🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle: Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte (100%, 3+2 Jahre) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Bewerbungsfrist: 24.06.26 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...

New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour. "Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources" with @seramirezruiz.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated: rdcu.be/fh0Ss

Chapter on AI and Democracy with Bailey Flanigan, @politicsprof.bsky.social and Charles Stewart 👇

Having a hard time managing travels to lovely Belfast. Anyone with experience able to tell me if it's at all possible to catch a flight in Dublin 10am on Saturday?

On Wednesday at 12.00, we welcome @cathrinmohr.bsky.social in Münster, presenting her working paper "Hysteresis and Selection in the Rise of Fascism: The “Ordinary Men” of the Nazi Party" @danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social @thiloalbers.bsky.social

Very glad to have you around today and tomorrow. Looking very much forward to your talk!

📄 Neues Paper mit MA-Studentin @jmschulte.bsky.social: Wenn Sozialdemokrat:innen in der Migrationspolitik nach rechts rücken, folgen die Wähler:innen dann tatsächlich? Wir untersuchen Olaf Scholz' radikalen Kurswechsel in Deutschland im Oktober 2023. (original: EN, Abstract Übersetzung via AI)

📄 New paper with a fantastic MA student @jmschulte.bsky.social: When social democrats move right on migration, do voters actually follow? We study Olaf Scholz's radical shift on migration in Germany (October 2023).

Stimmt, ich gehe künftig auch nur noch zur Arbeit wenn’s nicht „mies“ ist. Das muss mir schon reinlaufen, sonst nixe mixe.

Is it only me or has OSF become quite buggy lately?

My partner works in consulting. She just saw my calender and said: "I would have a meltdown with your amount of appointments." I mean consulting, she is basically only in meetings...

It's a new semester in Münster and that means a new start to our speaker series! We have teamed up with @thiloalbers.bsky.social + Andreas Stegmann to organize next year's talks. We are so excited to kick off w @alexjabbour.bsky.social next week 🎉 @danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social

Agree. This increases the lottery effect of the results and, in essence, adds more Matthew effect to it.

@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!

I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

This is similar to what we find in our recent study on which countries people want their government to learn from. China ranks in the middle but still comes out ahead of the United States, pointing to shifting perceptions of the two powers.

🌟 New publication 🌟 Very happy that our paper “When Legislators Do Not Differentiate: A Field Experiment on British MPs' Responses to Constituent Policy Queries” has been accepted at the British Journal of Political Science! Current link here: osf.io/preprints/os... Short thread below 👇

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Following up on this: if audit aim to recruit "real" people as confederates. Several reasons why you should aim to do exactly that are outlined in these papers of ours.

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...

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🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database. - State elections update: new years + mail-in - 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European - Municipal elections: 1984-2025 - Meinungsbild public opinion - New website & features german-elections.com

T-14 days until the Hungarian election. 🇭🇺🗳️ In this thread, I discuss Magyar's prospects of success in restoring (liberal) democracy (if he wins) and will tell you he's not the saviour you might think he is (but that he’s still good enough for now). 🧵 1/

A cover that was a year ahead of its time

Eventuell überlegen es sich Süddeutsche Zeitung, @zeit.de und FAZ, ob sie bei den nächsten „Plagiatsvorwürfen“ dieses Mannes wirklich wieder SOFORT Meldungen und Artikel schreiben? 🙂

CfP Jahrestagung AK #Demokratieforschung 1.-2. Oktober 2026 #Berlin Deadline 19. April www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a... @humboldtuni.bsky.social @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social @dvpw-regieren.bsky.social @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social

Last week, we (@clandwehr.bsky.social, my colleague Leonard and I) had the joy of welcoming some great colleagues working on the topic of democracy to Mainz, for the concluding workshop of our project "Conceptions of Democracy among Citizens and Political Elites". Thank you for three wonderful days!

Thank you @rikkidean.bsky.social @crowdermeyer.bsky.social @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social @danbischof.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social @peterenns.bsky.social @kstrump.bsky.social @christopherojeda.bsky.social @nilssteiner.bsky.social @arminschaefer.bsky.social @elinesevers.bsky.social and Hannah Werner!!

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

Einfach Danke für diese starke Rede. Der rote Faden: „Deswegen ist es in der Demokratie notwendig, dass Menschen der Mehrheiten in der Gesellschaft es als ihre ureigenste Pflicht ansehen, sich gleichermaßen für Minderheiten und deren Rechte einzusetzen.“ www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft...

Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social): Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.

Dear Dr. Bischof, We invite you to contribute a paper to Challenges-Journal of Planetary Health.

I‘m very much looking forward for all these hot takes on AI to materialize. Right now I see ever more substacks and tweets on AI than actual new research popping up. Maybe what we actually gain with AI is time to think and reflect. At least that’s what currently seems to be happening.

Heizung und Motor sind jetzt wieder Privatsache - aber für billigen Kraftstoff soll natürlich der Staat sorgen…

My take on the partisan expressive responding literature is now in print. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

The critique of unmeasured confounding is often levied in a lazy/broad way. It is trivially true in any observational study. But if the critic can't think of a plausible such confounder and posit a reasonable direction/magnitude of its bias then they're not doing productive science.

Thx for having me! Looking very much forward to this:

I have been trying to summarize social psychology research on anti-immigrant sentiment for 3 weeks now. While I can summarize families of results based on types of designs, I still struggle to summarize the theory used to make sense of results. Anybody has a clearly written piece they can recommend?

📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September. The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe. 🗓 Deadline: May 17 www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Zu echt. Hagel fand 2018, es gäbe "schlimmere Termine für einen 29jährigen Abgeordneten *grins*" als eine Realschulklasse mit 80% "Mädchen" zu besuchen. Von Eva, die höchstens 16 war, mit "braunem Haar und rehbraunen Augen", war er anscheinend auch angetan. Immer schade, wenn das Bild so passt

So, LinkedIn…really? Puh 😮‍💨

We‘re very excited for the next edition of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim! ✨ Join us and apply until 1 March! More info in @melinscribe.bsky.social‘s thread below and here: summerschoolwpm.org Application form: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/wpm/

This is crazy. It would have taken years! of work:

Auf @soziopolis.bsky.social ist heute das Dossier zu strategischer Prozessführung erschienen, das ich mit Verena Frick herausgebe. Sechs Autorinnen beleuchten strategische Klagen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven: www.soziopolis.de/dossier/stra...

Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ... Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups? Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com: tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf

Die Grundstruktur der Rede: Wer die AfD verbieten will, wolle "rechte" Politik generell verbieten und sei damit selbst der Demokratiefeind. Wir kennen diese Argumentation, man nennt sie "Strohmann". Art. 21 GG fragt nicht, ob eine Partei links oder rechts ist. Es geht um die Verfassungswidrigkeit.

Exactly what he says:

Pretty clever idea to get at the selection effects into motherhood. Must read:

“I long for the days when a midlife crisis for men meant getting a motorbike and a leather jacket, not trying to get elected to indulge alt right fantasies about ensuring women were pregnant as soon as they were fertile and then didn’t go to university" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Niemand: Berliner*innen: Klar kann ich dich besuchen ich bin sofort in 60 Minuten da