Bettina Wagner M.A. (former faculty and staff)

1. Curriculum Vitae

Born 1980, 1999-2004 Studies in Politics, Media Studies, and Contemporary History at the Universities of Augsburg and Essex, 2001 internship at the office of a Member of the German Bundestag in Berlin, 2003 internship at the office of a MEP in Brussels and Straßbourg, 2003 internship at the department of bilateral European cultural and educational policy at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany in Berlin, 2003 thesis: “How impartial is the media coverage during election campaigns in the largest tabloids in Germany and Great Britain. A content analysis of the Bild-Zeitung and The Sun, 2004 graduation (Magister Artium).

Since June 2004 2010

Lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, unit Comparative Politics Ph.D. in Political Science at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

2. Research Areas

• Political Attitudes
• European Integration
• Comparative Political Communication Research

3. Research Projects

The Formation of Support for the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe. The Role of National Attitudes as Cognitive Heuristics.

The purpose of the study is to provide an analysis of the opinion formation and the attitude structure of Central and Eastern European citizens which underlie support for the European Union. In doing so, the study puts a special emphasis on the role of cognitive heuristics in the opinion formation process. It uses standard approaches from EU research as well as cognitive psychological research in order to specify a model explaining support for the EU in CEE in the period around EU accession. The theoretical model is tested empirically as a structural equation model.

4. Publications

Bettina Wagner (2010): Unterstützung der Europäischen Unin in Mittel- und Osteuropa: Die Rolle nationalstaatlicher Einstellungen als Heuristiken. In: Faas, Thorsten / Arzheimer, Kai / Roßteutscher, Sigrid (Hrsg.): Information – Wahrnehmung – Emotion. Politische Psychologie in der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung", Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 215-237.

Bettina Wagner (2008): Determinants of Support for the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Attitudes towards the Nation State. In: Virtual Paperroom der Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics der ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, http://www.jhubc.it/ecpr-riga/virtualpaperroom/008.pdf.

Bettina Wagner (2007): „Bild – unabhängig ∙ überparteilich“? Die Wahlberichterstattung der erfolgreichsten Boulevardzeitung Deutschlands. In: Brettschneider, Frank / Niedermayer, Oskar / Weßels, Bernhard (Hrsg.): Die Bundestagswahl 2005. Analysen des Wahlkampfes und der Wahlergebnisse, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, 147-170.

Frank Brettschneider/ Bettina Wagner (2007): „And the winner should be…“. Explizite und implizite Endorsements in der Bild-Zeitung und der Sun. In: Pfetsch, Barbara / Adams, Silke (Hrsg.): Medien als politische Akteure, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag, 225-244.

5. Presentations

Determinants of Support for the European Union in Central and Eastern Europe: The Role of Attitudes towards the Nation State.
Presentation at the conference Fourth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics der ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, 25th-27th of September 2008, Latvijas Universitate in Riga, Lettland.
 
Unterstützung der Europäischen Union, Einstellungen zum Nationalstaat und kognitive Ressourcen. Zusammenhänge am Beispiel Mittel- und Osteuropas.
Presentation at the conference „Information – Wahrnehmung – Emotion. Die Bedeutung kognitiver und affektiver Prozesse für die Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung“ of the DVPW-Arbeitskreises „Wahlen und politische Einstellungen“, 15th-16th of May 2008, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg.

Participant in the Transatlantic Graduate Student Workshop: A 2-day Workshop for PhD Students on EU Politics, 9th-10th of May 2008, Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg, Delmenhorst.

Participant in the PhD Summer School 2007 on Governance and Democracy in Central Eastern Europe (Director: Prof. Ferdinand Müller-Rommel), 13th-24th of August 2007, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg.

Participant in the 40th Essex Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis; Course: Causal Models and Structural Equations (Prof. Peter Schmidt), 23rd of July - 3rd of August 2007, University of Essex, Great Britain. 

“Bild – unabhängig, überparteilich”? Die Wahlberichterstattung der erfolgreichsten Boulevardzeitung Deutschlands.
Presentation at the conference „Die Bundestagswahl 2005“ of the DVPW-Arbeitskreise „Wahlen und Einstellungen“, „Parteienforschung“ and „Politik und Kommunikation“, 19th-20th of July 2006, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung.

Short-term lecturer with the Department of Political Science at Latvijas Universitate in Riga, Latvia, 27th of March - 7th of April 2006.

"And the winner should be...": Implizite und explizite Endorsements in der BILD und der SUN.
Presentation at the conference "Medien als Akteure im politischen Prozess" of the Arbeitskreises "Politik und Kommunikation", DVPW and the Fachgruppe "Kommunikation und Politik", DGPuK, 10th-12th of February 2005, Stuttgart-Hohenheim (together with Frank Brettschneider).