Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt
Biographic Data
| ID | 333606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katja Sarmiento-Mirwaldt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katja |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarmiento-Mirwaldt |
| SIGNATURE | SARMIENTO-MIRWALDT K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7886-9414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Narrating Fortress Europe
Data availability statement: The full interview data supporting this study cannot be made available due to ethical restrictions and the need to protect interviewee confidentiality. Summaries of the country analyses are available via Zenodo: Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, K. (2025) “Country summaries for B-Shapes WP3 interview and focus group analysis [Data set]”, Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16359768
Contested Integration in the Borderlands
European integration is not only a political and economic process but also one of communication and contestation. This is especially visible in border regions, where the effects of European integration on borders are experienced most directly. This article examines how regional German newspapers on the border with Poland and Czechia construct narratives of Europe and bordering. Using qualitative media analysis, it shows that re-bordering is frame…
Experience Matters, After All
There has been much debate about the causes of trust in abstract groups of strangers such as foreign nations. Some scholars have highlighted the important role of personal experiences in shaping social trust, while others have largely dismissed such experiences. This article suggests that social psychological contact theory, which highlights one particular type of experience, has much to contribute to trust research: accordingly, people’s contact…
A Note from the New Editorial Team
The previous teams have ensured that the journal has gone from strength to strength and we
Anger, Anxiety and Corruption Perceptions
This article assesses the roles of anxiety and anger in shaping people’s perceptions of politicians’ integrity. Drawing on recent work on the role of affect in shaping political judgement, the article develops a theoretical model of the anticipated role of anger and anxiety in structuring reactions to allegations of political misconduct. The model is tested on a unique data set that includes results of an experiment fielded as part of a survey ca…
Honesty above all else? Expectations and perceptions of political conduct in three established democracies
Contesting Firm Boundaries
This article develops and applies a framework for analyzing the relationship among institutions, cost structures, and patterns of labor-management contestation over organizational boundaries. Collective negotiations related to the externalization of call center jobs are compared across 10 incumbent telecommunications firms located in Europe and the United States. All 10 firms moved call center work to dedicated subsidiaries, temporary agencies, a…
Institutions and Inequality in Liberalizing Markets
This paper examines cross-national differences in the development of sectoral collective bargaining in the European telecommunications industry following comparable changes in market regulations. The authors seek to explain why centralized, coordinated bargaining institutions were established in Austria and Sweden, both within incumbent telecommunications firms and at the sector level, while Germany and Denmark experienced decentralization and di…
In it together’? The political consequences of perceived discommunions of interest in British politics
The presence of shared interests between politicians and citizens is central to many accounts of political representation, yet there has been little empirical research into how citizens perceive these interests and whether they think a ‘communion of interests’ exists between them and their elected representatives. Using new survey data, this paper explores the extent to which Britons think their Members of Parliament share the same everyday exper…
‘Routledge (58) Argues …’
Referencing academic and other sources is a key study skill, but very little research has been dedicated to the effectiveness of different methods to teach students how to reference. This research seeks to determine which teaching methods are most effective in helping politics students to learn how to reference correctly. The research design is quasi-experimental: different students’ ability to cite academic sources are mapped onto the same stude…
No Sex Scandals Please, We’re French
The notion of distinct ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres underpins much normative and practical engagement with political misconduct. What is less clear is whether citizens draw distinctions between misdemeanours in the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and whether they judge these in systematically different ways. This paper explores attitudes to political misconduct in France. French citizens are often said to be particularly relaxed about politicia…
Can multiple streams predict the territorial cohesion debate in the EU
This article contributes to the debate over the fashionable but contested concept of ‘territorial cohesion’ in the European Union. Scholars have long recognised and traced discursive shifts in EU territorial development policies, but theoretical accounts of the drivers and parameters of such shifts are rare. This article applies the multiple streams model of agenda-setting to the territorial cohesion debate in order to explore how useful this mod…
Cross-border Cooperation in Central Europe
Cross-border cooperation is recognised as an important aspect of regional development and especially EU cohesion policy. Policy effectiveness depends on how well programmes are suited to different border regional contexts. This essay analyses the factors that shape cooperation by comparing the Polish–German and Polish–Slovak border regions. Particular emphasis is placed on the cultural factors that set these two regions apart. The essay reveals t…
Germans' Transnational Contact and Trust in Other Nations; A Methodologically Cosmopolitan Approach
This article considers Germans' relationships with other nations from a perspective of methodological cosmopolitanism. It examines the claim that everincreasing contacts with members of different nations can bring about a sense of trust in these nations. Using data from a 2006 opinion poll, it analyzes Germans' contact with and trust in six other nations. The study suggests that Germany as a whole is too large as a level of analysis. Germans' tra…
The Small Projects Fund and Social Capital Formation in the Polish–German Border Region
