Since the narrative of “young right-wing men” persists so — here are some findings/patterns from the representative election statistics of the various German federal states. Spoiler: *IN NO GERMAN STATE DO MEN AGED 18–24 VOTE FOR THE AfD MORE THAN MEN AGED 35–60.*

This would be the historically worst electoral result for the Danish social democrats since 1901. So much for the "Danish strategy"...

Ein wichtiger Zusatz, der nicht untergehen soll: Bei den Bundestagswahlen 2025 waren 1.15% aller Deutschen, die gewählt haben, Männer im Alter zwischen 18 und 24. Im gesamten AfD Elektorat machten die 18-24 Jährigen Männer 4% der gesamten Wählerschaft aus.

Denmark, Epinion exit poll: National parliament election A-S&D: 19.2% (-8.3) F-G/EFA: 11.4% (+3.1) I-EPP: 10.5% (+2.6) V-RE: 9.3% (-4.0) M-RE: 8.2% (-1.1) Æ-ECR: 7.8% (-0.3) O-PfE: 7.5% (+4.9) C-EPP: 7.1% (+1.6) Ø-LEFT: 6.4% (+1.2) ... +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/denmark

Spending the day at a fantastic workshop on "Group Identities and Democracy" at HU Berlin, organized by @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @markuskollberg.bsky.social and @fraraffaelli.bsky.social, w @lenamariahuber.bsky.social @indubioproreto.bsky.social @alexprs.bsky.social @juliusk.bsky.social et al.

Gewalt gegen Frauen, Sexismus, Misogynie sind nicht das Resultat der "Manosphere" oder irgendwelcher anderer kurzfristiger Phänomene. Sie sind das Ergebnis tiefsitzender patriarchaler Strukturen die Einstellungen, Normen und Handlungen bis tief hinein in die sogenannte Mitte der Gesellschaft prägen.

Weil das Narrativ der "jungen rechten Männer" sich derart hartnäckig hält - einige Auswertungen aus den repräsentativen Wahlstatistiken der verschiedenen Bundesländer. Spoiler: *IN KEINEM BUNDESLAND DEUTSCHLANDS WÄHLEN 18-24-JÄHRIGE MÄNNER MEHR AfD ALS MÄNNER ZWISCHEN 35 UND 60.*

🗳️ Estimation @ipsosfrance.bsky.social à Lyon : 🟢 Grégory Doucet (sortant, LÉ-PS-PCF-LFI) 53,1% 🔵 Jean-Michel Aulas (LR-Renaissance-Horizons) 46,9%

🗳️ Estimation @ipsosfrance.bsky.social à Marseille : 🟣 Benoît Payan (sortant, PS-LÉ-PCF) 54,6% ⚫️ Franck Allisio (RN) 39,1% 🔵 Martine Vassal (LR-Horizons-Renaissance) 6,3%

Einmal mehr: Keine Altersgruppe wählte *SO LINKS WIE DIE 18-24 JÄHRIGEN*. Die AfD war bei den Jüngsten *SCHWÄCHER als bei den 35-60 Jährigen*.

Political Science's academic job market having its worst post-Covid year -- almost 20% fewer jobs than at the same point in the previous cycle (which itself was bad!) Data scraped from APSA ejobs pdfs.

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V-Dem v.16 is now released, w. updated scores for 2025. Most countries remain stable from 2024, but some clear improvements (on diff’t democracy indices), incl. S. Korea, Sri Lanka & Mauritius. Largest declines came, by far, in the US. This figure shows 10-yr changes on the Liberal Dem. index.

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Bezüglich Baden-Württemberg bin ich nicht sicher, ob man aus einer Wahl die dermassen von der Frage, welche *Person* die nächste Landesregierung anführt, dermassen viel strukturelle Prozesse/Erklärungen reinlesen sollte...

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Never show these two plots to a Dutch political scientist...

As always: the upside-down U

Crazy exit polls - and a historical disaster for the FDP and the SPD.

First polls suggest a clear rejection of the far-right initiative that demanded to cut fees for public broadcasting in half.

