(In Press):
Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals.
West European Politics, (publ. online before print).
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Dr. Lena Maria Huber

Fellow Department B
MZES equal opportunities representative
lena.huber [at] uni-mannheim.de
Phone:
+49-621-181-2855
Fax:
+49-621-181-2866
Phone:
+49-621-181-2842Postal Address
University of Mannheim, MZES
68131
Mannheim
Germany
Visiting Address
University of Mannheim, MZES
A5, 6 Building A
Room:A 219
68159
Mannheim
Profile/Career
Lena Maria Huber joined the MZES as a research fellow in Research Department B in February 2023. Her office is located in room A-219. Her research interests include political communication, parties and party competition, representation, voting behavior, and manual and automated content analysis of political texts. Lena Maria Huber studied political science at the University of Vienna, where she received her PhD in 2023 on the topic of party communication. From 2019 to 2023, she was employed as a university assistant (pre-doc) at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna.
Projects
B2 Contexts for Democratic Governance: Political Institutions
Publications
Journal Articles
Huber, Lena Maria, Thomas M. Meyer and Markus Wagner
(2024):
Social group appeals in party rhetoric: Effects on policy support and polarization.
The Journal of Politics, 86, issue 4, pp. 1304-1318.
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Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz, Martin Haselmayer, Lena Maria Huber and Manuel Scharrer
(2022):
Issue substitution or volume expansion? How parties accommodate agenda change.
Electoral Studies, 76, (article no. 102437).
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Ennser-Jedenastik, Laurenz, Martin Haselmayer, Lena Maria Huber and Martin Fenz
(2022):
Who talks about what? Issue strategies across the party hierarchy.
European Journal of Political Research, 61, issue 3, pp. 842–852.
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Huber, Lena Maria
(2022):
Beyond policy: The use of social group appeals in party communication.
Political Communication, 39, issue 3, pp. 293–310.
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Huber, Lena Maria, Anita Bodlos, Elisabeth Graf and Thomas M. Meyer
(2022):
Disseminating legislative debates: How legislators communicate the parliamentary agenda.
Party Politics, 28, issue 2, pp. 365-376.
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Eberl, Jakob-Moritz, Lena Maria Huber and Carolina Plescia
(2020):
A tale of firsts: the 2019 Austrian snap election.
West European Politics, 43, issue 6, pp. 1350-1363.
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Book Chapters
Partheymüller, Julia, and Lena Maria Huber
(2023):
Wahlkampf.
Pp. 391-414 in:
Katrin Praprotnik, Flooh Perlot
(Eds.)
Das Politische System Österreichs: Basiswissen und Forschungseinblicke.
Wien:
Böhlau.
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Conference Presentations
Huber, Lena Maria
(2025):
Group sympathy and party choice: A longitudinal and comparative analysis of reference group theory.
[Comparative Politics & Political Economy, Research Workshop, Konstanz, January 13th, 2025]
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Dolinsky, Alona O., Lena Maria Huber and Mariken van der Velden
(2024):
Representation of social groups and voters’ eeactions: A survey experiment.
[14th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Köln, July 04th to July 06th, 2024]
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Dolinsky, Alona O., Lena Maria Huber and Mariken van der Velden
(2024):
Representation of social groups and voters’ reactions: A survey experiment.
[ 29. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft, Göttingen, September 24th to September 27th, 2024]
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Huber, Lena Maria, and Martin Haselmayer
(2024):
Strategic alienation: The dynamics of group appeals in negative campaigning.
[Workshop on Party Politics and Government Coalitions, Aarhus, October 10th, 2024]
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Dolinsky, Alona O., and Lena Maria Huber
(2023):
Group Appeals as Representative Claims: A New Perspective on Parties’ Efforts to Connect with Voters.
[Zurich Workshop on Political Representation, Zürich, November 30th to December 01st, 2023]
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Huber, Lena Maria, and Alona O. Dolinsky
(2023):
How parties shape their relationship with social groups: A roadmap to the study of group-based appeals.
[13th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association, Glasgow, June 22nd to June 24th, 2023]
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Huber, Lena Maria, and Martin Haselmayer
(2023):
Promising links: How parties connect policy issues with group appeals.
[ECPR Joint Sessions Workshop "Social Groups and Electoral Politics: Group appeals, targeted policy and voter responses", Toulouse, April 25th to April 28th, 2023]
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