Andreas Klärner
Biographic Data
| ID | 83183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andreas Klärner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andreas |
| FAMILY NAME | Klärner |
| SIGNATURE | KLÄRNER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0314-1215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 218 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Rural Justice and the Green Transition: Understanding Green Discontent in Eastern Germany
Rural areas are rapidly becoming the focal points of green transition and its associated political conflicts. The resulting ‘green discontent’ is currently fuelling a broader ‘rural discontent’. However, little is known about how people living in rural areas interpret green policies. In this study, we analyse interview data and examine focus groups with participants from two rural, peripheralised research areas in eastern Germany. Results reveal …
Does regional context affect populist voting? A comparative multilevel analysis from Czechia and eastern Germany
This study examines the relationship between regional left-behindness and populist voting behaviour in post-socialist contexts, addressing gaps in the 'geography of discontent' literature. Using multilevel analyses, we investigate how dimensions of regional disadvantage affect support for populist parties in Czechia (ANO, SPD, and KSČM) and Germany (AfD), drawing on the Czech Household Panel Survey 2023 and General German Social Survey 2023. Our …
Discontent in ‘left-behind places’? How perception of space and local political climate matter for the success of right-wing populism in rural areas of Germany
The ‘geography of discontent’ debate argues that discontent in ‘left-behind places’ is the root of the rise of right-wing populism in rural areas. Based on a qualitative analysis of group discussions, we examine why the right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is successful in some structurally weak rural areas, but not others. And why does it succeed in some structurally strong areas, yet fail in others? The derived heuristic …
Spatial Inequalities and Electoral Preferences in Central Europe
This study describes the electoral implications of spatial polarization in Poland, the Czech Republic and eastern Germany. Empirically, it highlights the voting behavior of residents from selected territories as examples of disadvantaged regions in these three countries, and the conditions that shape such behavior. We explore whether these implications can be explained by argument on populist preferences in peripheralized areas. An analysis of th…
Usually, I Do Not Quarrel: What Type of Ties Do We Find when We Ask about Conflicts Using a Name-generator Approach
In a mixed-methods study on poverty in Germany, we conducted qualitative interviews and collected quantitative data on ego-centered networks using a name-generator approach and a single set of respondents. Based on the qualitative data, we first developed a typology of negative ties and then evaluated which of these ties the name generator (on conflicts) had measured. To some extent, the conflict name-generator (CNG) captured the complexity of th…
Gelegenheiten und Herausforderungen für das Engagement junger Menschen in Vereinen sehr ländlicher Räume – Alles eine Frage der Passung
Viele Vereine in ländlichen Räumen klagen über Nachwuchsmangel. Dabei werden Schwierigkeiten, denen sich junge Menschen häufig bei ihrem Engagement gegenübersehen, zwar aufgeführt, aber kaum systematisiert oder Lösungsansätzen gegenübergestellt. Das Konzept regionaler Gelegenheitsstrukturen in Bezug auf junge Menschen und ihr Engagement in Vereinen wird genutzt, um dieses Zusammenspiel von persönlichen Ressourcen sowie regionalen und lokalen Bedi…
The Mobility Interview: Triangulating Interview and Global Positioning System Data to Explore the Role of Mobility in Everyday Life
This article presents a mixed-methods research protocol suitable for studying everyday mobility and its effects on life chances for a wide range of populations. We argue that it can address, among other issues, two important methodological challenges in the study of mobility: addressing pre-reflexivity and habits, as well as differentiating between voluntary and forced movements. The research protocol combines a problem-centered interview, two we…
On the Role of Space, Place, and Social Networks in Social Participation
Recent literature recognises the importance of situating social networks in spatial contexts to better understand how space, place, and social networks interact and are co‐constituted. Despite this call, the mainstream literature in social network analysis pays relatively little attention to spatial dimensions of social networks and remains largely disconnected from the vast body of research on spatial networks in geography and cognate fields. Th…
