Dr. Sascha Kristin Futh

General research and teaching focus:

• Political communication
• Trade union and association research
• Government system of Hesse
• Media systems in the FRG
• Party and election research

• Futh, Sascha Kristin (2018): Political opinion-forming: The media in Hesse, in: HLZ, 71st vol., issue 4, pp. 8-9.
• Futh, Sascha Kristin (2018): Strategic communication of trade unions. The campaigns Samstags gehört Vati mir, 35-Stunden-Woche and Mindestlohn. Wiesbaden: Springer VS.
• Futh, Sascha Kristin (2017): Review of Stefan Berger (ed.) (2015): Trade union history as a history of remembrance. Der 2. Mai 1933 in der gewerkschaftlichen Erinnerung und Positionierung, Klartext Verlag: Essen, in: Der Anschnitt, Issue 1, Vol. 69, pp. 63-64.
• Speth, Rudolf/ Futh, Sascha Kristin (2017): Grenzen der politischen Kommunikation von Unternehmensverbänden, in: Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Weßels, Bernhard (eds.): Handbuch Arbeitgeber- und Wirtschaftsverbände in Deutschland, 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 319-336.
• Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Futh, Sascha Kristin/ Schulze, Michaela (2016): The road to the demand for a general statutory minimum wage: trade union conflicts of interpretation and preference, in: Sack, Detlef/Strünck, Christoph (eds.): Protest, Opposition and Division in Interest Groups: Expression of new lines of conflict or dwindling forces of integration. ZPol special volume. Baden-Baden, DOI: 10.1007/s41358-016-0045-0.
• Futh, Sascha Kristin (2016): The DGB discovers the campaign. The fight for a work-free Saturday, in: Arbeit. Movement. History, Journal for Historical Studies, Issue 2, pp. 97-112.
• Futh, Sascha Kristin (2016): Politische Medienlandschaft in Hessen, Wolfgang Schroeder/ Arijana Neumann (eds.): Politik und Regieren in Hessen, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, pp. 207-228.
• Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Futh, Sascha Kristin/ Jantz, Bastian (2015): Change through convergence? Reform measures of European welfare states in comparison, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
• Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Futh, Sascha Kristin/ Jantz, Bastian (2015): Change through convergence? Reform activities of European welfare states in comparison, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
• Schroeder, Wolfgang/ Futh, Sascha Kristin/ Jantz, Bastian (2015): Wie staatliches Handeln lässt Ungleichheit wachsen, in Mitbestimmung, 03/2015, pp. 25-27.
• Dülcke, Dana/ Futh, Sascha Kristin (2015): "Die Mutter der Nation" gegen den "Panzerkandidaten" - Geschlechterbilder in der Berichterstattung der Printmedien zum Bundestagswahlkampf 2013, in: Holtz-Bacha, Christina (ed.): Die Massenmedien im Wahlkampf: Die Bundestagswahl 2013, Wiesbaden: VS - Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 249-273.
• Futh, Sascha Kristin/ Jeanrond, Hanna (2013): The success of the social association VdK. How an association transforms itself into a membership magnet. HBS working paper, Düsseldorf: HBS

• Trade union campaigning skills: An analysis of the "Saturday belongs to Daddy", "35-hour week" and "minimum wage" campaigns, 8th NapoKo colloquium at the University of Kassel, Kassel, 25.06.2016
• Campaign boom: Why do trade unions rely on the public sphere? - A theoretical approach, doctoral workshop "Sozialstaatliche Interessenvertretung: Wandel der Akteurskonstellationen", Kassel, 27.06.2015
• From 100 to 0 - The development of the DGB's communication work, Colloquium: History of working environments and trade unions, Augsburg, 06.02.2015
• Model of association communication possibilities, International doctoral workshop 2014 of the network "NachwuchsforscherInnen PR und Organisationskommunikation (naprok)", Pforzheim, 30.10.2014
• The development of communication work in the DGB, HBS Summer School "Strukturwandel der Arbeitsbeziehungen und der Interessenorganisation", Berlin, 31.07.2013

• German Political Science Association
  AK Verbände; AK Politik und Kommunikation
• Young Researchers Network for Political Communication (NapoKo)
• Network "Young researchers in PR and organizational communication" (naprok)
• IG Metall
• Die Kopiloten e.V. - political education in the local area
• Research Training Group Welfare State and Interest Organizations (associated)

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