Credit: Anna Logue
Felix Jäger, M.A.
University of Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
Chair of Sociology, Migration and Integration
A 5, 6
68159 Mannheim
School of Social Sciences
Chair of Sociology, Migration and Integration
A 5, 6
68159 Mannheim
Research Interests
- Attitudes of citizens toward civil liberties and their importance for the stability of democracies
- Attitudes towards immigrants and immigration policies
- Representation of political parties in the party program and on Twitter
- Polarization within parliaments
- Perception of different graphic formats or data visualizations
Academic Career
| 09/ | PhD Student of Political Science, Graduate School of Economics and Social Sciences, Mannheim |
| 10/ | Master of Arts in Political Science, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Bamberg |
| 10/ | Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main |
Professional Career
| 09/ | Research Associate, DFG project ‘Immigration, Integration, and Naturalization: New Immigrants, Policy Decisions and Citizens’ Responses’, University of Mannheim, Mannheim |
| 02/ | Student Research Assistant, Chair of Empirical Democracy Research, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main |
| 03/ | Managing Partner, M@W GbR, Bamberg |
Publications
- Valentin Berger, and Felix Jäger (2024). Do electoral candidates reflect or select campaign issues? The Influence of Electoral Manifestos on Online Communication. Party Politics, 30(6): 1088-1099.
- Marc Helbling, Felix Jäger, Rahsaan Maxwell, and Richard Traunmüller (2023). Broad and Detailed Agreement: Public Preferences for German Immigration Policy. International Migration Review.
- Felix Jäger (2023). Security vs. civil liberties: How citizens cope with threat, restriction, and ideology. Frontiers in Political Science 4:1006711.
- Johanna Gereke, Joshua Hellyer, Jan Behnert, Saskia Exner, Alexander Herbel, Felix Jäger, Dean Lajic, Štěpán Mezenský, Vu Ngoc Anh, Tymoteusz Ogłaza, Jule Schabinger, Anna Sokolova, Daria Szafran, Noah Tirolf, Susanne Veit, and Nan Zhang (2022). Demographic change and group boundaries in Germany: The effect of projected demographic decline on perceptions of who has a migration background. Sociological Science, 9(9): 206–220.
- Marc Helbling, Felix Jäger, and Richard Traunmüller (2022). Muslim bias or fear of fundamentalism? A survey experiment in five Western European democracies. Research & Politics, 9(1).