Dr. Elias Naumann

picture Elias Naumann
External Fellow and Project director
Phone: 
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Profile/Career

I am a post-doctoral researcher at GESIS-Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences and  external fellow at the Mannheim Center for European Social Research, co-directing the BMAS junior research group "Integration von Migranten und Einstellungen zum Sozialstaat". In 2019-20 I was a JFK Memorial Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and spent 4 months as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies the European University Institute in Florence in 2016. 
My research interests are related to political sociology, comparative political economy, welfare state preferences, migration and survey methodology. For more information on current research and publications see personal website:

www.eliasnaumann.de

Projects

A1 Institutions of Societal Integration: Market Economies, Organisations, and Welfare States

A1.1902
Integration of Migrants and Attitudes Towards the Welfare State

AI Associated Projects

AI.1840
Welfare State Reform Support from Below: Linking Individual Attitudes and Organised Interests in Europe

Publications

(Note: Generally, the former staff pages only feature publications that have been published at the MZES. Furthermore, the former staff pages feature publications that have been published in co-authorship with current MZES staff.)

Editions

Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Elias Naumann (Eds.) (2018): Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below - Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. more

Journal Articles

Naumann, Elias, Marvin Marcus Brinkmann and Katja Möhring (2024): The ethnic penalty in welfare deservingness: A factorial survey experiment on welfare chauvinism in pension attitudes in Germany. Journal of European Social Policy, 34, issue 2, pp. 190-202. more
Cornesse, Carina, Ulrich Krieger, Marie-Lou Sohnius, Marina Fikel, Sabine Friedel, Tobias Rettig, Alexander Wenz, Sebastian Juhl, Roni Lehrer, Katja Möhring, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid and Annelies G. Blom (2022): From German Internet Panel to Mannheim Corona Study: Adaptable probability-based online panel infrastructures during the pandemic. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Statistics in Society, 185, issue 3, pp. 773-797. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Lukas Lehner and Elias Naumann (2022): Welfare state support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Change and continuity in public attitudes towards social policies in Germany. European Policy Analysis, 8, issue 3, pp. 297-311. more
Khalil, Samir, and Elias Naumann (2022): Does Contact with Foreigners Reduce Worries about Immigration? A Longitudinal Analysis in Germany. European Sociological Review, 38, issue 2, pp. 189–201. more
Blom, Annelies G., Alexander Wenz, Carina Cornesse, Tobias Rettig, Marina Fikel, Sabine Friedel, Katja Möhring, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid and Ulrich Krieger (2021): Barriers to the Large-Scale Adoption of the COVID-19 Contact-Tracing App in Germany: Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23, issue 3, (article no. e23362). more
Mata, Jutta, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Katja Möhring, Ulrich Krieger, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse, Annelies G. Blom and Elias Naumann (2021): Health behaviors and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal population-based survey in Germany. Social Science & Medicine, 287, issue October 2021, (article no. 114333). more
Möhring, Katja, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Ulrich Krieger, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse and Annelies G. Blom (2021): The COVID-19 pandemic and subjective well-being: longitudinal evidence on satisfaction with work and family. European Societies, 23, issue suppl. 1, pp. S601-S617. more
Naumann, Elias, Ellen Driesch, Almut Schumann and Carolin Thönnissen (2021): Anstieg depressiver Symptome bei Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen während des ersten Lockdowns in Deutschland. Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 64, issue 12, pp. 1533–1540. more
