Publications

This section may not always be up to date - you will usually find an up-to-date list on Google Scholar. This also includes book chapters and non-peer reviewed work which I do not list here.

For work in progress, have a look at the research section of my webpage.

Edited Volumes

Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity: Studying the Dynamics of Government-Challenger Interactions, Abel Bojar, Theresa Gessler, Swen Hutter, Hanspeter Kriesi, Cambridge University Press, 2025

Peer reviewed Journal Articles

A New Regime Divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization - Theresa Gessler, Natasha Wunsch, European Journal of Political Research, 2025

Advocacy Campaigns and Gender Bias in Media Coverage of Elections - Theresa Gessler, Fabrizio Gilardi, Maël Kubli, Political Science Research & Methods, 2024

How opposition parties politicize democracy during autocratization - Theresa Gessler, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 2024

Editorial: ‘Text as data’: Eastern and Central European political discourses from the perspective of computational social science - Domonkos Sik, Renáta Németh, Ildikó Barna, Theresa Gessler, Hanna Orsolya Vincze, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics, 2024

The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding - Lea Kaftan, Theresa Gessler, Government and Opposition, 2024

Communicating Democratic Subversions to Citizens - Theresa Gessler, Lea Kaftan, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 2023

How Do Populist Radical Right Parties Differentiate Their Appeal? Evidence from the Media Strategy of the Hungarian Jobbik Party - Endre Borbáth, Theresa Gessler, Government and Opposition, 2023

Democracy Challenged: How Parties Politicize Different Democratic Principles - Sarah Engler, Theresa Gessler, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Lucas Leemann, Journal of European Public Policy, 2023

Who tolerates democratic backsliding? A mosaic approach to voters’ responses to authoritarian leadership in Hungary - Natasha Wunsch, Theresa Gessler, Democratization, 2023

Observing Many Researchers Using the Same Data and Hypothesis Reveals a Hidden Universe of Uncertainty - Nate Breznau, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, and others, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022

How the Refugee Crisis and Radical Right Parties Shape Party Competition on Immigration - Theresa Gessler, Sophia Hunger, Political Science Research and Methods, 2022

No Country for Asylum Seekers? How Short-Term Exposure to Refugees Influences Attitudes and Voting Behavior in Hungary - Theresa Gessler, Gergő Tóth, Johannes Wachs, Political Behavior, 2022

Building Research Infrastructures to Study Digital Technology and Politics: Lessons from Switzerland - Fabrizio Gilardi, Lucien Baumgartner, Clau Dermont, Karsten Donnay, Theresa Gessler, Maël Kubli, Lucas Leemann, Stefan Müller, PS: Political Science & Politics, 2022

Issue ownership and agenda setting in the 2019 Swiss national elections - Fabrizio Gilardi, Theresa Gessler, Maël Kubli, Stefan Müller, Swiss Political Science Review, 2022

Social Media and Policy Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Switzerland - Fabrizio Gilardi, Theresa Gessler, Maël Kubli, Stefan Müller, Swiss Political Science Review, 2021

Social Media and Political Agenda Setting - Fabrizio Gilardi, Theresa Gessler, Maël Kubli, Stefan Müller, Political Communication, 2021

Different Worlds of Contention? Protest in Northwestern, Southern and Eastern Europe - Endre Borbáth, Theresa Gessler, European Journal of Political Research, 2020