Professor Christopher Claassen

  • Professor of Political Behaviour (Political & International Studies)

telephone: 0141 330 3313
email: Christopher.Claassen@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 1305, Adam Smith Building

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001

Biography

Personal website: chrisclaassen.com

Research interests

  • Political behaviour, political psychology and public opinion
  • Quantitative methods, especially latent variable, panel and hierarchical models
  • Political culture, democratic support and political tolerance
  • Intergroup prejudice, conflict and violence

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2011 | 2010 | 2005
Number of items: 25.

2025

Claassen, C. et al. (2025) Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe. Electoral Studies, 95, 102912. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102912)

McKay, Lawrence, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 and Carman, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-0666 (2025) Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives. Electoral Studies, 95, 102937. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102937)

2024

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Carman, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-0666 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2024) Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, (doi: 10.1080/17457289.2024.2393587) (Early Online Publication)

Claassen, C. et al. (2024) Conceptualizing and measuring support for democracy: a new approach. Comparative Political Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00104140241259458) (Early Online Publication)

2023

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Magalhães, Pedro C. (2023) Public support for democracy in the United States has declined generationally. Public Opinion Quarterly, 87(3), pp. 719-732. (doi: 10.1093/poq/nfad039) (PMID:38024645) (PMCID:PMC10662659)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2023) Immigration and public support for political systems in Europe. Perspectives on Politics, (doi: 10.1017/S1537592722004194) (Early Online Publication)

2022

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and McLaren, Lauren (2022) Does immigration produce a public backlash or public acceptance? Time-series, cross-sectional evidence from 30 European democracies. British Journal of Political Science, 52(3), pp. 1013-1031. (doi: 10.1017/S0007123421000260)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Magalhães, Pedro C. (2022) Effective government and evaluations of democracy. Comparative Political Studies, 55(5), pp. 869-894. (doi: 10.1177/00104140211036042)

2021

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and McLaren, Lauren (2021) Do threats galvanize authoritarians or mobilize non-authoritarians? Experimental tests from 19 European societies. Political Psychology, 42(4), pp. 677-694. (doi: 10.1111/pops.12720)

2020

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Traunmüller, Richard (2020) Improving and validating survey estimates of religious demography using Bayesian multilevel models and poststratification. Sociological Methods and Research, 49(3), pp. 603-636. (doi: 10.1177/0049124118769086)

Gibson, James, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Barceló, Joan (2020) Deplorables: emotions, political sophistication, and political intolerance. American Politics Research, 48(2), pp. 252-262. (doi: 10.1177/1532673X18820864)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2020) In the mood for democracy? Democratic support as thermostatic opinion. American Political Science Review, 114(1), pp. 36-53. (doi: 10.1017/S0003055419000558)

Gibson, James L., Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Barceló, Joan (2020) Putting groups back into the study of political tolerance. In: Borgida, Eugene, Federico, Christopher and Miller, Joanne (eds.) At the Forefront of Political Psychology: Essays in Honor of John L. Sullivan. Routledge. ISBN 9780367368111

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2020) Does public support help democracy survive? American Journal of Political Science, 64(1), pp. 118-134. (doi: 10.1111/ajps.12452)

2019

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Gibson, James L. (2019) Does intolerance dampen dissent? Macro-tolerance and protest in American metropolitan areas. Political Behavior, 41(1), pp. 165-185. (doi: 10.1007/s11109-018-9444-x)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2019) Estimating smooth country-year panels of public opinion. Political Analysis, 27(1), pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1017/pan.2018.32)

2017

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2017) Explaining South African Xenophobia. Working Paper. Afrobarometer.

2016

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2016) Group entitlement, anger and participation in intergroup violence. British Journal of Political Science, 46(1), pp. 127-148. (doi: 10.1017/S000712341400012X)

2015

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2015) Measuring university quality. Scientometrics, 104(3), pp. 793-807. (doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1584-8)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Tucker, Patrick and Smith, Steven S. (2015) Ideological labels in America. Political Behavior, 37(2), pp. 253-278. (doi: 10.1007/s11109-014-9272-6)

2014

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2014) Who participates in communal violence? Survey evidence from South Africa. Research and Politics, 2014, pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1177/2053168014534649)

2011

Schofield, Norman, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Ozdemir, Ugur and Zakharov, Alexei (2011) Estimating the effects of activists in two-party and multi-party systems: comparing the United States and Israel. Social Choice and Welfare, 36(3-4), pp. 483-518. (doi: 10.1007/s00355-010-0507-0)

Schofield, Norman, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Gallego, Maria and Ozdemir, Ugur (2011) Empirical and formal models of the United States presidential elections in 2000 and 2004. In: Schofield, Norman and Caballero, Gonzalo (eds.) The Political Economy of Institutions, Democracy and Voting. Springer: New York, pp. 217-258. ISBN 9783642195198

2010

Gibson, James L. and Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2010) Racial reconciliation in South Africa: interracial contact and changes over time. Journal of Social Issues, 66(2), pp. 255-272. (doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2010.01644.x)

2005

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Mattes, Robert (2005) Public Opinion Matters: Testing A Supply and Demand Model of Popular Regime Preferences and Democratic Change. Working Paper. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town.

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 15:30:01 2025 BST.
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Number of items: 25.

