Prof. Dr. Christian Rauh

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+49 30 25491 342
christian.rauh [at] wzb.eu
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D-10785 Berlin
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Research fields

Public politicisation of global governance | European Union politics | Quantitative text analysis

CV

03/2023-
S-/W2 Professor for the Politics of Multilevel Governance
at the University of Potsdam

04−09/2020
Interim Director of the WZB research unit Global Governance
Guest professor for 'International politics and law' at the Free University Berlin

04/2012-
Research Fellow of the Research Unit Global Governance, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

01/2012
Dr. rer. pol., Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Political and Social Sciences; Thesis "Politicisation, issue salience, and consumer policies of the European Commission", summa cum laude, Winner of the 2013 ECPR Jean Blondel Prize for the best thesis in politics

09/2008−03/2012
Researcher, Junior Research Group "Position Formation in the EU Commission", WZB Berlin Social Science Center

04/2008
M.A. Politics and Management, Profile: "European Integration and International Organisations", University of Konstanz; Winner of the 2009 VEUK e.V. Award for the Best Diploma Thesis in Politics and Management

07/2006-05/2010
Organisation and supervision of simulations on political decision making, EuroSoc GmbH - Think Tank for European Decisions

10/2005−09/2007
Teaching assistant "European Cooperation and Integration" and "International Relations", Chair in International Politics, Prof. Gerald Schneider, University of Konstanz

03/2005−10/2007
Managing Editor, European Union Politics

08/2004−02/2005
Political Consultancy in EU affairs, Berlin Business Representation, Brussels

