Book

Gattermann, K. (2022). The Personalization of Politics in the European Union. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Find me on…

Google Scholar

ORCiD

ResearchGate

Special Issues

Nai, A., Garzia, D., Aaldering, L., Silva, F.F., & Gattermann, K. (2022). Negative Politics: Leader Personality, Negative Campaigning, and the Oppositional Dynamics of Contemporary Politics. Politics and Governance, 10(4).

Van der Brug, W., Gattermann, K., & de Vreese, C.H. (2016). How Different Were the European Elections of 2014? Politics and Governance, 4(1).

Articles in international, peer-reviewed journals

Herbig, L., Eisele, O., Gattermann, K., & Kuhn, T. (2025). Justifying European border policies: A quantitative content analysis of German government communication 2013-2023. Journal of European Public Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2599361

Meyer, T.M., & Gattermann, K. (2025). Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers? Political Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217251350742

Gattermann, K., van den Hoogen, E., & De Vreese, C. (2026). The role of far-right party performance in shaping disinformation concerns of European voters: evidence from the 2024 European Parliament elections. Journal of European Public Policy, 33(2), 636-661.

Buttgereit, L., Hameleers, M., Gattermann, K., Schuck, A.R.T. (2026). Beyond “Lügenpresse”: How politicians criticize and delegitimize the media in Germany. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 31(1), 184-206.

Whitaker, R., Vasilopoulou, S., & Gattermann, K. (2026). A representative European Parliament? Eurosceptic MEPs and the representation of citizens’ preferences. Journal of Common Market Studies, 64(1), 3-23.

Aaldering, A., da Silva, F.F., Garzia, D., Gattermann, K., & Nai, A. (2025). Leader effects in an era of negative politics: who has a negativity bias? Politics & Governance, 13, 9187, 1-21.

Nai. A., Silva, F.F., Aaldering, L., Gattermann, K., & Garzia, D. (2025). Ripping the public apart: Politicians’ dark personality fuels affective polarization. European Journal of Political Research, 64(3), 1575-1588.

Gravesteijn, E., van Elsas, E., & Gattermann, K. (2024). Biased, not balanced broadcaster! Deconstructing bias accusations towards public service media. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990241284587

Lecheler, S., Gattermann, K., & Aaldering, L. (2024). Disinformation in the Brussels bubble: Examining EU correspondents’ concerns and competences in a digital age. Journalism, 25(8), 1736–1753.

Nai, A., Aaldering, L., Silva, F.F., Garzia, D., & Gattermann, K. (2023). The Dark Side of the Mood. Candidate Evaluation, Voter Perceptions, and the Driving Role of (Dark) Personality Traits. Electoral Studies, 86, 102715.

Meyer, T.M. & Gattermann, K. (2022). Party contestation and news visibility abroad: the 2019 European Parliament elections from a pan-European perspective. European Union Politics, 23(3), 398-416.

Gattermann, K., Meyer, T., & Wurzer, K. (2022). Who won the election? Explaining news coverage of election results in multi-party systems. European Journal of Political Research, 61(4), 857-877.

Gattermann, K. & de Vreese, C.H. (2022). Understanding leader evaluations in European Parliament elections. European Union Politics, 23(1), 141-160.

Van der Brug, W., Gattermann, K. & de Vreese, C.H. (2022). Electoral responses to the increased contestation over European integration. The European Elections of 2019 and beyond. European Union Politics, 23(1), 3-20.

Gattermann, K., de Vreese, C.H., & van der Brug, W. (2021). Introduction: No longer second-order? Explaining the European Parliament elections of 2019. Politics, 44(1), 423-432.

Goldberg, A.C., Gattermann, K., Marquart, F., Brosius, A., & de Vreese, C.H. (2021). European solidarity in times of crisis: The role of information and media use. West European Politics, 44(5-6), 1314-1328.

Vasilopoulou, S. & Gattermann, K. (2021). Does politicisation matter for EU representation? A comparison of four European Parliament elections. Journal of Common Market Studies, 59(3), 661-678.

Gattermann, K. (2020). Media personalization during European elections: the 2019 election campaigns in context. Journal of Common Market Studies, 58(S1), 91-104.

Gattermann, K. & Marquart, F. (2020). Do Spitzenkandidaten really make a difference? An experiment on the effectiveness of personalized European Parliament election campaigns. European Union Politics, 21(4), 612-633.

Gattermann, K. & de Vreese, C.H. (2020). Awareness of Spitzenkandidaten in the 2019 European elections: The effects of news exposure in domestic campaign contexts. Research & Politics, 7(2), 1-8.

Gattermann, K, & Vliegenthart, R. (2019). The writing is on the wall: the limited professionalization of European parliament election campaign posters. Journal of European Integration, 41(6), 763-783.

Gattermann, K. (2018). Mediated personalization of executive European Union politics: Examining patterns in broadsheet coverage, 1992-2016. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 23(3), 345-366.

Kruikemeier, S., Gattermann, K., & Vliegenthart, R. (2018). Understanding the dynamics of politicians’ visibility in traditional and social media. The Information Society, 34(4), 215-228.

