Research

Peer-Reviewed Books

Olsen, Jonathan and Michael A. Hansen. 2025. The European Union: Politics and Policies. 8th Edition. Routledge Press.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2024. Political Entrepreneurship in the Age of Dealignment: The Populist Far-right Alternative for Germany. Palgrave Macmillan.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Clemens, Jennifer L. and Michael A. Hansen. Forthcoming. “Teaching Legislative Politics Through a Game: Active Learning, Assignment Co-Creation, and Assessment Across Modalities,” Journal of Political Science Education.

Hansen, Michael A., Isabelle Johansson, and John C. Navarro. Forthcoming. “Gender, Ethnicity, Immigration Status, and Public Opinion: An Experimental Study of Attitudes Toward Sex Work,” Crime & Delinquency.

Johansson, Isabelle and Michael A. Hansen. Forthcoming. “Religiosity, Sexual Attitudes, and Public Perceptions of Sex Work: Evidence of a Mediating Relationship from Italy,” Sexuality Research & Social Policy.

Hansen, Michael A. and Isabelle Johansson. Forthcoming. “Gender Differences in Attitudes and Perceptions of Human Trafficking: Are They Driven by Knowledge Gaps?,” Journal of Human Trafficking.

Navarro, John C. and Michael A. Hansen. Forthcoming. “An Experimental Study on the Effect of Prosecutorial Brady Violations on Confidence in Exonerating Individuals Wrongfully Convicted of Murder,” Journal of Experimental Criminology.

Hansen, Michael A. and John C. Navarro. Forthcoming. “The Role of Political Ideology in Agreement with Prisoner Responsibility for Personal Safety and Well-Being,” European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research.

Christensen, Henrik Serup, Michael A. Hansen, and Inga Saikkonen. Forthcoming. “Gender and Support for Undemocratic Politicians,” European Journal of Politics & Gender.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2026. “Turning Point or Plateau? The Alternative for Germany (AfD) at a Crossroads after the 2025 Election,” German Politics & Society 44(1).

Hansen, Michael A. 2025. “Wording Matters: Support for Women’s Reproductive Policies in the U.S.” Politics & Gender 21(4): 904-930.

Goenaga, Agustín and Michael A. Hansen. 2025. “Are Competent Citizens Critical Democrats? Political Resources and Evaluations of Democratic Institutions,” The Social Science Journal 62(4): 973-987.

Hansen, Michael A. and John C. Navarro. 2025. “"It’s Just 'Locker Room' Talk:" The Impact of Gender and Political Partisanship On Agreement with Rape Myths Among U.S. University Students,” Victims & Offenders 20(8): 1442-1462.

Navarro, John C., Sierra A. Malvitz, and Michael A. Hansen. 2025. “Gendered Perceptions of Police Conduct: Public Reactions to Officer Gender in a Traffic Stop Scenario,” Policing: An International Journal 48(5): 944-961.

Hansen, Michael A. 2025. “Enhanced Outcomes, Improved Feedback: Maximizing Success Through Collaborative Final Projects in Quantitative Methods Courses,” Journal of Political Science Education 21(3): 423-437.

Hansen, Michael A. and Kathleen Dolan. 2025. “Cross-Cutting Identities in American Politics: Gender, Party, and Attitudes on Gun Reform,” American Politics Research 53(4): 293-305.

Hansen, Michael A., Anna Kronlund, and Waltteri Immonen. 2025. “Far Right Partisanship and Confidence in the United Nations and European Union across the Nordic Countries,” Contemporary European Politics 3(2): e70008.

Hansen, Michael A. 2025. “Personalized Supervision: Enhancing Supervision Strategies in Dissertation-Based Doctoral Programs,” European Journal of Social Science Education and Research 12(1): 169-195.

Navarro, John C. and Michael A. Hansen. 2025. “Is it Black and White? Testing Racial Framing Effects of Public Reactions to Newspaper Vignettes of Fatal Officer-Involved Shootings,” Journal of Experimental Criminology 21(1): 1-22.

Hansen, Michael A. 2025. “Measuring, Comparing, and Predicting Knowledge Related to Reproductive Healthcare in the United States,” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 46(2): 151-168.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2024. “The Alternative for Germany (AfD) as Populist Issue Entrepreneur: Explaining the Party and its Voters in the 2021 German Federal Election,” German Politics 33(4): 643-667.

Hansen, Michael A. and Mikko Leino. 2024. “Conditional Single-Issue Political Entrepreneurship: The Impact of Education and Attitudinal Predictors on Support for the Finns Party,” Electoral Studies 92(102874): 1-16.

Hansen, Michael A. and Mila Seppälä. 2024. “Support for Gun Reform in the United States: The Interactive Relationship Between Partisanship and Trust in the Federal Government,” Political Behavior 46(3): 2025-2045.

Johansson, Isabelle and Michael A. Hansen. 2024. “Predicting Attitudes Towards the Exchange of Sexual Services for Payment: Variance in Gender Gaps Across the Nordic Countries,” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 21(2): 559-577.

