CURRICULUM VITAE CHRISTIAN RAUH
Personal
Date of birth: 1980 Children: One daughter (*2011, parental leave: 05/2012-08/2012) One son (*2016, parental leave: 09/2016-04/2017) Contact: WZB Berlin Social Science Center Reichpietschufer 50, D-10785 Berlin (Germany) T +49 (0) 30 25491 148 F +49 (0) 30 25491 342 [email protected] www.christian-rauh.eu
Relevant professional experience
04/2020 – 09/2020 Freie Universität Berlin: Guest professor for ‘International politics and law’ 04/2012 – WZB Berlin Social Science Center: Senior research fellow in the Department ‘Global Governance’ (Interim Director 04/2020 – 09/2020) 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 University of Konstanz, Chair in International Politics: Teaching assistant 03/2005 – 10/2007 European Union Politics: Managing Editor 08/2004 – 02/2005 Berlin Business Representation, Brussels: Political Consultancy EU affairs
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)
1/9 Publications (*peer reviewed; preprints and replication data via http://christian-rauh.eu/publications) (Google Scholar citations as of Jan 9 2021: 882; h-index: 12; i10-index: 15)
Monographs
(2) *Rauh, Christian (2016) A responsive technocracy? EU politicisation and the consumer policies of the European Commission. Colchester, UK: ECPR Press. (1) *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
(15) *Rauh, Christian (2020) ‘One agenda-setter or many? The varying success of policy initiatives by individual Directorates-General of the European Commission 1994-2016’, European Union Politics: Online First. (14) *Rauh, Christian, Bart Bes, and Martijn Schoonvelde (2020) ‘Undermining, defusing, or defending European integration? Assessing public communication of European executives in times of EU politicization’, European Journal of Political Research 59(2): 397-423. (13) *Rauh, Christian, and Michael Zürn (2020) ‘Authority, Politicization, and Alternative Justifications: Endogenous Legitimation Dynamics in Global Economic Governance’, Review of International Political Economy 27(3): 583-611. (12) *De Wilde, Pieter, and Christian Rauh (2019) ‘Going full circle: the need for procedural perspectives on EU responsiveness’, Journal of European Public Policy 26(11): 1737-1748. (11) Rauh, Christian (2019) ‘Christina J. Schneider: The Responsive Union. National Elections and European Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018’, Book review, Review of International Organizations 15(1): 307-310. (10) *Rauh, Christian (2019) ‘EU politicization and policy initiatives of the European Commission: the case of consumer policy’, Journal of European Public Policy 26(3): 344-365. (9) *Rauh, Christian (2018) ‘Validating a Sentiment Dictionary for German Political Language. A Workbench Note’, Journal of Information Technology & Politics 15(4): 319-343’. (8) *Rauh, Christian, and Pieter De Wilde (2018) 'The Opposition Deficit in EU Accountability: Evidence from over 20 years of plenary debate in four member states', European Journal of Political Research 57(1): 194-216. (7) *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. (6) *Hartlapp, Miriam, Julia Metz, and Christian Rauh (2016) ‘Wer mäßigt den Agenda-Setter im EU-System und wie? Drei Modi der Positionsbildung in der EU-Kommission‘, Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 26/1: 85-89. (5) *Rauh, Christian (2015) ‘Communicating supranational governance? The salience of EU affairs in the German Bundestag, 1991-2013’, European Union Politics 16(1): 116-138. (4) *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. (3) *Hartlapp Miriam and Christian Rauh (2013) ‘The Commission's Internal Conditions for Social Re-Regulation: 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. (2) *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. (1) *Rauh, Christian, Antje Kirchner, und Roland Kappe (2011) ‘Political Parties and Higher Education Spending. Who Favours Redistribution?’, West European Politics 34(6): 1185-1206.
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Book chapters
(6) Schwalbach, Jan and Christian Rauh (2021, forthcoming) ‘Collecting large-scale comparative text data on legislative debates’, in H. Bäck, M. Debus, and J.M. Fernandes (eds.) The Politics of Legislative Debate. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (5) Rauh, Christian (2021) ‘Between neo-functionalist optimism and post-functionalist pessimism: Integrating politicisation into integration theory’, in N. Brack and S. Gurkan (eds.) Theorizing the Crises of the European Union. Abingdon-on-Thames, UK: Routledge. (4) Hooghe, Liesbet and Christian Rauh (2017) ‘The Commission services: a powerful permanent bureaucracy.’ In: Dermot Hodson and John Peterson (eds.) The institutions of the European Union, 4th ed: 187-212. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. (3) *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. (2) Rauh, Christian, and Michael Zürn (2015) ‘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. Also reprinted 2016 in integration 39(1): 3-12. (1) 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.
