Dr. Bastian Becker - Coping with Affective Polarization

Dr. Bastian Becker

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Stream:
Berlin Polarization Monitor

Website:
www.beckerbastian.net
www.sowi.hu-berlin.de/de/lehrbereiche/sozpol

Short Vita

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The focus of my research lies at the intersection of comparative political economy and political behavior, using mainly quantitative and experimental methods.

Key publications

Becker, B., Schwander, H., Shuttleworth, L., Faas, T., Gerstorf, D., specht, jule, & Teney, C. (2025). The Berlin Polarization Monitor: A Panel Study of Partisan and Issue-Based Polarization in Germany (2025–2027) (No. msc7e_v1). SocArXiv. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/msc7e_v1/
Becker, Bastian, and Nadine Waitkus. Forthcoming. “Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution.” European Societies.
Becker, Bastian, and Dean Dulay. 2024. “Between God and Nation: The Colonial Origins of Democracy Support in British Africa.” Studies in Comparative International Development 59(1): 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-024-09450-2.
Becker, Bastian. 2024. “International inequality and demand for redistribution in the Global South”. Political Science Research and Methods. 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2023.36.
Becker, Bastian, and Carina Schmitt. 2023. “License to educate: The role of national networks in colonial empires.” World Development 169. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2023.106286.
Becker, Bastian. 2022. „The colonial struggle over polygamy: Consequences for educational expansion in sub-Saharan Africa.” Economic History of Developing Regions 37(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1940946.

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