Johansson, Isabelle and Michael A. Hansen. 2024. “From Empowerment to Exploitation: Predicting Positive and Negative Associations with the Exchange of Sexual Services for Payment,” Sexuality & Culture 28(3): 1184-1206.

Hansen, Michael A. and Agustín Goenaga. 2024. “Gender, Political Resources, and Expressions of Democratic Evaluations,” Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy 45(2): 230-243.

Johansson, Isabelle and Michael A. Hansen. 2024. “What Sex Workers Do: Associations Between Sexual Activities and the Exchange of Sexual Services for Money,” Sexuality & Culture 28(2): 825-850.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2023. “Identity and Belonging: Factors Affecting Emotional Assimilation in Two German Migrants Communities,” Journal of International Migration & Integration 24(4): 1795 - 1815.

Hansen, Michael A. and John C. Navarro. 2023. “Bad Apples or Rotten Orchards? Public Attitudes of Interactions with Police and The Role of Political Ideology,” Policing: An International Journal 46(5/6): 861-877.

Navarro, John C. and Michael Hansen. 2023. “’Please Don’t Be Too Nice’: The Role of Political Ideology in Approval of Police Use of Force,” Policing: An International Journal 46(5/6): 724-738.

Hansen, Michael A. and Kathleen Dolan. 2023. “Cross-Pressures on Political Attitudes: Gender, Party, and the #MeToo Movement in the United States,” Political Behavior 45(4): 1377-1400.

Hansen, Michael A. and Nicolè M. Ford. 2023. “Placing the 2020 Belarusian Protests in Historical Context: Political Attitudes and Participation during Lukashenko’s Presidency,” Nationalities Papers 51(4): 838-854.

Hansen, Michael A. and John C. Navarro. 2023. “Gender and Racial Gaps in Support for Policing and Correctional Reforms: Are the Gaps a Consequence of Political Partisanship?,” Crime & Delinquency 69(9): 1672-1699.

Hansen, Michael A. and Isabelle Johansson. 2023. “Asking About “Prostitution”, “Sex Work” and “Transactional Sex”: Question Wording and Attitudes Towards Trading Sexual Services,” The Journal of Sex Research 60(1): 153-164.

Goenaga, Agustín and Michael A. Hansen. 2022. “Guy-Guessing Democracy: Gender and Item Non-Response Bias in Evaluations of Democratic Institutions,” Journal of Women, Politics, & Policy 43(4): 499-513.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2022. “Sibling Rivalry: Voters for Radical Left Parties and Their Competitors in Germany, Sweden, and the Netherlands,” Party Politics 28(5): 968-986.

Olsen, Jonathan and Michael A. Hansen. 2022. “The Party Without Qualities? Explaining the Left Party’s Electoral Disaster in the 2021 German Federal Election,” German Politics & Society 40(3): 1-22.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2022. “A Tale of Two Electorates? The 2021 Federal Election and the AfD Voter in East and West,” German Politics & Society 40(2): 110-133.

Hansen, Michael A., John C. Navarro, and Sierra A. Malvitz. 2022. “Assessing Law Enforcement Websites: A Comparative Analysis Exploring Types, Quantity, and Quality of Information Available,” Policing: An International Journal 45(2): 298-314.

Hansen, Michael A., Jennifer L. Clemens, and Kathleen Dolan. 2022. “Gender Gaps, Partisan Gaps, and Cross-Pressures: An Examination of American Attitudes Toward the Use of Force,” Politics & Gender 18(1): 273-295.

Hansen, Michael A. and Isabelle Johansson. 2022. “Predicting Attitudes Towards Transactional Sex: The Interactive Relationship Between Gender and Attitudes on Sexual Behavior,” Sexuality Research & Social Policy 19(1): 91-104.

Hansen, Michael A., Isabelle Johansson, Kalie Sadowski, Joseph Blaszcynski, and Sarah Meyer. 2021. “The Partisan Impact on Local Government Dissemination of COVID- 19 Information: Assessing U.S. County Government Websites,” Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique 54(1): 150-162.

Hansen, Michael A. and Agustín Goenaga. 2021. “Gender and Democratic Attitudes: Do Women and Men Prioritize Different Democratic Institutions?,” Politics & Gender 17(1): 23-52.

Dolan, Kathleen and Michael A. Hansen. 2020. “The Variable Nature of the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge,” Journal of Women, Politics & Policy 41(2): 127-143.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2020. “Pulling up the Drawbridge: Anti- Immigrant Attitudes and Support for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Among Russian-Germans,” German Politics & Society 38(2): 109-136.

Hansen, Michael A. and Kathleen Dolan. 2020. “Voter Sex, Party, and Gender-Salient Issues: Attitudes about Sexual Harassment and Brett Kavanaugh in the 2018 Elections,” American Politics Research 48(5): 532-542.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2020. “Rhapsody in Beige: The Impact of SPD Candidate Evaluations on Vote Choice in the 2009, 2013, and 2017 Federal Elections,” German Politics 29(2): 223-243

Hansen, Michael A. and Jennifer L. Clemens. 2019. “What to Expect When You’re Electing: The Relationship Between Far-Right Strength and Citizenship Policy in Europe,” Comparative European Politics 17(5): 673-695.