Blom, Annelies G., Carina Cornesse, Sabine Friedel, Ulrich Krieger, Marina Fikel, Tobias Rettig, Alexander Wenz, Sebastian Juhl, Roni Lehrer, Katja Möhring, Elias Naumann and Maximiliane Reifenscheid (2020): High Frequency and High Quality Survey Data Collection: The Mannheim Corona Study. Survey Research Methods, 14, issue 2, pp. 171-178. more
Blom, Annelies G., Carina Cornesse, Sabine Friedel, Ulrich Krieger, Marina Fikel, Tobias Rettig, Alexander Wenz, Sebastian Juhl, Roni Lehrer, Katja Möhring, Elias Naumann and Maximiliane Reifenscheid (2020): High-Frequency and High-Quality Survey Data Collection: The Mannheim Corona Study. Survey Research Methods, 14, issue 2, pp. 171-178. more
Naumann, Elias, Katja Möhring, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse and Annelies G. Blom (2020): COVID-19 policies in Germany and their social, political, and psychological consequences. European Policy Analysis, 6, issue 2, pp. 191-202. more
Naumann, Elias, Katja Möhring, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse and Annelies G. Blom (2020): COVID‐19 Policies in Germany and their Social, Political, and Psychological Consequences. European Policy Analysis, 6, issue 2, pp. 191-202. more
Naumann, Elias, Wouter de Tavernier, Laura Naegele and Moritz Hess (2020): Public support for sanctioning older unemployed – a survey experiment in 21 European countries. European Societies, 22, issue 1, pp. 77-100. more
Liebe, Ulf, Elias Naumann and Andreas Tutić (2019): Prosocial Behavior Across Professional Boundaries: Experimental Evidence From Hospitals. SAGE Open, 9, issue 2, (e-only). more
Marx, Paul, and Elias Naumann (2018): Do right-wing parties foster welfare chauvinistic attitudes? A longitudinal study of the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’ in Germany. Electoral Studies, 52, pp. 111-116. more
Naumann, Elias, Lukas F. Stötzer and Giuseppe Pietrantuono (2018): Attitudes towards highly skilled and low-skilled immigration in Europe: A survey experiment in 15 European countries. European Journal of Political Research, 57, issue 4, pp. 1009-1030. more
Naumann, Elias, and Lukas F. Stötzer (2018): Immigration and support for redistribution: survey experiments in three European countries. West European Politics, 41, issue 1, pp. 80-101 . more
Naumann, Elias (2018): Tax Constraints, Social Policy Preferences, and Support for Redistribution. Societies, 8, issue 3. more
Heß, Moritz, Elias Naumann and Leander Steinkopf (2017): Population Ageing, the Intergenerational Conflict, and Active Ageing Policies – a Multilevel Study of 27 European Countries. Journal of Population Ageing, 10, issue 1, pp. 11-23. more
Liebe, Ulf, Elias Naumann and Andreas Tutić (2017): Sozialer Status und prosoziales Handeln: Ein Quasi-Experiment im Krankenhaus. Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, 69, issue 1, pp. 109-129. more
Naumann, Elias (2017): Do increasing reform pressures change welfare state attitudes? An experimental study on population ageing, pension reform preferences, political knowledge and ideology. Ageing & Society, 37, issue 2, pp. 266-294. more
Jensen, Carsten, and Elias Naumann (2016): Increasing pressures and support for public healthcare in Europe. Health Policy, 120, issue 6, pp. 698 - 705. more
Naumann, Elias, Christopher Buss and Johannes Bähr (2016): How Unemployment Experience Affects Support for the Welfare State: A Real Panel Approach. European Sociological Review, 32, issue 1, pp. 81-92. more
Hofäcker, Dirk, and Elias Naumann (2015): The emerging trend of work beyond retirement age in Germany – Increasing social inequality?. Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, 48, issue 5, pp. 473-479. more
Naumann, Elias, Moritz Heß and Leander Steinkopf (2015): Die Alterung der Gesellschaft und der Generationenkonflikt in Europa. Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 44, issue 6, pp. 426-446. more
Naumann, Elias (2014): Increasing conflict in times of retrenchment? Attitudes towards healthcare provision in Europe between 1996 and 2002. International Journal of Social Welfare, 23, issue 3, pp. 276-286. more
Wendt, Claus, Elias Naumann and Julia Klitzke (2014): Reformbedarf im deutschen Gesundheitssystem aus Sicht der Bevölkerung. Zeitschrift für Sozialreform, 60, issue 4, pp. 333-348. more