Mirwaldt K. The small projects fund and social capital formation in the Polish–German border region: an initial appraisal, Regional Studies. This paper examines the small projects fund, a European Union-funded initiative to promote good citizen relations across borders. This paper presents this fund as an attempt to foster ‘social capital’ in the Polish–German border region. The fund is examined in light of seven conditions of social capital form…
Democracy-Speak
This article analyses changes in party-manifesto references to democracy in post-war Britain, the French Fifth Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany in order to explore changes in political parties' statements about democracy. It finds that in recent decades parties in all three countries have generally become more supportive of and more vocal in their calls for citizen participation in political decision-making, with a related increase in…
Contact, conflict and geography
Contesting Firm Boundaries
This article develops and applies a framework for analyzing the relationship among institutions, cost structures, and patterns of labor-management contestation over organizational boundaries. Collective negotiations related to the externalization of call center jobs are compared across 10 incumbent telecommunications firms located in Europe and the United States. All 10 firms moved call center work to dedicated subsidiaries, temporary agencies, a…
Can multiple streams predict the territorial cohesion debate in the EU
This article contributes to the debate over the fashionable but contested concept of ‘territorial cohesion’ in the European Union. Scholars have long recognised and traced discursive shifts in EU territorial development policies, but theoretical accounts of the drivers and parameters of such shifts are rare. This article applies the multiple streams model of agenda-setting to the territorial cohesion debate in order to explore how useful this mod…
Institutions and Inequality in Liberalizing Markets
This paper examines cross-national differences in the development of sectoral collective bargaining in the European telecommunications industry following comparable changes in market regulations. The authors seek to explain why centralized, coordinated bargaining institutions were established in Austria and Sweden, both within incumbent telecommunications firms and at the sector level, while Germany and Denmark experienced decentralization and di…
No Sex Scandals Please, We’re French
The notion of distinct ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres underpins much normative and practical engagement with political misconduct. What is less clear is whether citizens draw distinctions between misdemeanours in the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and whether they judge these in systematically different ways. This paper explores attitudes to political misconduct in France. French citizens are often said to be particularly relaxed about politicia…
Democracy-Speak
This article analyses changes in party-manifesto references to democracy in post-war Britain, the French Fifth Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany in order to explore changes in political parties' statements about democracy. It finds that in recent decades parties in all three countries have generally become more supportive of and more vocal in their calls for citizen participation in political decision-making, with a related increase in…
Contact, conflict and geography
Cross-border Cooperation in Central Europe
Cross-border cooperation is recognised as an important aspect of regional development and especially EU cohesion policy. Policy effectiveness depends on how well programmes are suited to different border regional contexts. This essay analyses the factors that shape cooperation by comparing the Polish–German and Polish–Slovak border regions. Particular emphasis is placed on the cultural factors that set these two regions apart. The essay reveals t…
The Small Projects Fund and Social Capital Formation in the Polish–German Border Region
Mirwaldt K. The small projects fund and social capital formation in the Polish–German border region: an initial appraisal, Regional Studies. This paper examines the small projects fund, a European Union-funded initiative to promote good citizen relations across borders. This paper presents this fund as an attempt to foster ‘social capital’ in the Polish–German border region. The fund is examined in light of seven conditions of social capital form…
Anger, Anxiety and Corruption Perceptions
This article assesses the roles of anxiety and anger in shaping people’s perceptions of politicians’ integrity. Drawing on recent work on the role of affect in shaping political judgement, the article develops a theoretical model of the anticipated role of anger and anxiety in structuring reactions to allegations of political misconduct. The model is tested on a unique data set that includes results of an experiment fielded as part of a survey ca…
Honesty above all else? Expectations and perceptions of political conduct in three established democracies
Experience Matters, After All
There has been much debate about the causes of trust in abstract groups of strangers such as foreign nations. Some scholars have highlighted the important role of personal experiences in shaping social trust, while others have largely dismissed such experiences. This article suggests that social psychological contact theory, which highlights one particular type of experience, has much to contribute to trust research: accordingly, people’s contact…
A Note from the New Editorial Team
The previous teams have ensured that the journal has gone from strength to strength and we
In it together’? The political consequences of perceived discommunions of interest in British politics
The presence of shared interests between politicians and citizens is central to many accounts of political representation, yet there has been little empirical research into how citizens perceive these interests and whether they think a ‘communion of interests’ exists between them and their elected representatives. Using new survey data, this paper explores the extent to which Britons think their Members of Parliament share the same everyday exper…
The Small Projects Fund and Social Capital Formation in the Polish–German Border Region
Mirwaldt K. The small projects fund and social capital formation in the Polish–German border region: an initial appraisal, Regional Studies. This paper examines the small projects fund, a European Union-funded initiative to promote good citizen relations across borders. This paper presents this fund as an attempt to foster ‘social capital’ in the Polish–German border region. The fund is examined in light of seven conditions of social capital form…
Democracy-Speak
