Steffen Wamsler
POSTDOCTORAL MEMBER
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Office: Wilhelmsplatz 3, Room: WP3/02.10, 96047 Bamberg
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E-Mail: steffen.wamsler(at)lifbi.de
Phone: +49 (0)951 863-3125
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Pillar 2: Educational and Social Inequality across the Entire Life Course
Field: Political Sociology
Research Interests: Social Inequality, Social consequences of Covid-19, National identity, Social integration, Social and political trust, Democratic support, Emotions and political attitudes, Survey research, Survey experiments, Structural equation modelling, Panel models, Multi-level modelling
Dissertation: The Social Integration Framework and National Identity: Relative Deprivation, Social Trust and Pandemic Threat.
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Visit Steffen's website at LIfBi
// ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
09/2018 - 08/2022
Doctoral student, University of Bern, Switzerland
09/2015 - 03/2018
Double degree program Master of Arts (Political Science and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Germany);
Master of Science (European Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
10/2011 - 04/2015
Bachelor’s Degree in Politics and Public Administration, University of Konstanz, Germany
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// PUBLICATIONS
- Zoch G. and Wamsler S. (2024). From rally to reality: unveiling long-term dynamics in political trust over two years of COVID-19 in Germany. Political Research Exchange: online first. DOI: 10.1080/2474736X.2024.2403438
- Wamsler S. (2024). Violated Entitlement and the Nation: How Feelings of Relative Deprivation Shape Nationalism and Constructive Patriotism. International Journal of Comparative Sociology 65(2): 135–53. DOI: 10.1177/00207152221103123
- Wamsler S. (2023) Dimensions of social trust and national identity: Addressing a multifaceted relationship. Nations and Nationalism 29(2): 598-617. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12935
- Wamsler S, Freitag M, Erhardt J, Filsinger M. (2022) The Pandemic and the Question of National Belonging: Exposure to Covid‐19 Threat and Conceptions of Nationhood. European Journal of Political Research 62(2): 510-529. DOI: 10.1111/1475-6765.12515
- Erhardt J, Freitag M, Wamsler S, Filsinger M. (2022) What drives political support? Evidence from a survey experiment at the onset of the corona crisis. Contemporary Politics: 28(4): 429-446. DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2021.2010345
- Filsinger M, Freitag M, Erhardt J, Wamsler S. (2021) Rally around your fellows: Information and social trust in a real-world experiment during the corona crisis. The Social Science Journal: online first. DOI: 10.1080/03623319.2021.1954463
- Filsinger M, Wamsler S, Erhardt J, Freitag M. (2021) National identity and populism: The relationship between conceptions of nationhood and populist attitudes. Nations and Nationalism 27(3): 656–672. DOI: 10.1111/nana.12689
- Erhardt J, Freitag M, Filsinger M, Wamsler S. (2021) The Emotional Foundations of Political Support: How Fear and Anger Affect Trust in the Government in Times of the Covid‐19 Pandemic. Swiss Political Science Review 27(2): 339–352. DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12462
- Erhardt J, Wamsler S and Freitag M (2021) National identity between democracy and autocracy: a comparative analysis of 24 countries. European Political Science Review 13(1): 59–76. DOI: 10.1017/S1755773920000351
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// EXPERIENCE
Professional Experience:
Current Position
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi), Bamberg, Germany
Project title: political attitudes and political participation after the Covid-19 pandemic (PEPP-COV)
09/2022 – 12/2022
Research fellow, University of Bern, Switzerland
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