Places That Bond and Bind: On the Interplay of Space, Places, and Social Networks
Social networks of socially disadvantaged individuals can help them in coping with everyday life and avoiding social exclusion. At the same time, social ties also have the power to bind an individual to their disadvantageous situation, perpetuating the risks of social exclusion. One mechanism through which ties can be established are “foci”: extra‐network structures around which common interactions occur (e.g., family, workplace, clubs) that usua…
Transport poverty meets car dependency: A GPS tracking study of socially disadvantaged groups in European rural peripheries
This article explores the spatial mobility of disadvantaged populations in order to enhance our understanding of transport poverty. It is based on participatory GPS tracking data collected in peripheral rural regions in Czechia and Germany. The data provide information on the two-week mobility of 61 socially disadvantaged study participants belonging to the following groups: (a) the lone elderly, (b) the labor market disadvantaged, and (c) single…
Regional opportunity structures: A research agenda to link spatial and social inequalities in rural areas
This paper introduces and discusses regional opportunity structures as a concept for analysing the interlinkages between structural conditions in space, social inequalities, and people’s agency, with a focus on non-metropolitan areas. The concept adds value in the following ways: (1) it emphasises the regional scale as an important spatial context of access to opportunities; (2) it accounts for the complexity of the regional context, which provid…
How Rural is Rural Populism? On the Spatial Understanding of Rurality for Analyses of Right-wing Populist Election Success in Germany
In this article, the authors take up the thesis of the narrative that the support for right-wing populist election successes is located in rural areas. For the case of the German right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) the authors propose a complex definition of rurality, and perform a quantitative small-scale analysis of the national election results in Germany in 2017. They examine the potential connection between a high sha…
Social Networks and Coping with Poverty in Rural Areas
This article draws attention to the spatial dimensions of poverty and the importance of social networks as coping resources for the rural poor. We analyse data from an explorative, mixed-methods study conducted in rural and urban areas in north-eastern Germany, and show that spatial contexts shape poor people's social networks. Our quantitative analyses indicate that compared to the urban networks, the rural networks in our sample are smaller, an…
Armut als relationales Konstrukt: Die (Re-)Produktion sozialer Ungleichheiten durch Stigmatisierung und Kontrollversuche in sozialen Netzwerken
On the normative foundations of marriage and cohabitation: Results from group discussions in eastern and western Germany
Since the 1960s the inclination to get married has been declining in almost all western industrialised countries. Partnership arrangements have become more diverse and the share of cohabiting couples and nonmarital births has been increasing. Yet there are
The low importance of marriage in eastern Germany - social norms and the role of peoples' perceptions of the past
Eastern Germany is a region with one of the world's highest percentages of non-marital births. Marriage and childbearing seem to be decoupled. This brings into question people's views on the institution of marriage
Towards a new understanding of cohabitation: Insights from focus group research across Europe and Australia
Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using quantitative data, few have compared union formation using qualitative data
Social networks and fertility
The fields of demography, sociology, and socio-psychology have been increasingly drawing on social network theories, which posit that individual fertility decision-making depends in part on the fertility behavior of other members of the population, and on
Urbane Ungleichheiten: Neue Entwicklungen zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie
Urbane Ungleichheiten: Neue Entwicklungen Zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie
Tie strength and family formation: Which personal relationships are influential
On the basis of the analysis of qualitative interviews in Western Germany, it has been argued that personal relationships have a strong impact on individuals' family formation processes and childbearing intentions. Persons who influence individuals' childbearing choices were identified. Strong ties, such as among core family members (i.e., parents and siblings), are an important contributing factor, but the authors are also able to show that weak…
Bildungsverlierer – eine (neue) Randgruppe?
