022.

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. Prime-Ministerial Performance in Central and Eastern Europe. Monograph in Preparation, 2022.

. Better to Polarise than be Popular? When do Leaders increase their Party's Vote Share?. Working Paper, 2022.

. Local preferences in candidate selection. Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment among party leaders in German. Party Politics, 28(6): 1136–1149, 2022.

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. How Political Careers affect Prime-Ministerial Performance: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe. Comparative Political Studies, 54 (11): 1907–1938, 2021.

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. Female Front-Runner Entry and the Gender Gap in Voter Turnout. Findings from a Differences-in-Differences Design. Working Paper, 2021.

. All the Prime Minister's Glory? Leader Effects and Accountability of Prime Ministers in Parliamentary Elections. Politics, 40 (4): 444-459, 2020.

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. The Effect of Voters’ Economic Perception, Brexit and Campaigns on the Evaluation of Party Leaders over Time. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 22 (2): 202–219, 2020.

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. 14 Jahre Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel: Unterstützung durch Annäherung. In Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 50 (3): 545–556, 2019.

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. Potent Executives: The Electoral Strength of Prime Ministers in Central Eastern Europe. In East European Politics, 35 (4): 517–537, 2019.

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