Tim Wappenhans

PhD Candidate in Political Science at DYNAMICS, Research and Teaching Fellow at Humboldt University of Berlin.


Hello

I am a PhD candidate with the DYNAMICS Research Training Group and a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Chair of Comparative Political Behavior in the Department of Social Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin.

In my PhD projects, I use experiments and original data to study political behavior.

If you want to talk about my research, hit me up on Twitter or via mail.

You can find my CV here.

Publications

  • Extreme Weather Events Do Not Increase Political Parties’ Environmental Attention (accepted at Nature Climate Change), with Heike Klüver, Lukas Stoetzer, and António Valentim

    Abstract: As the impacts of climate change become increasingly clear, we study if extreme weather events increase political parties’ discussion of environmental issues. Combining supervised learning algorithms on over 260,000 press releases by European parties with a difference-in-differences design, we find that, apart from Green parties, extreme weather events do not increase attention towards environmental issues. This suggests the consequences of climate change might not directly increase political attention.

Working Papers

  • Creating grievances. How radical right parties undermine local public goods provision, draft available upon request

Ongoing Work

Teaching

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