Marlene Mauk Author

Marlene Mauk is a research associate in political science at GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Politics from Mainz University and has previously worked there as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Political Science. Her research interests lie in the field of political culture, with a focus on the comparison between democracies and autocracies; among other topics, she studies political trust and its sources, political value orientations, and various aspects of democratic quality.