Research – Nadine Meidert

Current research

In my current research, I am interested in the question how the concept of playfulness can be applied in further and university teaching and what are important aspects you need to take care of when applying this concept.

Publications and talks about teaching

Meidert, Nadine / Khan, Rohan (2019, December): Plan- und Rollenspiele in der Politikwissenschaft: Zwischen Abbildung der Realität und normativer Zielvorstellung. DVPW Thementagung Frankfurt, Germany.

Previous research

In my previous (post-)doctoral research, my main research interest was political sociology with a focus on political partcipation, attitudes, and identity. Another research field I was interested in was trust in (public) organisations. Since data quality has always mattered to me, survey research has developed as another of my favorite research fields.

Publication with peer review in political and administrative science

Rapp, Carolin / Meidert, Nadine (2019): Public Attitudes towards Refugees in Germany. What drives attitudes towards refugees in comparison with immigrant workers from EU countries?, in Journal of Refugee Studies 32 (Special Issue): i209–i218.

Schafheitle, Simon / Weibel, Antoinette / Meidert, Nadine / Leuffen, Dirk (2019): The Road to Trust. A vignette study on the determinants of citizens‘ trust in the European Comission, in Journal of Common Market Studies online frist.

Elff, Martin / Meidert, Nadine (2019): Soziale Identikation vs. running tally: Der Einfluss des politischen Kontextes auf die Ausformung einer Parteiidentikation, in Steinbrecher, Markus / Bytzek, Evelyn: Identitat, Identikation, Ideologie. Wiesbaden: Springer

Wiemann, Meike / Meidert, Nadine / Weibel, Antoinette (2019): „Good“ and „Bad“ Control in Public Administration: The Impact of Performance Evaluation Systems on Trust in the Employer, in Public Personnel Management 48(3).

Haer, Roos / Meidert, Nadine (2014): Undisclosed Privacy: The Effect of Privacy Rights Design on Response Rates, in Survey Practice 7(2).

Haer, Roos / Meidert, Nadine (2013): Does the first impression count? The impact of web surveys’ welcome screen on response rates, in Survey Methodology 39(2): 419-434.

Meidert, Nadine / Nebel, Kerstin (2013): Moralpolitik am Beispiel von Einstellungen zum Schwangerschaftsabbruch in Deutschland. Eine vergleichende Längsschnittstudie von Gesellschaft und politischen Akteuren, in Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 3(1): 79-104.

Other publications in political and administrative science

Meidert, Nadine (2019): Students of the same opinion flock together. The interplay of homophily and influence in forming homogenous opinion networks. (25 August, 2019). Available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=3442427

Meidert, Nadine (2018): Merton (1950): Patterns of Influence, in Holzer, Boris / Stegbauer, Christian: Schlüsselwerke der Netzwerkforschung: S. 403-406. Wiesbaden: Springer.

Weibel, Antoinette / Schafheitle, Simon / Meidert, Nadine (2018): „Evidenzbasiert entscheiden. Wie sich HR-Manager Forschungsergebnisse zunutze machen können“ Zeitschrift für Führung und Organisation 87(3): 158-163.

Meidert, Nadine / Meidert, Moritz / Haer, Roos (2016): „Die Umfrage ist anonym …“ Zur Formulierung von Datenschutzhinweisen in wissenschaftlichen Onlineumfragen, in Soziologie 45(4): 448-460.

Bossaert, Goele / Meidert, Nadine (2013): “We Are Only as Strong as We Are United, as Weak as We Are Divided” a Dynamic Analysis of the Peer Support Networks in the Harry Potter Books, in Online Journal of Applied Sciences 3(2).

Meidert, Nadine (2013): Selektion oder Einfluss? Dynamische Analyse der Wirkungsmechanismen von politischen Einstellungen und Partizipation in studentischen Freundschaftsnetzwerken, Dissertation at the University of Konstanz.

