Studienzeit - Fadenzeit. Erst gilt das angesichts der historischen Bedeutung des heutigen Tages, denn heute vor genau 53 Jahren fand die erste vorgezogene Bundestagswahl EVER statt. Noch dazu waren erstmals auch 18-, 19- u 20-Jährige dabei. Grund genug für eine Jugendwahlstudie zur BTW25.

🚀 Seit heute steht unser vielfältiges Programm für die diesjährige #AKPF Jahrestagung in Berlin! Wir freuen uns auf 18 Vorträge in 6 Panels zum Thema #Parteien und #Bundestagswahl! 🙌 Auch ohne Vortrag kann man sich sehr gerne bis zum 30.9. anmelden und mitdiskutieren! Mehr Infos 👇 @dvpw.bsky.social

✨We have a great line-up with work by Rune Stubager, @micagrossmann.bsky.social, Garret Binding, @denisetraber.bsky.social, @magneflemmen.bsky.social, Marta Eidheim, @pstanig.bsky.social, Lewis Anderson, Geoff Evans, Sung in Kim, @marvinreis.bsky.social (days 1-2)

How does social inequality affect the acceptance of vaccinations? 📰 In a recent article published in the journal Scientific Reports the authors examine the impact of social inequality on the uptake of the #COVID-19 vaccine. @nature.com 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Publication alert @pvs-journal.bsky.social! In a new research note, @marcdebus.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I investigate how past support for far-right extremist parties shaped the AfD's electoral success in the 2024 European elections. A thread 🧵. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

1. Ist sie, ich habe darüber neulich auch schon mal geschrieben. Jetzt habe ich es mir nochmal genauer im Zeitverlauf angeschaut und siehe da: Es war nicht immer so. Und man kann sehr genau sagen, seit wann es diese Diskrepanz gibt. 🧵

🚨Exited to share new research on COVID-19 vaccine uptake in Germany! Together with our colleagues, @nielsmichalski.bsky.social and I examined how educational attainment and area-level socioeconomic deprivation affected vaccine uptake during the first 10 months of the 2021 campaign.

#polsci Any recommendations for replicable papers on inequality and political behaviour/attitudes? I’m currently designing my class and still searching for publications that apply the #openscience format Shameless self-promotion is encouraged!!

Happy German Unity Day 🎉 That day of the year to share some maps we produced a few years back with @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social 👉 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Today @danielkuhlen.bsky.social, @jocmuel.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I released StatePol – a database on 🇩🇪 state MPs and cabinet members! statepol.github.io/Database/ A 📄 examining trends in descriptive representation in 🇩🇪 state politics is out @pvs-journal.bsky.social. bit.ly/statepol

In January, we are going to launch the Progressive Politics Research Network (PPRNet). It is our goal to make research findings more accessible for the broader public and to engage with journalists, politicians and other practitioners. We focus on the left and progressive field.