Sabrina Jasmin Mayer

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• PhD
• Chair for Political Sociology at University of Bamberg

While positive party identification is one of the most used concepts in election studies, negative partisanship (NPID) is rarely analyzed. Evidence from two-party systems or settings with majority voting shows that hostility towards one of the other parties has its own unique impact on voting behavior. However, this effect has not been analyzed in...

This paper offers an explanation of the link between grandiose narcissism and support for radical right parties. Drawing on representative data of the GESIS Panel (N = 2827), focusing on support for the German radical right populist party Alternative for Germany in 2016 and treating grandiose narcissism as a two‐dimensional concept, it is shown tha...

One of the major drivers of societal conflict are the intergroup relations which rely mainly on social identity and which are rarely analyzed for immigrant groups. This article changes this point of view by investigating the extent to which national, ethnic, and religious identities relate to outgroup hostilities towards the majority of the German...

The acceptance of new arrivals has become an important topic regarding the social cohesion of the receiving countries. However, previous studies focused only on the native population's drivers of attitudes towards immigrants, disregarding that immigrant‐origin inhabitants now form a considerable part of the population. To test whether the drivers f...

Immigrants now constitute a sizeable and rapidly growing group among many Western countries' electorates, but analyses of their party preferences remain limited. Theoretically, immigrants' party preferences might be explained with both standard electoral theories and immigrant-specific approaches. In this article, we rigorously test both perspectiv...

Conspiracy theories polarize people in different cultural contexts around important issues such as climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Across four studies, we examined whether cultural tightness, that describes the extent to which social norms are strictly enforced and deviance is discouraged, predicts various conspiracy beliefs, demonstratin...

This thematic issue covers the political participation of youth and immigrants in contemporary democracies. The articles in this issue advance knowledge in youth studies, migration studies, and political behavior theoretically and empirically. They do so by proposing innovative perspectives on voter turnout, political efficacy, protest behavior, re...

This 68-country survey (n = 71,922) examines how people encounter information about science and communicate about it with others, identifies crosscountry differences, and tests the extent to which economic and sociopolitical conditions predict such differences. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most count...

This 68-country survey (n = 71,922) examines how people encounter information about science and communicate about it with others, identifies cross-country differences, and tests the extent to which economic and sociopolitical conditions predict such differences. We find that social media are the most used sources of science information in most coun...

Conspiracy beliefs have been linked to perceptions of collective victimhood. We adopt an individual perspective on victimhood by investigating the relationship between conspiracy beliefs and the individual disposition to perceive and react to injustice as a victim (i.e., victim justice sensitivity; VJS). Data from two German samples (Ns = 370, 373)...

Science is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in scientists can help decision makers act on the basis of the best available evidence, especially during crises. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public trust in scientists. We interrogated these concerns w...

Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as public health, new technologies or climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science-society nexus acros...

Transnational political interest is the sustained attention to politics in at least two polities. Why do some immigrant-origin citizens show high levels of political interest in both their host countries and their familial countries of origin, some none, and others favour one over the other? With the 2017 Immigrant German Election Study, we describ...

Objective Previous studies on charitable giving have emphasized the importance of socioeconomic status in explaining why individuals choose to donate or not to donate money. Other explanations, such as social capital or local contexts, have also been investigated, but these perspectives are rarely combined and tested against an actual behavioral ou...

This study investigates the short- and long-term consequences of armed conflict and displacement on social cohesion among citizens within attacked nations, using Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina as case studies. Through a pre-registered vignette study in Ukraine (December 2022; N = 1,623), we reveal a significant difference in social cohesion bet...

The question of how discrimination affects trust in the police has gained increasing academic attention since the revelation of racist police violence, for example in the murder of George Floyd.Previous studies have largely been limited to the effect of discrimination by the police themselves. Discrimination experienced in other domains (e.g. in th...

Science is integral to society because it can inform individual, government, corporate, and civil society decision-making on issues such as climate change. Yet, public distrust and populist sentiment may challenge the relationship between science and society. To help researchers analyse the science society nexus across different cultural contexts,...

