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I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices! Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo... Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

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The deadline is approaching (5 June)! So, I am just reposting this once more... Perhaps it can reach a few more junior scholars interested in lobbying?

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New publication @wepsocial.bsky.social w/ Timothy Hellwig and Lawrence Ezrow! We argue and show that non-centrist/extreme governments prioritize their core supporters over the median voter when making policy. However, this strategy is likely to backfire at the next election. tinyurl.com/ynexbzwh

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In this new article, we study voting for the BSW from a policy space perspective with @gles.bsky.social data. Findings: -BSW voters tend to be left-nationalist -Depending on prior party support, either nationalist or economically left-wing positions predict switching to BSW doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals. 🔓: doi.org/10.1177/1354...

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How (un)fair is school, and how is this perception related to the development of political engagement in youth? Drop by and find out TOMORROW, if you're around,when I present @humboldtuni.bsky.social findings from @excinequality.bsky.social 's project PerFair

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Join me in Frankfurt @goetheuni.bsky.social! Deadline next thursday (May 15)!

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@jochemvanagt.bsky.social and I have written a short blogpost for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social summarizing our recent EJPR article! ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Or, read the full paper here: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Going to APSA in Vancouver this year and need some additional funding? Applications for the Class & Inequality section support grants are now open! apsa.secure-platform.com/a/solicitati...

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Über 70% der Deutschen haben wenig Vertrauen in die Fairness und langfristige Finanzierbarkeit des Sozialstaats. Das zeigt das Konstanzer #Ungleichheitsbarometer, welches bei unserem Roundtable mit @dpzberlin.bsky.social vorgestellt wurde. Mehr dazu: zentrum-neue-sozialpolitik.org/roundtable-s...

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What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa

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I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share

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I will once again teach web scraping and data management at ESS this year! The course is a deep dive into everything I know about getting data from the web and how to keep your data clean and organized for analysis.

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In Social progress at the expense of economic equality? we ask if equal rights or equal chances concerns crowded out economic equality as priority of the Left? Mapping equality concepts 1970-2020: not green or far-left parties. Yet, social democrats … 1/2 ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Want a postdoc? 👀 Want a good social safe net? 👀 👀 Want to work with a successful and supportive scholar? 👀 👀 👀 Well, the amazing @jonathanpolk.bsky.social @comppollu.bsky.social is hiring a 2-year postdoc for his party competition project! Deadline in 6 days! Apply!!

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Amen; esp. to the last sentence of the abstract. The failure to turn demand into policy deserves more attention by scholars.

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Excited to share that my project "Party politics and the politicization of health care" has been funded by the @snsf-ch.bsky.social! 🚀 The project will examine how parties have politicized health care along economic & cultural lines. A postdoc & PhD position will be available – stay tuned!

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This is a great paper that helps us understand the nature of democratic backsliding. @vikburgi.bsky.social and I had the pleasure of discussing some of the results and implications with Noam on our podcast. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/e...

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Terrific lineup for our Comparative Politics & Political Economy series this summer,incl @clandwehr.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social @eunjikim.bsky.social @ccavaille.bsky.social @anewq.bsky.social & @valentimvicente.bsky.social . Thanks for organizing @tobiastober.bsky.social @na-wehl.bsky.social

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🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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It was during Erasmus 2007/08 at Uni Gothenburg that I first considered doing a PhD (seeing Bo Rothstein etc.) - so it was great to be back and present current work on policies with @leoahrens.bsky.social from voe-project.org. Thanks for the invite Mikael Persson!

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Does Mainstream Populism Work❓ I answer this question in a new paper officially out at @psrm.bsky.social❗ Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... Key take-aways in the thread below 🧵⬇️:

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Published Today in PSRM: Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Summary Thread: 1/15

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We crowdsourced 85 teams to indep. computationally reproduce results from a single study in randomized conditions. Reproducibility: • depends heavily on the transparency of materials • high (~95%) for same sign/sig, but low (btw. 48-77% depending on transparency) when requiring within 0.1 effects

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Ich hatte die Gelegenheit, mich mit @davidkirchner.bsky.social ausführlich über Stadt-Land-Gegensätze in Deutschland zu unterhalten und dabei auch die Ergebnisse der Bundestagswahl zu diskutieren: www.pw-portal.de/repraesentat...

