🎉 Our brand-new Research Network on Data Linkage in Political Science (@ecpr-datalinkage.bsky.social) has joined us on Bluesky! 📲 Follow them to stay updated on the latest research, job opportunities and forthcoming events Join their network for FREE 👉 buff.ly/P98ZDx1

Coming up on Monday the @medem.bsky.social conference at @gesis.org in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures www.medem.eu/coming-up-th... Keynotes from @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social and @sldelange.bsky.social

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025. epssnet.org/belfast-2026/ @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

Schönes Best-Practice-Beispiel für den journalistischen Verweis auf wissenschaftliche Forschung! Wenn man hier z. B. oben auf den hinterlegten Link klickt, kommt man direkt zu: Krause, W., Cohen, D., & Abou-Chadi, T. (2023). Does accommodation work? doi.org/10.1017/psrm... 👏👏👏

🥲 Thank you for the kind words, @nilssteiner.bsky.social! It was a great honor and pleasure for me to serve as spokesperson for @dvpw.bsky.social #AKWahlen for 6 years and to work with you, @conradziller.bsky.social, @heikogiebler.bsky.social and @melff.bsky.social in the steering committee.

Two fantastic days of the annual conference of the #AKWahlen are now behind us. Many thanks for the many excellent presentations, the friendly atmosphere, and to the local Berlin team for the fabulous organisation on site! ❤️ Watch out for the special issue in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇 Read the full article (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🗳️ Tag 1 der AK-Wahlen-Tagung @ FU Berlin 💡Hervorragende Präsentationen und intensive Diskussionen zu aktuellen Themen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung 🤝 Viele Gelegenheiten zum Networking 📝 Wir freuen uns auf den zweiten Tag mit weiteren spannenden Einblicken! #Wahlforschung #AKWahlen

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"Warum junge Männer die AfD wählen – und junge Frauen die Linke" - (unter anderem) darüber habe ich mit dem Handelsblatt gesprochen: www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

Social media bots: often annoying, sometimes useful. In this open access research note in @prxjournal.bsky.social, I tell the origin story of @rrresrobot.bsky.social (which you absolutely want to follow) 👀. The 🤖 exists to showcase research on the #farright by posting six times per day, every day.

NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN | Hochrechnung Kommunalwahl Infratest dimap/WDR, 21:43 Uhr CDU: 33,3% (-1,0) SPD: 22,1% (-2,2) AfD: 14,8% (+9,7) GRÜNE: 13,3% (-6,7) LINKE: 5,6% (+1,8) FDP: 3,6% (-2,0) Sonstige: 7,3% (+0,2) Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2020 (landesweites Ergebnis) #Kommunalwahl

Man liest nicht gerade viel Positives über politische Parteien. Bei der #Repräsentation von Ostdeutschen ist das anders, da kann man sogar von ihnen lernen wie Astrid Lorenz und ich herausgefunden haben. Hier unser Beitrag aus der PVS @dvpw.bsky.social Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What do citizens imagine their political opponents to be like? Polarization is real, but it also lives in our heads, fueled by stereotypes. We asked people in 🇧🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪 & 🇵🇱 to describe opponents in their own words. With @jnareal.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social & @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social 👇

As someone who has already published in PVS and serves on the board of the German Political Science Association, I’m incredibly proud of the German Political Science Quarterly, which now has an impact factor of 2.5! @pvs-journal.bsky.social

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

Economic crises tend to favour the right. Voters tend to assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper with Anders Sundell published in West European Politics: Ideological bias in policy implementation: public opinion and policy outcomes in 43 democracies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Habe für das neue @apuz.bsky.social -Heft der @bpb.de einen Artikel über das Wahlverhalten junger Menschen beigesteuert und bin ein ganz klein wenig stolz auf diese Grafik, die dabei entstanden ist. Mehr Grafiken gibts hier: www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...

New Publication 📖 with @aikowagner.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social "Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany" Full paper (open access)👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... What did we find? 🧵

🚨 Reminder: Heute endet die Deadline für die Anmeldung zur Jahrestagung des AK Wahlen & pol. Einstellungen!