Meidert, Nadine (2008): Ursachen für Moral.Determinanten der Einstellungen zu wertbasierten Politikfeldern, Master thesis at the University of Konstanz.

Conferences in political and administrative science

Meidert, Nadine (2019, September): Linking Partisanship and Political Context: The Impact of Party System Characteristics on Individual Party Identification. ECPR General Conference. Wrocław, Poland

Meidert, Nadine (2019, February): Linking Partisanship and Political Context: The Impact of Party System Characteristics on Individual Party Identification. 3-Ländertagung. Zurich, Schwitzerland.

Consiglio, Valentina / Meidert, Nadine (2018, September): Policy-Informationen und Einstellungen gegenüber Asylbewerbern. Der moderierende Einfluss von politischem Wissen. DVPW-Kongress. Frankfurt, Germany.

Consiglio, Valentina / Meidert, Nadine (2018, April): Policy Information and the Attitude towards Asylum Seekers. MPSA Annual Conference. Chicago, USA.

Elff, Martin / Meidert, Nadine (2017, May): Politische Identifikation und Politischer Kontext: Der Einfluss von Parteisystemformat und Regierungszusammensetzung auf Parteiidentifikation und ideologische Links-Rechts- Selbsteinordnung. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Wahlen und politische Einstellungen. Frankfurt, Germany.

Meidert, Nadine (2017, April): Linking Partisanship and Political Context: The Impact of Party System Characteristics on Individual Party Identification. MPSA Annual Conference. Chicago, USA.

Wiemann, Meike / Meidert, Nadine / Weibel, Antoinette (2017, February): ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ control in public administration: How differing implementations of performance appraisal and reward systems impact cooperative climate and employee trust in the employer. 41st Workshop of the WK ORG. Hamburg, Germany.

Meidert, Nadine (December, 2016): Politische Partizipation in studentischen Freundschaftsnetzwerken. Der Einfluss von Heterogenität und Netzwerkgröße. Der Stand der Netzwerkforschung. Darmstadt, Germany.

Meidert, Nadine (2016, September): Einfluss von Merkmalen des Parteiensystems in den deutschen Bundesländern auf die individuelle Parteiidentifikation. 3-Länder-Tagung. Heidelberg, Germany.

Nebel, Kerstin / Preidel, Caroline / Meidert, Nadine (2014, April): You can’t be everyone’s darling. Public opinion and morality policy change. MPSA Annual Conference. Chicago, USA.

Weibel, Antoinette / den Hartog, Deanne / Gillespie, Nicole / Searle, Rosalind / Meidert, Nadine / Wiemann, Meike (2013, Juli): How do controls impact trust in the employer? 29th Colloquium of the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS). Montréal, Canada.

Meidert, Nadine (2013, May): Homophily and Influence in the Formation of Political Attitudes. XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). Hamburg, Germany.

Meidert, Nadine (2011, November): Homophily and Influence. Political Opinion Formation Processes in Dynamic Social Netoworks. Posterpräsentation, Rational Choice Sociology: Theory and Empirical Applications. Venice, Italy.

Data

As far as possible regarding data security, I publish the data I used in my articles. In case the data set you are interested in, is not published below, please do not hesitate to email me.

Data sets

Schafheitle, Simon / Weibel, Antoinette / Meidert, Nadine / Leuffen, Dirk (2019): Data and documentation of analysis available at Harvard Dataverse.

Meidert, Nadine (2016, September; 2019, February; 2019, September): In addition to the GLES data, I also used German Bundeslaender data, which you can download here.

Bossaert/Meidert 2013: You find both data and a R-script example for RSiena here.

Haer/Meidert 2013: The data set and the Stata dofile can be downloaded. Due to data protection, some variables are missing in the data set.

Meidert (2013; 2019): Since the data collected in my dissertation project is very extensive and sensitive, it cannot be completely released. Parts of it can be given to you on request.