Prof. Dr. Daniela Braun

© Universität des Saarlandes

Professor of Political Science with a focus on European Integration and International Relations
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Building C5 3, Room 0.13
Phone: +49 681 302-2352
d.braun(at)uni-saarland.de

Consultations by appointment via e-mail

 

Prof. Dr Daniela Braun has been Professor of Political Science with a focus on European Integration and International Relations since 2022. Prior to that, she taught and conducted research at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich since 2010. In her research, she focuses on topics from the field of EU politics. European elections, European parties and the European party system as well as citizens and voters and their attitudes and behaviour in the European multi-level system are among her core topics. Her academic teaching focuses on the political system of the European Union, the current challenges of the multi-level system of the European Union and political sociology. Daniela Braun's research has been published in the following political science journals, among others: European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, German Politics, International Political Science Review, Journal for European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Party Politics, West European Politics, Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft and Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen. In addition, she has funded and carried out various research projects (BMBF; DFG; Horizon 2020; Horizon Europe) on Europe-related topics.

About the person

Prof. Dr. Daniela Braun (*1980) lives in Saarbrücken with her partner and two daughters.

  • She studied Sociology and Romance Studies at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg and the Universidad de la Laguna in Spain from September 2000 to July 2007. Her master's thesis was on the topic of "European Identity: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Analyses".
  • From 2007 to 2012, she did her doctorate at the German-French doctoral school CODESE ("Comparing Democratic Societies in Europe") at the University of Stuttgart on the topic of "Political Trust in New Democracies in Europe" with Prof. Dr. Oscar W. Gabriel (University of Stuttgart) and Prof. Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher (University of Frankfurt).
  • From 2010 to 2022, Daniela Braun taught and researched first as a research assistant and then as an academic councillor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. There she habilitated with the topic "Multi-Level Party Politics in Europe" and researched how the structural conditions of the multi-level system of the European Union affect party competition in Europe.
  • Since July 2022, she has been Professor of Political Science with a focus on European Integration and International Relations at Saarland University.
  • Since the end of 2022, she has been deputy managing professor of the Department of European Social Research.
  • Since May 2023, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Cluster for European Studies (CEUS).
  • Since September 2023, she has been co-lead of the Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC).
  • Prof. Daniela Braun is also a confidential lecturer at the Heinrich Boell Foundation in Saarland.

Current CV

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Career stages
  • since 07/2022: Professor of Political Science with a focus on European Integration and International Relations at Saarland University
  • since 10/2015: External Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), University of Mannheim
  • 04/2018 - 09/2018: Substitute Chair of Comparative Politics at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Political Science at LMU Munich
  • 07/2012 - 07/2022: Temporary academic councillor at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: Chair of Comparative Politics [parental leave: 06/2014 - 07/2015; 11/2016 - 04/2017]
  • 08/2010 - 06/2012: Research assistant at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich: Chair of Comparative Political Science
  • 10/2007 - 07/2010: Research assistant at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES): Euromanifestos Project (PIREDEU) headed by Prof. Dr. Hermann Schmitt
  • until 2007                     
    • Research assistant at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) with Prof. Dr. Hermann Schmitt
    • Internships at TNS Infratest GmbH in Munich, BASF Aktiengesellschaft in Ludwigshafen and the study group GERM (Groupe d'études et de recherches sur les mondialisations) in Paris
    • Employment as au pair, Paris, France

Publications

Monographs, Collections and Special Issues
Journal Articles

2024

  • Puleo, Leonardo, Daniela Braun, Ann-Kathrin Reinl & Eftichia Teperoglou: “Another sleeping giant? Environmental issue preferences in the 2019 European Parliament elections” West European Politics
  • Braun, Daniela & Giuseppe Carteny: “How Does Eurosceptic Party Consolidation Transform Party Competition Over European Issues?” PVS
  • Braun, Daniela & Michael Kaeding: “Politisches Vertrauen in Europa im Kontext von Mehrebenenstruktur und Polarisierung: Konzeptionelle Überlegungen” integration
  • Schröder, Martin, Daniela Braun, Katrin Luisa Grimm, Martin Ulrich & Georg Wenzelburger: "A matter of time, not generations: rising emotional attachment to the European Union 1991–2023. An age period cohort analysis" Journal of European Public Policy

2023

  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund: "Wie europäisch sind die Europawahlen?“ Deutschland & Europa: Europa im Wandel? Deutschland & Europa
  • Braun, Daniela & Ann-Katrin Reinl: "Arising calls for national sovereignty in times of European crises and the political Zeitenwende" Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft
  • Ackermann, Kathrin, Daniela Braun, Matthias Fatke & Nayla Fawzi: "Direct democracy, political support and populism - attitudinal patterns in the German Bundesländer" Regional & Federal Studies
  • Braun, Daniela & Eva-Maria Trüdinger: "Communal and Exchange-Based Trust in Germany Thirty Years After Reunification: Convergence or Still an East-West Divide?" German Politics