Today will be a super election Sunday in Switzerland! - National direct democratic votes (Cash, Large Tax Reform, Fees for Public broadcasting serviced, climate funds) - Cantonal Elections (Nidwalden, Obwalden, Glarus), national council by-elections in AR - Local elections (Zurich, Vaud, Fribourg)

It is just straight dangerous to put up such narratives when you only present average values across 29 completely different countries with different age structures and *DON'T ADJUST* for this.

Deleting X and only posting on Bluesky was a great decision, not only because X seems to be a bad place but also because it’s so boring here. My feed here is mostly middle aged men posting way too many very uninteresting details about their lives. Brings my scrolling time basically down to zero.

"Switzerland highly resilient to populism and polarization" *cries bitterly in Swiss*

What is going on with SPD and CDU voters disliking beavers? :(

Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.

This 👇 and this also applies to most European countries

New working paper! I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Since I have grown up in a country where this fountain (literally called "Child-eater fountain") stands in the middle of its capital city, I am very much intrigued to learn how these findings might travel to other contexts...

The UK wakes up to the reality of multi-party democracy. The reality of pretty much all other democracies in Europe. Let‘s see if British politics and media realize that they could actually learn something from other countries that goes beyond shallow narratives like the “Danish strategy”

🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about... 🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples? We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...

I think of these tasks when people are adamantly anti-AI in research. This task before was the academic equivalent of processing grain before the invention of the thresher. Nobody will mourn the loss of this type of work.

This is really fascinating data: "To summarize the key results, Switzerland’s private wealth is growing faster than incomes, and it is highly concentrated among the very wealthy and the elderly. Wealth is transferred across generations increasingly late in heirs’ lives."

New data release. Selects 2023 Panel Survey (Waves 1–5) The panel follows the same respondents from the 2023 election campaign to 2027, offering unique longitudinal insights into Swiss political attitudes & behaviour. 👉 Dataset: doi.org/10.48573/4h6... 👉 Selects: forscenter.ch/projects/sel...

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

Auch an die anwesenden Soziolog:innen nochmal die Bitte, sich stärker an der Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland zu beteiligen

Not only would this deeply xenophobic and dangerous initiative have drastic and severe inhumane consequences if it would be accepted, but again will non-white Swiss people have to endure another racist public election campaign - like many before.

ICYMI: in the past week, we released the YOUMEM dataset — with survey responses from 5000+ members of 12 youth wings. It is the largest comparative study of youth wing members to date. It is also, we believe, the largest comparative party membership survey dataset ever made publicly available.

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/

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Vorbild Ungarn, Italien, Slowakei … Um was es der SVP mit ihrer SRG-#Halbierungsinitiative wirklich geht, verrät ein Blick ins nahe Ausland (mit Einschätzungen von Natascha Strobl #Halbierungsinitiative) Von Sarah Schmalz #VoteCH (1/2)

Another morning, another article mentioning the "hard right"... This may seem trivial but the use of terms that euphemise far-right politics and deflect from the threat they pose matters a lot See @gsamaras.bsky.social 's brilliant article on the "hard right" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New post-doc position working with me in a new lab at @snfagora.bsky.social ! It's one year appointment, renewable for up to 5 years. The position includes data analysis and independent research, mentorship of lab members, and participation in SNF Agora Institute life. apply.interfolio.com/178796

Often, people (especially in Switzerland) play down the radical nature and policy program of the Swiss people's party (SVP). Yet, the party is as radical and extreme as other European far-right parties. The only difference is the SVP's complete normalization.

Tbf, I strongly oppose the statement that our weird dialect can be considered German

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In the Swiss canton of Nidwalden, government elections have been suspended because *no counter-candidates are running*. This is not only problematic from a theoretical point of view, but also reveals how depoliticized elections in Switzerland - especially on the regional level - have become.

How do populists define “the people”? @tiondelisa.bsky.social examines how right-wing populists construct ingroup identity through opposition. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/JN7E09I @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci #ECRs

We're celebrating the temporary deterrence of an invasion into a NATO ally's territory. Take that in for a moment.

Portugal is having a presidential election tomorrow (Sunday). It is a fairly unusual one, which is representative of how much the political landscape has changed in the country. Here is some quick context about it, in case that is of interest: 1/9