Scientific information is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in science can help decision-makers act based on the best available evidence, especially during crises such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low public...

Scientific information is crucial for evidence-based decision-making. Public trust in science can help decision-makers act based on the best available evidence, especially during crises such as climate change or the COVID-19 pandemic 1,2. However, in recent years the epistemic authority of science has been challenged, causing concerns about low pub...

The concept of negative partisanship has lately become a highly salient topic, yet its current measurements are far from optimal as they do not account for negative partisanship’s nature as a social identity, nor are they applicable to multiparty systems. In this paper, we validate the negative partisanship (NPS) scale. By relying on expert intervi...

For hard-to-survey populations such as ethnic minorities and immigrants, increasing survey response rates is a crucial element of the fieldwork as these populations often show a higher likelihood of not participating compared with the native population. However, no study has so far compared different strategies for mobilisation within this group. U...

Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine wurden direkt nach Beginn des russischen Angriffskrieges Ende Februar 2022 in vielen europäischen Ländern mit überwältigender Solidarität empfangen, auch in Deutschland. Hat sich die Haltung der Menschen seitdem verändert? In diesem DeZIM.insights Working Paper analysieren wir die Unterstützungsbereitschaft im ersten Jah...

Die Inflation in Deutschland ist in den vergangen 12 Monaten stark angestiegen. Auf Basis des DeZIM.panels gehen wird den Fragen nach, inwieweit sich die Menschen in Deutschland hiervon betroffen fühlen sowie finanzielle Sorgen aufgrund der Inflation äußern. Insbesondere schauen wir auf Unterschiede zwischen Personen mit und ohne deutsche Staatsbür...

The exploding energy prices because of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine are at the top of the political agenda in Europe. Due to the high levels of inflation and the associated social and economic hardships for the population, it has been expected that the energy crisis would spark contention and result in mass protest. Based on a represent...

Отношения между Украиной и Европейским союзом (ЕС) привлекают все большее внимание международного сообщества в контексте войны России против Украины. Используя данные, собранные в рамках Панельного исследования переселения украинцев (ReUP), мы анализируем в этом рабочем документе DeZIM.insights факторы трех аспектов поддержки ЕС: позитивное отношен...

Відносини між Україною та Європейським Союзом (ЄС) привертають все більшу увагу міжнародної спільноти в контексті війни Росії проти України. Використовуючи дані, які були зібрані в рамках Панельного дослідження переселення українців (Resettlement of Ukrainians Panel Study, ReUP), в цьому робочому документі під назвою DeZIM.insights ми аналізуємо чи...

Werden die Menschen in Deutschland aufgrund der Inflation und der massiv steigenden Energiepreise im Herbst und Winter 2022 massenhaft auf die Straße gehen? Drohen, wie vielfach befürchtet, ein „heißer Herbst“ oder „Wutwinter“ und eine „Querfront“ aus linken und rechten Akteur*innen? Auf Basis einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsbefragung des DeZIM.p...

Werden die Menschen in Deutschland aufgrund der Inflation und der massiv steigenden Energiepreise im Herbst und Winter 2022 massenhaft auf die Straße gehen? Drohen, wie vielfach befürchtet, ein „heißer Herbst“ oder „Wutwinter“ und eine „Querfront“ aus linken und rechten Akteur*innen? Auf Basis einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsbefragung des DeZIM.p...

The relationship between Ukraine and the European Union (EU) has received increasing international attention in the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine. Using data collected as part of the Resettlement of Ukrainians Panel Study (ReUP), we analyse in this DeZIM.insights working paper the drivers of three dimensions of support towards the EU: pos...

The concept of negative partisanship has lately become a highly salient topic, still its current measurements are far from optimal as they do not account for negative partisanship’s nature as a social identity nor are they applicable to multi-party systems. In this paper, we validate the negative partisanship (NPS) scale. By relying on expert inter...

Partisanship is considered one of the most powerful predictors of affective polarization. However, in the current literature the role of negative party identification, contrary to positive party identification, is either confused with affective polarization itself, or simply ignored. This is caused by two main shortcomings. First, a severe undercon...

