Bettina Westle

Bettina Westle (* 1956 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German political scientist .

Her main areas of activity are empirical democracy research and social science methods. Her doctorate on the " Legitimacy of the Political System " took place in 1988 at the University of Mannheim , where she also completed her habilitation in 1997 on "Collective Identity in Germany". From 1997 to 2000 professorships followed in Bielefeld , Mainz and Nuremberg . In 2001 Westle was appointed to the Chair of Political Science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg , and since 2005 she has held the Chair of Methods in Political Science and Empirical Democracy Research in Marburg . Bettina Westle is currently represented in various committees ( Allbus Advisory Board, Vox Switzerland Advisory Board, Presidium of the German Society for Election Research, etc.).

Westle is a member of the Presidium of the German Society for Election Research .

Publications (selection)

• Bettina Westle: Collective Identity in Germany - Developments and Interim Assessment . In: Keil, Silke I./Thaidigsmann, S. Isabell (ed.): Civil society and democracy. Current results of empirical research. Festschrift for Oskar W. Gabriel on his 65th birthday. Wiesbaden: Springer VS , 2013, pp. 273–298.
• Bettina Westle: Politische Identification and trust - resources of support for the European Union? In: Kaina, Viktoria / Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel (eds.): "Europe's Blues and Europe's Future" - Civic resources for a European Union in trouble. London & New York: Routledge , 2012, pp. 15–36.
• Bettina Westle: "Political post-democracies?" - On the perception of the parties on the ideological left-right scale: Great Britain, France and Germany. In: Journal for Comparative Political Science , H. 2, 2012, pp. 255–301.
• Oscar W. Gabriel, Bettina Westle: Voting Behavior in Democracy: An Introduction. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag 2012.
• Bettina Westle: European Identity as a Contrast or an Extension of National Identity? In: Salzborn, Samuel / Davidow, Eldad / Reinecke, Jost (eds.): Methods, Theories, and Empirical Applications in the Social Sciences. Festschrift for Peter Schmidt. Wiesbaden: Springer VS , 2012, pp. 249-254.
• Bettina Westle: Political Knowledge in Germany. A comparison of citizens with a Turkish migration background and native Germans. In: Journal for Parliamentary Issues, Vol. 42, No. 4, 2011, pp. 835–850.
• Bettina Westle: Orientations towards democracy and right-wing extremism in comparison of the sexes. In: Birsl, Ursula (ed.): Right-wing extremism and gender. Opladen u. a .: Budrich, 2011, pp. 211-240.
• Bettina Westle: Methods of Political Science. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag , 2009.
• Steffen Kühnel, Oskar Niedermayer, Bettina Westle: voters in Germany. Social and political change, gender and voting behavior. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften , 2009.
• Bettina Westle, Oscar W. Gabriel: Political Culture. An introduction. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag , 2009.
• Bettina Westle, Oscar W. Gabriel: Social Capital. An introduction. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag , 2008.
• Bettina, Westle: Collective identity in a united Germany - nation and democracy in the perception of the Germans. Opladen: Leske + Budrich , 1999.
• Bettina, Westle: Political Legitimacy - Theories, Concepts, Empirical Findings. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag , 1989.

Web links

• Personal page at the University of Marburg
• Literature by and about Bettina Westle in the catalog of the German National Library