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Forschung zur Logistik von Protestcamps: "Protestcamps – sei es in Autokratien oder in Demokratien dienen nicht nur den Einzelnen als Basis, sie stehen auch für eine kollektive Energie der Veränderung“, so Anna Fruhstorfer @oenna2002.bsky.social, Ismael Benkrama und @rebeccakittel.bsky.social.

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🚨Three days left to hand in your abstract!!

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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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NEW - Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data: Introducing Three Integrated Datasets - cup.org/4b8LzTi - Leonce Röth, @dasalgon.bsky.social, @dielea.bsky.social & André Kaiser

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Join us March 7 (4pm) @wzb.bsky.social for the book presentation "Movement Parties of the Far Right" with @andreapirro.it & @pietrocastellig.bsky.social +Info & registration www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal... It's part of our Lecture Series 'Civil Society and Political Conflict' www.wzb.eu/en/node/62311

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Exciting news for legislative scholars! We're thrilled to announce the release of #ParlLawSpeech, featuring full texts of parliamentary speeches and corresponding bills & laws in 7 parliaments + in the EP. Access full texts via @gesis.org & check out www.parllawspeech.org for R tutorials. (1/2)

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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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📢 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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I'm delighted to share our opinion on #papermills published in Nature. Science is flooded with papers from paper mills.Certain steps can be taken, but this is a challenge that neither universities nor journals are ready to face.Some use paper mills to their advantage. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Yeees! 💫 The preliminary program for our Workshop on the Political Economy of Autocratic Rule & Democratic Backsliding (June 23-24, just before EPSA) at IAST/TSE is out. Pair your Madrid trip with a stop in Toulouse. Registration opens soon! Check out speakers here: www.iast.fr/conferences/...

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📢 New @wzb.bsky.social Working Paper w/ @lennartschuermann.bsky.social: “How Anti-Racist Protests Influence Pro- and Anti-Migration Voting Behavior: Evidence from National and European Elections” ❗️Main finding: Anti-racist protests can change voting behavior towards a more inclusive society 🧵1/8

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New paper 🚨with Natasha Wunsch in EJPR A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization We theorize & empirically explore how democratic backsliding may shape an affective divide between government & opposition supporters doi.org/10.1111/1475...

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Philanthropists funding Nazis? I wrote a research note on Hans Keller, the "parlor Nazi" founder of a Nationalist International, and his links to the Rockefeller Foundation, showing a surprising convergence between liberal and fascist internationalism in the 1930s rockfellows.hypotheses.org/3752

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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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🚨 Out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social : "Citizens' Preferences for Multidimensional Representation". Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & I investigate citizens' preferences regarding 6 dimensions of representation using surveys conducted in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪. Short 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1017/S15375

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📣New (open access) paper with @fgilardi.bsky.social and @maelkubli.bsky.social in @psrm.bsky.social examines the effect of advocacy campaigns and gender bias on media coverage of elections doi.org/10.1017/psrm... We 🔍 how often & w/ which topics candidates are mentioned in 2.2 million news articles

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🚨 New #OpenAccess publication alert! 🚨 Why do parties sometimes bend over backwards to accommodate new demands, and why do they remain focused on their core policies at other times? Over the moon to see my single-authored study out in EJPR! 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1475...

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Turns out, using simple language in politics helps people understand issues better and even shapes how they see politicians - but it doesn't directly sway votes. Excited to share that our study (w/ @danbischof.bsky.social) is conditionally accepted at JOP! Link: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

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Together with @irenepaneda.bsky.social and Daniel Meierrieks, I’m co-organizing the 10th WZB Annual Conference on Migration and Diversity focusing on "Migration, Conflict, and Climate Change" between November 27-29, 2024, at WZB in Berlin! ▶️ tinyurl.com/24drnhj8 1/2🧵

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Finally I get to post something here: new article just came out in EPSR www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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🚨 Publication Alert More than happy to share that my very first paper is now out with @EJPRjournal 🥳 Which discursive elements make (non-)populist messages appealing to varying groups of people? Link to full article: doi.org/10.1111/1475... #OpenAccess 🔓

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📢 Call for Papers! Join Anna Fruhstorfer, Michelle Torres and me for a workshop on "How Image-As-Data Approaches Can Help Analysing Protest and Its Organisation: Methods and Applications" on Sept 30 - Oct 1, 2024, at Free University Berlin. More Info: tinyurl.com/3uvvx8a7

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Breaking News: France voted to explicitly enshrine access to abortion in its Constitution, making it the first country in the world to do so. The impulse for the change was the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/04/w...

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In the European Research Council MULTIREP project we are looking for a postdoc in Computational Social Science. If you are a political/social scientist doing technical/methods stuff or data/computer scientist working on social science applications, 👇 is for you wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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Happy to share this new article in European Union Politics, written with @bjarneck.bsky.social. In the paper, we ask: have high and growing levels of income inequality undermined support for the EU, as some have claimed? Existing studies have produced very mixed results in this regard (1/5)

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New article out with my wonderful colleague Selma Kropp! How do media discourses on German national identity differ before and after the arrival of refugees in 2015/16? We explore this question in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies: tinyurl.com/yh6udset

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🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 Join our (w. @AnnaFruhstorfer) ERC project LOOPS as a Doctoral Researcher (full-time, 4 years) at Free University Berlin! Explore the logistics of protest camps in competitive authoritarian regimes. 📆Deadline: 29.01.2024 👇 tiny.cc/p5huvz

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After a little break over the holidays, we're back next Wednesday with @rebeccakittel.bsky.social's talk on language complexity in parliamentary debate among populist politicians & their mainstream competitors. Join us on Jan 10 at 5pm (CET)! 🎉 Zoom link ➡️ join.slack.com/t/tadapolisc...

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Call for Papers! Join @AnnaFruhstorfer and me for a workshop on "The Backstage of Protest Camps: Conceptualizing Infrastructure, Logistics, and Organization of Popular Uprisings" on March 14-15, 2024, at Free University Berlin. tiny.cc/5avhvz

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🚨 New tool to classify text into discrete emotions! I have fine-tuned a mDeBERTa model based on crowd-coded data described in my Political Analysis study (see link below). Unlike the ELECTRA model discussed in the paper, this new tool is MULTILINGUAL (up to 100 languages) #TADAsky #CPSky #Polisky

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🆕PUBLICATION ALERT To what extent and how do terrorist attacks influence public debates? What are the differences between public debates after extreme right and Islamist terrorist attacks? Very happy to see my single-authored paper out @JEPP #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1350... Polisky🧵1/

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📡The next term of the #TaDa Speaker Series starts next week!! We have six amazing speakers on all things #TextAsData/#NLP lined up for you 👇

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