Dipl.-Soz. Wiss. Stephanie Bergbauer M.Sc.

1. Curriculum Vitae

Born 1983.

2003 – 2008 Franco-German double-diploma programme in Social Sciences, University of Stuttgart and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux.

2008 ‘Diplom’ in Social Sciences and Diplôme de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux. Thesis: “Nation first, but Europe too? National identity, national context and identification with Europe in Germany and Great Britain”;

2009 M.Sc. in Politics (Comparative Government), Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. Thesis: Growing up, growing together? Development, causes and consequences of democratic attitudes of youths in the unified Germany, 1992-2003.

Since September 2009 Lecturer at the Chair of Comparative Politics, Department of Political Science, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

 

2. Research interests

• European integration/Attitudes toward European integration 
• Democratisation and comparative democracy research  
• Research Methods in Social Sciences

 

3. Dissertation Project

Mass-elite linkages in European identity formation

My dissertation project seeks to explain variation in European identity among the citizens of EU member states. I argue that to the extent that collective identities are politically constructed and subject to societal conflict and contestation, most importantly by actors in the national political arena, mass-elite linkages become key in understanding differences in the development of a mass European identity across member states. To assess these propositions, the dissertation proceeds in three steps. First, it examines positions of national political parties on issues of national and European identity; second, it explores if and how party positions on collective identities are represented in the mass media; third, it assesses the impact of elite positions on EU identity and EU support at the individual level within a multilevel framework combining party and media data with public opinion data.

 

4. Presentations

"Contesting Europe, contesting identity? Party positioning on national and European identity, 1979-2009", Paper presented at the panel "Party Politics, Mobilization and Policy-Making" at 18th International Conference of Europeanists (Council of European Studies), Barcelona, Spain, June 20-22, 2011

"Contesting Europe, contesting identity? An empirical study of party positioning on national and European identity, 1979-2009", Paper presented at the panel „Mass-Elite Linkages in the European Union“ at the Twelfth Biennial International Conference of the European Union Studies Association, Boston, MA, March 03-05, 2011.

"Political parties and the mobilisation of collective identities in European integration", Paper presented at the panel "Political Parties and European Integration" at the Fifth Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Porto, Portugal, June 23-26, 2010.

"Political parties and the mobilisation of collective identities in European integration", Paper presented at the workshop "The Europeanisation of National Political Parties" at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2010, Münster, March 22-27, 2010.

 

5. Reviews

Stephanie Bergbauer (2012): Using Europe. Territorial Party Strategies in a Multi-Level System, by E. Hepburn, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol.50, no.1. (Book Review)

Stephanie Bergbauer (2010): The European Public Sphere and the Media: Europe in Crisis, edited by A. Triandafyllidou, R. Wodak and M. Krzyżanowski, in: Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol.48, no.4, S.1161-1162. (Book Review)