Episode 4: Sabrina Mayer on Immigrant-Origin Voters

In the fourth episode of “Political Science? No Problem et al.”
we talk to Professor Sabrina Mayer about the voting behavior of
immigrant origin voters in Germany. How can we understand the
voting behavior of this heterogeneous voter group and what do we
know about their party preferences? Why is there a stronger
affinity for the AfD among Russian Germans and to what extent has
the party affiliation of Turkish-German voters changed in recent
years? Moreover, we discussed whether parties are increasingly
trying to appeal to migrant voters, what kind of information
environment these voters find themselves in and what the
methodological difficulties are in studying their political
preferences.  


Sabrina is a full professor of Political Sociology at the
University of Bamberg as well as associated member at the DeZIM
Institute in Berlin.  Her research focuses on group
identities, political attitudes and comparative voting behavior
and is best known for findings on the voting behavior of migrant
voters. 


You can find her website here: https://sabrinajmayer.de/ and
follow her on Twitter here:
https://twitter.com/sabrinajmayer?lang=de. Sabrina´s work
discussed in the episode can be found
here:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=r8VOcJYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao


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