How do parties shape which issues are perceived as part of GAL-TAN? In my paper presented at the ECPR General Conference in Thessaloniki, I delve into this question, focusing on climate change and LGBTQ rights. Thank you @ecprpovb.bsky.social for a great section! 1/3

New study out today—“Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised?“ finds a substantial political cleavage between urban and rural populations in multiple European countries. Place-based affective polarization is associated with voting along liberal vs nationalist divide #PoliticalScience

The @powimz.bsky.social crowd enjoys the sunset cruise at the @ecpr.bsky.social conference in Thessaloniki. 😎 Together with @clandwehr.bsky.social, @arminschaefer.bsky.social, @stallbaum.bsky.social, @lionmert.bsky.social & @kwalz.bsky.social.

@powimz.bsky.social at #ECPRGC25 in Thessaloniki

Interessant (wie immer bei @juliusk.bsky.social )! 👇 Auch, dass jeweils ca. die Hälfte der AfD-Wähler:innen es nicht so/überhaupt nicht wichtig findet, Deutsche Vorfahren zu haben bzw. in DEU geboren zu sein. Schon ein gewisser Kontrast zum ethnisch-abstammungsmäßigen Volksbegriff in der Partei.

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

Please read the latest ecprpovb.bsky.social newsletter at: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ecpr-p... Join our group activities during the @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference. Arriving in Thessaloniki early? Join us for the @datisproject.bsky.social @eupoplink.bsky.social conferences on the 24th and 25th.

📢 Glad to share my new publication in @polbehavior.bsky.social 📢 In this paper, I study whether authoritarians’ electoral success abroad can change citizens’ satisfaction with democracy (SWD). link.springer.com/article/10.1...

In einem Monat, am 18. & 19.9., trifft sich die Wahlforschungscommunity zur Jahrestagung des AK Wahlen & pol. Einstellungen der @dvpw.bsky.social an der FU Berlin. Spannendes Programm, freundliche Kolleg:innen! Anmeldung über meine.dvpw.de bis zum 1.9. möglich. Siehe: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...

How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election? I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

‼️Our new paper with magnificent colleagues @alinazumbrunn.bsky.social @antonialang.bsky.social‬ on how place experience shapes place-based (rural/urban) identity is now out at the Journal of Rural Studies! 👇 (1/5)

Pew putting their validated vote data to use to highlight the erosion in support for President Trump among the younger voters who supported him in 2024 www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election? I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

Just out at @polbehavior.bsky.social w/Carey Stapleton: Voting by mail has the upside of boosting correct voting. When people vote by mail rather than in-person, they are more likely to choose the presidential candidate best aligned with their preferences. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Zur Erinnerung: Die Position der ehrenamtlichen Chefredaktion der @pvs-journal.bsky.social ist zum 1.1.26 neu zu besetzen! Alle Infos 👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione... Interessenbekundungen bis 17.8.25 👉 [email protected] #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #Redaktion

Are populist sore losers? Using three datasets, @arminschaefer.bsky.social and Jonas Wenker demonstrate that the winner–loser gap in satisfaction with democracy is larger among populist individuals. 👇

Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart? @jburnmurdoch.ft.com joins me to discuss gendered polarisation. - Does this hold worldwide? - Which groups are most polarised? - Is this due to economic frustrations or online persuasion? - What are the possible solutions? youtu.be/VrOk1-jChdA?...

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026
 📍 ICC Belfast
 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵

This is a great paper, offering a unifying theoretical framework and broad empirical analysis of how intra-party divisions affect party behaviour! 👇

Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters. New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw tinyurl.com/d42wyb79 1/n

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess

"studying arts and humanities subjects leads to greater support for socially liberal parties, whilst studying business and economics increases support for economically right-wing parties". Another great contribution to the Special Issue! 👇

"A new cleavage exists in geopolitical loyalties, based on the degree to which citizens feel attachment to democracy, and this divide runs both between and within countries." Very interesting! 👇 Cf. our work on how political alienation predicts sympathy for Putin: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NEW: Delia Baldassarri, Jona de Jong, "Partisanship Meets Social Networks: How Politically Heterogeneous Acquaintances and Close Relationships Buffer Partisan Animosity" sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...

🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social! We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy. 🌐 hu-govlab.de Follow us for research, updates & collaborations. #GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch

🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨 Updated until 2023 Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data @leuphana.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social