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New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

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Neue Emmy Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe in den Politikwissenschaften: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft fördert Heidelberger Projekt zur Klimapolitik mit rund 1,8 Millionen Euro www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/...

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🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!

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🇺🇸🇵🇱🇭🇺 I'm afraid that all the expert output about the rule of law crisis in Hungary/Poland being a consequence of these countries being "young, not yet fully developed democracies without a long history of developing trust in institutions" is about to age very badly.

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New publication: "A Revolt of the Distrustful? Political Trust, Political Protest and the Democratic Deficit", co-authored with Edgar Grande; Journal of European Public Policy. #OpenAccess Article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Replication: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm... 1/3

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I'm so chuffed to finally have a paper in my old journal, Party Politics. Available open access here journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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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📢 Call for Papers! Digital Communication and Computational Approaches to Understanding Social Movements in the Social Media Era Special Issue w. Computational Communication Research: tinyurl.com/2p8wcbh2 co-edited with: @smtorres.bsky.social & @oenna2002.bsky.social More details below 👇

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Zur Bundestagswahl 2025 habe ich mit @pluggedchris.bsky.social, @annakurella.bsky.social und @jocmuel.bsky.social das Tool #PartyCheck auf Basis der OES 2025 Parteipositionen entwickelt. Nach 15 Fragen bekommt ihr einen Match. Schaut doch mal rein! party-check.org

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I rec. rejecting a paper, while two other reviewers rec. an R&R, which is what the editor decided. The author(s) have revised the paper, and I'm asked to review it again. This is the first time for me & I'm not sure: do others do the review in a sit like this? It is for one of the flagship journals.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Horrible news coming from everywhere about the impact of USAID pause - both in EU Member States and beyond.

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Pretty much exactly 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the richest man in the world uses the Nazi salute at the inauguration of his close ally as US president. What should rationally not be surprising is still so deeply shocking and simply difficult to comprehend.

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I was invited to speak about the upcoming Trump era and share some lessons and optimism. I declined politely. After more than 25 years of researching the far right, I have no more (new) lessons and optimism to share.

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6 years+ no teaching + an amazing boss! Apply!

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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

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Looking forward to this book. The abstract’s concluding sentence is a grim critique of our societal structures and democratic governing systems: “Civil society is the only source of pressure that could build the necessary strength and support for climate protection.”

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A serious question: how will comparative politics respond to the problem of under-powered research (see below)? I hope the the field will lean back into our strength (comparative case study) but I worry it will only tip toward big data. 1: from JOP: shorturl.at/aVJB2 2: from APSR: shorturl.at/sbPUi

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Striking data from @bloomberg.com— that dense cluster of large grey circles in Hungary highlights Europe’s growing dependence on batteries produced by Chinese firms in an autocratic member state. EU strategic autonomy? Not quite. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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❓What are movement parties, how can we define them, measure them quantitatively, and identify examples in 🇪🇺? Our new introduction with Fred Paxton to the special issue of @actapolitica.bsky.social on "Movement Parties in Europe" answers these questions: doi.org/10.1057/s412... Short 🧵on the issue👇

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New Cambridge Element 'Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century' by Simon Bornschier, @lhaffert.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, Marco Steenberge & @dpzollinger.bsky.social out now! Read #OpenAccess here: cup.org/3ZLtQ0o #cambridgeelements #politics

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New end-of-year publication! 📚 I'm glad that "Far-right movement-party activism as #strategy" is out, studying Germany’s self-proclaimed "peace movement" during Russia’s war against Ukraine. Perhaps of interest to some of you. link.springer.com/article/10.1... #openaccess @actapolitica.bsky.social

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What on earth is going on in Romania, and why did the Constitutional Court just annul the Presidential Elections? A 🧵 by a Romanian citizen abroad:

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The decision by the Romanian Supreme Court to annul the first round of the election and order a re-run is highly controversial. Georgescu and Lasconi aren’t happy for obvious reasons. Where does the country go from here?

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Tomorrow, we publish 4 new research briefs from the Progressive Politics Research Network. The focus is on the "Political Viability of Climate Policies" - a political science perspective on how more ambitious climate policies are possible. Here a preview of the theme introduction.

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I bookmarked a few of these on X, but are there any good articles on using LLM to code short texts (news articles, open ended questions). Both in terms of accuracy and best practices.

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This is a must listen not only for political scientists, but especially for journalists and politicians. @valentimvicente.bsky.social book on the normalization of the radical right is one of the FT's book of the year 2024.

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🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

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