This article analyses changes in party-manifesto references to democracy in post-war Britain, the French Fifth Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany in order to explore changes in political parties' statements about democracy. It finds that in recent decades parties in all three countries have generally become more supportive of and more vocal in their calls for citizen participation in political decision-making, with a related increase in…
Contact, conflict and geography
Germans' Transnational Contact and Trust in Other Nations; A Methodologically Cosmopolitan Approach
This article considers Germans' relationships with other nations from a perspective of methodological cosmopolitanism. It examines the claim that everincreasing contacts with members of different nations can bring about a sense of trust in these nations. Using data from a 2006 opinion poll, it analyzes Germans' contact with and trust in six other nations. The study suggests that Germany as a whole is too large as a level of analysis. Germans' tra…
Can multiple streams predict the territorial cohesion debate in the EU
This article contributes to the debate over the fashionable but contested concept of ‘territorial cohesion’ in the European Union. Scholars have long recognised and traced discursive shifts in EU territorial development policies, but theoretical accounts of the drivers and parameters of such shifts are rare. This article applies the multiple streams model of agenda-setting to the territorial cohesion debate in order to explore how useful this mod…
Cross-border Cooperation in Central Europe
Cross-border cooperation is recognised as an important aspect of regional development and especially EU cohesion policy. Policy effectiveness depends on how well programmes are suited to different border regional contexts. This essay analyses the factors that shape cooperation by comparing the Polish–German and Polish–Slovak border regions. Particular emphasis is placed on the cultural factors that set these two regions apart. The essay reveals t…
‘Routledge (58) Argues …’
Referencing academic and other sources is a key study skill, but very little research has been dedicated to the effectiveness of different methods to teach students how to reference. This research seeks to determine which teaching methods are most effective in helping politics students to learn how to reference correctly. The research design is quasi-experimental: different students’ ability to cite academic sources are mapped onto the same stude…
No Sex Scandals Please, We’re French
The notion of distinct ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres underpins much normative and practical engagement with political misconduct. What is less clear is whether citizens draw distinctions between misdemeanours in the ‘public’ and ‘private’ spheres, and whether they judge these in systematically different ways. This paper explores attitudes to political misconduct in France. French citizens are often said to be particularly relaxed about politicia…
In it together’? The political consequences of perceived discommunions of interest in British politics
The presence of shared interests between politicians and citizens is central to many accounts of political representation, yet there has been little empirical research into how citizens perceive these interests and whether they think a ‘communion of interests’ exists between them and their elected representatives. Using new survey data, this paper explores the extent to which Britons think their Members of Parliament share the same everyday exper…
Honesty above all else? Expectations and perceptions of political conduct in three established democracies
Contesting Firm Boundaries
This article develops and applies a framework for analyzing the relationship among institutions, cost structures, and patterns of labor-management contestation over organizational boundaries. Collective negotiations related to the externalization of call center jobs are compared across 10 incumbent telecommunications firms located in Europe and the United States. All 10 firms moved call center work to dedicated subsidiaries, temporary agencies, a…
Institutions and Inequality in Liberalizing Markets
This paper examines cross-national differences in the development of sectoral collective bargaining in the European telecommunications industry following comparable changes in market regulations. The authors seek to explain why centralized, coordinated bargaining institutions were established in Austria and Sweden, both within incumbent telecommunications firms and at the sector level, while Germany and Denmark experienced decentralization and di…
Anger, Anxiety and Corruption Perceptions
This article assesses the roles of anxiety and anger in shaping people’s perceptions of politicians’ integrity. Drawing on recent work on the role of affect in shaping political judgement, the article develops a theoretical model of the anticipated role of anger and anxiety in structuring reactions to allegations of political misconduct. The model is tested on a unique data set that includes results of an experiment fielded as part of a survey ca…
A Note from the New Editorial Team
The previous teams have ensured that the journal has gone from strength to strength and we
Experience Matters, After All
There has been much debate about the causes of trust in abstract groups of strangers such as foreign nations. Some scholars have highlighted the important role of personal experiences in shaping social trust, while others have largely dismissed such experiences. This article suggests that social psychological contact theory, which highlights one particular type of experience, has much to contribute to trust research: accordingly, people’s contact…
Narrating Fortress Europe
Data availability statement: The full interview data supporting this study cannot be made available due to ethical restrictions and the need to protect interviewee confidentiality. Summaries of the country analyses are available via Zenodo: Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, K. (2025) “Country summaries for B-Shapes WP3 interview and focus group analysis [Data set]”, Zenodo, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16359768
Contested Integration in the Borderlands
European integration is not only a political and economic process but also one of communication and contestation. This is especially visible in border regions, where the effects of European integration on borders are experienced most directly. This article examines how regional German newspapers on the border with Poland and Czechia construct narratives of Europe and bordering. Using qualitative media analysis, it shows that re-bordering is frame…
Political science (15 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration (5 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · German (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)