Tim Wappenhans
PhD Candidate in Political Science at DYNAMICS, Research and Teaching Fellow at Humboldt-Universiät zu Berlin.
📍 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
📬 tim.wappenhans@hu-berlin.de
🦋️ @timwapps.bsky.social
✅️ ORCID 0000-0001-8903-5477
Hello
I am a PhD candidate with the DYNAMICS Research Training Group and a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Chair of Comparative Political Behavior in the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
In my PhD projects, I use experiments and original data to study political behavior. I am especially interested in the consequences of radical right party success and strategies to bolster democratic resilience.
If you want to talk about my research, hit me up on Bluesky or via mail.
You can find my CV here.
Publications
- Extreme Weather Events Do Not Increase Political Parties’ Environmental Attention, with Heike Klüver, Lukas Stoetzer, and António Valentim, Nature Climate Change (2024).
Working Papers
- Creating grievances. How radical right parties undermine local public goods provision, draft available upon request
- The Impact of Citizens’ Assemblies on Democratic Resilience: Evidence from a Field Experiment, with Heike Klüver, Felix Hartmann, and Bernhard Clemm
- Beyond Persuasion: Protest’s Direct Behavioral Impact on Bystanders, with Heike Klüver, Lukas Stoetzer, Macartan Humphreys, Violeta Haas, Ferdinand Geißler, Johannes Giesecke, Felix Hartmann, and Daniel Bischof
Ongoing Work
- Right-wing populist parties and the rise of hate crimes, with Heike KlĂĽver and Jasper Jansen
- Trust and cooperation in local governance
Teaching
- Understanding the Rise of the Radical Right, Humboldt (Summer 2024, Summer 2025)
- Causal Inference, with Frederik Thieme, Humboldt (Winter 2023, Winter 2024)
- Political Polarization, Humboldt (Summer 2023)
- R for Political Science, Humboldt (Winter 2022)
- Applied Causal Inference in Political Science, Humboldt (Summer 2022)
- Causes and Consequences of Affective Polarization, Humboldt (Summer 2022)
- Comparative Political Science and International Relations, Humboldt (Winter 2021, 2022)
- Understanding the 2020 US Elections, Humboldt (Winter 2020)
This website uses the minimal theme and is inspired by Shiro Kuriwaki's website, Sascha Riaz's website, and Hanno Hilbig's website.