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It is our pleasure to congratulate Tuuli-Marja Kleiner of the Thünen Institute of Rural Studies on being awarded the 2020 Jacqui Briggs EPS Prize for her article Does Ideological Polarisation Mobilise Citizens?, published in Volume 19, 2020.
Awarded annually since 2015, in partnership with Palgrave Macmillan, the prize recognises a substantial contribution to the field of political science, particularly articles that contribute to the understanding of new and innovative trends in political science or to innovative approaches to teaching and learning in the profession.
Although there are countless examples of entrenched political polarisation, political scientists have only begun to seek an adequate understanding of how this affects citizens’ engagement with politics. In the winning article, Tuuli-Marja finds that political-party polarisation does produce more non-electoral engagement by citizens but does not lead to higher levels of turnout at the polls. The effect is mostly driven by those with far-right views.
'The paper makes an important contribution to an emerging field of study.
...The analysis is well done, and it acts as a solid starting point for future research. The focus on non-electoral participation confirms other work showing its importance to the development of populist movements.'
Susan Rose-Ackerman Yale University (Chair)
Ben Rosamond University of Copenhagen
Stuart A. Brown London School of Economics and Politics (2019 prize winner)
'I was always inspired by the idea of combining substantial theoretical arguments with rigorous empirical testing. That's what I was pursuing in my research from the beginning and what I also tried to realise in this article.
Therefore, I am very happy and honoured to receive this award hoping this recognition will motivate more scholars to work in this kind of spirit.'
Tuuli-Marja is a senior researcher at the Institute of Rural Studies. She earned her PhD at the University of Hamburg, having investigated whether cultural similarities between European nations foster mutual trust, in her doctoral thesis. She had previously worked as researcher and lecturer at various universities in Germany, and habilitated on the role of culture in the relationship between the citizen and her/his state at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Tuuli-Marja’s main research areas are civic participation, political trust and public opinion polarisation. Her work has been published, inter alia, in Swiss Political Science Review, European Journal of Political Research, European Political Science, and Journal of Sociology. Her current research focuses on civic engagement, political participation, political culture and social cohesion.