About

Birgit Sauer is professor em. of Political Science at the Department of Political Science, University of Vienna. Her research fields include feminist state and democratic theory, political representation of women, right-wing populism and gender, politics, affects and emotions. She was member of several international research co-operations and projects on affective state transformation, gender, migration, racism and right-wing populism. Recently she conducted two research projects on state transformation and affective governmentality. As a member of the GEPP network she conducted research on political quota implementation She was director of the graduate school „Gender, Violence and Agency in the Era of Globalisation“ (GIK) at the University of Vienna. Recent publications include: Lang, Sabine/Meier, Petra/Sauer, Birgit (eds.) 2022: Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas. Resisting Institutions, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; Gender Equality in Politics. Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria, Cham: Springer 2020, together with Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski and Sabine Lang; Governing Affects. Neoliberalism, Neo-Bureaucracies, and Service Work, New York/London: Routledge 2020, together with Otto Penz; Populism and the Web. Communicative Practices of Parties and Movements in Europe, London: Routledge 2017; edited together with Mojca Pajnik.

Publications

Lang, Sabine/Meier, Petra/Sauer, Birgit (eds.) 2022: Party Politics and the Implementation of Gender Quotas. Resisting Institutions, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Petra Ahrens, Katja Chmilewski, Sabine Lang, Birgit Sauer: Gender Equality in Politics. Implementing Party Quotas in Germany and Austria, Cham: Springer 2020.

Sauer, Birgit 2018: Gleichstellung, in: Voigt, Rüdiger (ed.): Handbuch Staat. Band 2, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, p. 1457-1466.

Email: birgit.sauer@univie.ac.at