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My name is Marlene Mußotter and I am the 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), at Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). My research interests lie in the field of political psychology and political behavior and I have published in famous, peer-reviewed journals such as West European Politics, Political Psychology and Nations and Nationalism.
Vita
Dr Marlene Mußotter studied political science in Freiburg, Maastricht (NL) and Passau, and has been working as a Post-doctoral researcher (100%, 5 SWS) at the chair of Prof. Ingo Rohlfing at University of Passau since 1 October 2023.
She received her PhD "On nation, homeland, and democracy: Toward a novel three-factor measurement model. Revisiting the nationalism-patriotism distinction" in 2023 (summa cum laude). During her doctoral studies, Ms Mußotter was a visiting researcher at the University of Oxford (UK) in 2022. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Political Psychology, Nations and Nationalism and Quality & Quantity. She has taught at the Universities of Passau, Freiburg and Bamberg. She was a scholarship holder of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and admitted to the mentoring programme at the University of Passau. Moreover, she is the founder of the initiative Scientia Futura
Publications
Mußotter, M., & Hjort 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). (National) pride and (conceptual) prejudice: critical remarks on the distinction between patriotism and nationalism. Journal of Political Ideologies, 29(1), 64-78.
Bitschnau, M., & Mußotter, M. (2024a). When Perception Strikes Back: Testing Popular Agreement with Blank and Schmidt’s Item Categorization. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 65(1), 23-47.
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.
Mußotter, M. (2023). Über (nationale) Bindungen: Die Trias von Nationalismus, Vaterlandsliebe und demokratischem Patriotismus. Zeitschrift für Kultur-und Kollektivwissenschaft, 9(1), 31-68.
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.
Teaching
SoSe 2024
Course 1: Introduction to Statistics for Social Sciences (BA students)
Course 2: Introduction to Statistics for Social Sciences (BA students)
Proseminar: Introduction to Research Design (MA students)
University of Passau
WiSe 2023/2024
Proseminar: Introduction to Research Design (MA students)
Proseminar: Introduction to Political Psychology (BA students)
University of Passau
SoSe 2023
Proseminar: Introduction to Political Psychology (BA students)
University of Passau
WiSe 2022/2023
Proseminar: Introduction to Empirical Nationalism Studies (BA students)
University of Bamberg
News
October 2024: My grant proposal was officially accepted by the German Research Fund!
December 2023: I successfully defended my PhD (summa cum laude)!
Contact
Dr. Marlene MußotterMannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES)
A 5, 6 68159 Mannheim marlene.mussotter@uni-mannheim.de