Email: herbig@ps.au.dk
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I am a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University and the YOPOW project.
In my research, I focus on how communication shapes public perceptions and political responses. In my current project, I'm interested in what messages young adults receive about political power and how they shape their perceptions of politics and their own political ambitions. Previously, during my PhD at the University of Amsterdam and the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, I researched how intra-EU border policies impact political attitudes.
To learn more about those topics I apply various quantitative , text-as-data and experimental methods.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
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
Herbig., L., Unan, A., Kuhn, T., Rodriguez, I., Rodon, T. & Kluever, H. (2025). Closed borders, closed minds? COVID-related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants. European Journal of Political Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.70025
Rodríguez, I., Rodon, T., Unan, A., Herbig, L., Kluever, H. & Kuhn, T. (2025). Benchmarking pandemic response: How the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out impacted popular sup-port for the EU. British Journal of Political Science, 55, [e35]. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000802
Jensen, E. A., Wagoner, B., Pfleger, A., Herbig, L. J., & Watzlawik, M. (2021). Making sense of unfamiliar COVID-19 vaccines: How national origin affects vaccination willingness. PLoS ONE, 16(12), [e0261273]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261273
Herbig, L. & Wagoner, B. (2025). Temporal Dynamics of Vaccination Decision-Making: How Trust And Risk Perception Evolved During Covid-19 in Germany. COVID, 5(9). https://doi.org/10.3390/covid5090150
Herbig, L., Wagoner, B., Watzlawik, M., Jensen, E. A., Lorenz, L., & Pfleger, A. (2022). Trajectories of Experience Through the Pandemic: A Qualitative Longitudinal Dataset. Frontiers in Political Science, 4, [791494]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.791494
Jensen, E. A., Pfleger, A., Herbig, L., Wagoner, B., Lorenz, L., & Watzlawik, M. (2021). What Drives Belief in Vaccination Conspiracy Theories in Germany? Frontiers in Communication, 6, [678335]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.678335
Work in Progress
Work in Progress
Defending National Border Policies: An experimental study of Government Strategies and Public Perception in the EU (together with Theresa Kuhn)
Who closed the border? How Asymmetric Border Closures Shaped Political Trust During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Between Inclusion and Exclusion: How European Identity Shapes Preferences for Intra-EUBorder and Migration Policies (together with Isabela Zeberio and Theresa Kuhn)
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