CURRICULUM VITAE
Christian Rauh
Personal Information
Date of birth:
1980
Children:
1 daughter (*2011), 1 son (*2016)
Contact:
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Reichpietschufer 50, D-10785 Berlin (Germany)
T +49 (0) 30 25491 148
F +49 (0) 30 25491 342
christian.rauh(at)wzb(dot)eu
www.christian-rauh.eu
Education
01/2012
Dr. rer. pol., Freie Universität Berlin. Thesis ‘Politicisation, issue salience, and
consumer policies of the European Commission’; Supervisors: Dr. Miriam
Hartlapp / Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn; summa cum laude
09/2009
ECPR Carlo Alberto Summer School on Analytical Politics, Moncalieri, Italy
04/2008
M.A. Politics and Management, University of Konstanz. Thesis: ‘From Chicago
to Brussels: EU regulation of international air transport and the stock
market performance of internationally operating airlines.’ Supervisor: Prof.
Dr. Gerald Schneider; very good
09/2002 – 07/2004
Studies in Politics and Management, University of Konstanz
03/2005 – 09/2007
Profile: ‘European Integration and International Organisations’
06/2001
A-levels, Hochrhein Gymnasium Waldshut (1,9)
Professional Experience
04/2012 –
WZB Berlin Social Science Center: Research fellow in the Research Unit
‘Global Governance’
09/2008 – 03/2012
WZB Berlin Social Science Center: Junior research fellow of the Research
Group ‘Position Formation in the European Commission’
07/2006 – 05/2010
EuroSoc European Consultants: Organisation and supervision of simulations
on political decision-making in public schools
10/2005 – 09/2007
Chair in International Politics, University of Konstanz: Teaching assistant
03/2005 – 10/2007
European Union Politics: Managing Editor
08/2004 – 02/2005
Berlin Business Representation, Brussels: Political Consultancy EU affairs
1/6
Publications
(*peer reviewed)
(preprints, replication data and citations available via http://bit.ly/1EtN6zM)
Monographs
*Rauh, Christian (2016) A responsive technocracy? EU politicisation and the consumer policies of the
European Commission. Colchester, UK: ECPR Press. Under contract, manuscript finalized.
*Hartlapp, Miriam, Julia Metz, and Christian Rauh (2014) Which policy for Europe? Power and
conflict inside the European Commission. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Academic journal articles
*Meijers, Maurits and Christian Rauh (2016) ‘Has Eurosceptic Mobilization Become More
Contagious? Comparing the 2009 and 2014 EP election campaigns in The Netherlands and
France’, Politics and Governance 4 (1): 83-103.
*Hartlapp, Miriam, Julia Metz, and Christian Rauh (2016) ‘Wer mäßigt den Agenda-Setter im EUSystem und wie? Drei Modi der Positionsbildung in der EU-Kommission‘, Zeitschrift für
Politikwissenschaft: Online First.
*Rauh, Christian (2015) ‘Communicating supranational governance? The salience of EU affairs in
the German Bundestag, 1991-2013’, European Union Politics 16(1): 116-138.
*Rauh, Christian and Gerald Schneider (2013) ‘There is no such Thing as a Free Open Sky.
Financial Markets and the Struggle over European Competences in International Air
Transport’, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 51(6): 1124-1140.
*Hartlapp Miriam and Christian Rauh (2013) ‘The Commission's Internal Conditions for Social ReRegulation: Market Efficiency and Wider Social Goals in Setting the Rules for Financial
Services in Europe’, European Journal of Government and Economics 2(1): 25-40.
*Hartlapp, Miriam, Julia Metz, and Christian Rauh (2013) ‘Linking Agenda Setting to Coordination
Structures. Bureaucratic Politics inside the European Commission’, Journal of European
Integration 53(4): 425-441.
*Rauh, Christian, Antje Kirchner, und Roland Kappe (2011) ‘Political Parties and Higher Education
Spending. Who Favours Redistribution?’, West European Politics 34(6): 1185-1206.
Book chapters
*Rauh, Christian, and Sebastian Bödeker (2016) 'Internationale Organisationen in der deutschen
Öffentlichkeit - ein Text Mining Ansatz'. In: M. Lemke and G. Wiedemann (eds.) Text-Mining in
den Sozialwissenschaften: Grundlagen und Anwendungen zwischen qualitativer und quantitativer
Diskursanalyse. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
Rauh, Christian and Michael Zürn (2014) ‘Die Politisierung der Europäischen Union als Chance
nutzen‘, In: Claudio Franzius, Franz C. Mayer, Jürgen Neyer (eds.) Modelle des Parlamentarismus
im 21. Jahrhundert: pp. 469-486. Baden-Baden: Nomos.