Hansen, Michael A. 2019. “The Women of the Radical Right: Exploring Gendered Differences in Vote Choice for Radical Right Parties in Europe,” Austrian Journal of Political Science/Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 48(2): 1-21.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2019. “Flesh of the Same Flesh: A Study of Voters for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the 2017 Federal Election,” German Politics 28(1): 1-19.

Dolan, Kathleen and Michael A. Hansen. 2018. “Blaming Women or Blaming the System? Public Perceptions of Women’s Underrepresentation in Elected Office,”Political Research Quarterly 71(3): 668-680.

Hansen, Michael A. 2017. “Trust in the System? Factors that Impact Citizens’ View of Courts in the United Kingdom,” Social Science Quarterly 98(5): 1503-1517.

Kaheny, Erin B., John J. Szmer, Michael A. Hansen, and Katherine Felix Scheurer. 2015. “High Court Recruitment of Female Clerks: A Comparative Analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Canada,” Justice System Journal 36(4): 355-377.

Hansen, Michael A. 2015. “Explaining Deviations from the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP): Power, Ideology, Economic Need, or Diffusion?” Journal of Public Policy 35(3): 477-504.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2026. “The Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the 2025 Federal Election: Radicalised, Resilient, and Regionally Entrenched,” In The 2025 German Federal Election, eds. Ross Campbell and Louise K. Davidson-Schmicht, New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.

Johansson, Isabelle and Michael A. Hansen. 2025. “Unveiling Stigma in the Digital Age: Exploring Attitudinal Differences in Perceptions of the Exchange of Sexual Services for Payment in the United States.” In Transformations of Labour through the Lens of Sex Work: Navigating Digitalisation, Precarity and Resistance, eds Iztok Šori and Majda Hrženjak, 75-91. Routledge Press..

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2024. “A Tale of Two Electorates? The 2021 Federal Election and the Alternative for Germany (AfD) Voter in East and West." In Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy, ed. Eric Langenbacher, 259-281. Berghahn Books.

Olsen, Jonathan and Michael A. Hansen. 2024. “The Party Without Qualities? Explaining the Left Party’s Electoral Disaster in the 2021 German Federal Election," In Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary German Politics and Policy, ed. Eric Langenbacher, 220-241. Berghahn Books.

Hansen, Michael A. and Jonathan Olsen. 2023. “The Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the 2021 German Federal Election: Down but Hardly Out." In The 2021 German Federal Election, eds. Ross Campbell and Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, 141-161, New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Palgrave Macmillan.

Current Research/Projects

Manuscripts Under Review

“Youth on Trial: How Framing and Language Influence Public Support for Harsh Sentences,” under "revise and resubmit" status (w/ John C. Navarro).

“‘Acceptable’ vs. ‘Understandable’: The Impact of Adjective Choice in Survey Research on Public Attitudes Towards Sex Work,” (w/ Isabelle Johansson).

"Beyond Climate Concern: Demographic Moderators of Green Party Support in Finland," (w/ Mikko Leino).

“Racial Differences in Interpretations of Standards of Proof and Jury Impartiality in the U.S. Criminal Justice System,” (w/ John C. Navarro).

"Partisan Divides in Belief: Perpetrator Gender and Male Rape Myth Endorsement Among U.S. University Students,” (w/ John C. Navarro).

“Policy Knowledge and Elections: Do Voters Know What Pundits Think Matters?,” (w/ Agustín Goenaga).

Manuscripts in Progress

“The Politics of Discourse: Experimental Evidence on Framing and Democratic Debate,” (w/ Agustín Goenaga). [Data Analysis]

“How Public Discourse Shapes Attitudes Toward Democratic Institutions,” (w/ Agustín Goenaga). [Data Pre-Test Stage]

Other Scholarly Contributions

Book Reviews

Hansen, Michael A. 2024. “Contemporary Germany and the Fourth Wave of Far- Right Politics,” Party Politics 30(2): 387-388.

Hansen, Michael A. 2022. “Radical right populism in Germany: AfD, pegida, and the identitarian movement," Party Politics 28(5): 991-992.

Academic Media Writing

Kronlund, Anna and Michael A. Hansen. 2025. “Vallanjaon konflikti vai perustuslaillinen kriisi presidentti Trumpin Yhdysvalloissa?,” Politiikasta. Finnish Political Science Association.

Hansen, Michael A. 2025. “Surveying the Alternative for Germany and the 2025 German Election: Populism and Electoral Prospects,” Illiberalism Studies Program, Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University.

Hansen, Michael A. 2024. “The enduring influence of the far-right Alternative for Germany,” Baltic Rim Economies, Special Issue on Germany, 4: 14.

Hansen, Michael A. 2024. “Young people’s support for the Finns Party: An incomplete story,” Politiikasta. Finnish Political Science Association.

Hansen, Michael A. 2024. "Could the AfD be banned from participating in German elections?," EUROPP: European Politics and Policy. London School of Economics (LSE).

Hansen, Michael A. 2021. "German federal election: Is the AfD broadening its appeal to voters?," EUROPP: European Politics and Policy. London School of Economics (LSE).