Today I received my official appointment as a W2 Professor of Political Behavior and Representation at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. As of April 1, this marks the beginning of a new chapter in my life and career—one I am very much looking forward to.

Big news: I started a new position as Professor for Computational Social Science (W1 tenure track) at the Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main! www.c3s-frankfurt.de/who-we-are#m...

🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social. it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 1/9

Going forward from today, I’ll stop publishing and just repost this meme regularly #AcademicWriting #farright #radicalright

🚨 So excited about our new paper in @BJPS: h7.cl/1iliZ! We (Corinna, Lena, Camila, Sarah) analyze how gender shapes the extent to which ministers are scrutinized by parliament.

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

History is not that relevant for #radicalright politics today. #OpenAccess 📝 #Germany #Prussia

Here's a relatively recent (2024) syllabus for an MA course on #farright #voting

Because I have been such a good boy (once again), 🎅 has an early present for me: here's a brand-new (open access) article discussing the use of #radicalright as a concept in current scholarship. And if that wasn't already great (it is), there's more 1/3

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Das ist ein sehr schöner und wichtiger Text von Arno Widmann. www.fr.de/kultur/gesel...

T. Sprang. “Radical Weakness-Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries?” In: Comparative Political Studies online first (2025), pp. 1-38. dx.doi.org/10.1177/00104140251349670.

📢 Very happy that my first single-authored paper found its home at @environmentalpol.bsky.social 🌱 I am beyond thankful to all the fantastic people who gave me feedback and supported me along the way! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/5)🧵

Sehr guter Kommentar zu den absurden Erzählungen des Hessischen Innenministers und des Ministerpräsidenten: "Es gab keine „bürgerkriegsähnlichen Zustände“ in Gießen. Mit ihrem Framing übernimmt die hessische Regierung die AfD-Rhetorik."

Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇

🇸🇪 I am very happy to announce that my first article, based on my master's thesis, is now out in open access in Scandinavian Political Studies! doi.org/10.1111/1467...

Why do @theresabernemann.bsky.social, @timo-sprang.net and I believe that #History is overrated (where the #farright is concerned)? #Videoabstract, full free article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📓 💻

Der @juergenklatzer.bsky.social hat mich zu unserer (@manuelwagner.bsky.social) jüngsten Studie über Politiker:innen aus der Arbeiterklasse befragt: www.falter.at/maily/202511...

Edeltraud Roller wäre heute 68 geworden.

Here's next week's cover of the New Yorker

Crazy story: I finished my habilitation with my inaugural lecture last Thursday.👩‍🎓 A lot of work completed under not always easy circumstances: #MomInAcademia #FirstGen At the same time, I am grateful for all the support along the way 🍀🙏 @kai-arzheimer.com @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Simon Franzmann

Bildungssystem durchgespielt!🎓✨Antrittsvorlesung der großartigen @jasfitzpatrick.bsky.social mit würdigem Ende (s. Bild). Eine inspirierende & engagiertere Wissenschaftlerin, geschätzte Koautorin & wichtige Wegbegleiterin: danke, dass ich bei diesem besonderen Moment dabei sein durfte!

Top work with top peeps @theresabernemann.bsky.social & @timo-sprang.net

I find it so silly seeing so many articles that claim X percent of ChatGPT answers are wrong. I can create a test where it gets 100 percent of the questions wrong. To me, that's an irrelevant metric. It's on users to understand what good questions are to ask of AI, what good use cases are.

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

Look. It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it. In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of +1.4 pts. This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.

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⌛ Time flew by during my research stay at @gesis.org Cologne this Aug/Sept! I had the pleasure of working with Dennis Abel & Stefan Jünger on how weather extremes shape climate policy support across political orientations. Grateful for the inspiring environment and great collaboration!

Missed this, but amazing feeling to be known by this great bot! 😎

It would make government formation more difficult, coalitions less stable and decrease governability. Small parties like SGP and CU play a crucial role in ensuring the governability of this country. Larger parties make the country difficult to govern with their mutual vetos

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner: Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries Harmonized roles/policy areas Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940 Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p ⬇️

There's a fascinating case study to be done on the different strategies of Macron and Sánchez. Both emerged, against the odds, from centrist milieux in the mid-2010s to lead their countries since 2017/18. But their fates are totally different.

I'm super happy & proud to be able to work with this rock star group of a team (and academic guests)! 🧠🧠🧠💫🙏 @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social - and it's really nice to check out parts of Frankfurt that I hadn't been to as part of our team event

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

I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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.

I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section. I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.

🚨 🚨 🚨 New OA publication in Research&Politics @respol.bsky.social.bsky.social‬ out today: #Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to ✝️ #religiosity but highly correlated with #farright attitudes. A short 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Want more research on the #radicalright 📚 in your timeline? Easy: follow the 🤖

I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... The paper situates discussions about the Educational Cleavage in a longer temporal context (back to the Medieval time) to show that there have ALWAYS been conflicts between educational groups. (1/3)

New paper in @prxjournal.bsky.social We conducted 4 experiments in Germany to examine how voters respond when opposition parties choose conflict or cooperation with the government. Findings: Cooperation tends to win more support 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2474... #polisky

Education is king in today's societies - socially, economically, & politically. @garritzmannj.bsky.social shows how conflict between educational groups transformed multiple times since the Middle Ages. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"

Wie sollten Medien mit einer Partei wie der AfD umgehen? Darüber wird seit Jahren intensiv diskutiert. Immer wieder fällt dabei der Blick nach Wallonien – doch taugt das belgische Beispiel überhaupt als Vorbild? Darüber habe ich mit @uebermedien.de gesprochen. 👇

🧵 Do radical parties receive fewer ministries? I investigated this fundamental question in my first single-authored article which is now online in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Find out here 👇

Check out @timo-sprang.net's first single-authored paper, out now in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! Radical Weakness—Do Radical Parties Receive Fewer Ministries? He argues & shows empirically that radical parties systematically receive fewer ministries journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Congrats Timo!!

I know y'all just want to watch the #ESC in peace, but 📢 :The Spring 2025 update to the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right is out! 180 new titles added, making it the second-largest update ever. Radical right research is growing fast. Like the #RadicalRight ☹️ #PoliticalScience

welcome to bluesky @konstadulin.bsky.social! Follow Konstantin, he's an expert on higher education policy, financialization, student loan debt, etc. Exciting work!

1 more week to apply to one of 2 postdoc positions, 5-years each, in my @erc.europa.eu project!

Shock, but no surprise. The only unexpected thing about this is the timing #farright #radicalright #Germany

This is super exciting!