Bei einem Fokusgruppen-Interview handelt es sich um ein moderiertes Gespräch mit einer Gruppe von zwei oder mehr Teilnehmenden, das aufgezeichnet und später zur Auswertung verschriftlicht wird. Dieser Beitrag soll Forschende bei der Entscheidung unterstützen, ob FG-Interviews ein geeignetes Datenerhebungsverfahren für ihr Forschungsvorhaben sind un...

Job satisfaction is a major driver of an individual’s subjective well-being and thus affects public health, societal prosperity, and organisations, as dissatisfied employees are less productive and more likely to change jobs. However, changing jobs does not necessarily lead to higher job satisfaction in the long run. Previous studies have shown, in...

Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine wurden direkt nach Eskalation des Kriegs in vielen Ländern in Europa mit überwältigender Solidarität empfangen. Dieses DeZIM.insight analysiert die Entwicklung der Unterstützungsbereitschaft in den ersten Monaten danach. Hierzu greifen wir auf Daten des DeZIM.panels zurück und untersuchen, wie hoch die Solidarität im Ber...

Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine wurden direkt nach Eskalation des Kriegs in vielen Ländern in Europa mit überwältigender Solidarität empfangen. Dieses DeZIM.insight analysiert die Entwicklung der Unterstützungsbereitschaft in den ersten Monaten danach. Hierzu greifen wir auf Daten des DeZIM.panels zurück und untersuchen, wie hoch die Solidarität im Ber...

When does anger lead to greater polarization? As societal polarization and political polarization increase so does academic interest in its antecedents. One important cause of polarization appears to be anger. However, existing research linking anger and political polarization has focused primarily on the context of partisanship and did not disting...

The German DeZIM.panel is an online access panel that provides data specifically for topics regarding migration and integration. It includes an oversampling for several migrant groups in Germany, and thus allows specific subgroup analyses. Due to its longitudinal structure, its long-term development and the effects of sudden external events can be...

This brief in German summarises the descriptive findings from the Immigrant German Election Study II (IMGES II). The study is a panel election survey between March and November 2021 in Duisburg, Germany. It traces the campaign experiences of four random samples of German citizens: of Turkish descent, Russian German, of any other immigrant backgroun...

In recent years, most Western European societies have become increasingly diverse due to on-going immigration and naturalisation processes. Even though politics and society now acknowledge mostly the reality of post-migrant states in which immigration is an inevitable feature (Foroutan, 2021), data collection infrastructures have still to catch up....

In recent years, most Western European societies have become increasingly diverse due to on-going immigration and naturalisation processes. Even though politics and society now acknowledge mostly the reality of post-migrant states in which immigration is an inevitable feature (Foroutan, 2021), data collection infrastructures have still to catch up....

This paper experimentally analyses the effects of in-person canvassing and postal reminders on the mobilization of non-respondents for a telephone panel survey in Germany. We compare the response rates among randomly selected individuals who were visited by canvassers and those reminded by an invitation letter. We further conduct multivariate analy...

By reaching a vote share of 12.6 percent in the 2017 federal election, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) ended Germany’s rare status as a Western European polity lacking a significant Populist Radical Right Party (PRRP). Some of this support comes from a group not usually expected to vote for PRRPs: immigrant-origin voters. Recent survey data shows...

Der Krieg in der Ukraine sorgt in Deutschland für eine Welle der Solidarität. Das zeigt eine Schnellumfrage des DeZIM-Instituts. Es hat im Rahmen seines DeZIM.panels untersucht, wie die Menschen in Deutschland auf den Krieg reagieren, welche Reaktionen sie sich von der deutschen Politik gegenüber Russland wünschen und wie sie zu der Aufnahme von Fl...

Der Krieg in der Ukraine sorgt in Deutschland für eine Welle der Solidarität. Das zeigt eine Schnellumfrage des DeZIM-Instituts. Es hat im Rahmen seines DeZIM.panels untersucht, wie die Menschen in Deutschland auf den Krieg reagieren, welche Reaktionen sie sich von der deutschen Politik gegenüber Russland wünschen und wie sie zu der Aufnahme von Fl...