Articles

Claassen, C. et al. (2025) Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe. Electoral Studies, 95, 102912. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102912)

McKay, Lawrence, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 and Carman, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-0666 (2025) Countryside champions or urban allies? What rural and urban citizens want from elected representatives. Electoral Studies, 95, 102937. (doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102937)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Carman, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3114-0666 and Bankov, Petar ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0609-4947 (2024) Is there a rural-urban political divide in Britain? Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, (doi: 10.1080/17457289.2024.2393587) (Early Online Publication)

Claassen, C. et al. (2024) Conceptualizing and measuring support for democracy: a new approach. Comparative Political Studies, (doi: 10.1177/00104140241259458) (Early Online Publication)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Magalhães, Pedro C. (2023) Public support for democracy in the United States has declined generationally. Public Opinion Quarterly, 87(3), pp. 719-732. (doi: 10.1093/poq/nfad039) (PMID:38024645) (PMCID:PMC10662659)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2023) Immigration and public support for political systems in Europe. Perspectives on Politics, (doi: 10.1017/S1537592722004194) (Early Online Publication)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and McLaren, Lauren (2022) Does immigration produce a public backlash or public acceptance? Time-series, cross-sectional evidence from 30 European democracies. British Journal of Political Science, 52(3), pp. 1013-1031. (doi: 10.1017/S0007123421000260)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Magalhães, Pedro C. (2022) Effective government and evaluations of democracy. Comparative Political Studies, 55(5), pp. 869-894. (doi: 10.1177/00104140211036042)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and McLaren, Lauren (2021) Do threats galvanize authoritarians or mobilize non-authoritarians? Experimental tests from 19 European societies. Political Psychology, 42(4), pp. 677-694. (doi: 10.1111/pops.12720)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Traunmüller, Richard (2020) Improving and validating survey estimates of religious demography using Bayesian multilevel models and poststratification. Sociological Methods and Research, 49(3), pp. 603-636. (doi: 10.1177/0049124118769086)

Gibson, James, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Barceló, Joan (2020) Deplorables: emotions, political sophistication, and political intolerance. American Politics Research, 48(2), pp. 252-262. (doi: 10.1177/1532673X18820864)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2020) In the mood for democracy? Democratic support as thermostatic opinion. American Political Science Review, 114(1), pp. 36-53. (doi: 10.1017/S0003055419000558)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2020) Does public support help democracy survive? American Journal of Political Science, 64(1), pp. 118-134. (doi: 10.1111/ajps.12452)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Gibson, James L. (2019) Does intolerance dampen dissent? Macro-tolerance and protest in American metropolitan areas. Political Behavior, 41(1), pp. 165-185. (doi: 10.1007/s11109-018-9444-x)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2019) Estimating smooth country-year panels of public opinion. Political Analysis, 27(1), pp. 1-20. (doi: 10.1017/pan.2018.32)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2016) Group entitlement, anger and participation in intergroup violence. British Journal of Political Science, 46(1), pp. 127-148. (doi: 10.1017/S000712341400012X)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2015) Measuring university quality. Scientometrics, 104(3), pp. 793-807. (doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1584-8)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Tucker, Patrick and Smith, Steven S. (2015) Ideological labels in America. Political Behavior, 37(2), pp. 253-278. (doi: 10.1007/s11109-014-9272-6)

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2014) Who participates in communal violence? Survey evidence from South Africa. Research and Politics, 2014, pp. 1-8. (doi: 10.1177/2053168014534649)

Schofield, Norman, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Ozdemir, Ugur and Zakharov, Alexei (2011) Estimating the effects of activists in two-party and multi-party systems: comparing the United States and Israel. Social Choice and Welfare, 36(3-4), pp. 483-518. (doi: 10.1007/s00355-010-0507-0)

Gibson, James L. and Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2010) Racial reconciliation in South Africa: interracial contact and changes over time. Journal of Social Issues, 66(2), pp. 255-272. (doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.2010.01644.x)

Book Sections

Gibson, James L., Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Barceló, Joan (2020) Putting groups back into the study of political tolerance. In: Borgida, Eugene, Federico, Christopher and Miller, Joanne (eds.) At the Forefront of Political Psychology: Essays in Honor of John L. Sullivan. Routledge. ISBN 9780367368111

Schofield, Norman, Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001, Gallego, Maria and Ozdemir, Ugur (2011) Empirical and formal models of the United States presidential elections in 2000 and 2004. In: Schofield, Norman and Caballero, Gonzalo (eds.) The Political Economy of Institutions, Democracy and Voting. Springer: New York, pp. 217-258. ISBN 9783642195198

Research Reports or Papers

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 (2017) Explaining South African Xenophobia. Working Paper. Afrobarometer.

Claassen, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5149-0001 and Mattes, Robert (2005) Public Opinion Matters: Testing A Supply and Demand Model of Popular Regime Preferences and Democratic Change. Working Paper. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town.

This list was generated on Sun Jun 15 15:30:01 2025 BST.

Grants

  • 2021-23. Principal investigator (UK team), "The rural-urban divide in Europe". New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe (NORFACE) - €271,609 (total project value: €1.41 million)
  • 2018-19. Principal investigator, "Does democracy require a supportive political culture?". Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland - £7,513
  • 2018-20. Co-investigator, "Do immigrant numbers inflame anti-immigrant opinion? A time-series cross-sectional analysis of European immigrant numbers and opinions, 1995-2017". British Academy / Leverhulme Trust - £9,761
  • 2017-18. Principal investigator, "Estimating democratic political culture in 100+ countries over 20+ years". Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland - £4,393

Supervision

I am interested in supervising potential PhD students focusing on one or more of the following areas:

  • Quantitative methods, especially involving the use of survey methods and data
  • Intergroup / inter-ethnic prejudice, conflict and violence
  • Political participation, especially protest and riot participation
  • Political culture, democratic support and political tolerance
  • South African politics

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