Publications and Talks
Publications
Peer-reviewed Articles
Mayer, Sabrina J./ Goerres, Achim/ Spies, Dennis C./ Diaz-Garcia, Manuel/ Elis, Jonas (2024): Surveying immigrant-origin voters in a post-migrant society: The first Immigrant German Election Study, 2017, Electoral Studies, Vol 42. PDF
Elis, Jonas/ Goerres, Achim/ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Spies, Dennis C. (2023): Comparing the mobilising Effects of In-person Canvassing to Postal Reminders: Experimental Evidence from a Longitudinal Election Study, International Journal of Social Research Methodology. PDF
Spies, Dennis C./ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Elis, Jonas/ Goerres, Achim (2023): Why do Immigrants Support an Anti-Immigrant Party? Russian-Germans and the Alternative for Germany, West European Politics, 46/2: 275-99. doi:10.1080/01402382.2022.2047544 PDF
Goerres, Achim/ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Spies, Dennis C, (early online, 2021): A New Electorate? Explaining the Party Preferences of Immigrant-Origin Voters at the 2017 Bundestag Election. British Journal of Political Science, 1-23. PDF
Hamidou-Schmidt, Hayfat/ Mayer, Sabrina J. (2021): The Relation Between Social Identities and Outgroup Hostility Among German Immigrant-origin Citizens. Political Psychology. Vol 42(2): 311-331. DOI:10.1111/pops.12700 PDF
Spies, Dennis/ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Goerres, Achim (2020): What Are We Missing? Explaining Immigrant-Origin Voter Turnout With Standard and Immigrant-Specific Theories, Electoral Studies, 65, 102103. PDF
Goerres, Achim/ Mayer, Sabrina J./Spies, Dennis (2020): Immigrant Voters Against Their Will: A Focus Group Analysis of Identities, Political Issues and Party Allegiances Among German Resettlers During the 2017 Bundestag Election Campaign, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46/7: 1205-1222. PDF
Contributions in Edited Volumes
Mayer, Sabrina J./ Goerres, Achim/ Spies, Dennis C. (2021): Die Wahlbeteiligung der Deutschen mit Migrationshintergrund – Befunde der Immigrant German Election Study (IMGES), in: Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2017, hrsg. von Schoen, Harald/ Wessels, Bernhard, Wiesbaden: Springer, 81-96. PDF
Mayer, Sabrina J./ Hamidou, Hayfat/ Goerres, Achim (2021): Der Zusammenhang zwischen nicht-politischer Integration und politischer Teilhabe von Bürger/innen mit Migrationshintergrund: Befunde von der Bundestagswahl 2017 auf Basis der Immigrant German Election Study, in: Handbuch Integration, hrsg. von Pickel, Gert/Decker, Oliver/Kailitz, Steffen/Röder, Antje/Schulze Wessel, Julia, Wiesbaden: Springer. PDF
Project Reports
Elis, Jonas/ Goerres, Achim (2023): Survey Weights of the Immigrant German Election Study II Data Set. doi:10.31235/osf.io/ep9xt
Goerres, Achim/ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Spies, Dennis/ Elis, Jonas (2022): Wählerinnen und Wähler mit Einwanderungsgeschichte im Bundestagswahlkampf: Erste Ergebnisse der Immigrant German Election Study II (IMGES II) aus Duisburg von Mai bis November 2021. SocArXiv. April 9. doi:10.31235/osf.io/j72pb PDF
Goerres, Achim/ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Elis, Jonas (2022): Die Wahlbeteiligung von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern mit familiärer Migrationsgeschichte. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Förderung. Stiftung Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (gefördert von der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung): Essen. PDF
Goerres, Achim/ Spies, Dennis C./ Mayer, Sabrina J. (2018): Deutsche mit Migrationshintergrund bei der Bundestagswahl 2017: Erste Auswertungen der Immigrant German Election Study zu Deutschtürken und Russlanddeutschen. PDF
Publications by Others Using our Public Data
Hansen, M. A., & Olsen, J. (2023). Identity and Belonging: Emotional Assimilation in Two Immigrant Communities in Germany. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 1-21.