Die Teilnahme an Wahlen stellt den bedeutendsten und oftmals auch einzigen Akt der politischen Beteiligung der Bürger/-innen in westlichen Demokratien dar (Brady et al. 1995). Viele Studien zeigen jedoch, dass nicht alle sozialen Gruppen in gleichem Ausmaß an Wahlen teilnehmen (Schäfer et al. 2016; Gallego 2010). Dies ist problematisch: Je geringer...

Surveys of specific target groups that are hard to survey are prone to errors and biases. In this paper, we use the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework and a study on unaccompanied refugee minors (URM) in Germany to discuss how a mixed-methods quantitative-dominant research design can address challenges of quantitative-only surveys of such groups. W...

Even though previous research connected personality traits and support for radical-right populist parties (RRP), the question of which mechanisms connect these concepts is still underexplored. In particular, we focus on narcissistic rivalry, a maladaptive path of grandiose narcissism. Drawing on the affective intelligence framework and the narcissi...

This note presents preliminary evidence from a postal and face-to-face recruitment field for a telephone survey during the Covid-19 pandemic. Drawn from the city register of Duisburg, a metropolis of 500,000 inhabitants, voters eligible for the September 2021 Bundestag elections are the target population. They are stratified into four groups by ono...

Usual studies of the underpinnings of partisan attachments only consider positive party identifications and the Big Five framework. However, negative party identification is an important understudied side of party identification that affects democratic dissatisfaction and political conflict. This article studies how individual differences such as t...

Job satisfaction is a major driver of an individual’s subjective well-being and thus affects public health, societal prosperity, and organizations, as dissatisfied employees are less productive and more likely to change jobs. However, changing jobs does not necessarily lead to higher job satisfaction in the long run: instead, previous studies have...

Job satisfaction is a major driver of an individual’s subjective well-beingand thus affects public health, societal prosperity, and organisations, asdissatisfied employees are less productive and more likely to change jobs.However, changing jobs does not necessarily lead to higher job satisfactionin the long run. Previous studies have shown, instea...

This study examines how interviewers’ gender and education affect the measured level of factual political knowledge by drawing on competing theoretical frameworks: stereotype threat theory and interviewer noncompliance with the instructions. Testing these mechanisms using survey data from the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES) and the German...

In order to analyze which topics are used by the German and Austrian Green parties when proposing bills in times of Grand Coalitions, we use data from a content analysis of all bills these parties proposed from 2007-2008 and 2013-2017 based on the German version of the Comparative Agendas Project Master Codebook . In addition, we define green topic...

Der Beitrag führt in die Grundlagen der Hauptkomponentenanalyse (PCA) und explorativen Faktorenanalyse (EFA) ein. Gemeinsam ist diesen Verfahren eine Reduktion von einer Menge von korrelierten Variablen auf wenige Komponenten mit den Zielen der Vereinfachung, der leichteren Interpretation und zur Darstellung von zugrunde liegenden latenten Variable...

An increasing number of studies investigated whether citizens under 18 are mature enough to vote. While this research addresses the level of political interest and knowledge in young citizens, and the quality of their voting decision, it does not explore their sense of civic duty to vote and its role for their participation in elections. This is su...

While the explanation of voter turnout is undoubtedly one of the major topics of electoral research, we know relatively little about how to explain the turnout of voters with an immigration background. Two perspectives can be distinguished. The first is that immigrant turnout can be explained by standard theories, i.e. those theories which are also...

While party identification is one of the mostly used concepts for the explanation of vote choice, the components of party identification and the collective identity of party adherents were never explored systematically. After conceptualizing party identification within the social identity approach, we propose a research framework for the analysis o...

Research on sentiment analysis is in its mature status. Studies on this topic have proposed various solutions and datasets to guide machine-learning approaches. However, so far the sentiment scoring is restricted to the level of short textual units such as sentences. Our comparison shows that there is a huge gap between machines and human judges wh...