Gattermann, K. & de Vreese, C.H. (2017). The role of candidate evaluations in the 2014 European Parliament elections: Towards the personalization of voting behaviour? European Union Politics, 18(3), 447-468.

Gattermann, K., de Vreese, C.H. & van der Brug, W. (2016). Evaluations of the Spitzenkandidaten: The Role of Information and News Exposure in Citizens’ Preference Formation. Politics and Governance, 4(1), 37-54.

Van der Brug, W., Gattermann, K. & de Vreese, C.H. (2016). Introduction: How different were the European Elections of 2014? Politics and Governance, 4(1), 1-8.

Gattermann, K., Högenauer, A.-L. & Huff, A. (2016). Research note: Studying a new phase of Europeanisation of national parliaments. European Political Science, 15(1), 89-107.

Gattermann, K. & Vasilopoulou, S. (2015). Absent yet popular? Explaining news visibility of Members of the European Parliament. European Journal of Political Research, 54(1), 121-140.

Gattermann, K. & Hefftler, C. (2015). Beyond Institutional Capacity: Political Motivation and Parliamentary Behaviour in the Early Warning System. West European Politics, 38(2), 305-334.

Gattermann, K. (2013). News about the European Parliament: Patterns and External Drivers of Broadsheet Coverage. European Union Politics, 14(3), 436-457.

Vasilopoulou, S. & Gattermann, K. (2013). Matching Policy Preferences: The Linkage between Voters and MEPs. Journal of European Public Policy, 20(4), 606-625.

Book chapters

Gattermann, K., & Tulin, M. (2025). TikTok Use and Young AfD Voters. In: Kaeding, M., Müller, M., & Hoppe, A. (eds.), The 2024 European Parliament Elections. The Future of Europe (pp. 319-328). Springer, Cham.

Gattermann, K. (forthcoming). Personalization of Politics. In A. Nai, M. Grömping, & D. Wirz (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of Political Communication. Edgar Elgar Publishing.

Gattermann, K. (2020). Die Berichterstattung über die Europäischen Spitzenkandidaten in traditionellen, Online- und sozialen Medien im Europawahlkampf 2019. In M. Kaeding, M. Müller, & J. Schmälter (eds.), Die Europawahl 2019: Ringen um die Zukunft Europas (pp. 205-217). Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Gattermann, K. & Vasilopoulou, S. (2017). Eurosceptic candidate MEPs in the news: a transnational perspective. In J. Fitzgibbon, B. Leruth, & N. Startin (eds.), Euroscepticism as a transnational and pan-European phenomenon: The emergence of a new sphere of opposition (pp. 130-146). Abingdon: Routledge

Gattermann, K. (2015). Europäische Spitzenkandidaten und deren (Un-) Sichtbarkeit in der nationalen Zeitungsberichterstattung. In Kaeding, M. and Switek, N. (eds.) Die Europawahl 2014: Spitzenkandidaten, Protestparteien, Nichtwähler (pp. 211-222), Wiesbaden: Springer VS.

Hefftler, C. & Gattermann, K. (2015). Inter­parliamentary cooperation in the European Union: Patterns, problems and potential. In Hefftler, C., Neuhold, C., Rozenberg, O. and Smith, J. (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of National Parliaments and the European Union (pp. 94-115), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

PhD Thesis

Gattermann, K. (2011). News about the European Parliament: Patterns and Drivers of Broadsheet Coverage. PhD Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dataset

Popa, S.A., Hobolt, S.B., Van der Brug, W., Katsanidou, A., Gattermann, K., Sorace, M., Toygür, I., & De Vreese, C.H. (2024). European Parliament Election Study 2024, Voter Study. GESIS, Cologne. ZA8868 Data file Version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.4232/1.14409

Working papers

Gattermann, K. (2014). Opportunities, strategies and ideologies: The incentives of European Parliament political groups for inter-parliamentary cooperation. OPAL Online Paper, No. 16/2014

Gattermann, K. & Hefftler, C. (2013). Political motivation and institutional capacity: Assessing na­tional parliaments’ incentives to participate in the Early Warning System, OPAL Online Paper, No. 15/2013

Gattermann, K., Högenauer, A-L. & Huff, A. (2013). National Parliaments after Lisbon: Towards main­streaming of EU affairs?, OPAL Online Paper, No. 13/2013 [taken down due to journal publication; available on request]

Book reviews

Gattermann, K. (2017). Book review: New Perspectives on Negative Campaigning: Why Attack Politics Matters. Edited by Alessandro Nai and Annemarie Walter, ECPR Press: Colchester, 2015. European Journal of Communication, 32(1), 69-71.

Gattermann, K. (2015). Book review: Between-Election Democracy: The Representative Relationship after Election Day. Edited by Peter Esaiasson and Hanne Marthe Narud, ECPR Press, 2013. West European Politics, 38(3), 746-747.

Report

Gattermann, K., Wessels, W., & Hoppe, A. (2016). Final report: PADEMIA – Erasmus Academic Network on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe, delivered to the European Commission and published on the PADEMIA website