Selected Publications

Wzbaktiv
2024
Rauh, Christian/Parizek, Michal (2024): "Converging on Europe? The European Union in Mediatised Debates during the COVID-19 and Ukraine Shocks". In: Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 31, No. 10, S. 3036-3065. (vorab online publiziert 24.04.2024)
2023
Rauh, Christian (2023): "Clear Messages to the European Public? The Language of European Commission Press Releases 1985-2020". In: Journal of European Integration, Vol. 45, No. 4, S. 683-701. (vorab online publiziert 15.10.2022)
2022
Rauh, Christian (2022): "Supranational Emergency Politics? What Executives' Public Crisis Communication May Tell Us". In: Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 29, No. 6, S. 966-978. (vorab online publiziert 23.04.2021)
Özdemir, Sina/Rauh, Christian (2022): "A Bird’s Eye View. Supranational EU Actors on Twitter". In: Politics and Governance, Vol. 10, No. 1, Special Issue "Analyzing Citizen Engagement with European Politics Through Social Media", S. 133-145.
2021
Rauh, Christian (2021): "One Agenda-Setter or Many? The Varying Success of Policy Initiatives by Individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994–2016". In: European Union Politics, Vol. 22, No. 1, S. 3-24. (vorab online publiziert 12.10.2020)
2020
Rauh, Christian/Schwalbach, Jan (2020): The ParlSpeech V2 Data Set. Full-Text Corpora of 6.3 Million Parliamentary Speeches in the Key Legislative Chambers of Nine Representative Democracies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Dataverse.
2019
De Wilde, Pieter/Rauh, Christian (2019): "Going Full Circle. The Need for Procedural Perspectives on EU Responsiveness". In: Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 26, No. 11, S. 1737-1748. (vorab online publiziert 18.09.2019)
Rauh, Christian (2019): "EU Politicization and Policy Initiatives of the European Commission. The Case of Consumer Policy". In: Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 26, No. 3, S. 344-365. (vorab online publiziert 27.03.2018)
Rauh, Christian/Zürn, Michael (2019): "Authority, Politicization, and Alternative Justifications. Endogenous Legitimation Dynamics in Global Economic Governance". In: Review of International Political Economy, Vol. 27, No. 3, S. 583-611. (vorab online publiziert 16.08.2019)
2018
Rauh, Christian (2018): "Validating a Sentiment Dictionary for German Political Language. A Workbench Note". In: Journal of Information Technology & Politics, Vol. 15, No. 4, S. 319-343. (vorab online publiziert 06.07.2018)
Rauh, Christian/de Wilde, Pieter (2018): "The Opposition Deficit in EU Accountability. Evidence from over 20 Years of Plenary Debate in Four Member States". In: European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 57, No. 1, S. 194-216. (vorab online publiziert 20.06.2017)
2017
Hooghe, Liesbet/Rauh, Christian (2017): "The Commission Services. A powerful Permanent Bureaucracy". In: Dermot Hodson/John Peterson (Eds.): Institutions of the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press, S. 187-212.
Rauh, Christian/de Wilde, Pieter/Schwalbach, Jan (2017): The ParlSpeech Data Set. Annotated Full-Text Vectors of 3.9 Million Plenary Speeches in the Key Legislative Chambers of Seven European States - Release Note. Harvard Datavers. (Version 1.0)
2016
Meijers, Maurits/Rauh, Christian (2016): "Has Eurosceptic Mobilization Become More Contagious? Comparing the 2009 and 2014 EP Election Campaigns in The Netherlands and France". In: Politics and Governance, Vol. 4, No. 1, Special Issue "How Different were the European Elections of 2014?", edited by Wouter van der Brug/Katjana Gattermann/Claes de Vreese, S. 83-103.
Rauh, Christian (2016): A responsive technocracy? EU Politicisation and the Consumer Policies of the European Commission. ECPR Monographs Series. Colchester: ECPR Press, 314 S.
Rauh, Christian/Bödeker, Sebastian (2016): "Internationale Organisationen in der deutschen Öffentlichkeit. Ein Text Mining-Ansatz". In: Matthias Lemke/Gregor Wiedemann (Hg.): Text Mining in den Sozialwissenschaften. Grundlagen und Anwendungen zwischen qualitativer und quantitativer Diskursanalyse. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 289-314.
2015
Rauh, Christian (2015): "Communicating Supranational Governance? The Salience of EU Affairs in the German Bundestag, 1991–2013". In: European Union Politics, Vol. 16, No. 1, S. 116-138. (Vorab online publiziert 28. September 2014)
2014
Hartlapp, Miriam/Metz, Julia/Rauh, Christian (2014): Which Policy for Europe? Power and Conflict inside the European Commission. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, XVIII, 340 S.
Rauh, Christian/Zürn, Michael (2014): "Zur Politisierung der EU in der Krise". In: Martin Heidenreich (Hg.): Krise der europäischen Vergesellschaftung?. Soziologische Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 121-145.
2013
Hartlapp, Miriam/Metz, Julia/Rauh, Christian (2013): "Linking Agenda Setting to Coordination Structures. Bureaucratic Politics Inside the European Commission". In: Journal of European Integration, Vol. 35, No. 4, S. 425-441. (Vorab online publiziert 3. August 2012)
Hartlapp, Miriam/Rauh, Christian (2013): "The Commission's Internal Conditions for Social Re-regulation. Market Efficiency and Wider Social Goals in Setting the Rules for Financial Services in Europe". In: European Journal of Government and Economics, Vol. 2, No. 1, S. 25-40.
Rauh, Christian/Schneider, Gerald (2013): "There Is No Such Thing As a Free Open Sky. Financial Markets and the Struggle over European Competences in International Air Transport". In: JCMS - Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 51, No. 6, S. 1124-1140. (Vorab online publiziert 25. Juli 2013)
2011
Rauh, Christian/Kirchner, Antje/Kappe, Roland (2011): "Political Parties and Higher Education Spending. Who Favours Redistribution?". In: West European Politics, Vol. 34, No. 6, S. 1185-1206.

Replication data are available on my personal website.

Projects

Politicisation, issue salience, and consumer policies of the European Commission

Duration: 2012–2017
Funding: WZB
 
Duration: ongoing since 2011
Funding: WZB
 
Observatory of Political Texts in European Democracies (OPTED)
Duration: October 2020 - September 2023
Funding: European Commission
Completed Research Projects

Position Formation in the EU Commission