Over the past few years, opinion mining or subjectivity scoring has been studied quite extensively, and technical solutions are proposed. However, so far, the subjectivity scoring is restricted to the level of short textual units such as sentences. A desired situation would be that there are also solutions computing subjectivity scores on the level...

We extend previous research by systematically investigating whether perceptions of scientific authorship vary between domains. Employing regulations for authorship of scientific journals as well as the Scientists Survey 2016 conducted by the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), we provide a comprehensive picture o...

Der Beitrag untersucht die Effekte spezifischen politischen Wissens auf die Wahrscheinlichkeit einstellungskongruenter Wahlentscheidungen. Dafür werden drei Bereiche politischen Faktenwissens unterschieden: Wissen über das politische System, politische Akteure und ideologische Parteipositionen. Unter Rückgriff auf Daten der Österreichischen Nationa...

The concept of party identification is one of the most used indicators in election studies worldwide. However, not much is known about the meaning of party identification. This article explores why adherents identify with a political party. Based on existing notions of partisanship, a coding scheme is derived and an open-ended question from a large...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht, wie multiple Parteibindungen das Wahlverhalten beeinflussen. Nach einer Operationalisierung der Parteiidentifikation auf Basis der reduzierten IDPG-Skala nach Mael und Tetrick (1992) kann auf repräsentativer Datenbasis gezeigt werden, dass sowohl die Art mehrfacher Parteibindungen, d. h. innerhalb (konvergierend) oder zwi...

Measures of research productivity have become widely used for obtaining tenure, third-party funding, and additional resources from universities. However, previous studies indicate that men might have a higher research output than women, with mixed conclusions about the factors that drive these differences. This study explores to what extent the res...

This paper provides an analysis of the political preferences of ethnic Germans who emigrated from the Soviet Union or its successor states. These resettlers (Aussiedler) and their descendants represent the biggest group of immigrant voters in Germany and reveal a rare combination of citizenship, ethnic identity and party support that makes it parti...

Despite being part of the original concept in “The American Voter”, multiple party identifications (MPID) have rarely been analyzed. Based on a 2016 survey that is representative of the German electorate, we investigate the determinants of multiple party attachments in Germany. With the help of a new measurement instrument for MPID, we can show tha...

Report of the first results of the Immigrant German Election Study, German version. Die Immigrant German Election Study ist die erste Wahlstudie, die aufgrund hochwertiger Daten präzise Aussagen zum Wahlverhalten von Deutschen mit Migrationshintergrund bei der Bundestagswahl 2017 macht. Sie wurde durch Forscher der Universitäten Duisburg-Essen und...

First results of the Immigrant German Election Study, English version. The Immigrant German Election Study 2017 is the first electoral study that allows precise estimates about the behaviour of Immigrant Voters at a German federal election. It is funded by the German Research Foundation. The Principal Investigators are Achim Goerres (University of...

In this paper, we investigate multiple party attachments in Germany. Based on a survey that is representative for the German electorate and with the help of a new measurement instrument for multiple party identifications, we can show that multiple attachments are quite common in Germany: Nearly 30 percent of the respondents identify themselves with...

This article aims at exploring differences in the level and structure of political knowledge among citizens under the age of 18 and older segments of the population. It focuses on Austria, a country where the voting age in national elections was lowered to 16 in 2007. Drawing on data by the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES), it is shown tha...

This paper has since been published in Ethnic and Migration Studies Immigrants Voters against their will? The oreprint on the first author's webpage. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369183X.2018.1503527 This paper presents the first evidence from the Immigrant German Election Study (2017), based on a focus group analysis of ethnic...

Research productivity of scientists is an indicator whose importance for evaluation of scientific performance, awarding of grants and competitive funding is steadily growing. At the moment there are nearly no encompassing analyses of scientists’ publication performance. This paper analyzes the individual and organizational determinants that influen...