Schon Mitte der 1990er Jahre hatte Claus Offe (1994) vorgeschlagen, zur Analyse von Ungleichheiten in zeitgenössisch-kapitalistischen (Arbeits-) Gesellschaften die Unter schei dung von Gewinnern, Verlierern und Überflüssigen zu verwenden: Während sowohl Ge win ner wie auch Verlierer „gebraucht“ werden und daher am „Spiel“ um Erfolg im Bildungssystem und auf Arbeits- bzw. Gütermärkten teilnehmen dürfen (und müssen), können diejenigen als „Überflüs…
Qualifying Social Influence on Fertility Intentions: Composition, Structure and Meaning of Fertility-relevant Social Networks in Western Germany
Although the relevance of social interactions or social networks for fertility research has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years, little is known about the channels and mechanisms of social influences on individuals' fertility decision-making. Drawing on problem-centred interviews and network data collected among young adults in western Germany, the authors show that qualitative methods broaden our understanding of social and contextual…
Job Insecurity and the Timing of Parenthood: A Comparison between Eastern and Western Germany
Towards a new understanding of cohabitation: Insights from focus group research across Europe and Australia
Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using quantitative data, few have compared union formation using qualitative data
Social networks and fertility
The fields of demography, sociology, and socio-psychology have been increasingly drawing on social network theories, which posit that individual fertility decision-making depends in part on the fertility behavior of other members of the population, and on
Job Insecurity and the Timing of Parenthood: A Comparison between Eastern and Western Germany
Regional opportunity structures: A research agenda to link spatial and social inequalities in rural areas
This paper introduces and discusses regional opportunity structures as a concept for analysing the interlinkages between structural conditions in space, social inequalities, and people’s agency, with a focus on non-metropolitan areas. The concept adds value in the following ways: (1) it emphasises the regional scale as an important spatial context of access to opportunities; (2) it accounts for the complexity of the regional context, which provid…
How Rural is Rural Populism? On the Spatial Understanding of Rurality for Analyses of Right-wing Populist Election Success in Germany
In this article, the authors take up the thesis of the narrative that the support for right-wing populist election successes is located in rural areas. For the case of the German right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) the authors propose a complex definition of rurality, and perform a quantitative small-scale analysis of the national election results in Germany in 2017. They examine the potential connection between a high sha…
Qualifying Social Influence on Fertility Intentions: Composition, Structure and Meaning of Fertility-relevant Social Networks in Western Germany
Although the relevance of social interactions or social networks for fertility research has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years, little is known about the channels and mechanisms of social influences on individuals' fertility decision-making. Drawing on problem-centred interviews and network data collected among young adults in western Germany, the authors show that qualitative methods broaden our understanding of social and contextual…
The low importance of marriage in eastern Germany - social norms and the role of peoples' perceptions of the past
Eastern Germany is a region with one of the world's highest percentages of non-marital births. Marriage and childbearing seem to be decoupled. This brings into question people's views on the institution of marriage
Transport poverty meets car dependency: A GPS tracking study of socially disadvantaged groups in European rural peripheries
This article explores the spatial mobility of disadvantaged populations in order to enhance our understanding of transport poverty. It is based on participatory GPS tracking data collected in peripheral rural regions in Czechia and Germany. The data provide information on the two-week mobility of 61 socially disadvantaged study participants belonging to the following groups: (a) the lone elderly, (b) the labor market disadvantaged, and (c) single…
Social Networks and Coping with Poverty in Rural Areas
This article draws attention to the spatial dimensions of poverty and the importance of social networks as coping resources for the rural poor. We analyse data from an explorative, mixed-methods study conducted in rural and urban areas in north-eastern Germany, and show that spatial contexts shape poor people's social networks. Our quantitative analyses indicate that compared to the urban networks, the rural networks in our sample are smaller, an…
On the normative foundations of marriage and cohabitation: Results from group discussions in eastern and western Germany
Since the 1960s the inclination to get married has been declining in almost all western industrialised countries. Partnership arrangements have become more diverse and the share of cohabiting couples and nonmarital births has been increasing. Yet there are
Places That Bond and Bind: On the Interplay of Space, Places, and Social Networks
Social networks of socially disadvantaged individuals can help them in coping with everyday life and avoiding social exclusion. At the same time, social ties also have the power to bind an individual to their disadvantageous situation, perpetuating the risks of social exclusion. One mechanism through which ties can be established are “foci”: extra‐network structures around which common interactions occur (e.g., family, workplace, clubs) that usua…
Job Insecurity and the Timing of Parenthood: A Comparison between Eastern and Western Germany
Qualifying Social Influence on Fertility Intentions: Composition, Structure and Meaning of Fertility-relevant Social Networks in Western Germany
Although the relevance of social interactions or social networks for fertility research has been increasingly acknowledged in recent years, little is known about the channels and mechanisms of social influences on individuals' fertility decision-making. Drawing on problem-centred interviews and network data collected among young adults in western Germany, the authors show that qualitative methods broaden our understanding of social and contextual…
Bildungsverlierer – eine (neue) Randgruppe?
