Prof. Dr. Swen Hutter - Coping with Affective Polarization

Prof. Dr. Swen Hutter

Principal Investigator

Website:
www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de
www.swen-hutter.eu

Short Vita

I am Professor of Political Sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and Director of the Center for Civil Society Research at Freie Universität and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB).

Key publications

Hamdani, L., Demel, R., Hutter, S., & Specht, J. (2026). Who Gets Involved in a Crisis? The Role of the Big Five Personality Traits and Empathy in Benevolent and Activist Engagement. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 19485506251413297. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506251413297
Demel, R., Masch, L., Schieferdecker, D., Schwander, H., Hutter, S., & Specht, J. (2025). Empathy during crises: Investigating attitudes, tolerance, and ingroup–outgroup dynamics in response to refugee movements. Journal of Personality, 0, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.13012
Hutter, S., Schwander, H., Specht, J., von Scheve, C. (2025). Coping with Affective Polarization: A Research Program. Diskussionspapier ZZ 2025-602, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB). https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/zz25-602.pdf
van den Berg, C. & Hutter, S. (2025). HOW LOCAL BROKERS KEEP INTERACTION GOING: PRO-REFUGEE COMMUNITIES AFTER HEIGHTENED MOBILIZATION*. Mobilization: An International Quarterly, 30(3), 235–255. https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-30-3-235
Hutter, Swen, and Endre Borbáth. 2024. „Environmental Protests in Europe.“ Journal of European Public Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2024.2390701
Höltmann, Gesine, Hutter, Swen, and Specht, Jule. 2023. „How social capital matters for receiving social support: on the complementary role of civil society in the COVID-19 pandemic.“ European Societies, 25(5), 804–828. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616696.2023.2176528
Hutter, Swen, and Hanspeter Kriesi, eds. 2019. European Party Politics in Times of Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hutter, Swen, Edgar Grande, and Hanspeter Kriesi, eds. 2016. Politicising Europe: Mass Politics and Integration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hutter, Swen. 2014. Protesting Culture and Economics in Western Europe: New Cleavages in Left and Right Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Press publications

Soziologe Swen Hutter im Interview: „Wenn man miteinander arbeitet, baut man Vertrauen auf“ (Tagesspiegel, 2025)

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