Unsere erste Fachpublikation ist erschienen! 🎉 #distex Fokus 2025: Bedarfe und Perspektiven der Distanzierungs- und Ausstiegsarbeit. Hier gehts zum download -> www.dist-ex.de/publikatione... @vpnderad.bsky.social @gruener-vogel-ev.bsky.social @jbieneclement.bsky.social

📣 Job alert! 📣 For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026! www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

Marie-Christine Ostermann (Die Familienunternehmer) saß schon im Sept. 2011 auf dem Podium, als Hans-Olaf Henkel und Beatrix von Storch sich zum ersten Mal für die Gründung einer neuen Partei, der späteren #AfD aussprachen, was Jürgen Elsässer damals abfeierte. 1/3 web.archive.org/web/20110924...

Scholars have long paid attention to disproportionality between parties’ votes and seats emerging from the electoral system. In @sespjournal.bsky.social, Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social, and I show that disproportionality can also be a by-product of pre-electoral coalition formation.🧵

Zum vierten Mal hat der polnische Sejm die Aussetzung des Asylrechts an der polnisch-belarusischen EU-Außengrenze verlängert. Mit lagerübergreifender Mehrheit. 416 Abgeordnete stimmten dafür, nur 16 dagegen. Tusk und Kaczyński zementieren gemeinsam den permanenten Ausnahmezustand der Abschottung.

Join us in Catania to discuss your research about populism, the far left and right, and everything related

Neue Publikation: Meine Rezension 'Bewegungsparteien der extremen Rechten in Europa' ist im Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen erschienen Über das Buch von @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it zu hybriden Strategien der extremen Rechten zwischen Protest & Parlament ➡️ shorturl.at/WEqUd

Neue Publikation: Meine Rezension 'Bewegungsparteien der extremen Rechten in Europa' ist im Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen erschienen Über das Buch von @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it zu hybriden Strategien der extremen Rechten zwischen Protest & Parlament ➡️ shorturl.at/WEqUd

I’m happy to see this short paper with @fluegeldo.bsky.social on unexpected hikes in voting costs out in @thejop.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1086/739405 [1/5]

💡New publication with @tevoelker.bsky.social and @swenhutter.bsky.social: "Civil Society and Democracy" In: List, R.A., Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

🥳Excited to share our first social media data doi.org/10.4232/1.14... of Telegram COVID-19 protest mobilization 2020–2022 in Germany, covering 5.6M messages from 900+ public channels & groups, conducted by @hdschulze.bsky.social @buehling.bsky.social @maxzehring.bsky.social

In Novi Sad erinnern heute Zehntausende an die 16 Opfer des Einsturzes des Bahnhofsvordachs. Die Mutter eines Opfers kündigte an, vor dem Belgrader Rathaus in den Hungerstreik zu treten, bis endlich Verantwortung übernommen wird. Ich habe meine Eindrücke hier zusammengefasst taz.de/Gedenken-in-...

🏆 Der #DVPW #Dissertationspreis 2025 wird geteilt und geht an Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social und Julian Michel @julianpolsci.bsky.social! Beide Arbeiten leisten einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erforschung der #Stabilität von #Demokratie. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳

Last week I finally got my ECPR SG Extremism & Democracy Best Paper Prize 2024 🪵🏆 — probably the classiest wooden block I own! Still thrilled and grateful to @ecpr-ead.bsky.social and the jury @ammassarisofia.bsky.social @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social

Was können wir aus dem autoritären Playbook von Ungarn, Polen, Italien & den USA für Deutschland lernen? Dieser Frage sind Victoria Gulde & ich beim TTRex nachgegangen. Eine ausführliche Analyse folgt - hier schon mal 8 Schlüsse für demokratische Zivilgesellschaft, um erfolgreich entgegenzuhalten.

This text started out as a country presentation at the @antigenderpolitics.bsky.social kick-off meeting. So excited it found a home as an EPJG gender update!

💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social: 📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets" 🧵A short thread about the paper:

Nachdem der Bundeskanzler (!) letzte Woche bemängelte, man sehe zu viele nicht-weiße Gesichter in dt. Städten, schickt er jetzt feixend das nächste rassistische Narrativ hinterher. Sie sind nicht nur zu viele, sie sind auch übergriffig. Und das nicht ggü. irgendwem, nein, ggü. 'unseren Töchtern'.

JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides." OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article... It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages. (And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

A few weeks ago I arrived from fieldwork in Peru, where I was collecting archival data on the internal armed conflict. Today I finally have a new version of this paper examining how the conflict affected and continues to affect the success of female politicians francisca-castro.com/research/wor...

#CFP: Join @europasoziologie.bsky.social, @MonikaEigmüller, @swallaschek.bsky.social, @RenéeKrug, @OlgaTyszkiewicz and me for the conference 'Gender Equality Conflicts in Europe' to discuss anti-gender mobilisations, discourse and institutions! Submit by 31 October 2025!