Miscellaneous literature and public media (selected)
Rauh, Christian and Jan Schwalbach (2020) ‘The ParlSpeech V2 data set: Full-text corpora of 6.3 million parliamentary speeches in the key legislative chambers of nine representative democracies’, Harvard Dataverse: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/L4OAKN Rauh, Christian (2019) ‘Is Europe that hard to explain?’ Orders Beyond Borders Blog, July 30 2019 Rauh, Christian (2019) ‘Untergraben, verschleiern, verteidigen: Politische Kommunikation zur Europäischen Union‘, WZB Mitteilungen 165: 34-35 Rauh, Christian (2018) ‘Why so much fuss about one supranational official?’, Orders Beyond Borders Blog, March 22 2018 Rauh, Christian, Pieter De Wilde, and Jan Schwalbach (2017) ‘The ParlSpeech data set: Annotated full-text vectors of 3.9 million plenary speeches in the key legislative chambers of seven European states’, V1, Harvard Dataverse: http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/E4RSP9. Alexandros Tokhi and Christian Rauh (2015) ‚Die schiere Menge sagt noch nichts: Big Data in den Sozialwissenschaften.‘ WZB Mitteilungen 150: 6-9. 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.
3/9 Hartlapp, Miriam and Christian Rauh (2011) ‘The Commission's Internal Conditions for Social Re- regulation. 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.
Manuscripts with significant progress
Rauh, Christian (2020) ‘Enhancing or deflecting public accountability? The language of European Commission press releases, 1985-2019’, conference paper Kreuder-Sonnen, Christian, Christian Rauh, and Berthold Rittberger (2019) ‘Endogenous sources of liberal decline: How the rise of global governance invites blame-shifting to and credit- claiming from international institutions‘, conference paper
4/9 Awards and grants 2020 Work package partner, Observatory for Political Texts in Europe (OPTED), European Commission Horizon 2020 (~ 40.000 €) 2013 Jean Blondel Prize for the best doctoral 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.)
Teaching (course outlines and evaluations available at: http://christian-rauh.eu/teaching) Summer 2020 ‘Communicating international politics’, 2 SWS advanced B.A. seminar, Freie Universität Berlin [digital teaching]. ‘Quantitative Textanalyse in den Politikwissenschaften‘, 2 SWS advanced B.A. seminar, Freie Universität Berlin [digital teaching]. Summer 2019 ‘Text mining international politics’, 4 day M.A. level block seminar, Charles University Prague. ‘Content analysis in the contemporary political sciences’, 2 Day PhD level training workshop, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BGTS). Winter 2018 ‘Text Analysis’, 1 Day M.A. level workshop, Seminar on ‘Documents, Discourse, and Archives’ (N. Helmerich), Université de Lausanne. Summer 2018 ‘National parliaments, international politics: Enhanced democratic control?’, 2 SWS M.A. level seminar, Freie Universität Berlin. Summer 2017 ‘Content analysis in the Social Sciences’, 2 Day PhD level training workshop, Berlin Graduate School for Transnational Studies (BGTS). Summer 2016 ‘Politicizing governance beyond the nation state’, 2 SWS M.A. level seminar, Freie Universität Berlin. Winter 2015 ‘Analyzing Parliamentary Democracy with advanced content analysis methods’, 2 Day PhD level training workshop together with Pieter de Wilde, funded by the PADEMIA network and conducted at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center. Winter 2014 ‘Quantitative Textanalyse in den Politikwissenschaften’, 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, University of Konstanz. Winter 2005 & 2006 ‘Einführung in die Internationalen Beziehungen’, 2 SWS B.A. level tutorial accompanying the lecture of Prof. Gerald Schneider, University of Konstanz. 2006-2010 Organisation and supervision of simulations on European political decision- making in public schools for pupils of 14-18 years.