Book Chapters

Naumann, Elias (2023): Support for the welfare state over the life course: analysing individual attitude change with multiwave panel data. Pp. 161-180 in: Femke Roosma, Tijs Laenen (Eds.) A Research Agenda for Public Attitudes to Welfare. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. more
Juhl, Sebastian, Roni Lehrer, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Ulrich Krieger, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring and Maximiliane Reifenscheid (2022): Preferences for centralized decision-making in times of crisis: the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Pp. 1–27 in: Jan Sauermann, Markus Tepe, Marc Debus (Eds.) Jahrbuch für Handlungs-und Entscheidungstheorie: Band 12. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. more
Naumann, Elias, and Moritz Hess (2021): Population Ageing, Immigration and the Welfare State: The Political Demography in Western Europe. Pp. 351-371 in: Achim Goerres, Pieter Vanhuysse (Eds.) Global Political Demography: The Politics of Population Change. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Elias Naumann (2020): The legitimacy of public pensions in an ageing Europe: Changes in subjective evaluations and political preferences, 2008-2016. Pp. 159-176 in: Tijs Laenen, Bart Meuleman, Wim van Oorschot (Eds.) Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity: Between Continuity and Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Elias Naumann (2020): The legitimacy of public pensions in an ageing Europe: Subjective evaluation and political preferences between 2008 and 2016. Pp. 159-176 in: Tijs Laenen, Bart Meuleman, Wim van Oorschot (Eds.) Welfare State Legitimacy in Times of Crisis and Austerity: Between Continuity and Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Elias Naumann (2018): Class, Union, or Party Allegiance? Comparing Pension Reform Preferences in Britain and Germany. Pp. 107-128 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Elias Naumann (Eds.) Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below: Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Elias Naumann (2018): Introduction: Analysing Organized Interests and Public Opinion Towards Welfare Reforms. Pp. 1-23 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Elias Naumann (Eds.) Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below: Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Elias Naumann (2018): The Popularity of Pension and Unemployment Policies Revisited: The Erosion of Public Support in Britain and Germany. Pp. 155-186 in: Bernhard Ebbinghaus, Elias Naumann (Eds.) Welfare State Reforms Seen from Below: Comparing Public Attitudes and Organized Interests in Britain and Germany. London: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Buss, Christopher, Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Elias Naumann (2017): Making Deservingness of the Unemployed Conditional: Changes in Public Support for the Conditionality of Unemployment Benefits. Pp. 167-185 in: Wim van Oorschot, Femke Roosma, Bart Meuleman, Tim Reeskens (Eds.) The Social Legitimacy of Targeted Welfare: Attitudes to Welfare Deservingness. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. more
Hofäcker, Dirk, Moritz Heß and Elias Naumann (2015): Changing retirement transitions in times of paradigmatic political change: towards growing inequalities?. Pp. 205-226 in: Cornelius Torp (Ed.) Challenges of Ageing: Retirement, Pensions and Intergenerational Justice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. more
Naumann, Elias (2014): Raising the retirement age: retrenchment, feedback and attitudes. Pp. 223-243 in: Staffan Kumlin, Isabelle Stadelmann-Steffen (Eds.) How Welfare States Shape the Democratic Public : Policy Feedback, Participation, Voting, and Attitudes. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. more

Thesis

Naumann, Elias (2014): The Dynamics of Welfare Attitudes in Times of Welfare State Retrenchment. Mannheim: University of Mannheim. [Center for Doctoral Studies in the Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS), Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS), Faculty of Social Sciences, University Mannheim; PhD] (Dissertation) more