Rauh, Christian and Michael Zürn (2014) ‘Zur Politisierung der EU in der Krise’, In: Martin
Heidenreich (ed.) Krise der europäischen Vergesellschaftung?: pp. 121-45. Wiesbaden: Springer
VS.
2/6
Miscellaneous literature and public media
Rauh, Christian (2015) ‘Brüssel im Bundestag: Wann spricht wer über die Europäische Union?‘,
WZB-Mitteilungen 148: 20-22.
*Rauh, Christian (2015) ‘Legitimität und Politisierung globaler Steuerung‘, Informationen zur
Politischen Bildung 2015/1 (325): 25-28.
Rauh, Christian and Michael Zürn (2014) ‘Legitimationsprobleme im Früheuropäismus‘,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 19.05.2014: 6.
Rauh, Christian and Pieter De Wilde (2013) ‘Über den Tellerrand: Zunehmend werden auch die
Entscheidungen internationaler Institutionen öffentlich politisiert‘, WZB-Mitteilungen 141:
21-23.
Rauh, Christian (2013) ‘Politisieren lassen oder politisieren? Die europäische Öffentlichkeit
fordert ihr Recht’, Neue Gesellschaft/Frankfurter Hefte 60(1-2): 53-56.
Rauh, Christian (2013) ‘Und sie hört doch hin – manchmal. Öffentliche Debatten können die
Politik der EU-Kommission beeinflussen’, WZB-Mitteilungen 139: 29-31.
Hartlapp, Miriam and Christian Rauh (2011) ‘The Commission's Internal Conditions for Social Reregulation. Market Efficiency and Wider Social Goals in Setting the Rules of Financial Services
in Europe. CEAS Report 4/2011.
Hartlapp, Miriam, Julia Metz, and Christian Rauh (2010) ‘Made in Brussels. Wie externe Interessen
ihren Weg in die Politikformulierung der EU Kommission finden‘, WZB-Mitteilungen 130: 7-10.
*Hartlapp, Miriam, Julia Metz, and Christian Rauh (2010) ‘The Agenda Set by the EU Commission.
The Result of Balanced or Biased Aggregation of Positions?’, LSE 'Europe in Question' Discussion
Paper Series 21/2010.
*Hartlapp, Miriam, Julia Metz, and Christian Rauh (2010) ‘How External Interests Enter the
European Commission. Mechanisms at Play in Legislative Position Formation’, WZB Discussion
Paper SP IV 2010-501.
Rauh, Christian (2009) ‘The Repeatedly Low Turnout in EP Elections. Political Elites Fail in
Politicising Citizens’, A Different View - IAPSS Monthly News Magazine 31: 3-5.
Awards and grants
2013
Jean Blondel Prize for the best thesis in politics awarded by the European
Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
2012
WZB flexible funds for early career development (~ 7.000 €)
2008
Prize for the best diploma thesis in Politics and Management awarded by
the Verein der Ehemaligen der Universität Konstanz (VEUK e.V.)
3/6
Teaching
(course outlines and evaluations available at: http://bit.ly/1HjRVMI)
Winter 2014
‘Quantitative
Textanalyse
in
den
Politikwissenschaften:
Grundlagen, Methoden und aktuelle Anwendungen’, 2 SWS M.A. level
seminar, University of Potsdam.
Summer 2014
‘Qualitative and Quantitative Content Analysis in the Social Sciences’,
Three-day PhD level bloc seminar together with Pieter de Wilde, Dahlem
Research School, Graduate School in East Asia Studies.
Summer 2013
‘The politicization of supranational governance in the EU and beyond’, 2
SWS M.A. level seminar together with Pieter de Wilde, Freie Universität
Berlin.
Summer 2010
‘Qualitative
Methoden
der
Politikwissenschaft
am
Beispiel
der
Europaforschung’, Individual sessions of a B.A. level seminar by Prof.
Miriam Hartlapp, Freie Universität Berlin.
Summer 2006
‘European Co-operation and Integration’, 2 SWS M.A. level tutorial
accompanying the lecture of Prof. Gerald Schneider.
Winter 2005 & 2006 ‘Einführung in die Internationalen Beziehungen’, 2 SWS B.A. level tutorial
accompanying the lecture of Prof. Gerald Schneider.