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EuroWEPS 11 is here! We'll meet in Bergen on May 16 to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is March 30.

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Did German left parties abandon economic equality in favor of equal rights, as the diagnosis of the "Lifestyle-Left" suggests? Analyzing party programs since 1970, we caution against sweeping claims in Unequal German Democracy (open access). 3 key qualifications👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sure you don't want to work with us? We're clearly not an Ivy League institution, but we can offer a great work environment in a beautiful region. Lake and the Alps are included for free. In case it matters, egg prices are stable at around 30 cents apiece. stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

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Christina Zuber is hiring a Polish Speaking Postdoc for her new project w/ experience in qualitative methods. I often join this incredibly friendly group for coffee, research discussions and outings and am thankful for Christina's sharp mentorship during my postdoc so apply and join us! :)

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Very happy to see this out as part of a great special issue on cleavage politics: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Building on studies on how (1) education, (2) generation and (3) gender structure voting on the GAL/TAN cleavage, we study how they interact. Here’s a thread summarizing the paper👇

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🚨 Very happy to have a new study out in @bjpols.bsky.social with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social We research across 8 countries what drives parties to use moral rhetoric in their communication: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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let's see what new news-inspired or induced jobtitles for professorships in Germany we will see in the next month. Erratic Elite Desision-Making, "Mobilizing" Civil Society, Warfare and Welfare Studies, or simply more IR'ish stuff?

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Want to work with us? stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/8...

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The new In_equality podcast is here: ‘Is Trump the End of Democracy?’ with Herbert Kitschelt. From now on, tune in on the first Wednesday of every month for exciting insights from inequality research! Curious to learn more? Visit: inequality.uni.kn/podcast @uni-konstanz.de @mbusemeyer.bsky.social

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New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and Michael Pinggera. We map the welfare preferences of voters at the poles of the second, GALTAN dimension of political conflict. 🧵

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New comparative expert data on party positions out now! Thank you to the CHES team! 👇

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🚨🚨🚨 Publication alert! Out now at @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social: "Political Representation as Communicative Practice" together with Fabio Wolkenstein. We ask: What is political representation & how should we study it? ⬇️ Download for free for 13 days! 🧵On what you can expect👇 cup.org/3ERYIUR

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Nicht immer Kartenfan, aber bei @juliusk.bsky.social schon!👇 (kummulierte) changes statt levels wären noch spannend vor Hintergrund von Diskussionen um Veränderungserschöpfung

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Interested in austerity politics and public opinion? I greatly enjoyed this conversation with @vikburgi.bsky.social and @juliusk.bsky.social, drawing on my work with @retobuergisser.bsky.social and other ongoing research. Check it out and listen to the other fantastic episodes of the podcast, too🎙️

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How do citizens experience contact with the #WelfareState - and how does this affect wellbeing, labor market behavior & political attitudes? Join our stream #WelfareExperiences at #ESPAnet2025! #CfP deadline: April 24 @benbgeiger.bsky.social & Triin Lauri www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...

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131 Politikwissenschaftler haben im Open Expert Survey 2025 die Positionen der Parteien zu wichtigen Themen eingeschätzt. Im Vergleich zum OES21 ist vor allem die Wichtigkeit von Migrationspolitik gestiegen. Einen ausführlicheren Blick & die Pre-Release-Daten gibt es hier: oes25.de/OES25prerele...

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So happy to see #ParlLawSpeech out there after years of scraping, cleaning, validating... have a look at our website parllawspeech.org and keep us posted if you use the data (free access via @gesis.org here: doi.org/10.7802/2824)

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This is an amazing opportunity to work with excellent collaborators on absolutely crucial work!

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Wir haben's wieder getan. Trotz vorgezogener Neuwahlen, trotz der extrem späten Publikation der Wahlprogramme. #ManifestoMonday

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‼️ New paper out in EJPR! With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!

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Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal: “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany” Here's a summary thread... 1/n

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