Papers / Reports

Blom, Annelies G., Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Das Leben in Deutschland im Ausnahmezustand; Bericht zur Lage vom 20. März bis 29. April 2020. Mannheim more
Blom, Annelies G., Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse and Julian Axenfeld (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Das Leben in Deutschland im Ausnahmezustand; Bericht zur Lage vom 20. März bis 31. März 2020. Mannheim more
Blom, Annelies G., Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): The Mannheim Corona Study: Life in Germany in a State of Emergency; Report for March 20 to July 09, 2020. Mannheim more
Blom, Annelies G., Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): The Mannheim Corona Study: Life in Germany in a State of Emergency; Report for March 20 to June 30, 2020. Mannheim more
Blom, Annelies G., Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): The Mannheim Corona Study: Life in Germany in a State of Emergency; Report for March 20 to May 28, 2020. Mannheim more
Brinkmann, Marvin Marcus, Katja Möhring and Elias Naumann (2020): Sollten Migranten das gleiche Anrecht auf Sozialleistungen haben wie Deutsche? Einstellungen der Bevölkerung in Deutschland. Berlin [FIS-Briefing; 14] more
Juhl, Sebastian, Roni Lehrer, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring, Ulrich Krieger, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Demokratische Kontrolle in der Corona-Krise. Mannheim more
Juhl, Sebastian, Roni Lehrer, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring, Ulrich Krieger, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz politischer Maßnahmen und befürchtete Konsequenzen für die Wirtschaft. Mannheim more
Lehrer, Roni, Sebastian Juhl, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Elias Naumann, Katja Möhring, Ulrich Krieger, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Die vier Phasen des Social Distancing in Deutschland. Mannheim more
Möhring, Katja, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zu Erwerbstätigkeit und Kinderbetreuung. Mannheim more
Möhring, Katja, Friederich Heinemann, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zum subjektiven Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko der Beschäftigten in Deutschland. Mannheim more
Möhring, Katja, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zur Erwerbstätigkeit in Deutschland 20.3.-15.4.2020. Mannheim more
Möhring, Katja, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Andreas P. Weiland, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zur Nutzung und Akzeptanz von Homeoffice in Deutschland während des Corona-Lockdowns. Mannheim more
Naumann, Elias, Jutta Mata, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Katja Möhring, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Ulrich Krieger, Sebastian Juhl, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel, Carina Cornesse and Annelies G. Blom (2020): Die Mannheimer Corona-Studie: Schwerpunktbericht zum Angstempfinden in der Bevölkerung; Untersuchungszeitraum 20. März bis 16. April 2020. Mannheim more

Web Publications

Möhring, Katja, Elias Naumann, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Annelies G. Blom, Alexander Wenz, Tobias Rettig, Roni Lehrer, Sebastian Juhl, Ulrich Krieger, Sabine Friedel, Marina Fikel and Carina Cornesse (2020): Inequality in employment during the Corona lockdown: Evidence from Germany, JESP European Social Policy Blog, 2020 more

Conference Presentations

Brinkmann, Marvin Marcus, and Elias Naumann (2020): Explaining Support for Welfare Chauvinism – How Immigrants’ Status and Citizenship Affect Natives’ Preferences to Exclude Immigrants from Access to Social Assistance and Unemployment Benefits. [18th Annual ESPAnet Conference, (virtual conference), September 02nd to September 04th, 2020] more
Naumann, Elias (2020): COVID‐19 policies in Germany and their social, political, and psychological consequences. [A review of public policy responses to COVID-19 in different parts of Europe, Harvard University, Cambridge, May 15th, 2020] more
Naumann, Elias, and Samir Khalil (2020): Does Contact with Migrants Reduce Worries about Immigration? A Longitudinal Analysis of Public Attitudes towards Migration in Germany. [Visiting Scholars Seminar at Harvard University: New Research on Europe, (virtual), April 03rd, 2020] more
Naumann, Elias, and Marvin Marcus Brinkmann (2020): Explaining support for welfare chauvinism: how immigrants’ status and citizenship affect natives’ preference to exclude immigrants from access to social assistance and unemployment benefits. [ECPR General Conference, (virtual conference), August 24th to August 28th, 2020] more
Naumann, Elias (2020): The Political Consequences of the COVID-19-Pandemic in Germany: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Policy and Redistribution Preferences. [CIS Colloquium at ETH Zurich and University of Zurich, (virtual), December 17th, 2020] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, Elias Naumann and Claus Wendt (2013): Not quite united against reforms: Pension reform positions of British, French, and German social groups. [11th Annual ESPAnet conference "Social Policy and Economic Development", Poznan University of Economics, September 05th to September 07th, 2013] more
Hofäcker, Dirk, and Elias Naumann (2012): Happy Retirement – Cancelled? Exploring an emergent trend on the German labour market. [ESA RN1 Mid-Term conference "Ageing in the light of crises: Economic crisis, demographic change, and the search for meaning", Umeå University, October 03rd to October 05th, 2012] more
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard, and Elias Naumann (2011): The Dynamics of Individual Attitudes towards Pension Policies in Times of Welfare State Retrenchment. [Workshop on The Political Economy of Reforms, SFB 884, Universität Mannheim, December 09th to December 10th, 2011] more