5/9 Supervision and consultancy
Bachelor/Master Thesis supervision at Freie Universität Berlin and University of Potsdam (6x) Ph.D. Evaluation committees at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Università degli Studi di Milano, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Erasmus Unversiteit Rotterdam. Individual mentoring for the Berlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (3x) Other Various consultancies for individual grant proposals, qualification projects, and non-academic data science projects especially regarding automated text analysis, web scraping, and data visualization methods
Services to the profession
Academic self-government
04/2018-today Elected academic representative in the Board of Trustees of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center 06/2017-04/2019 Member of strategic forum ‘European research’ of the German Leibniz Association 03/2015-03/2017 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 German 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 09/2012-today Management of annual reports as well as Leibniz Association and advisory board evaluations for the WZB Global Governance department
Reviewer activity
Journals More than 90 reviews a.o. for European Journal of Political Research, European Union Politics, Government & Opposition, Journal of European Integration, Journal of Politics, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, Review of International Organizations, Review of International Studies, Scientometrics (verifications at: http://publons.com/a/1213868) Editorial board Journal of European Public Policy Research funding Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); Fritz Thyssen Foundation; Fonds de la recherche Scientifique (Belgium); Prize committee of the 2018 Manifesto Corpus Conference; WZB selection committees on Flexible Funds for Early Career Development and the Harvard Merit Fellowship; Ph.D. selection committee for the Berlin Graduate School of Transnational Studies (BTS)
6/9 Event organization
01/2018 ‘Understanding Responsiveness in European Union Politics’, Five day international academic workshop at the Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, main organizers: Asya Zhelyazkova and Maurits Meijers 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 02/2010-11/2017 ‘[CO:STA] - Colloquium for Statistical Analysis and Quantitative Methods’, Regular workshop series at the WZB organized with Martin Ehlert and Merlin Schaeffer (https://bit.ly/2vRFE5M)
Invited talks
11/2020 ‘Enhancing or Deflecting Public Accountability? The Language of European Commission Press Releases 1985-2018‘, Connected_Politics Webinar, University College Dublin 09/2019 ‘Analysing (parliamentary) democracy with computational methods: why investments in data collection pay off’, Key note for the International PhD Workshop on Advances in Comparative Politics, Cologne Center for Comparative Politics 05/2019 ‘The political language of European integration’, 10th Anniversary Dahrendorf Lecture and Colloquium, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford 04/2019 ‘Demokratie, grenzenlos?’ (‘Democracy, without borders?’), Science Slam, German Historical Museum Berlin 01/2019 ‘How political representatives talk(ed) about European integration’, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford 11/2018 ‘Executive responses to EU politicization’, LMU/TUM Joint IR Speaker Series, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich 09/2018 ‘An agenda-setter in decline? Legislative activity of the European Commission 1985-2016’, Workshop Computational EU Legislative Politics, University of Oslo 06/2018 ‘The politicization of European integration and its possible effects’, Centre Français de Berlin / Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen 01/2017 ‘Bevölkerungseinstellungen zur EU’, AG Europa / Strategischer Dialog, Repräsentanz der Robert Bosch Stiftung Berlin. 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.
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Accepted conference contributions
2020 European Political Science Association (EPSA), 10th annual conference, Prague, Czech Republic World Congress of the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Lisbon, Portugal [cancelled due to COVID-19] ECPR Standing Group on the European Union, Rome, Italy, [cancelled due to COVID-19] DVPW Sektionstagung Internationale Beziehungen, Freiburg, Germany 2019 ECPR General Conference, University of Wrocław, Poland. 2018 European Political Science Association (EPSA), 8th annual conference, Vienna, Austria (2x). 2017 ACCESS EUROPE Conference: ‘Transformation or collapse? Politicization and integration in postfunctionalist times’, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. EURO-CEFG Workshop: ‘Citizens, Populism and Politicisation: European Economic Governance and Beyond’, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 2016 23rd International Conference of Europeanists (CES), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. EUENGAGE Text Analysis conference, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Workshop ‘Quantitative Text Analysis in Manifesto Research’, WZB Berlin Social Science Center 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. 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 Political Science Association, Chicago U.S.A.
8/9 Further qualifications
Languages German native English fluent French basic
Software (office) Word, Excel, Access, Thunderbird, Firefox, Gimp, Adobe Photoshop, HTML
Software (analysis) R advanced statistical programming, quantitative text analysis, webscraping, and data visualization Stata esp. panel data analyses around the xt commands EViews esp. financial time series analysis, e.g. GARCH models Atlas.Ti esp. applying code schemes to qualitative interview data
Memberships: European Political Science Association (EPSA), Stadtkinder Pankow e.V., Verein der Ehemaligen der Universität Konstanz e.V., Wikimedia e.V.
Private interests: Bikes and cycling Slam poetry and rap 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 Center for Comparative Politics of Germany and France, Free University Berlin
Prof. Dr. Gerald Schneider Chair of International Relations, University of Konstanz
Berlin, January 9 2021
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