Publications & Data
My research primarily focuses on national identities and their relevance for political attitudes and voting behaviour.
All my articles are freely available. You can find my articles on Google Scholar.
In the spirit of transparent and replicable research, you can find the replication files of my articles on the Open Science Framework. Feel free to use the material for secondary analyses, teaching or other purposes.
Peer-reviewed journal articles
May, Antonia C. (2025). Ready or not. National Identity, Vote Choice, and Mass Media: Evidence from Germany. Political Psychology, 00, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70005.
May, Antonia C., & Christian S. Czymara (2024). Careless whisper: Political elite discourses activate national identities for far-right voting preferences. Nations and Nationalism, 30(1), 90–109. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12985.
May, Antonia C. (2023). And if they don’t dance, they are no friends of mine: Exploring boundaries of national identity. Nations and Nationalism, 29(2), 579–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/nana.12926.
Working and discussion paper
Daniel, Andreas, Jan Goebel, Dagmar Kern, Daniel Klein, Antonia May, Fakhri Momeni, Jana Nebelin, Claudia Saalbach, Pascal Siegers, Knut Wenzig, and Benjamin Zapilko (2024). A pilot study for “Linked Open Research Data” (LORDpilot): a LOD-based Concept Registry for social science research data. zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11047522.
Schulz, Sonja, Bernd Weiß, Sebastian Sterl, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Lisa Schmid, and Antonia May (2021). HaSpaD - Data Manual. GESIS Papers 2021/12. Cologne: GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.75135.
Schulz, Sonja, Bernd Weiß, Sebastian Sterl, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Lisa Schmid, and Antonia May (2021). HaSpaD - Datenhandbuch. GESIS Papers 2021/13. Cologne: GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.75134.
May, Antonia, Katharina Werhan, Insa Bechert, and Markus Quandt (2021). ONBound-Harmonization User Guide (Stata/SPSS), Version1.1. GESIS Papers 2021/04. Cologne: GESIS - Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.72442.
Data
Schulz, Sonja, Bernd Weiß, Sebastian Sterl, Anna-Carolina Haensch, Lisa Schmid, and Antonia May (2021). Harmonizing and synthesizing partnership histories from different research data infrastructures: A model project for linking research data from various infrastructure (HaSpaD). Datenfile Version 1.2. https://doi.org/10.7802/2429.
Bechert, Insa, Antonia May, Markus Quandt, and Katharina Werhan (2020). ONBound - Old and new boundaries: National Identities and Religion: Customized dataset. GESIS Data Archive, Cologne. Request access here.
Giebler, Heiko, Josephine Lichteblau, Antonia May, Reinhold Melcher, Aiko Wagner, and Bernhard Weßels (2016). “CSES MODULE 1-3 HARMONIZED TREND FILE [dataset]” : May 31, 2016 version. doi: 10.7804/cses.trendfile.2016-05-31.
Selected conference presentations
May, Antonia and Anne Stroppe (2025). “Activation of Local Identities for Political Behaviour”, European Political Science Association (EPSA) 15th Annual Conference, Madrid, 2025-06-28.
May, Antonia “Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media - Evidence from Germany.”
- (2024) 29. DVPW-Kongress, 24.-27. September 2024, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2024-09-24.
- (2023) 5th Annual U.K. Political Psychology Conference 27 - 31 March 2023, Online, 2023-03-31.
- (2023) The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Conference 2023: Nationalism and Multiculturalism, 3rd to 5th April 2023, University of Loughborough, United Kingdom, 2023-04-03.
- (2023) European Political Science Association (EPSA) 13th Annual Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, 2023-06-24.
May, Antonia, and Christian Czymara (2021). “Mobilizing identities? Longitudinal comparative evidence on national identity, political elite discourses and far-right voting.” European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, 30.08.-03.09.2021, Online, 2021-09-02.
May, Antonia (2019). “A Comparative Perspective on Similarities and Differences in Patterns of National Identity.” European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), General Conference, 04.09.-07.09.2019 , 2019-09-04.
May, Antonia (2018). “National identity patterns and their effects on right-wing populist attitudes in Germany.” 44th Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of German Politics (IASGP), 2018-05-30.
Invited Talks
May, Antonia & Christian Czymara (2025) “Zwischen Zugehörigkeit und Abgrenzung: Nationale Identitäten, öffentliche Debatten und Wahlentscheidungen”, Ringvorlesung “Von Nationen und Narrativen - Identitäten in multiethnischen Gesellschaften” des Fachschaftsrats Politikwissenschaften 2025, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, 2025-06-17.
May, Antonia (2025) “Nationalisten auf dem Vormarsch: Wie Politik, Medien und unser Selbstbild sie stärken”, Shortlist Deutscher Studienpreis der Körberstiftung, Berlin, 2025-06-23.
Other publications
Giebler, Heiko, Josephine Lichteblau, Antonia May, Reinhold Melcher, Marcus Spittler, Aiko Wagner, and Bernhard Weßels (2014). “GLES Kandidatenstudie 2013: Motive, Nominierungen, Wahlkampf, Repräsentation und Demokratie aus der Sicht der Bundestagskandidatinnen und Bundestagskandidaten - Kurzbericht.”
Wagner, Aiko, and Antonia May (2013). “Linksliberale Enterhaken : geht die Fragmentierung des Parteiensystems in eine neue Runde?” MIP - Mitteilungen des Instituts für Deutsches und Internationales Parteienrecht und Parteienforschung 19 130-133. http://www.pruf.de/fileadmin/redaktion/Oeffentliche_Medien/PRuF/MIP/MIP_2013.pdf.
May, Antonia (2012). “Eine Partei sucht ihre Wähler: Schatzsuche in politischen Fahrwassern.” Berliner Debatte Initial 23 (3): 126-140.