The rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe led some mainstream parties to attempt to regain voters' support by adopting pro-nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. However, new research by Antonia May and Christian Czymara suggests that this strategy unintentionally benefits far-right parties and not the political mainstream
PhD Candidate, Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg / Guest Researcher, GESIS-Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne
Antonia's research focuses on national identity, political attitudes, political behaviour, and data harmonisation.
Her research on a new typology of conceptions of nationhood and the activation of particularly exclusionary conceptions has been published in Nations and Nationalism.
