Monographies

• 2024 Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century. How Social Identities Shape Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment. Cambridge Elements in European Politics. With Simon Bornschier, Silja Häusermann, Marco Steenbergern, Delia Zollinger. [Open Access].
• 2022 Stadt, Land, Frust. Eine politische Vermessung. München: C.H.Beck.
• 2019 Kein schöner Land. Angriff der Acht auf die deutsche Gegenwart, München: C.H.Beck. Mit Leander Steinkopf, Katharina Herrmann, Simon Strauss u.a.
• 2016 Die schwarze Null. Über die Schattenseiten ausgeglichener Haushalte. Berlin: Suhrkamp.
• 2015 Freiheit von Schulden – Freiheit zur Gestaltung? Die politische Ökonomie von Haushaltsüberschüssen. Frankfurt: Campus.

Journal Articles

• Forthcoming: The Universalist divide: Cleavages, identities, and party preferences in the EU. (with Simon Bornschier, Silja Häusermann, Marco Steenbergern, Delia Zollinger). In: Journal of European Public Policy
• Forthcoming: Changing Context, Changing Cohorts? An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Urban-Rural Differences (with Reto Mitteregger). In: European Journal of Political Research
• 2025 Taxes on Top Incomes and Financialisation (with David Hope and Julian Limberg). In: Review of International Political Economy 32 (2), 485-511. [Journal]
• 2024 When group appeals backfire: explaining the asymmetric effects of place-based appeals (with Tabea Palmtag and Julian Limberg). In: British Journal of Political Science. [Journal]
• 2024 Even in the best of both worlds, you can’t have it all: How German voters navigate the trilemma of mixed-member proportionality (with Pascal Langenbach and Tobias Rommel). In: Electoral Studies, 90. [Journal]
• 2024 Breaking with Orthodoxy? German Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of Covid-19 (with Laura Seelkopf). In: German Politics, Online First. [Journal]
• 2023 Cohorts and neighbors: Urban-rural conflict along the age gradient (with Reto Mitteregger). In: Electoral Studies, 86. [Journal]
• 2022 The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism and the Alternative für Deutschland. In: American Political Science Review, 116(2), 595-614. (Best Article, American Political Science Association, European Politics Section) [Journal]
• 2022 Does Fiscal Pressure Constrain Democratic Representation? Evidence from Germany (with Lea Elsässer). In: European Journal of Political Research, 61(2), 374-397. [Journal]
• 2021 Unequal Geographic Representation in a Mixed-Member Electoral System: Evidence from the German Bundestag. In: German Politics, Online First. [Journal]
• 2021 Misremembering Weimar. Experimental Evidence on the Roots of German Stability Culture (with Nils Redeker and Tobias Rommel). In: Economics & Politics, 33(3), 664-686. [Journal]
• 2021 Paying the Price of Austerity: Fiscal Consolidations Reduce Government Approval (with Olivier Jacques). In: European Political Science Review, 13(2), 189-207. [Journal]
• 2021 Between Distribution and Allocation: Growth Models, Sectoral Coalitions and the Politics of Taxation revisited (with Daniel Mertens). In: Socio-Economic Review, 19(2), 487–510. [Journal]
• 2021 Tax Policy as Industrial Policy in Comparative Capitalisms. In: Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 24(4), 488-504. [Journal]
• 2020 Consumption Taxation in the European Economic Community: Fostering the Common Market or Financing the Welfare State? (with Daniel Schulz) In: Journal of Common Market Studies, 58 (2), 438-454. [Journal]
• 2019 Permanent Budget Surpluses as a Fiscal Regime. In: Socio-Economic Review, 17 (4), 1043–1063. (SER Best Paper Prize for the best article published in 2019) [Journal]
• 2019 War Mobilization or War Destruction? The Unequal Rise of Progressive Taxation Revisited. In: Review of International Organizations, 14 (1), 59-82. [Journal]
• 2015 From Austerity to Expansion? Consolidation, Budget Surpluses, and the Decline of Fiscal Capacity (with Philip Mehrtens). In: Politics & Society 43 (1), 119-148. [Journal]
• 2014 Haushaltsüberschüsse, konservative Parteien und das Trilemma der Fiskalpolitik (with Philip Mehrtens). In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift 55 (4), 699-724.
• 2014 Haushaltsüberschüsse und ihre Verwendung: Wiedergewinnung staatlicher Handlungsfähigkeit? (with Philip Mehrtens) In: Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften 12 (2-3), 210-241.

Book chapters

• 2025 Doppelte Unterrepräsentation? Ergebnisse der Bundestagswahl 2025 im Spiegel von Stadt und Land, Zentrum und Peripherie. In: Marcus Böick/Constantin Goschler/Ralph Jessen (Eds.): Jahrbuch Deutsche Einheit. Bonn: Ch. Links.
• 2024 1923 als Trauma? Die Hyperinflation im kollektiven Gedächtnis der Deutschen. In: Aaron Sahr (Ed.): Geldpolitik im Umbruch. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung [pdf]
• 2023 Haushaltsdebatte: Politische Verteilungskämpfe und Kontroversen um Defizite. In: Jan Logemann, Stefanie Middendorf, Laura Rischbieter (Eds.): Schulden machen. Praktiken der Staatsverschuldung im langen 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt: Campus
• 2021 Size and Structure of the Tax State in Comparative Perspective. In: Lukas Hakelberg, Laura Seelkopf (Eds.): Handbook on the Politics of Taxation. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 98-112.