Professor Anja Neundorf

Professor in Politics & Research Methods (Political & International Studies)

telephone: +44 (0)141 330 3144
email: Anja.Neundorf@glasgow.ac.uk

Biography

Anja Neundorf is a Professor of Politics and Research Methods at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Starting in September 2020, Professor Neundorf will lead a five-year ERC-CoG project "Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it" (DEMED): https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/democracyresearch/

She previously held a position at the University of Nottingham (2013-2019) and a Post-doctoral Prize Research Fellowship in political science at Nuffield College, University of Oxford (2010-2012). She received my PhD from the University of Essex in 2010.

Research interests

Generally, Professor Neundorf's research applies advanced statistical methods to substantially important research questions with the aim of testing and refining theories of political socialization, political attitudes, and electoral choice. Thereby, she is mainly interested in how individuals form and retain these attitudes and identities over time and across different political systems. Her research can be grouped into three broad themes:

SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACIES AND AUTOCRACIES: What drives support for different forms of political regimes? How to measure support for democracy or autocracy? Here the focus is on the role of (school and media) indoctrination and civic education, including experimental interventions to promote democracy.
AUTHORITARIAN LEGACIES and democratic transitioning: The legacy of authoritarian regimes on democratic attitudes.
POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION: The origins of political attitudes: Socialization, age, and generations.

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 38.

2026

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Öztürk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617, Finkel, Steven E. and Rascon Ramirez, Ericka (2026) Promoting democracy online: evidence from a 33 country experiment. American Political Science Review, (Accepted for Publication)

Facchini, Giovanni, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X and Testa, Cecilia (2026) Regional deprivation, individual prospects, and political resentment. British Journal of Political Science, (Accepted for Publication)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Gerschewski, Johannes, Lindstaedt, Natasha, Olar, Roman-Gabriel and Shorrocks, Rosalind (2026) Learning democracy: the lasting effects of political education on democratic support. European Journal of Political Research, (Accepted for Publication)

Öztürk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617, Finkel, Steven E., Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Rascón Ramirez, Ericka (2026) Keep positive and defend democracy: framing democratic messages under authoritarianism. European Journal of Political Research, (doi: 10.1017/S1475676525100583) (Early Online Publication)

Kim, Wooseok ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Nazrullaeva, Eugenia, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Northmore-Ball, Ksenia and Tertytchnaya, Katerina (2026) Strategies of political control and regime survival in autocracies. Democratization, (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2025.2611256) (Early Online Publication)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2026) Historical memory and radical right voting: VOX and the legacy of Francoism. Journal of Politics, 88(1), pp. 419-425. (doi: 10.1086/734282)

2025

Yameogo, Souleymane and Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 (2025) The impact of terrorism on democratic support in Africa. Journal of Conflict Resolution, (doi: 10.1177/00220027251409402) (Early Online Publication)

Yameogo, Souleymane, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Öztürk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617 (2025) Promoting democracy in the context of terrorism: experimental evidence from Burkina Faso. Political Science Research and Methods, (doi: 10.1017/psrm.2025.10075) (Early Online Publication)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Dahlum, Sirianne, Frederiksen, Kristian and Ozturk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617 (2025) Elections without constraints? The appeal of electoral autocracy across the world. British Journal of Political Science, 56, e1. (doi: 10.1017/S0007123425101129)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Northmore-Ball, Ksenia (2025) Learning to vote in democratic and authoritarian elections. Electoral Studies, 98, 102985. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102985)

del Río, Adrián, Kim, Wooseok ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864, Knutsen, Carl Henrik, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Paglayan, Agustina and Nazrullaeva, Eugenia (2025) Enhancing transparency and replicability in data collection: lessons from the construction of three education datasets. Perspectives on Politics, (doi: 10.1017/S1537592725103058) (Early Online Publication)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Ozturk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617, Northmore-Ball, Ksenia, Tertytchnaya, Katerina and Gerschewski, Johannes (2025) A loyal base: support for authoritarian regimes in times of crisis. Comparative Political Studies, 58(9), pp. 1854-1889. (doi: 10.1177/00104140241283006)

Claassen, C. et al. (2025) Conceptualizing and measuring support for democracy: a new approach. Comparative Political Studies, 58(6), pp. 1171-1198. (doi: 10.1177/00104140241259458)

Olar, Roman-Gabriel and Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 (2025) Winds of change: democratic transitions and long-term democratic support. Democratization, 32(1), pp. 123-145. (doi: 10.1080/13510347.2024.2405853)

Eroglu, Melek Hilal, Finkel, Steven, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Ozturk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617 and Ramirez, Ericka G. Rascon (2025) Choosing democracy over party? How civic education can mitigate the anti-democratic effects of partisan polarization. British Journal of Political Science, 55, e65. (doi: 10.1017/S000712342500016X)

