Isabelle Hertner

 

Lecturer in German and European Politics and Society, Deputy Director of the Institute for German Studies

Department of Political Science and International Studies

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 8637

Email i.hertner@bham.ac.uk

Department of Political Science and International Studies
School of Government and Society
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

About

Isabelle’s current research focuses on party politics in the European Union. This includes the adaption of national political parties to the process of European integration as well as the role played by European-level party federations.

Qualifications

  • MA European Political and Administrative Studies (College of Europe, Bruges)
  • M.A. (Magister Artium) Politics, French and Italian (Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Biography

Before joining the University of Birmingham in September 2011, Isabelle was a lecturer in European Studies and German at King’s College London. Her PhD, which she did at Royal Holloway, University of London, analyses the Europeanization of social democratic party organizations with a focus on the British Labour Party, the French Socialist Party and the German Social Democratic Party. Before coming to the UK, Isabelle lived in Belgium, where she did her MA and gained work experience as a lobbyist for a German welfare NGO. Isabelle has a M.A. in Politics, French and Italian from Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and speaks German, English, French, and Italian.

Teaching

Research

Research interests

  • The future of Social Democracy in Europe
  • The Europeanisation of party politics
  • German, British and French European policy
  • The development of party federations at European level (Europarties)
  • European election campaigns

Publications

Isabelle Hertner (2011) 'Are European Election Campaigns Europeanised? The Case of the Party of European Socialists in 2009'. Government and Opposition, Vol.46, No.3, pp. 321-344.

Isabelle Hertner and James Sloam. 'How Europe votes: the case of Germany'. In: Erol Kulahci (ed.) How Europe votes. ECPR Press. (Forthcoming 2011)

Isabelle Hertner and James Sloam. 'The Europeanisation of Social Democracy: Politics without Policy?' In Henning Meyer and Jonathan Rutherford (eds.) The Future of European Social Democracy: Building the Good Society. Palgrave (Forthcoming 2011).

Isabelle Hertner (2010) John Callaghan et al. (2009) (eds.) In search of social democracy. Responses to crisis and modernisation. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press. And Patrick Diamond and Roger Liddle (2009) (eds.) Beyond New Labour. The future of social democracy in Britain. London: Politico’s. ‘Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft’ (IPG) / ‘International Politics and Society’, October 2010.http://www.fes.de/ipg

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