Felix Jäger

Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim and a research associate at Cluster of Excellence, The Politics of Inequality at the University of Konstanz.

Work in progress

Who is more committed? Civic engagement and policy prioritization among immigration supporters and opponents (with Marc Helbling, and Rahsaan Maxwell; under review)

Can emotions explain how threat rhetoric shapes preferences for freedom versus security? (with Sandra Morgenstern)

Support for Civil Liberties under Affective Polarization

Party Policy Ambiguity and its Consequences for Political Representation and Satisfaction with Democracy (with Roni Lehrer)

Unveiling Inequality: An Open-ended Survey Approach (with Franco Bastias, Nanna Lauritz Schönhage, and Sergio E. Zanotto)

Support for the welfare state: trade-offs between social citizenship and political rights (with Marius Busemeyer, and Philip Rathgeb)

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.
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Marc Helbling, Felix Jäger, Rahsaan Maxwell, and Richard Traunmüller (2023). Broad and Detailed Agreement: Public Preferences for German Immigration Policy. International Migration Review.
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Felix Jäger (2023). Security vs. civil liberties: How citizens cope with threat, restriction, and ideology. Frontiers in Political Science 4:1006711.
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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.
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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).
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