Lukas Rudolph
lukrudolph.bsky.social
Lukas Rudolph
@lukrudolph.bsky.social

Assistant Professor for Political Behavior @uni-konstanz.de || previously @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and @ethz.ch || https://www.lukas-rudolph.com

Political science 53%
Economics 15%

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🚨 CfP: SekMethoden 2026
🗓️ March 12-13, 2026
🗺️ Hannover, Germany
⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025

👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2...

👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!

We thank @aklin.bsky.social, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, T. Shibaike, A. Uji and @epgonline.bsky.social / EPG / EPSA participants for comments and the Swiss Federal Ministry of the Environment for funding.

Together, NIMBYism of residents who feel they face localized negative consequences of 5G antennas in their immediate vicinity, and a large share of citizens against this technology on principled terms can help account for the strong contestation of 5G in Switzerland at the time of our survey.

Especially those in close proximity to antennas exhibit NIMBYism. This tendency is, against our expectations, stronger among those ex ante positively inclined toward 5G in principle. In additional experiments, we show that proximate respondents have a high willingness to pay for tangible opposition.

We draw on a survey experiment in which we reveal maps with real-world, household-specific information on 5G antenna placement to a random set of Swiss residents. Survey respondents were previously largely unaware of antenna locations, and relevantly increase worry for proximity under treatment.

NIMBY opposition can hamper effective public good provision. With @phanxi.bsky.social and T.Bernauer, I study its nature for a peculiar public good providing both local costs & benefits all across the country: 5G mobile network infrastructure. Now at
@polbehavior.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1007/s111...
How Relevant is NIMBYism to Citizens’ Support for the Large-Scale Deployment of Public Goods? Experimental Evidence from 5G Antenna Placement in Switzerland - Political Behavior
Supplying society-wide public goods often depends on site-specific provision. Yet, (perceived) localized provision costs may at times outweigh localized individual benefits and thus lead to “not-in-my...
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Great the media is picking our paper up, indeed (also at tagesschau.de, see www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio... ). Find our paper (with @aleininger.bsky.social) online at JOP @thejop.bsky.social via www.doi.org/10.1086/732945

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Nice to see my paper with @lukrudolph.bsky.social "Can Individual MPs Damage Their Party’s Brand? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Public Procurement Corruption Scandal" receive some attention in 🇩🇪 media.
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Maskenaffäre führte zum Verlust von Wählerstimmen | MDR.DE
Schaden Skandale Politikern und ihren Parteien? Angesichts einiger Wahlerfolge der letzten Zeit mag man daran zweifeln. Zwei Wissenschaftler der Unis in Chemnitz und Konstanz haben sich die Frage gena...
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New 📰: In "Can Individual MPs Damage Their Party’s Brand? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Public
Procurement Corruption Scandal" out in @thejop.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social and I show that the "mask affair" cost the CDU 4%-points in elections. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/
📢 Our latest research (with L. Rudolph, @uni-konstanz.de) on operationalizing natural experiments, particularly extreme weather, has just been accepted @thejop.bsky.social 🌦️Natural experiments offer a unique way to analyze causal effects in real-world settings. But operationalization is often messy: