Today in four weeks, Switzerland will vote on a far-right SVP initiative that demands a cap on the Swiss population of 10 million. What is often misunderstood is that the initiative does not necessarily demand an end to immigration, but — even worse — the complete disenfranchisement of immigrants.

On 14 June, Switzerland will vote on the "No 10 Million Switzerland" initiative. The SNSF is concerned that a yes vote could jeopardise access to #HorizonEurope and the recruitment of talented researchers. 👉 Find out more here: sohub.io/yj48

This looks like a great resource - particularly, but not only for people researching group appeals 👇

Artikel mit @julianheide.bsky.social und @thomaslux.bsky.social (1) Ostdeutsche gelten als besonders unzufrieden mit der Demokratie, migrationsfeindlich, rechtspopulistisch. Oft werden diese Orientierungen durch Sozialisationseffekte des DDR-Systems erklärt www.degruyterbrill.com/de/document/...

This is a super useful overview of academic conferences in the social sciences. Especially useful for early PhDs! sirusdehdari.github.io/conferences....

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

Also: A sobering reminder how terribly male-dominated (US) political science has been ever since.

What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)

The electoral decline of social democratic parties is a well-studied phenomenon. If you want to understand what is happening to Labour, I recommend this (open access) edited volume by the world's leading scholars on this question. Other countries have elections, too. doi.org/10.1017/9781009496810

British politics is resembling the rest of Europe: • Multi-party competition has replaced two-party dominance • Challengers are on the rise, esp. the populist right • Political realignment centres on identity politics (incl Brexit) But FPTP is poorly suited to this fragmentation

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

A reminder that applications for this 3-year fully funded PhD position close at the end of next week (May 17). This is a great opportunity to work on climate politics comparative politics in a vibrant environment, with loads of freedom to develop your own project. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

This would represent a certain historical continuity. Sachsen-Anhalt was the first German state in which an extreme-right party entered parliament after reunification (DVU in 1998). Interestingly, the DVU was overwhelmingly voted for by young men in Sachsen-Anhalt in 1998:

Ahead of the state election in September this year, new polls from Sachsen-Anhalt show the AfD at 41%. According to these polls, only four parties would make it into the state parliament, meaning that 41% might just give the AfD an absolute majority.

We're hiring a Post-Doc (3 years) at the @hertieschool.bsky.social for a @scripts-berlin.eu project on authoritarian influence in the video games industry (I am soooo excited about this project)! More details here (deadline 31 May): hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

If we are not really careful, this might become the Swiss Brexit moment. On June 15, everyone will start googling "Freedom of Movement", "Schengen", "Family Reunification". Glad that @rfrbrghs.bsky.social points out how radical the proposed text is. We need more of that clarity.

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data. flexible start (earliest possible) deadline: 31 May 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

One week left to apply:

This is great! Municipal population change 1961 - 2024 in 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮, courtesy of @correctiv.org @fridathurm.bsky.social @adahomolova.bsky.social

Ich hab ja die "Gen-Z" oft verteidigt, aber hier hört es auf www.faz.net/aktuell/stil...

Somewheres versus Anywheres? Lastenrad versus Gartenzwerg? @thomaslux.bsky.social, @steffenmau.bsky.social und ich schauen empirisch, wie eng Lebensführung und politische Haltungen zusammenhängen. Frisch erschienen und Open Access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Far Right populists are a big risk in European politics, but in most states they get stuck around a 30% threshold. Their success is then dependent on specific state constitutional and legal structures as well as responses from other parties.

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...

If someone called "Magyar" can win the Hungarian elections, this is the guy who might defeat the AfD in East German State elections:

Orbán congratulated Magyar. It's really a historic moment.

As another famous autocrat once said: "Stop the count"

Similar to Poland in 2023, young voters in Hungary seem to have turned out to vote in larger numbers than in earlier elections and - importantly so, as this poll suggests - have massively voted AGAINST the illiberal incumbent party.

🇭🇺‼️ What seems clear - Tisza has delivered a strong parliamentary majority Less clear - whether they can get to a 2/3 supermajority

Polling stations have now closed in Hungary. I fielded a pre-election survey among Hungarians up until yesterday (1065 respondents). When asked if they had to choose between Tisza and Fidesz to form the next government, 57% selected Tisza, and the rest Fidesz (current government).

And we surpassed the 2022 turnout – it's now at 74.23%! #Hungary 🗳️🇭🇺 Polls close at 7 pm, but anyone who gets in line until then will be able to cast a vote.

A postdoc position is now available in my project Markets and Mobility: How Employers Structure Economic Opportunity. Start date flexible within the next 12 months, apply by 9 May. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Popular attitudes are often seen as a safeguard against democratic backsliding: if citizens don’t oppose lib democracy, politicians have little incentive to erode it. In @cpsjournal.bsky.social I argue that, while intuitive, this reasoning conflates two states of the world: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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/

The German public is more approving of police violence when victims are immigrants, and this bias is highly resistant to new information. This shows our new study published in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/3)

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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