Publications

Journal Articles

• Nina Wiesehomeier, Matthew M. Singer, and Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell (2025). ‘Conditional populist party support: The role of dissatisfaction and incumbency’. Latin American Research Review, 1–20. doi:10.1017/lar.2025.1
• Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell and Nina Wiesehomeier (2025). ‘Populism in Power and Different Models of Democracy.’ PS: Political Science & Politics, 1–4.
• Nina Wiesehomeier, Nils Düpont and Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell (2024). ‘Xs We Share: Context Similarity, Culture, and the Diffusion of Populism’. American Journal of Political Science, first published online 23. December 2024
• Nina Wiesehomeier and Saskia P. Ruth-Lovell (2024). ‘Trust the People? Populism, Trust, and Support for Direct Democracy.’ Politics and Governance, 12, Article 8648.
• Christian Arnold, David Doyle, and Nina Wiesehomeier (2023). ‘How Presidents Follow the Call of International Capital’ Journal of Politics in Latin America, 15(3), 262-286.
• Nina Wiesehomeier and Tània Verge (2020), ‘Corruption, Opportunity Networks, and Gender: Stereotypes of Female Politicians’ Corruptibility’, Public Opinion Quarterly, 84 (2), 538–550
• Tània Verge, Nina Wiesehomeier, and Ana Espírito-Santo. (2020) ‘Framing symbolic representation: exploring how women’s political presence shapes citizens’ political attitudes’. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(2), 257-276., (a previous version is the winner of the ECPG Best Paper in Gender and Politics Award 2015)
• Guillermo Boscán, Iván Llamazares, and Nina Wiesehomeier (2018 [online]) ‘Populism, Ideology and Voting in Europe. An Analysis of the Attitudinal and Partisan Maps of Italian, Spanish and French Public Opinions’, Revista Internacional de Sociología, 76(4), e110
• Tània Verge and Nina Wiesehomeier (2019). ‘Parties, Candidates and Gendered Political Recruitment in Closed-List Proportional Representation Systems: The Case of Spain’. Political Research Quarterly, 72(4), 805-820
• Christian Arnold, David Doyle, and Nina Wiesehomeier (2017). ‘Presidents, Policy Compromise and Legislative Success’ Journal of Politics, 79(2), 380-395
• Nina Wiesehomeier and David Doyle (2013). ‘Discontent and the Left Turn in Latin America.’ Political Science and Research Methods, 1(2), 201-221
• Nina Wiesehomeier and David Doyle (2012). ‘Attitudes, Ideological Associations and the Left-Right Divide in Latin America’, Journal of Politics in Latin America, 3(1), 3-33
• Gerald Schneider and Nina Wiesehomeier (2010). ‘Diversity, Conflict and Growth: Theory and Evidence’ Diversity, 2, 1097-1117
• Nina Wiesehomeier (2010). ‘The Meaning of Left-Right in Latin America: A Comparative View’ Kellogg Working Paper No. 368
• Nina Wiesehomeier and Kenneth Benoit (2009). ‘Presidents, Parties and Policy Competition.’ Journal of Politics, 71 (4), 1435-1447 (Runner-up for the JOP best paper award 2009; awarded the Gulbenkian Prize 2010)
• Gerald Schneider and Nina Wiesehomeier (2008). ‘Rules that matter. Political Institutions and the Diversity-Confict Nexus’. Journal of Peace Research, 45(2), 183-203.
• Margit Bussmann, Gerald Schneider and Nina Wiesehomeier (2005). ‘Foreign Economic Liberalization and Peace: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa’ European Journal of International Relations, 11(4), 551-579