Schon Mitte der 1990er Jahre hatte Claus Offe (1994) vorgeschlagen, zur Analyse von Ungleichheiten in zeitgenössisch-kapitalistischen (Arbeits-) Gesellschaften die Unter schei dung von Gewinnern, Verlierern und Überflüssigen zu verwenden: Während sowohl Ge win ner wie auch Verlierer „gebraucht“ werden und daher am „Spiel“ um Erfolg im Bildungssystem und auf Arbeits- bzw. Gütermärkten teilnehmen dürfen (und müssen), können diejenigen als „Überflüs…
Urbane Ungleichheiten: Neue Entwicklungen zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie
Urbane Ungleichheiten: Neue Entwicklungen Zwischen Zentrum und Peripherie
Tie strength and family formation: Which personal relationships are influential
On the basis of the analysis of qualitative interviews in Western Germany, it has been argued that personal relationships have a strong impact on individuals' family formation processes and childbearing intentions. Persons who influence individuals' childbearing choices were identified. Strong ties, such as among core family members (i.e., parents and siblings), are an important contributing factor, but the authors are also able to show that weak…
Towards a new understanding of cohabitation: Insights from focus group research across Europe and Australia
Across the industrialized world, more couples are living together without marrying. Although researchers have compared cohabitation cross-nationally using quantitative data, few have compared union formation using qualitative data
Social networks and fertility
The fields of demography, sociology, and socio-psychology have been increasingly drawing on social network theories, which posit that individual fertility decision-making depends in part on the fertility behavior of other members of the population, and on
The low importance of marriage in eastern Germany - social norms and the role of peoples' perceptions of the past
Eastern Germany is a region with one of the world's highest percentages of non-marital births. Marriage and childbearing seem to be decoupled. This brings into question people's views on the institution of marriage
On the normative foundations of marriage and cohabitation: Results from group discussions in eastern and western Germany
Since the 1960s the inclination to get married has been declining in almost all western industrialised countries. Partnership arrangements have become more diverse and the share of cohabiting couples and nonmarital births has been increasing. Yet there are
Armut als relationales Konstrukt: Die (Re-)Produktion sozialer Ungleichheiten durch Stigmatisierung und Kontrollversuche in sozialen Netzwerken
Social Networks and Coping with Poverty in Rural Areas
This article draws attention to the spatial dimensions of poverty and the importance of social networks as coping resources for the rural poor. We analyse data from an explorative, mixed-methods study conducted in rural and urban areas in north-eastern Germany, and show that spatial contexts shape poor people's social networks. Our quantitative analyses indicate that compared to the urban networks, the rural networks in our sample are smaller, an…
On the Role of Space, Place, and Social Networks in Social Participation
Recent literature recognises the importance of situating social networks in spatial contexts to better understand how space, place, and social networks interact and are co‐constituted. Despite this call, the mainstream literature in social network analysis pays relatively little attention to spatial dimensions of social networks and remains largely disconnected from the vast body of research on spatial networks in geography and cognate fields. Th…
Places That Bond and Bind: On the Interplay of Space, Places, and Social Networks
Social networks of socially disadvantaged individuals can help them in coping with everyday life and avoiding social exclusion. At the same time, social ties also have the power to bind an individual to their disadvantageous situation, perpetuating the risks of social exclusion. One mechanism through which ties can be established are “foci”: extra‐network structures around which common interactions occur (e.g., family, workplace, clubs) that usua…
Transport poverty meets car dependency: A GPS tracking study of socially disadvantaged groups in European rural peripheries
This article explores the spatial mobility of disadvantaged populations in order to enhance our understanding of transport poverty. It is based on participatory GPS tracking data collected in peripheral rural regions in Czechia and Germany. The data provide information on the two-week mobility of 61 socially disadvantaged study participants belonging to the following groups: (a) the lone elderly, (b) the labor market disadvantaged, and (c) single…
Regional opportunity structures: A research agenda to link spatial and social inequalities in rural areas