Hansen, Michael A./ Olsen, Jonathan (2020): Pulling up the Drawbridge, German Politics and Society, 38(2), 109-136. Retrieved Mar 8, 2023, from doi:10.3167/gps.2020.380205 PDF
Public Data
Goerres, Achim, Spies/ Dennis C./ Mayer, Sabrina J. (2020): Immigrant German Election Study (IMGES). GESIS Datenarchiv, Köln. ZA7495 Datenfile Version 1.0.1. doi:10.4232/1.13544
Selected Talks
ESRA 2023 Conference, Milano: Accumulating Differences across the Political Life Cycle: Problems with Overreporting and Nonresponse Issues in a Longitudinal Campaign Survey of Immigrant-origin Voters
EPSA 2023 Conference, Glasgow: Accumulating Differences Across the Political Life Cycle: Socialisation, Resources and the Mobilisation to Vote Among Immigrant-Origin and Native Voters
EPSA 2023 Conference, Glasgow: Explaining Unit-nonresponse and Panel Attrition Among Immigrant-origin Voters in an Address-based Local Campaign Panel Survey
Jahrestagung AK Wahlen und politische Einstellungen der DVPW, Friedrichshafen: Where do Social Conservative Immigrant-origin Voters Go?
Annual Meeting Section Methods of Political Science (DVPW), Göttingen: Unit-nonresponse and Panel Attrition in a Local Campaign Survey of Immigrant-origin Voters Sampled from a Population Register
24 h of Political Psychology 2023, Bielefeld: Explaining Unit-nonresponse and Panel Attrition Among Immigrant-origin Voters in an Address-based Local Campaign Panel Survey
Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Hamminkeln: Fact Sheet von Prof. Goerres zur Mobilisierung von Wählerinnen und Wählern mit familiärer Migrationsgeschichte in Deutschland vom 19.03.2023
24 h of Political Psychology 2023, Chemnitz (digital): Integration and Transnational Political Interest among Immigrant-Origin Voters: An Analysis of Germans from Turkey and their Children in the Immigrant German Election Study
ISPP 2022 Athens: Explaining Turnout among Immigrant-Origin and Native Voters
EPSA 2022 Praha: Explaining Turnout among Immigrant-Origin and Native Voters
Jahrestagung AK Wahlen und politische Einstellungen der DVPW Berlin: Explaining Turnout among Immigrant-Origin and Native Voters
FReDA Methodenworkshop 2022 Wiesbaden: Wie mobilisiert man Wähler*innen mit Migrationshintergrund in der Großstadt während eines Teillockdowns? Erfahrungen mitder Panelbefragung Immigrant German Election Study II
The effect of national and ethnic identities on anti-immigrant and anti-majority sentiment among immigrant voters. EPSA Annual Conference, Belfast, June 2019.
What are we missing? Conference of Europeanists, Madrid, June 2019.
Russlanddeutsche und Politik: Einstellungen und Verhalten während der Bundestagswahl 2017. Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung NRW, Düsseldorf, July 2019.
Alike at the core, different at the margins? Explaining party preferences of immigrant voters. EPSA Annual Conference, Wien, Juni 2018.
Established models or migrant-specific factors? Explaining party preferences of immigrant voters. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Wahlen und politische Einstellungen der DVPW, Berlin, Mai 2018.
Goerres, Achim, Sabrina J Mayer & Dennis C Spies (2018): Immigrant Voters against their Will? A Focus Group Analysis of Identities, Political Issues and Party Allegiances among German Resettlers during the 2017 Bundestag Election Campaign. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2018.1503527
Alike at the core, different at the margins? Explaining party preferences of immigrant voters. EPSA Annual Conference, Wien, June 2018.
Established models or migrant-specific factors? Explaining party preferences of immigrant voters. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Wahlen und politische Einstellungen der DVPW, Berlin, May 2018.
Was beeinflusst das Wahlverhalten der Deutschen aus der Türkei? Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin, May 2018.
Auf der Suche nach „Eugen Vogt“ und „Elif Yilmaz“: Stichprobenziehung und Gewichtung in der ersten deutschen Migrantenwahlstudie anlässlich der Bundestagswahl 2017, Jahrestagung der Sektion Methoden der DVPW, Frankfurt, May 2018.
Der Einfluss von Diskriminierung und Identifikation. Ergebnisse der Immigrant German Election Study. Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin, April 2018.
Immigrant Voters against their Will? MPSA General Conference, Chicago (USA), April 2018.
The ‚Most German’ Voters? A Focus Group Analysis of Identities, Political Issues and Allegiances to the Right among Ethnic Germans from the Soviet Union. Conference of the Council for European Studies, Glasgow (UK), July 2017.
Talking about migration experience and voting: How Germans of Turkish descent construct their personal electoral space in groups of peers“ Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Wahlen und politische Einstellungen der DVPW, Frankfurt, May 2017.
First Immigrant German Election Study (IMGES), GESIS, Cologne, April 2017.