2022

  • Reinl, Ann-Kathrin & Daniela Braun: "Who holds the union together?" European Union Politics
  • Braun, Daniela & Constantin Schäfer: "Issues that mobilize Europe. The role of key policy issues for voter turnout in the 2019 European Parliament election" European Union Politics

2021

  • Braun, Daniela: "The Europeanness of the 2019 EP elections and the mobilizing power of European issues" Politics
  • Braun, Daniela & Edgar Grande: "Politicizing Europe in Elections to the European Parliament (1994–2019): The Crucial Role of Mainstream Parties” Journal of Common Market Studies (auch in WZB-Mitteilungen)
  • Schäfer, Constantin, Sebastian A. Popa, Daniela Braun & Hermann Schmitt: "The Reshaping of Political Conflict over Europe: From Pre-Maastricht to Post-Euro Crisis" West European Politics

2020

  • Braun, Daniela & Hermann Schmitt: "Different emphases, same positions? The election manifestos of political parties in the EU multilevel electoral system compared" Party Politics
  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund: "Electoral behaviour in a European Union under stress"  Politics and Governance
  • Schmitt, Hermann, Alberto Sanz, Daniela Braun & Eftichia Teperoglou: "It all happens at once: Understanding electoral behavior in second-order elections" Politics and Governance

2019

  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund: Die neunten Direktwahlen zum Europäischen Parlament: "Rahmenbedingungen, Parteien und Bürger in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen
  • Popa, Sebastian A., Zoltán Fazekas, Daniela Braun & Melanie-Marita Leidecker-Sandmann: "Informing the Public: How Party Communication Builds Opportunity Structures" Political Communication
  • Braun, Daniela, Sebastian A. Popa & Hermann Schmitt: "Responding to the crisis: Eurosceptic parties of the left and right and their changing position towards the European Union" European Journal of Political Research
  • Braun, Daniela & Tobias Schwarzbözl: "Put in the spotlight or largely ignored? Emphasis on the Spitzenkandidaten by political parties in their online campaigns for European elections" Journal of European Public Policy

2018

  • Braun, Daniela & Sebastian A. Popa: "This time it was different? The salience of the Spitzenkandidaten system among European parties"  West European Politics

2016

  • Braun, Daniela, Swen Hutter & Alena Kerscher: "What type of Europe? The salience of polity and policy issues in European Parliament elections" European Union Politics
  • Braun, Daniela & Swen Hutter: "Political trust, extra-representational participation and the openness of political systems" International Political Science Review

2014

2013

2008

  • Tausendpfund, Markus & Daniela Braun: "Die schwierige Suche nach Ergebnissen der Wahlen zum Europäischen Parlament: Ein neuer Datensatz für die Wahlen 1979 bis 2004" Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen
Book Chapters

2024

2023

2022

2021

  • Braun, Daniela (2020): Transnationale Parteibewegungen als Ausweg aus der EU-Mehrebenenproblematik. Eine empirische Analyse von Volt und DiEM25 bei den Europawahlen 2019. In: Bukow, Sebastian, Uwe Jun and Jörg Siegmund (eds.): Parteien in Bewegung. Baden-Baden: Nomos: pp. 167-189.

2020

  • Braun, Daniela (2020): Die neunten Direktwahlen zum Europäischen Parlament. Eine erste Analyse aus politikwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. In. Schiffauer, Peter (ed.): Europa bedroht von innen und von außen? Berlin: Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag: pp. 17-34.
  • Braun, Daniela, Sebastian A. Popa & Hermann Schmitt (2020): The impact of Eurosceptic challenger parties of the left and right on party competition over Europe. In: Cotta, Maurizio and Pierangelo Iserna (eds.): The EU through Multiple Crises. Representation and Cohesion Dilemmas for a "sui generis" Polity. London: Routledge.
  • Braun, Daniela (2020): Inhaltsanalyse. In: Tausendpfund, Markus (ed.): Fortgeschrittene Analyseverfahren in den Sozialwissenschaften. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 301-334.

2019

  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund (2019): Politisches Wissen und Europawahlen. In: Westle, Bettina, & Markus Tausendpfund (eds.): Politisches Wissen. Bedeutung - Messung - Befunde - offene Fragen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 207-236. 

2018

  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund (2018): Europawahlen 2014. Die Wahl euroskeptischer Parteien im Schatten der Wirtschaftskrise, in: Anders, Lisa, Henrik Scheller and Thomas Tuntschew (eds.): Parteien und die Politisierung der Europäischen Union. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 73-102.
  • Braun, Daniela, Swen Hutter & Alena Kerscher (2018): Anzeichen einer "differenzierten" Politisierung. Die Salienz europäischer Policies im Europawahlkampf, in: Anders, Lisa H., Henrik Scheller and Thomas Tuntschew (eds.): Parteien und die Politisierung der Europäischen Union. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 163-191. 

