Sabrina Mayer

PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL SCIENCES

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Office: Feldkirchenstraße 21, Office: F21/03.71, 96052 Bamberg, Germany
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E-Mail:sabrina.mayer(at)uni-bamberg.de
Phone: +49 (0)951/863-2706
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Pillar 4: Governance, Institutional Change and Political Sociology
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// CURRENT POSITIONS
 

• Professor of Political Science with a focus on Political Sociology
• Faculty Member of the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences

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// SUPERVISION

Professor Dr. Sabrina Mayer is interested in supervising doctoral studies on questions of political behaviour and public opinion. In this context, she is particularly looking for students who want to work with experimental approaches or prefer to rely on concepts from political psychology such as emotions, social identities, or personality. Further potential research topics include studies on specific subgroups of the electorate, such as young voters or voters of immigrant-origin.

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// RESEARCH

Her research fields are mainly: Political Behaviour, Political Psychology, Elections and Voters, and Public Opinion.

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// SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

Goerres, Achim, Sabrina J Mayer & Dennis C Spies (2022): A New Electorate? Explaining the Party Preferences of Immigrant-Origin Voters at the 2017 Bundestag Election. British Journal of Political Science. 10.1017/S0007123421000302

Mayer, Sabrina J & Christoph G Nguyen (2021): Angry Reactionary Narcissists? Anger Activates the Link Between Narcissism and Right-Populist Party Support. Politics and Governance. DOI:10.17645/pag.v9i3.4000 (Open Access)

Johann, David & Sabrina J Mayer (2021): Do interviewers affect measures of factual political knowledge? Evidence from Austria and Germany. International Journal of Public Opinion. DOI:10.1093/ijpor/edab002

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Professor Mayer's website at the Chair of Political Theory.