Prof. Dr. Viktoria Kaina

• 01/2016 Grant from the ECPR for the organizational support for the ECPR-Standing Group „Identity“
• 12/2014 Grant from the ECPR for the organizational support for the ECPR-Standing Group „Identity“
• 04/2013 Grant from the ECPR for the organizational support for the ECPR-Standing Group „Identity“
• 12/2012 Grant from the Ernst-Abbe-Foundation and the ECPR to conduct the international Young Scholars School "Concepts –– Research Methods– – Evidence"
• 07/2012 Grant from the Volkswagen Foundation to conduct the international Young Scholars School "Concepts –– Research Methods– – Evidence"
• 2009 Three-Year Heisenberg Fellowship from the German Science Foundation (DFG)
• 1997 One-year Fellowship from the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

2018

• Section-Co-Chair: “Political Literacy and the Resistibility of Liberal Democracy” at the 12th ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, 22 – 25 August, 2018 (Chair: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski)
• Panel-Co-Chair and Discussant: “Political Literacy and the Persistence of Democracy” at the 12th ECPR General Conference, Hamburg, 22 – 25 August, 2018 (Chair: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski)

2016

• Section-Chair “Who are we? – Collective identity in changing landscapes” at the 10th ECPR General Conference, Prague, 7 – 10 September, 2016 (Co-Chair: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski)

2015

• Section-Chair “Identity and the Challenge of Transformation” at the 9th ECPR General Conference, Montreal, 26 – 29 August, 2015 (Co-Chair: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski)

2014

• Section Chair “Identity and Political Behavior” at the 8th ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, 3-6 September, 2014 (Co-chair: Ireneusz P. Karolewski)
• Panel-Chair “Identity, Political Action and the Changing Style of Citizen Politics in the Digital Age” at the 8th ECPR General Conference, Glasgow, 3 – 6 September, 2014 (Co-Chair: Sophia Schubert)

2013

• Country Expert for “Varieties in Democracy (V-Dem)”
• Section-chair “Politics and Identity” at the 7th ECPR Gerenral Conference, Bordeaux, 4‐7 September, 2013 (Co-chair: Ireneusz P. Karolewski)
• Panel-Chair: “Assessing the link between collective identity, political culture and the political system“ at the 7th ECPR Gerenral Conference, Bordeaux”, 7 September, 2013 (with mit Sophia Schubert; Discussant: Sebastian Kuhn)
• Organizer of the international Young Scholars School “European Identity: Concepts – Research Methods – Evidence” (March 17-23, 2013, FSU Jena)

since July 2012

• Associated Editor “Annual of European and Global Studies” (Edinburgh University Press)

since July 2011

• Initiator and convenor of the ECPR Standing Group “Identity” (with Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski) - Reelected on September 2014 for another three years

since September 2009

• Standing Author of “Living Reviews in European Governance"

2009

• Co-panel-chair „Trust, Solidarity and Tolerance – Civic Resources for a European Union in Trouble“ at the 5th ECPR General Conference, Potsdam, 10‐12 September, 2009 (Chair: Ireneusz P. Karolewski)

(bold=peer-reviewed)

2023

• Is Russia now a criminocracy?
  Viktoria Kaina and her co-author Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski discuss this question in their contribution to European Politics and Policy (EUROPP), a multidisciplinary academic blog run by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). They do not only address the characteristics of this new regime type but also the challenges criminocracies pose to both International relations and political science. Read more: Is Russia now a criminocracy? | EUROPP

2022

• Can liberal democracy survive human fervor? Signs and origins of dysfunctional democracy, in: Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft 16: 199-220 (published online 20 April 2022; doi: 10.1007/s12286-022-00525-9). [externer Link)

2018

• Identität, nationale und europäische, in: Bach, Maurizio/Hönig, Barbara (Hrsg.), Europasoziologie. Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium, Baden-Baden: Nomos: 344-351

2016

• European Identity Revisited. New approaches and recent empirical evidence, London/New York: Routledge. (with Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Sebastian Kuhn).
• ‘In search of the unknown’– An essay on the need of non-knowledge in European identity research, in: Kaina, Viktoria/Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel/Kuhn, Sebastian (eds.), European identity revisited. New approaches and recent empirical evidence, New York/London: Routledge: 246-258.
• Building ‘us’, and constructing ‘them’ – Mass European identity building and the problem of inside-outside-definitions, in: Kaina, Viktoria/Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel/Kuhn, Sebastian (eds.), European identity revisited. New approaches and recent empirical evidence, New York/London: Routledge: 218-245. (with Sebastian Kuhn)
• Introduction, in: Kaina, Viktoria/Karolewski, Ireneusz Pawel/Kuhn, Sebastian (eds.), European identity revisited. New approaches and recent empirical evidence, New York/London: Routledge: 1-12. (with Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski and Sebastian Kuhn

2014

• Are quantitative research methods to blame for a growing irrelevance of political science? A rejoinder to John Trent, in: European Political Science (advance online publication, 21 February 2014; doi:10.1057/eps.2013.48). (with Sebastian Kuhn) [external link]

2013

• Europäische Identität aus politikwissenschaftlicher Analyseperspektive – Forschungsstand und Desiderata, in: Hinnenkamp, Volker/Platzer, Hans-Wolfgang (Hrsg.), Interkulturalität und europäische Integration, Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, S. 97-125.
• EU Governance and European Identity, in: Living Reviews in European Governance 8 (2013) (doi: 10.12942/lreg-2013-1). (with Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski) [external link]

• How to reduce disorder in European identity research?, in: European Political Science12: 184-196 (published online 16 November 2012, doi: 10.1057/eps.2012.39). [external link]

2012

• Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union, London: Routledge. (edited with Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski).

• ‘In the Union we trust’? – Institutional confidence and citizens’ support for supranational decision-making, in: Karolewski, Ireneusz P./Kaina, Viktoria (eds), Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union, London: Routledge: 80-101.

• Analysing European identity – the need for civic resources, in: Karolewski, Ireneusz P./Kaina, Viktoria (eds), Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union, London: Routledge: 229-249.

• Introduction: Europe’s blues and Europe’s future – civic resources for a European Union in trouble, in: Karolewski, Ireneusz P./Kaina, Viktoria, Civic Resources and the Future of the European Union, London: Routledge: 1-11. (with Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski)

2011

• Why do We Trust Strangers? Revising the Institutional Approach to Generalized Trust Creation, in: West European Politics 34 (2): 282-295.

2020

• Umstände des Regierens: Politisches Verhalten und gesellschaftliche Unruhe (Online-Kurs)
• Wahlen und Wahlverhalten (Online-Kurs)

2019

• Mächtige Ohnmächtige? Zur ambivalenten Rolle der Bürgerinnen und Bürger im demokratischen Herrschaftssystem
• Is democracy working? Herausforderungen und Leistungsfähigkeit eines politischen Ordnungsmodells
• Einführung in das Politische System der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – Teil I (Online-Vorlesung mit Materialband)
• Leitfaden zur Erstellung von Exposés für Haus- und Abschlussarbeiten
• Leitfaden zur Anfertigung politikwissenschaftlicher Haus- und Abschlussarbeiten

2018

• Germany’s Political System: An Introduction, Part I (Online Lecture)

2016

• Political Sociology (Online Lecture)

2015

• Empirical Democratic Research, with Sebastian Kuhn

2014

• How to read an academic text