SWEN HUTTER
POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY
Welcome to my website! My name is Swen Hutter, and I am interested in the changing dynamics and structuration of political conflict in contemporary democracies. In particular, I am interested in how social movements and political parties interact in articulating and mobilizing new societal divides. I have the pleasure of teaching political sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and being Director of the Center for Civil Society Research, a joint initiative of Freie Universität and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
On this website, you will find information on my current projects, publications, and my institutional affiliations.
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Game Changers: National Referendums and the Politicization of Europe
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Article in
Politics and Governance
Varieties of Trade Union Protest
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Article
with Gesine Hoeltmann and Endre Borbáth in Socio-Economic Review
Empathy During Crises: Investigating Attitudes, Tolerance and Ingroup-Outgroup Dynamics in Response to Refugee Movements
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Article with Ronja Demel, Lena Masch, David Schieferdecker, Hanna Schwander and Jule Specht in
Journal of Personality
The Big Five Personality Traits and Social Support During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Supporters, the Supported, and the Overlooked
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Article with Luise Kratt, Gesine Hoeltmann and Jule Specht in
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
Forthcoming: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape
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Guest Editorship with Sophia Hunger
Special Issue of the Journal of European Public Policy
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