Professor Annika Werner
Areas of expertise
- Comparative Government And Politics 160603
- Citizenship 160602
- Political Science Not Elsewhere Classified 160699
Research interests
Political parties; democratic values, attitudes and preferences; political representation; radical right; populism; European politics.
Biography
I am Head of School and Professor at the School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University. Prior to joining ANU in July 2019, I was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University. Before coming to Australia, I was a research fellow for the DFG-financed project MARPOR – Manifesto Research on Political Representation at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center (2009-2015). I received my PhD in Political Science from Humboldt-University Berlin in 2015.
Available student projects
I am happy to supervise Honours, Masters and PhD students who are committed to the principles of political science and plan projects about political parties, public attitudes, representation or EU politics.
Current student projects
I am part of the supervisorial panel at ANU:
- Illiberalism and democratic backsliding (Bermond Scoggins)
I supervised to successful graduation:
- 2021: Fabian Habersack (University of Salzburg), Dissertation title: A Nativist Zeitgeist? Explaining Party Adaptation to the Success of the Populist Radical Right. Dr Habersack can now be found at the University of Innsbruck.
I supervise several Honours and Masters students at ANU.
Past student projects
I have successfully supervised the following Honours and Master theses:
- Never Waste a Good Crisis: How Chinese State Media Promotes Nationalism in Times of Crisis
- The Effect of Fear of Crime on Populist Voting: An Analysis of 19 Latin American Presidential Election
- Division through Education: The role of educational inequality in populist success
- Student Alienation in the Age of Employability: A study of student alienation and its relation to the legitimating narratives of the contemporary university
- Investigating the Relationship Between Climate Change Attitudes and Voting Behaviour
- Deepening Engagement with the Indo-Pacific Region: An Evaluation of the New Colombo Plan Scholarship’s Current Contribution
Publications
- Heinisch, R & Werner, A 2022, 'How rational are voters when expecting government parties to fulfil pledges? A cross-national survey experiment', European Journal of Political Research, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 852-872.
- McDonnell, D, Werner, A & Karlsson, M 2021, 'Reputation versus office: Why populist radical right governmental participation has differed between Sweden and Denmark', International Political Science Review, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 613-630.
- Kefford, G, Moffitt, B & Werner, A 2021, 'Populist Attitudes: Bringing Together Ideational and Communicative Approaches', Political Studies, vol. online, pp. 1-22.
- McDonnell, D & Werner, A 2019, International Populism: The Radical Right in the European Parliament, Oxford University Press, United Kingdom.
- Heinisch, R, McDonnell, D & Werner, A 2021, 'Equivocal Euroscepticism: How Populist Radical Right Parties Can Have Their EU Cake and Eat It', Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 59, no. 2, pp. 189-205.
- Heinisch, R, Werner, A & Habersack, F 2020, 'Reclaiming National Sovereignty: The Case of the Conservatives and the Far Right in Austria', Perspectives on European Politics and Society, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 163-181.
- Giebler, H & Werner, A 2020, 'Cure, Poison or Placebo? The Consequences of Populist and Radical Party Success for Representative Democracy', Representation, vol. 56, no. 3, pp. 293-306.
- Werner, A 2021, 'Localising political party appeals', European Political Science, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 378-380.
- Werner, A 2019, 'Representation in Western Europe: Connecting party-voter congruence and party goals', The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 122-142.
- Werner, A 2019, 'What voters want from their parties: Testing the promise-keeping assumption', Electoral Studies, vol. 57, pp. 186-195.
- Heinisch, R, Saxonberg, S, Werner, A et al 2019, 'The effect of radical right fringe parties on main parties in Central and Eastern Europe: Empirical evidence from manifesto data', Party Politics, vol. Online, pp. 1-13.
- Martinez i Coma, F & Werner, A 2019, 'Compulsory voting and ethnic diversity increase invalid voting while corruption does not: an analysis of 417 parliamentary elections in 73 countries', Democratization, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 288-308.
- Heinisch, R & Werner, A 2019, 'Who Do Populist Radical Right Parties Stand for? Representative Claims, Claim Acceptance and Descriptive Representation in the Austrian FPÖ– and German AfD', Representation, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 475-492.
- Werner, A & Giebler, H 2019, 'Do populists represent? Theoretical considerations on how populist parties (might) enact their representative function', Representation, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 379-392.
- McDonnell, D & Werner, A 2018, 'Differently Eurosceptic: Radical right populist parties and their supporters', Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 25, no. 11, pp. 1148-1168.
- McDonnell, D & Werner, A 2018, 'Respectable radicals: why some radical right parties in the European Parliament forsake policy congruence', Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 747-763.
- Werner, A 2018, 'Voters' preferences for party representation: Promise-keeping, responsiveness to public opinion or enacting the common good', International Political Science Review, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 486-501.
- Giebler, H, Lacewell, O, Regel, S et al. 2018, 'Decline or Change? Party Types and the Crisis of Representative Democracy', in Wolfgang Merkel and Sascha Kneip (ed.), Democracy and Crisis: Challenges in Turbulent Times, Springer, Switzerland, pp. 145-176.
- Werner, A 2016, 'Party responsiveness and voter confidence in Australia', Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 436-457.
- Lacewell, O & Werner, A 2016, 'Divided We Fall? Polarization in the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election', in Bieber, Christoph, Kamps, Klaus (ed.), Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2012: Analysen der Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (The 2012 US Presidential Election: Analyses of Politics and Communication Science), Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden Germany, pp. 85-108.
- Werner, A & John, S 2016, 'Nebenwahleffekte auf der Angebotsseite? Bundestagswahlprogramme 2013 und Europawahlprogramme 2014 im Vergleich (Second-order effects on the supply side? A comparison of German party programmes to the Bundestag election 2013 and European election 2014.)', in Tenscher, Jens, Rußmann, Uta (ed.), Vergleichende Wahlkampfforschung (Comparative election campaign research), Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden Germany, pp. 21-54.
- Brunsbach, S, John, S & Werner, A 2012, 'The Supply Side of Second-Order Elections: Comparing German National and European Election Manifestos', German Politics, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 91-115.
- Werner, A & Lacewell, O 2012, 'Programmatic Supply and the Autonomy of US State Parties in 2008 and 2010', Regional and Federal Studies, vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 533-552.
- Lass-Lennecke, K & Werner, A 2009, 'Policies, institutions and time: how the European Commission managed the temporal challenge of eastern enlargement', Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 270-285.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- How politicians evaluate public opinion (Secondary Investigator)
- Radical Right Populist Parties: Mainstream Partners or Democratic Pariahs (Secondary Investigator)
