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Tuuli-Marja Kleiner

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About

Tuuli-Marja Kleiner is a senior researcher at the Thuenen Institute of Rural Studies and a lecturer at the Goethe University Frankfurt (Main). Her present research focuses on civic participation, social cohesion, and political cultures of subnational regions (public opinion polarization; the awareness of cultural differences). Tuuli was awarded the 2020 Jacqui Briggs EPS Prize for her article Does Ideological Polarisation Mobilise Citizens? (Volume 19, 2020). She was also nominated for the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Prize for Social Science Essays, and her master's thesis was awarded as the best work of the year in the Political Science Degree Program at the University of Stuttgart. Tuuli-Marja is an expert in comparative cultural research, public opinion, trust, ideological identity, civic participation and quantitative research methods. She has been elected member of two ECPR Steering Committees (“SG Citizenship” and “SG Identity”). Tuuli has organized and led several sections and panels at various ECPR conferences and conferences of other organizations. Her recent publications include: 2021: Civic participation and social exclusion in rural and urban regions. In: Voluntaris 9 (1), S. 114–134. DOI: 10.5771/2196-3886-2021-1-114. 2021: Civic Participation and Social Embeddedness: Differences Between Urban and Rural Communities. In: The International Journal of Community and Social Development 3 (1), S. 45–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/25166026211002048 2020: The isolating side effect of civic participation. Journal of Sociology. DOI:10.1177/1440783320969906 2019: Does ideological polarisation mobilise citizens? In: European Political Science 3 (2). DOI: 10.1057/s41304-019-00228-y 2019: Public opinion polarization and protest behaviour. In: European Journal of Political Research 57(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12260. For more information, see Tuuli's profile on Research Gate.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, European Union, Extremism, Political Participation, Political Sociology, Identity, Quantitative, Comparative Perspective, Euroscepticism, Mobilisation, Political Engagement, Political Ideology, Public Opinion, Political Cultures