2017

  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund (2017): Politische Unterstützung der Europäischen Union. In: Tausendpfund, Markus and Angelika Vetter (eds.): Politische Einstellungen von Kommunalpolitikern im Vergleich. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 178-213.

2016

  • Hutter, Swen, Daniela Braun & Alena Kerscher (2016): Constitutive issues as driving forces of politicization? In:  Hutter, Swen, Edgar Grande & Hanspeter Kriesi (eds.): Politicizing Europe: Integration and Mass Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 137-155.

2015

  • Braun, Daniela (2015): Französische Besatzungszone / Zone Française d`Occupation. In: Kufer, Astrid, Isabelle Guinaudeau & Christophe Prémat (eds.): Handwörterbuch der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 122-124.
  • Braun, Daniela (2015): Interkulturelle Kommunikation / Communication Interculturelle. In: Kufer, Astrid, Isabelle Guinaudeau & Christophe Prémat (eds.): Handwörterbuch der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 154-155.
  • Braun, Daniela (2015): Sprachpolitik / Politique linguistique. In: Kufer, Astrid, Isabelle Guinaudeau & Christophe Prémat (eds.): Handwörterbuch der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 231-234.
  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund (2015): Wirtschaftskrise und politische Unterstützung im europäischen Vergleich. In: Giebler, Heiko and Aiko Wagner (eds.): Wirtschaft, Krise und Wahlverhalten. Baden-Baden: Nomos, pp. 333-360.

2009

  • Schmitt, Hermann, Alberto Sanz & Daniela Braun (2009): Motive individuellen Wahlverhaltens in Nebenwahlen: Eine theoretische Rekonstruktion und empirische Überprüfung. In: Gabriel, Oscar W., Bernhard Wessels & Jürgen W. Falter (eds.): Wahlen und Wähler: Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2005. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 585-605. 
  • Braun, Daniela & Hermann Schmitt (2009): Politische Legitimität. In: Karina, Viktoria and Andrea Römmele (eds.): Politische Soziologie. Ein Studienbuch. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag, pp. 53-81.
Book Reviews

2017

  • Braun, Daniela (2017): European Identity in the Contest of National Identity: Questions of Identity in Sixteen European Countries in the Wake of the Financial Crisis. Edited by Bettina Weste and Paolo Segatti. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 384p. £95.00. In: Perspectives on Politics 15 (1), pp. 282-283.
Other publications

2024

  • Reinl, Ann-Kathrin & Daniela Braun: "Wen kümmert schon Europa? Über das öffentliche Meinungsbild zur Europäischen Union und ihren Wahlen" BPB

2018

  • Braun, Daniela, Sebastian A. Popa & Constantin Schäfer & Hermann Schmitt (2018): A tale of two realignments? The changing relationship between ideological dimensions and party positions towards European Integration. The Euengage Working Papers Series.
  • Braun, Daniela (2018): Inhaltsanalyse. In: Tausendpfund, Markus (ed.): Quantitative Analyseverfahren der Sozialwissenschaften. Hagen: FernUniversität in Hagen.

2017

  • Braun, Daniela & Sebastian A. Popa (2017): Who talks about the Spitzenkandidaten System. The Euengage Working Paper Series. 
  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund (2017): Rudimentäres Wissen an der Wahlurne. FernUniversität in Hagen. 
  • Braun, Daniela & Matthias Fatke (2017): The relationship between income and political trust is conditional on economic inequality. Available at SSRN.

2013

  • Braun, Daniela & Swen Hutter (2013): Trust in Representative Democracy and Protest Behavior. A Multilevel Analysis of European Democracies. EUI Working Papers 2013/14.

2012

2010

  • Braun, Daniela, Nicole Seher, Markus Tausendpfund & Ansgar Wolsing (2010): Einstellungen gegenüber Immigranten und der Einfluss auf die Unterstützung der Europäischen Union: Eine mehrebenenanalytische Analyse. MZES Arbeitspapier 136.
  • Braun, Daniela (2010): Politisches Vertrauen in neuen Demokratien Europas: Ein tausch- oder gemeinschaftsbasiertes Phänomen? MZES Arbeitspapier 131.

2009

2008

  • Braun, Daniela & Markus Tausendpfund (2008): Bürgerentscheid Emmertsgrund 2008. Ergebnisse und Kurzanalyse des Bürgerentscheids Emmertsgrund am 13. Juli 2008 in Heidelberg. Schriften zur Stadtentwicklung.