This paper introduces and discusses regional opportunity structures as a concept for analysing the interlinkages between structural conditions in space, social inequalities, and people’s agency, with a focus on non-metropolitan areas. The concept adds value in the following ways: (1) it emphasises the regional scale as an important spatial context of access to opportunities; (2) it accounts for the complexity of the regional context, which provid…
How Rural is Rural Populism? On the Spatial Understanding of Rurality for Analyses of Right-wing Populist Election Success in Germany
In this article, the authors take up the thesis of the narrative that the support for right-wing populist election successes is located in rural areas. For the case of the German right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) the authors propose a complex definition of rurality, and perform a quantitative small-scale analysis of the national election results in Germany in 2017. They examine the potential connection between a high sha…
Gelegenheiten und Herausforderungen für das Engagement junger Menschen in Vereinen sehr ländlicher Räume – Alles eine Frage der Passung
Viele Vereine in ländlichen Räumen klagen über Nachwuchsmangel. Dabei werden Schwierigkeiten, denen sich junge Menschen häufig bei ihrem Engagement gegenübersehen, zwar aufgeführt, aber kaum systematisiert oder Lösungsansätzen gegenübergestellt. Das Konzept regionaler Gelegenheitsstrukturen in Bezug auf junge Menschen und ihr Engagement in Vereinen wird genutzt, um dieses Zusammenspiel von persönlichen Ressourcen sowie regionalen und lokalen Bedi…
The Mobility Interview: Triangulating Interview and Global Positioning System Data to Explore the Role of Mobility in Everyday Life
This article presents a mixed-methods research protocol suitable for studying everyday mobility and its effects on life chances for a wide range of populations. We argue that it can address, among other issues, two important methodological challenges in the study of mobility: addressing pre-reflexivity and habits, as well as differentiating between voluntary and forced movements. The research protocol combines a problem-centered interview, two we…
Discontent in ‘left-behind places’? How perception of space and local political climate matter for the success of right-wing populism in rural areas of Germany
The ‘geography of discontent’ debate argues that discontent in ‘left-behind places’ is the root of the rise of right-wing populism in rural areas. Based on a qualitative analysis of group discussions, we examine why the right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is successful in some structurally weak rural areas, but not others. And why does it succeed in some structurally strong areas, yet fail in others? The derived heuristic …
Spatial Inequalities and Electoral Preferences in Central Europe
This study describes the electoral implications of spatial polarization in Poland, the Czech Republic and eastern Germany. Empirically, it highlights the voting behavior of residents from selected territories as examples of disadvantaged regions in these three countries, and the conditions that shape such behavior. We explore whether these implications can be explained by argument on populist preferences in peripheralized areas. An analysis of th…
Usually, I Do Not Quarrel: What Type of Ties Do We Find when We Ask about Conflicts Using a Name-generator Approach
In a mixed-methods study on poverty in Germany, we conducted qualitative interviews and collected quantitative data on ego-centered networks using a name-generator approach and a single set of respondents. Based on the qualitative data, we first developed a typology of negative ties and then evaluated which of these ties the name generator (on conflicts) had measured. To some extent, the conflict name-generator (CNG) captured the complexity of th…
Rural Justice and the Green Transition: Understanding Green Discontent in Eastern Germany
Rural areas are rapidly becoming the focal points of green transition and its associated political conflicts. The resulting ‘green discontent’ is currently fuelling a broader ‘rural discontent’. However, little is known about how people living in rural areas interpret green policies. In this study, we analyse interview data and examine focus groups with participants from two rural, peripheralised research areas in eastern Germany. Results reveal …
Does regional context affect populist voting? A comparative multilevel analysis from Czechia and eastern Germany
This study examines the relationship between regional left-behindness and populist voting behaviour in post-socialist contexts, addressing gaps in the 'geography of discontent' literature. Using multilevel analyses, we investigate how dimensions of regional disadvantage affect support for populist parties in Czechia (ANO, SPD, and KSČM) and Germany (AfD), drawing on the Czech Household Panel Survey 2023 and General German Social Survey 2023. Our …
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economics (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Geography (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works)