Book Chapters

• Maurits J. Meijers and Nina Wiesehomeier (forthcoming). ‘Expert surveys in party research.’ In Alessandro Nai and Max Grömping (eds.). Encyclopedia of Political Communication. Edward Elgar Publishing
• Nina Wiesehomeier and Maurits J. Meijers (2024). ‘Measuring Populism using Expert Surveys’ In: Robert A. Huber and Michael Jankowski (eds). Populism. An Introduction. SAGE Publishing
• Ethan Busby, Angelos Chryssogelos, Kirk A. Hawkins, Eliza Tanner Hawkins., Levente Littvay, Nina Wiesehomeier (2024). ‘The ideational approach’. In: Angelos Chryssogelos, Kirk A. Hawkins, Eliza Tanner Hawkins, Levente Littvay, and Nina Wiesehomeier (eds.) The Ideational Approach to Populism, Volume II: Consequences and Mitigation. Extremism and Democracy Series at Routledge
• Nina Wiesehomeier and Matthew M. Singer (2024). Populism and Understandings of Democracy. In: Angelos Chryssogelos, Kirk A. Hawkins, Eliza Tanner Hawkins, Levente Littvay, and Nina Wiesehomeier (eds.). The Ideational Approach to Populism, Volume II: Consequences and Mitigation. Extremism and Democracy Series at Routledge
• Nina Wiesehomeier, Ethan Busby, and D.J. Flynn, (2024). ‘Populism and Misinformation’ In: Angelos Chryssogelos, Kirk A. Hawkins, Eliza Tanner Hawkins, Levente Littvay, and Nina Wiesehomeier (eds.). The Ideational Approach to Populism, Volume II: Consequences and Mitigation. Extremism and Democracy Series at Routledge
• Maurits J. Meijers and Nina Wiesehomeier (2023). Expert surveys in party research. In: Neil Carter, Daniel Keith, Gyda M. Sindre, and Sofia Vasilopoulou (eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties, Routledge International Handbooks.
• Christian Arnold, David Doyle, and Nina Wiesehomeier (2019). ‘Coalition Cabinets, Presidential Ideological Adjustment and Legislative Success.’ In Lídia de Oliveira Xavier, Carlos F. Domínguez Avila and Vicente Fonseca (eds.) A Qualidade da Democracia no Brasil: Questões Teóricas e Metodológicas da Pesquisa, Voume 3. Editora CRV, 133-154
• Nina Wiesehomeier (2018). ‘Expert Surveys’. In Kirk Hawkins, Ryan Carlin, Levente Littvay, and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.), The Ideational Approach to Populism: Concept, Theory, and Analysis, Routledge, 90-111
• Ethan Busby, David Doyle, Kirk Hawkins, and Nina Wiesehomeier. (2018) ‘Activating Populist Attitudes: The Role of Corruption’. In Kirk Hawkins, Ryan Carlin, Levente Littvay, and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser (eds.), The Ideational Approach to Populism: Concept, Theory, and Analysis, Routledge, 374-395
• Nina Wiesehomeier and David Doyle (2014). ‘Profiling the Electorate: Ideology and Attitudes of Right-wing Voters.’ In: Juan Pablo Luna and Cristóbal Rovira-Kaltwasser (eds.), The Resilience of the Latin America Right, John Hopkins University Press, 48-74
• Kenneth Benoit and Nina Wiesehomeier (2009). ‘Expert Judgments’ In: Susanne Pickel et al. (eds.) Methoden der vergleichenden Politik- und Sozialwissenschaft: Neuere Entwicklungen und Anwendungen, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 497-516.

Data Sets

• PREPPS. Political Representation, Executives, and Political Parties Survey. Project coordinator: Nina Wiesehomeier. Team Members: Matthew Singer (University of Connecticut), Saskia Ruth-Lovell (Nijmegen University), Kenneth Benoit (Singapore Management University). Several waves.
• Staffan I. Lindberg, Nils Düpont, Masaaki Higashijima, Yaman Berker Kavasoglu, Kyle L. Marquardt, Michael Bernhard, Holger Döring, Allen Hicken, Melis Laebens, Juraj Medzihorsky, Anja Neundorf, Ora John Reuter, Saskia Ruth–Lovell, Keith R. Weghorst, Nina Wiesehomeier, Joseph Wright, Nazifa Alizada, Paul Bederke, Lisa Gastaldi, Sandra Grahn, Garry Hindle, Nina Ilchenko, Johannes von Römer, Steven Wilson, Daniel Pemstein, Brigitte Seim (2022). Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V–Party) Dataset V2. Varieties of Democracy (V–Dem) Project.
• Nina Wiesehomeier and Kenneth Benoit. ‘PPLA. Parties and Presidents in Latin America: Data from Expert Surveys in 18 Latin American Countries,’ 2006-2007. University of Konstanz & Trinity College Dublin.