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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. (2023b). On nation, homeland, and democracy: Toward a novel three-factor measurement model for nationalism and patriotism. Political Psychology. DOI:10.1111/pops.12945

Mußotter, M. (2023a). Über (nationale) Bindungen: Die Trias von Nationalismus, Vaterlandsliebe und demokratischem Patriotismus. Zeitschrift für Kultur- und Kollektivwissenschaft, 9(1), 31–68.

Bitschnau, M., & Mußotter, M (2023): When perception strikes back: Testing popular agreement with Blank and Schmidt’s item categorization. German Political Science Quarterly. DOI: 10.1007/s11615-023-00469-z

Piwoni, E; Mußotter, M. (2023). The civic-ethnic distinction as a partial success story: lessons for the nationalism-patriotism distinction. Nations and Nationalism. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12944.

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.

Bitschnau, M.; Mußotter, M. (2022). (National) pride and (conceptual) prejudice: Critical remarks on the distinction between nationalism and patriotism. Journal of Political Ideologies. 29 (1), 64-78.

News

March 2024: I was accepted to the PYREC Excellence Programme of the University of Passau!

December 2023: I successfully defended my PhD (summa cum laude)!

November 2023: My newly developed measurement model for nationalism and two types of patriotism was accepted in the DeZIM panel survey in 2024!

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