Prof. Dr. Nathalie Giger

former staff
Phone: 
+49-621-181-2842
 
 

Research Interests

  • comparative policy
  • political sociology
  • Methods of empirical social research
  • Social policy

Projects

RP9 B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions

RP9
Participation and Representation. A Comparative Study of Linkage Mechanisms between Citizens and the Political System in Contemporary Democracies (PartiRep-2)

RP8 B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance

RP8
Representation in Europe: Policy Congruence between Citizens and Elites (REPCONG)

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.)

Monographs

Giger, Nathalie (2011): The risk of social policy? The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment and social policy performance in OECD countries. London and New York: Routledge. [Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare; 13] more

Editions

Lefkofridi, Zoe, Nathalie Giger and Kathrin Kissau (Eds.) (2012): Inequality and Representation in Europe. London: Taylor & Francis. [Special Issue Journal of Representation; 48 (1)] more

Journal Articles

Kurella, Anna-Sophie, Nathalie Giger and Jan Rosset (2024): Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?. Electoral Studies, 89, (article no. 102790), pp. 11. more
Bräuninger, Thomas, and Nathalie Giger (2018): Strategic Ambiguity of Party Positions in Multi-Party Competition. Political Science Research and Methods, 6, issue 3, pp. 527-548. more
Rosset, Jan, Nathalie Giger and Julian Bernauer (2017): I the People? Self-Interest and Demand for Government Responsiveness. Comparative Political Studies, 50, issue 6, pp. 794-821. more
Bernauer, Julian, Nathalie Giger and Jan Rosset (2015): Mind the gap: Do proportional electoral systems foster a more equal representation of women and men, poor and rich?. International Political Science Review, 36, issue 1, pp. 78-98. more
Giger, Nathalie, and Moira Nelson (2013): The Welfare State or the Economy? Preferences, Constituencies and Strategies for Retrenchment. European Sociological Review, 29, issue 5, pp. 1083-1094. more
Rosset, Jan, Nathalie Giger and Julian Bernauer (2013): More Money, Fewer Problems? Cross-Level Effects of Economic Deprivation on Political Representation. West European Politics, 36, issue 4, pp. 817-835. more
Giger, Nathalie (2012): Is social policy retrenchment unpopular? How welfare reforms affect government popularity. European Sociological Review, 28, issue 5, pp. 691-700. more
Giger, Nathalie, Jan Rosset and Julian Bernauer (2012): The poor political representation of the poor in a comparative perspective. Representation, 48, issue 1, pp. 47-61. more
Giger, Nathalie (2012): Wie reagieren Wähler auf Sparpolitik? Eine theoretische und empirische Annäherung an die elektoralen Kosten von Sparpolitik. der moderne staat (dms), 2, pp. 291-312. more
Lefkofridi, Zoe, Nathalie Giger and Kathrin Kissau (2012): Inequality and Representation in Europe. Journal of Representation, 48, issue 1, pp. 1-11. more
Giger, Nathalie, Jochen Müller and Marc Debus (2011): Die Bedeutung des regionalen Kontexts für die programmatische Positionierung von Schweizer Kantonalparteien. Swiss Political Science Review, 17, issue 3, pp. 259-285. more
Giger, Nathalie, and Moira Nelson (2011): The electoral consequences of welfare state retrenchment: Blame avoidance or credit claiming in the era of permanent austerity?. European Journal of Political Research, 50, issue 1, pp. 1-23. more
Giger, Nathalie (2010): Do voters punish the government for welfare state retrenchment? A comparative study of electoral costs associated with social policy. Comparative European Politics, 8, issue 4, pp. 415–443. more

Book Chapters

Giger, Nathalie, and Sascha Huber (2015): Der Einfluss des Geschlechts auf Kandidatenbeurteilungen: Eine experimentelle Studie zu Kontexteffekten und individuellen Faktoren in Deutschland. Pp. 333-359 in: Thorsten Faas, Cornelia Frank, Harald Schoen (Eds.) Politische Psychologie [Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Sonderheft 50]. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. more

