Marta Vukovic

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna, researching drivers and consequences of democratic backsliding in Europe and beyond. I mainly use survey experiments to explore how citizens understand democracy and under what conditions they renege on democratic principles and support undemocratic politicians.

I am writing my dissertation as part of the broader EU-Horizon Project known as Authlib (Neo-Authoritarianisms in Europe and the Liberal Democratic Response), which examines different forms of illiberalism across Europe.

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Publications:

Vuković, Marta, Susanna Bastaroli, and Sylvia Kritzinger. 2025. “Reckoning with the Past: Victims, Heroes, or Perpetrators? Italians’ Perceptions of WWII History.” In Authoritarian Trends and Parliamentary Democracy in Europe, edited by Oliver Rathkolb and Sybille Steinbacher. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Available here.

Hanson, Tim, Rory Fitzgerald, Eva Izpurua, and Marta Vuković. Forthcoming in Survey Research Methods. "Surely shorter is better? A questionnaire length experiment in a self-completion survey".

Vuković, Marta. 2022. “Serbian elections: Win for the autocracy on the back of post-truth politics, vote rigging, and media monopolization”. Who Governs EU.

Work in Progress:

Vuković, Marta. "Beyond the Surface: Incoherent Understandings of Democracy Among Europeans". Under Review.

Vuković, Marta, Jan Rovny, Ben Stanley, and Piotr Zagórski. “When Do Voters Accept Democratic Backsliding? A Conjoint Analysis of Distinct Types of Backsliding on Diverse Principles of Democracy.” Working paper.

Vuković, Marta. “Rationalizing Intolerance: Perceptions of Protest Stances and Support in the U.S. and Germany” Working paper.

Vuković, Marta, and Sylvia Kritzinger. "Drivers of Revisionist WWII History in Europe: Right-wing Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation and Antisemitism".

E-mail: marta.vukovic@univie.ac.at

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