2024

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Nazrullaeva, Eugenia, Northmore-Ball, Ksenia, Tertytchnaya, Katerina and Kim, Wooseok ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3624-2864 (2024) Varieties of indoctrination: the politicization of education and the media around the world. Perspectives on Politics, 22(3), pp. 771-798. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592723002967)

Finkel, Steven, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Rascon Ramırez, Ericka (2024) Can online civic education induce democratic citizenship? Experimental evidence from a new democracy. American Journal of Political Science, 68(2), pp. 613-630. (doi: 10.1111/ajps.12765)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Öztürk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617 (2024) Advertising online surveys on social media: how your advertisements affect your study. Public Opinion Quarterly, 89(2), pp. 335-360. (doi: 10.1093/poq/nfaf018) (PMID:40852322) (PMCID:PMC12369937)

2023

Cavaille, Charlotte and Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 (2023) Elite cues and economic policy attitudes: the mediating role of economic hardship. Political Behavior, 45(4), pp. 1355-1376. (doi: 10.1007/s11109-021-09768-w)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Öztürk, Aykut ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-4617 (2023) How to improve representativeness and cost-effectiveness in samples recruited through Meta: a comparison of advertisement tools. PLoS ONE, 18(2), e0281243. (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0281243) (PMID:36753470) (PMCID:PMC9907806)

2022

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Shorrocks, Rosalind (2022) Revisiting the impact of modernization on support for women politicians: the role of women’s political empowerment. Comparative Political Studies, 55(8), pp. 1298-1331. (doi: 10.1177/00104140211066214)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Pardos-Prado, Sergi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6944-326X (2022) The impact of Covid-19 on Trump’s electoral demise: the role of economic and democratic accountability. Perspectives on Politics, 20(1), pp. 170-186. (doi: 10.1017/S1537592721001961)

2021

McLaren, Lauren, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Paterson, Ian ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1582-6959 (2021) Diversity and perceptions of immigration: how the past influences the present. Political Studies, 69(3), pp. 725-747. (doi: 10.1177/0032321720922774)

2020

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Gerschewski, Johannes and Olar, Roman-Gabriel (2020) How do inclusionary and exclusionary autocracies affect ordinary people? Comparative Political Studies, 53(12), pp. 1890-1925. (doi: 10.1177/0010414019858958)

Evans, Geoffrey and Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 (2020) Core political values and the long-term shaping of partisanship. British Journal of Political Science, 50(4), pp. 1263-1281. (doi: 10.1017/s0007123418000339)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Pop-Eleches, Grigore (2020) Dictators and their subjects: authoritarian attitudinal effects and legacies. Comparative Political Studies, 53(12), pp. 1839-1860. (doi: 10.1177/0010414020926203)

2018

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Adams, James (2018) The Micro-foundations of party competition and issue ownership: the reciprocal effects of citizens’ issue salience and party attachments. British Journal of Political Science, 48(2), pp. 385-406. (doi: 10.1017/S0007123415000642)

Tilley, James, Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Hobolt, Sara B. (2018) When the pound in people’s pocket matters: how changes to personal financial circumstances affect party choice. Journal of Politics, 80(2), pp. 555-569. (doi: 10.1086/694549)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Soroka, Stuart (2018) The origins of redistributive policy preferences: political socialization with and without a welfare state. West European Politics, 41(2), pp. 400-427. (doi: 10.1080/01402382.2017.1388666)

2017

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Smets, Kaat (2017) Political socialization and the making of citizens. In: Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199935307 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935307.013.98)

2016

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Niemi, Richard G. and Smets, Kaat (2016) The compensation effect of civic education on political engagement: how civics classes make up for missing parental socialization. Political Behavior, 38(4), pp. 921-949. (doi: 10.1007/s11109-016-9341-0)

2014

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 and Niemi, Richard G. (2014) Beyond political socialization: New approaches to age, period, cohort analysis. Electoral Studies, 33, pp. 1-6. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.06.012)

Smets, Kaat and Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 (2014) The hierarchies of age-period-cohort research: political context and the development of generational turnout patterns. Electoral Studies, 33, pp. 41-51. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.06.009)

2013

Abney, Ronni, Adams, James, Clark, Michael, Easton, Malcolm, Ezrow, Lawrence, Kosmidis, Spyros and Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 (2013) When does valence matter? Heightened valence effects for governing parties during election campaigns. Party Politics, 19(1), pp. 61-82. (doi: 10.1177/1354068810395057)

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Smets, Kaat and García-Albacete, Gema M. (2013) Homemade citizens: the development of political interest during adolescence and young adulthood. Acta Politica, 48(1), pp. 92-116. (doi: 10.1057/ap.2012.23)