Conference Presentations

Rosset, Jan, Nathalie Giger and Julian Bernauer (2015): Ideological Congruence and Demand for Government Responsiveness. [5th Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association, Vienna, June 25th to June 27th, 2015] more
Rosset, Jan, Nathalie Giger and Julian Bernauer (2014): Being Determines Consciousness? Economic Cleavages and Europeans’ Understandings and Evaluations of Democracy. [Conference on Advances in the Study of Democratic Responsiveness, Göteborg, November 22nd to November 23rd, 2014] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, and Nathalie Giger (2013): Strategic ambiguity of party positions in multiparty settings. [Gastvortrag, Universität St. Gallen, October 09th, 2013] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, and Nathalie Giger (2012): Intra-party effects of mean voter and party constituency representation. [Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 12th to April 15th, 2012] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, and Nathalie Giger (2012): Intra-party effects of mean voter and party constituency representation. [DVPW Arbeitskreis für Handlungs- und Entscheidungstheorie, Jahrestagung, Wien, June 01st to June 02nd, 2012] more
Giger, Nathalie, and Thomas Bräuninger (2012): Are Parties Responsive to Group Turnout? Relative Turnout of the Poor and Responsiveness of Parties in Western Europe. [Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 12th to April 15th, 2012] more
Giger, Nathalie (2012): Electoral Politics and New Social Risk Policies. [Workshop on the politics of social policy, Lund, November 16th to November 17th, 2012] more
Giger, Nathalie (2012): Focusing events and policy change: The aftermath of Fukushima. [European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Berlin, June 21st to June 23rd, 2012] more
Giger, Nathalie (2012): Holding Governments accountable: Individual Heterogeneity in Performance Voting. [Elections, Public Opinion and Parties conference, Oxford, September 07th to September 09th, 2012] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, and Nathalie Giger (2011): An improved method of scaling: taking individual heterogeneity into account. [European Political Science Association (EPSA) Annual Conference, Dublin, June 16th to June 18th, 2011] more
Bräuninger, Thomas, and Nathalie Giger (2011): An improved method of scaling: taking individual heterogeneity into account. [ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, St. Gallen, April 12th to April 17th, 2011] more
Giger, Nathalie, and Thomas Bräuninger (2011): An Improved Method of Scaling: Taking Individual Heterogeneity into Account. [69th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, March 30th to April 03rd, 2011] more
Giger, Nathalie (2011): Are parties responsive to group turnout? Relative turnout of the poor and the responsiveness of parties in Western Europe. [6th ECPR General Conference, Reykjavik, August 24th to August 28th, 2011] more
Giger, Nathalie (2011): Political representation of the poor and economic inequality: a comparative analysis. [HumVIB Final Conference, Berlin, September 07th to September 10th, 2011] more
Giger, Nathalie (2011): Salience and representation. An integral approach and some empirical evidence. [Issue-Congruence and Political Communication in Representative Democracies, Dornburg/Saale, October 27th to October 29th, 2011] more
Giger, Nathalie (2011): Truly linked or totally apart? On the connection between preceived and actual representation. [European Political Science Association Annual Conference, Dublin, June 16th to June 18th, 2011] more
Giger, Nathalie (2011): Why is there no modern gender gap in Finland?. [International Workshop "Education, Religion, and the Gender-vote Gap - The Institutional Heritage of Western Europes´ Confessional Conflict, Bremen, October 14th to October 15th, 2011] more
Müller, Jochen, Nathalie Giger and Marc Debus (2011): Die Bedeutung des regionalen Kontexts für die programmatische Positionierung von Schweizer Kantonalparteien. [Dreiländertagung von SVPW, DVPW und ÖGPW, Basel, January 13th to January 14th, 2011] more
Giger, Nathalie (2010): Do parties ensure equal representation? A longitudinal and cross-national analysis. [Comparing European Countries: Multi-level, Cross-time. Workshop of the HumVIB project, Hamburg, December 16th to December 17th, 2010] more
Giger, Nathalie (2010): Personal Salience and Representation. Towards a micro-foundation and some empirical evidence. [68th National Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 22nd to April 25th, 2010] more
Giger, Nathalie (2010): The electoral consequences of social policy reforms. An empirical answer to the new politics literature. [ECPR Joint Sessions, Münster, March 22nd to March 26th, 2010] more
Giger, Nathalie (2010): The Substantial Representation of Subconstituency Interests in Western Democracies. [Council for European Studies Conference, Montreal, April 15th to April 17th, 2010] more
Giger, Nathalie (2009): Measuring Congruence in Europe. [ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, September 09th to September 12th, 2009] more
Giger, Nathalie (2009): Salience. A missing element in representation theory?. [NCCR Workshop "Representation. New Forms of measuring and old challenges", Bern, November 12th to November 13th, 2009] more