Die Validierung der Messinstrumente beruht auf den Hypothesen, die in Kapitel 5.3 aufgestellt wurden. Zuerst gilt es, grundlegende Voraussetzungen wie die analytische Brauchbarkeit, das Zusammenwirken der alten und neuen Messinstrumente und die relative Unabhängigkeit von der Wahlintention zu überprüfen. In einem ersten Schritt wird die „analytisch...

Basierend auf den Arbeiten von Campbell et al. (1954, 1960) stellt das sozialpsychologische Modell das heute dominierende Erklärungsmodell für die individuelle Wahlentscheidung dar (Schoen und Weins 2005: 241). Zentrales Konzept des Ansatzes ist die Parteiidentifikation, die eine langfristige, psychologische Bindung eines Individuums an eine Partei...

Nachdem in Kapitel drei die Konzeptualisierung der Parteiidentifikation umfassend betrachtet und in Kapitel vier neue Messinstrumente zur Erhebung der Parteiidentifikation adaptiert wurden, werden nun die Hypothesen für eine Validierung der Messinstrumente erarbeitet. Hierfür werden zuerst mögliche Validierungsverfahren diskutiert, bevor das Verfah...

In diesem Kapitel wird der Zusammenhang zwischen der positiven Parteibindung und der Wahrnehmung einer Partei (bzw. ihrer Anhänger oder Mitglieder) als politischen Gegner untersucht. Die Ergebnisse dieser Analyse sind in Abbildung 16 zu sehen. Es wird deutlich, dass innerhalb der jeweiligen Befragungen ähnliche Verteilungen der negativen Parteibind...

Als Datenbasis dienen für die Konstruktvalidierung zwei unterschiedliche Befragungen. Zum einen wurde eine eigene dreiwellige Onlinebefragung im Kontext der Bundestagswahl 2013 durchgeführt (Mai-November 2013), an der jeweils knapp 1.000 Befragte teilnahmen und insgesamt 521 Befragte an allen drei Wellen beteiligt waren. Diese Erhebung erfolgte quo...

Die Erhebung der Parteiidentifikation mit einem geeigneten Messinstrument ist notwendige Bedingung für einen sinnvollen Einsatz des Konstruktes zur Erklärung der individuellen Wahlentscheidung. Ein theorieadäquates Messinstrument, das sowohl die Erhebung der positiven Parteiidentifikation in unterschiedlichen Intensitäten als auch die Messung negat...

In der empirischen Wahlforschung dominiert heute das sozialpsychologische Modell nach Campbell et al. (1954, 1960). Es entstand in den 1950er Jahren als Reaktion auf den damals dominierenden mikrosoziologischen Ansatz der Columbia-School, der die Entscheidung für eine Partei auf die Zugehörigkeit zu sozio-strukturellen Groß-Gruppen zurückführte (La...

Bei einem etablierten Konzept wie der Parteiidentifikation stellt sich bereits zu Beginn einer Arbeit die Frage, ob überhaupt noch die Möglichkeit besteht, neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen. Daher wurde zuerst gezeigt, dass die fortwährende Nutzung eines nicht theorieadäquaten Indikators die Analysemöglichkeiten auf die stärkste positive Parteineigung...

In den Werken der Ann Arbor-Gruppe wurde die Parteiidentifikation im Rahmen der Bezugsgruppentheorie konzeptualisiert, die damals eine der aktuellen Theorien der Sozialpsychologie zur Charakterisierung der Beziehung zwischen Individuum und Gruppe darstellte. Im Laufe der Jahre hat die Bezugsgruppentheorie jedoch mehr und mehr an Bedeutung verloren...

Sabrina Jasmin Mayer geht in ihrem Buch der Frage nach, wie die Parteiidentifikation theorieadäquat gemessen werden kann. Nach einer Konzeptualisierung der Parteiidentifikation im Ansatz der sozialen Identität werden Messinstrumente aus der sozialpsychologischen Forschung zur Operationalisierung von positiven, negativen und mehrfachen Parteibindung...

This article explores developments in author numbers in five disciplines of the Social Sciences from 1991 to 2014, Economics, Educational Sciences, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology. The relationship between the mean number of authors per article (in every discipline's five top journals) and three factors, publication year, international...