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Marlene studied political science and communication studies in Mainz (Germany) and Kristiansand (Norway). She received her PhD in political science from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2017. From 2012 to 2018, she worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science, JGU Mainz. Since October 2018, Marlene is a postdoctoral researcher at GESIS. During the summer term 2021, she acted as interim professor for "Empirical Methods of Social Research" at University of Münster.
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Service

Marlene is responsible for coordinating the GESIS Fall Seminar in Computational Social Science and the International Summer School in Uganda (ISSU). She is also developing an e-learning concept for GESIS Training.
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Research

Marlene's research interests are located in the field of political culture. In her dissertation, she has compared citizen attitudes towards the political regime between democracies and autocracies and has analyzed both the individual- and the system-level determinants of these attitudes. Other research interests include political value orientations, (sources of) political trust, and issues of cross-country comparability.
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Publications

Publication

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Journal article

Mauk, Marlene. 2022. "Electoral integrity matters: how electoral process conditions the relationship between political losing and political trust." Quality & Quantity 56 (3): 1709-1728. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-020-01050-1.

Mauk, Marlene. 2022. "Stable support for democracy in East and Southeast Asia?: Examining citizens' trust in democratic institutions." East Asia 39 (3): 239-257. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12140-021-09381-y.

Mauk, Marlene. 2021. "Quality of democracy makes a difference, but not for everyone: how political interest, education, and conceptions of democracy condition the relationship between democratic quality and political trust." Frontiers in Political Science 3 637344. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.637344.

Mauk, Marlene. 2020. "Disentangling an elusive relationship: How democratic value orientations affect political trust in different regimes." Political Research Quarterly 73 (2): 366-380. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912919829832.

Schulze, Heidi, Marlene Mauk, and Jonas Linde. 2020. "How populism and polarization affect Europe's liberal democracies: Editorial." Politics and Governance 8 (3): 1-5. doi: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i3.3460.

Mauk, Marlene. 2020. "Rebuilding trust in broken systems? Populist party success and citizens' trust in democratic institutions." Politics and Governance 8 (3): 45-58. doi: https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v8i3.2896.

Mauk, Marlene. 2020. "Trusting the cops but not much else: East Asia's skeptical democratic citizenry." Global Asia 15 (1): 14-20.

Mauk, Marlene. 2017. "Fostering support for non-democratic rule?: Controlled political liberalization and popular support for non-democratic regimes." Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 11 (1): 24-49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12286-017-0325-1.

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Contribution to edited volume

Stroppe, Anne-Kathrin, and Marlene Mauk. 2021. "Einstellungen zu Demokratie und Sozialstaat." In Datenreport 2021, edited by Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB), and Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB), 386-393. Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. https://www.wzb.eu/system/files/docs/sv/k/dr2021_buch_fuer_web_210212_gesamt.pdf.

Mauk, Marlene. 2016. ""Asian Democracy?" Der Einfluss konfuzianischer Werte auf die Legitimität westlich-liberaler Demokratievorstellungen in Nord- und Südostasien." In "Demokratie" jenseits des Westens. Theorien, Diskurse, Einstellungen. Sonderheft 51 der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift, edited by Sophia Schubert, and Alexander Weiß, 491-510. Baden-Baden: Nomos. doi: https://doi.org/10.5771/9783845261904-492.

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Editorship

Linde, Jonas, Marlene Mauk, and Heidi Schulze, ed. 2020. Populism and Polarization – A Dual Threat to Europe’s Liberal Democracies? Special Issue Politics and Governance 8 (3). https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/issue/view/185.

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Monograph

Mauk, Marlene. 2020. Citizen support for democratic and autocratic regimes. Comparative Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Lecture

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Conference contribution

Mauk, Marlene, and Max Grömping. 2022. "Infowars: Disinformation, election monitors, and (mis-)perceptions of electoral integrity." European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, Prague, 23.-25.06.2022, Prague Congress Centre, Prague, 2022-06-25.

Wegscheider, Carsten, and Marlene Mauk. 2021. "Defenders of democracy?: How democratic knowledge, democratic quality, and political protest interact." 28. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), Online, 2021-09-14.

Wegscheider, Carsten, and Marlene Mauk. 2021. "Defenders of democracy? How democratic attitudes relate to political participation." European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, 24.-25.06.2021, Online, 2021-06-25.

Chiang, Amy Yunyu, and Marlene Mauk. 2021. "Political repression, protest, and citizens' attitudes towards the state." European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, Online, 2021-06-24.

Mauk, Marlene. 2019. "Are radical-right populist parties only bad for some democracies?" American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 29.08.-01.09.2019.

Mauk, Marlene. 2019. "Rebuilding trust in broken systems?: Radical-right populist party success and citizens’ trust in democratic institutions." EUROLAB Authors' Conference "Populism and Polarization - A Dual Threat for Europe's Liberal Democracies?", Köln, 21.-22.11.2019.

Mauk, Marlene. 2019. "When does cheating matter? Electoral malpractice and political trust." European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, Belfast, 20.-22.06.2019.

Mauk, Marlene. 2018. "Electoral Malpractice and Political Trust in Democratic and Autocratic Regimes." European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, 22.-25.08.2018.

Mauk, Marlene. 2018. "Measuring Citizen Support for Fundamentally Different Regimes." European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, 22.-25.08.2018.

Mauk, Marlene. 2018. "Measuring Citizen Support for Fundamentally Different Regimes." European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, 21.-23.06.2018.

Mauk, Marlene. 2018. "Political losing and political trust in fundamentally different regime contexts." 27. Wissenschaftliche Kongress der DVPW, 25.-28.09.2018.

Mauk, Marlene. 2017. "Macht Religion Menschen autokratisch?" Annual Meeting of the German Political Science Association (DVPW) Section Comparative Politics, 15.-17.03.2017.

Mauk, Marlene. 2017. "Regime Support and Its Sources in Democracies and Autocracies." European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, 22.-24.06.2017.

Mauk, Marlene. 2017. "Sources of Regime Legitimacy in Democracies and Autocracies." American Political Science Association (APSA) Annual Meeting, 31.08.-03.09.2017.

Mauk, Marlene. 2017. "The Political Culture of Authoritarian Regimes." European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions of Workshops, 25.-30.04.2017.

Mauk, Marlene. 2015. "Die Bereitstellung von Freiheit und Sicherheit und die Legitimität nicht-demokratischer Regime." German Political Science Association (DVPW) Triannual Congress, 21.-25.09.2015.

Mauk, Marlene. 2015. "The Impact of Democratic Value Orientations on Regime Support in Democratic, Hybrid and Authoritarian Regimes." European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, 26.-29.08.2015.

Mauk, Marlene. 2015. "’Asian Values’ oder Good Governance? Legitimationsquellen autokratischer Regime in Ostasien." German Political Science Association (DVPW) Triannual Congress, 21.-25.09.2015.

Mauk, Marlene. 2014. "Hybrid Political Cultures in Southeast Asia?" European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Graduate Student Conference, 03.-05.07.2014.

Mauk, Marlene. 2013. "Typen politischer Kultur in nicht-demokratischen Systemen." Annual Meeting of the German Political Science Association (DPVW) Section Comparative Politics, 09.-11.10.2013.

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Contribution not at conference

Mauk, Marlene. 2019. "How resilient are East Asian citizens to democratic backsliding?" Workshop on "Democratic Backsliding in Asia: Resilience, Responses, Revival", Heidelberg, 08.-09.12 2019, 2019-12-08.