This is the project homepage of the Immigrant German Election Study.
Its first phase ran between 2016 and 2020. It second phase started in 2021.
People
PI the late Prof Dennis C. Spies (2016 -2021, passed)
PI Prof Achim Goerres (2016 – today)
Postdoc manager and PI Prof Sabrina S. Mayer (2016-2020, 2021 – today)
Postdoc manager Jonas Elis
Project officer Manuel Diaz Garcia
Immigrant German Election Study II: A Local Panel Study of Immigrant-Origin Voters during the Electoral Campaign of the 2021 Bundestag Election
Goal: IMGES II focuses on effects of election campaigns among Germans with and without migration background. For the first time, we are able to analyse how immigrant-origin voters react to the election campaigns with their electoral & campaign behaviour and how they respond to group-specific actions by parties, candidates, and political organisations as well as to media content.
Publications
Reports ins German
Goerres, Achim, Sabrina J. Mayer, Dennis Spies, and Jonas Elis, M.A. 2022. “Wählerinnen Und Wähler Mit Einwanderungsgeschichte Im Bundestagswahlkampf: Erste Ergebnisse Der Immigrant German Election Study II (IMGES II) aus Duisburg Von Mai Bis November 2021.” SocArXiv. April 9. doi:10.31235/osf.io/j72pb
Goerres, Achim/ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Elis, Jonas (2022): Die Wahlbeteiligung von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern mit familiärer Migrationsgeschichte. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Förderung, Stiftung Zentrum für Türkeistudien und Integrationsforschung (gefördert von der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung): Essen.
Goerres, Achim/Spies, Dennis C./Mayer, Sabrina J. (2018): Deutsche mit Migrationshintergrund bei der Bundestagswahl 2017: Erste Auswertungen der Immigrant German Election Study zu Deutschtürken und Russlanddeutschen, research report available at https://www.researchgate.net/project/First-Migrant-Election-Study
Peer-reviewed Articles
Elis, Jonas/ Goerres, Achim/ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Spies, Dennis C. (2023): Comparing the mobilising Effects of In-person Canvassing to Postal Reminders: Experimental Evidence from a Longitudinal Election Study, International Journal of Social Research Methodology. PDF
Spies, Dennis C./ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Elis, Jonas/ Goerres, Achim (2023): Why do Immigrants Support an Anti-Immigrant Party? Russian-Germans and the Alternative for Germany, West European Politics, 46/2: 275-99, Open Access https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2022.2047544
Goerres, Achim/ Mayer, Sabrina J./ Spies, Dennis C, (early online, 2021): A New Electorate? Explaining the Party Preferences of Immigrant-Origin Voters at the 2017 Bundestag Election. British Journal of Political Science, 1-23. Open Access PDF
Hamidou-Schmidt, Hayfat & Sabrina J Mayer (2021): The Relation Between Social Identities and Outgroup Hostility Among German Immigrant-origin Citizens. Political Psychology. Vol 42(2): 311-331. DOI: 10.1111/pops.12700
Spies, Dennis/ Mayer, Sabrina/ Goerres, Achim (2020): What Are We Missing? Explaining Immigrant-Origin Voter Turnout With Standard and Immigrant-Specific Theories, Electoral Studies, 65, 102103, PDF
Goerres, Achim, Mayer, Sabrina and Spies, Dennis (2020): Immigrant Voters Against Their Will: A Focus Group Analysis of Identities, Political Issues and Party Allegiances Among German Resettlers During the 2017 Bundestag Election Campaign, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 46/7: 1205-1222 PDF
Contributions in edited volumes
Mayer, Sabrina J./ Goerres, Achim/ Spies, Dennis C. (2021): Die Wahlbeteiligung der Deutschen mit Migrationshintergrund – Befunde der Immigrant German Election Study (IMGES), in: Wahlen und Wähler. Analysen aus Anlass der Bundestagswahl 2017, hrsg. von Harald Schoen/ Bernhard Wessels, Wiesbaden: Springer, 81-96 PDF
Mayer, Sabrina J./ Hamidou, Hayfat/ Goerres, Achim (2021): Der Zusammenhang zwischen nicht-politischer Integration und politischer Teilhabe von Bürger/innen mit Migrationshintergrund: Befunde von der Bundestagswahl 2017 auf Basis der Immigrant German Election Study, in: Handbuch Integration, hrsg. von Pickel, Gert/Decker, Oliver/Kailitz, Steffen/Röder, Antje/Schulze Wessel, Julia, Wiesbaden: Springer. PDF
Publications by others using our public data
Hansen, M. A., & Olsen, J. (2020). Pulling up the Drawbridge, German Politics and Society, 38(2), 109-136. Retrieved Mar 8, 2023, from https://doi.org/10.3167/gps.2020.380205 
Public Data
Goerres, Achim, Spies, Dennis C., & Mayer, Sabrina (2020). Immigrant German Election Study (IMGES). GESIS Datenarchiv, Köln. ZA7495 Datenfile Version 1.0.1, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.13544
Goerres, Achim; Spies, Dennis C; Mayer, Sabrina J (2020): Das Wahlverhalten der Deutschen mit Migrationshintergrund – Qualitative Phase : IMGESQ : DFG-Projekt 2016-2020. Bremen: FDZ Qualiservice, 13 pp, https://doi.org/10.26092/elib/150
Working Papers
Turnout Gap between Immigrant-Origin and Native Voters (upon request)
Upcoming Presentations
Landeszentrale für Politische Bildung Hamminkeln Goerres Mobilisierung von Wählerinnen und Wählern mit familiärer Migrationsgeschichte in Deutschland 20230318
CES Iceland
Past Presentations
24 h of Political Psychology Bielefeld
Landesfachausschuss Integration CDU NRW