📣 Our latest e-Extreme Newsletter is out! Find it here: ecpr.eu/news/news/de... (Current Issue) ✋ Kindly brought to you by @audreygagnon.bsky.social, @lazaroskaravasilis.bsky.social and @sabinedvolk.bsky.social! 🍿 Read on for expert interviews (on elections in 🇵🇹 & 🇷🇴), book reviews and more!

🏆 Our Extremism & Democracy Best Paper Prize Committee is looking for nominations! Are you an Early Career Researcher? Then nominate yourself! Did you see a great paper presentation in the E&D Section in Thessaloniki by a PhD researcher or post-doc? Send them our way! @ecpr.bsky.social

Had the chance to write an article about the ongoing protests in #Serbia, while I was in #Belgrade last week. It has now been published in the new edition of @jungle.world. Between writing and printing, protests continue in Serbia. Currently, there are escalations, such as around the Faculty of

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖 We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential. I very much enjoyed working on this! Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article out! @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics Read the full article, open access, here 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉 Congrats to @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social, winner of the 2024 Best Paper Prize! Her paper shows how anti-gender movements build transnational ties on Twitter/X via shared hashtags👏 🪷 Big thanks to our esteemed jury members: @kai-arzheimer.com @caterinafr.bsky.social @ammassarisofia.bsky.social

Thrilled to receive the 2024 Best Paper Prize ✨! Sad I can’t attend the celebration in person, but thankful for the recognition and this community.

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 "From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me

Vor fünf Jahren rebellierte die belarussische Gesellschaft gegen Machthaber #Lukaschenko – friedlich und kreativ. Sie protestierte für faire und freie #Wahlen, gegen die ausufernde #Gewalt, mit der Lukaschenkos Machtapparat versuchte, den Aufstand niederzuschlagen. 1/4

I learned so much from @rdassonneville.bsky.social's Voters Under Pressure, Tillman's Authoritarianism and the Evolution and Bartels's Democracy Erodes from the Top. In @comppol.bsky.social, I review each book on its own terms and draw out implications for the view that elections confer mandates. 🧵

I am elated to share that the special section "Threats and Opportunities: The Contestation of Gender and Sexuality in International Organizations" that I co-edited with the wonderful Jelena Cupać of the @wzb.bsky.social is finally out in @ifjpglobal.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfjp20/2...

Im Rahmen von #distex ist unser erstes #PolicyPaper erschienen. Mit "Leerstelle (R)Age?" thematisiere ich, warum Radikalisierung keine reine Jugendthematik ist. Oft nicht beachtet: Auch im Alter können sich Menschen demokratiefeindlichen Milieus zuwenden oder extremistische Weltbilder festigen. /1

2020 Polish Const. Tribunal imposes near-total abortion ban. 2022 U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Today Germany delays Const. Court appointment after anti-abortion groups target pro-choice nominee. Abortion rights under attack - court by court, country by country. p.dw.com/p/4xJLb

Im Bundesverfassungsgericht werden demnächst drei Stellen neu besetzt. Eine Wahl im Bundestag könnte am 10. Juli 2025 stattfinden. Eine Kandidatin sorgt bereits jetzt für massive Proteste – vor allem aus antifeministischen und extrem rechten Kreisen. Ein Thread 🧵

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

🔟 more days to send us your abstract❗ The following website has published our call: soziologie.de/call-for-pap... If you have questions, do not hesitate to contact us!

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideMonth

🇵🇱⚖️🗳️ The rule of law repair process in Poland just got incredibly more difficult. I expect President Nawrocki to be even less cooperative than Duda, as Nawrocki will work hard for a PiS parliamentary election victory. Tough times ahead. 1/

PiS-backed Karol Nawrocki wins Polish presidential election…

Poland Presidential 1st Round Results 🇵🇱 31.4% Trzaskowski (center-right PO) 29.5% Nawrocki (cons-far right PiS-aligned) 14.8% Mentzen (libertarian-far right Konf.) 6.3% Braun (antisemitic far right ex-Konf.) 5% Hołownia (center-right Polska 2050) 4.9% Zandberg (left Razem) 4.2% Biejat (left Lewica)

Very excited to share this publication in Politics & Governance together with @sldelange.bsky.social @nathaliebrack.bsky.social @mrooduijn.bsky.social We study the embrace of illiberalism in far-right discourse in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2019 www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/

📢 CfP Alert – Section "Gender, sexuality and intersectionality in Politics" @ SISP 2025 Check our section's programme, we have a stellar line-up of panels 😎😎 Send your abstract & join us in Naples in September! polisky gendersky academicsky P.S. caring is sharing 🙏🙏

Together with @norawaitkus.bsky.social, I have a new paper on the question: How do Germany’s super-rich talk about being 💰💰💰? By analyzig media interviews, we show that they blend business with family success and tie past, present, and future into one seamless narrative. ijoc.org/index.php/ij...

Tatsächliche Expert:innen sind bei der Frage in etwa so gespalten wie beim Klimawandel - die Antwort ist ausgrenzen. Aber man kann sich darauf verlassen, dass man doch immer jemanden finden kann für bothsidesism. Politik nimmt sich dann was ihr besser gefällt. www.tagesschau.de/inland/debat...