2012

Müller, Tim and Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 (2012) The role of the state in the repression and revival of religiosity in Central Eastern Europe. Social Forces, 91(2), pp. 559-582. (doi: 10.1093/sf/sos142)

2011

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771, Stegmueller, Daniel and Scotto, Thomas J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4801-6821 (2011) The individual-level dynamics of bounded partisanship. Public Opinion Quarterly, 75(3), pp. 458-482. (doi: 10.1093/poq/nfr018)

2010

Neundorf, Anja ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1294-6771 (2010) Democracy in transition: A micro perspective on system change in post-socialist societies. Journal of Politics, 72(4), pp. 1096-1108. (doi: 10.1017/S0022381610000551)

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Articles

Claassen, C. et al. (2025) Conceptualizing and measuring support for democracy: a new approach. Comparative Political Studies, 58(6), pp. 1171-1198. (doi: 10.1177/00104140241259458)

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Grants

2021-2024: Research Project: When will citizens defend democracy? (DefDem) Funded by: Norwegian Research Council (Value: 992,000 Euros). Role: Co-I.

2020-2025: Research Project: Democracy under Threat: How Education can Save it (DEMED). Funded by: European Research Council, Consolidator Grant (EU) (Value: 1,995,024 Euros). Role: PI.

2020-2021: Research Project: The Economy, COVID-19, Trump and the Future of Liberal Democracy. Funded by: British Academy (UK) (Value: £9,600). Role: Co-I

2020-2023: Research Project: The Economic Roots of Populism. Funded by: Volkswagen Stiftung (Germany) (Value: 980,600 Euros). Role: Co-I.

2019: Research Project: Social Media for Civic Education: Experiments in Tunisia. Funded by: MEPI, US State Department (USA) (Value: $338,705). Role: Co-I

2016-2017: Research Project: The Legacy of Authoritarian Regimes. Funded by: ESRC Secondary Data Analysis Initiative. (Value: £195,257). Role: PI.

2015: Research Centre: Nottingham Interdisciplinary Centre for Economic & Political Research. Funding application: University’s Research Board Discipline Bridging Award (Value: £25,000). Role: Co-I.

2014-2018: Research Project: The Impact of Ethnic Diversity on the Demand for Welfare Services. Funded: Norface Welfare State Futures (Value: 1,321,876 Euros). Role: Co-I

Supervision

Professor Neundorf is interested in supervising undergraduate or postgraduate theses in the following areas:

Political behaviour
Public opinion
Young people and politics
Democratisation
Authoritarian regimes
Legacies of authoritarian regimes
Civic education
Quantitative methods
Experiments
Survey research
Post-Communist countries.

Past experiences:

Nottingham

Thesis Supervision - Several PhD (4 complete), MA and BA dissertations.
British Academy Research Fellow

Oxford

Mphil dissertation.

PhD Thesis Examinations

Trinity College Dublin
University of Oxford
University College London
King's College London
European University Institute
Aarhus University
University of Amsterdam
Science Po Paris
University of Pittsburgh

Acun, Kutlu
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Teaching

At the University of Glasgow, Professor Neundorf has taught the following courses:

PGR/MRes: Research Design
Honours: Authoritarinism

Professional activities & recognition

Editorial boards

2013: Political Science Research and Methods
2016: Electoral Studies
2019: Perspectives on Politics

Professional & learned societies

2014 - 2016: Elected Council Member, European Political Science Association
2014 - 2015: Co-programme chair, European Political Science Association

Research datasets

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2023

Neundorf, A. , Nazrullaeva, E., Northmore-Ball, K., Tertytchnaya, K., Kim, W., Benavot, A., Bromley, P., Knutsten, C. H., Lutscher, P., Marquardt, K., Paglayan, A., Pemstein, D., Seim, B. and Rydén, O. (2023) Varieties of Political Indoctrination in Education and the Media (V-Indoc) Dataset V1. [Data Collection]

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Book series

Co-editor Cambridge University Press Elements Series on Comparative Political Behavior

Journal editorship

Political Science Research and Methods (2018-2022)
Political Studies (2013-2017)
Political Studies Review (2013-2014)

Journal editorial board member

Canadian Journal of Political Science (2024-)
Comparative Political Studies (2020-)
Perspectives on Politics (2019-)
Electoral Studies (2016-)
Political Science Research and Methods (2013-)

Associations

European Political Science Association: Elected member of the Council & Co-Program Chair (2014-2016)

Reviewer

Journals: 30 different scientific journals in political science, social sciences and sociology
Funding bodies: European Research Council (H2020, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship);
Research Foundation - Flanders; Carnegie Foundation; Israeli Science Foundation

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