2006-2010
Organisation and supervision of simulations on European political
decision-making in public schools for pupils of 14-18 years.
Services to the profession
Academic self-government
03/2013-today
Elected department representative in the Academic Council of the WZB
Berlin Social Science Center
11/2014-today
Member of the CLARIN-D FAG 8 “Inhaltsanalytische Methoden in den
Sozialwissenschaften” (Group promoting corpus linguistics approaches in
the social sciences)
03/2014-today
Official Representative of the WZB at the European Consortium for Political
Research (ECPR)
03/2014-03/2015
Elected PostDoc representative at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Reviewer activity
Journals
Comparative European Politics, Electoral Studies, European Journal of
Government and Economics, European Journal of Political Research,
European Union Politics, Journal of European Integration, Journal of
European
Public
Policy,
Politische
Vierteljahresschrift,
Review
of
International Studies
Other
WZB selection committees on Flexible Funds for Early Career Development
and the Harvard Merit Fellowship
4/6
Event organization
Since 02/10
‘[CO:STA] - Colloquium for Statistical Analysis and Quantitative Methods’,
Regular workshop series at the WZB organized with Martin Ehlert and
Merlin Schaeffer (http://bit.ly/1OrTLgC)
06/2014
‘The politicization of inter- and supranational actors in the domestic arena’,
Conference panel, 7th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, organized
with Bernd Schlipphak
02/2013
‘The Politicization of Supranational Governance in the EU and Beyond’,
International academic workshop organized with Pieter De Wilde and
Michael Zürn.
02/2013
‘Vereint durch Streit: Macht die Krise Europa stärker?’, Public plenary
debate organized with Pieter De Wilde and Michael Zürn
03/2012
‘Position Formation in the EU‘, International academic workshop organized
with Miriam Hartlapp and Julia Metz
06/2010
‘How EU institutions form positions‘. Conference panel, 5th ECPR
Conference on EU Politics, organized with Miriam Hartlapp and Julia Metz
Invited talks
05/2015
‘Responsive technocrats? Public politicisation of European integration and
policy making in the European Commission’, University of Oslo, ARENA
Centre for European Studies.
04/2015
‘Responsive technocrats? Public politicisation of European integration and
policy making in the European Commission’, ACCESS EUROPE, University of
Amsterdam.
07/2014
‘Die Salienz der Europäischen Integration in Plenardebatten des Deutschen
Bundestages, 1991-2013‘, University of Konstanz, Department of Politics and
Public Administration.
05/2013
‘Challenges of politicization - Future EU institutions in the light of a
growing public conflict potential’, Schwarzkopf Stiftung Junges Europa /
European Youth Parliament.
05/2013
‘Praktische Fragen des Publizierens in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften‘,
Berlin, WZB Social Science Center.
12/2011
‘Publication, Publication ...‘, Freie Universität Berlin.
Accepted conference contributions
2016
23rd International Conference of Europeanists (CES)
2015
APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA.
ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Warszawa, Poland.
2014
7th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Den Haag, The Netherlands.
2013
7th ECPR General Conference, Sciences Po Bordeaux, France.
1st European Workshops on International Studies (EWIS), Tartu, Estonia.
5/6
Krise der europäischen Vergesellschaftung? Soziologische Perspektiven,
Bamberg, Germany.
2012
6th Pan-European Conference on EU Politics, Tampere, Finland.
2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science
Association, Berlin, Germany.
19th International Conference of Europeanists, Boston, U.S.A.
2011
Wer regiert Europa? Governance und Politische Ökonomie in der
Europäischen
Union,
Max-Planck-Institut
für
Gesellschaftsforschung
Cologne, Germany.
2010
DVPW Sektionstagung "Ministerialverwaltung im politischen Prozess",
Universität Potsdam, Germany.
2009
5th ECPR General Conference, Universität Potsdam, Germany.
67th Annual National Conference of the Midwest Politcal Science
Association, Chicago U.S.A.
Further qualifications
Languages
German (mother tongue), English (fluent), French (basic)
Software
R, Stata, EViews, Atlas.Ti
Private interests
Bikes & cycling / slam poetry & science slams / photography / basketball
References
Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn
Director of the Research Unit Global Governance, WZB Berlin
Professor of International Relations, Free University Berlin
Prof. Dr. Miriam Hartlapp
Chair of Mulitlevel Governance, Universität Leipzig
Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider
Chair of International Relations, University of Konstanz
Berlin, March 21 2016
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