My article has officially moved from Online First into a fixed issue. Wanna find out why radicals receive fewer ministries when joining government coalitions? Read the full paper (open acces 🥳) here in the newest issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Die Linke pulled off a surprise win in Germany’s most recent federal election and has suddenly become one of the most closely watched parties in Europe’s progressive politics. Behind the success lies a continuing structural transformation of its geographic support base. A short thread🧵

I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...

📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July

Delighted to see Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action? reviewed in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social. Daniel J. Fiorino describes the book as "a thoughtful, insightful analysis of the politics of climate mitigation". Many thanks for the thoughtful review, Daniel! doi.org/10.1017/S153...

📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

🚨🎉 New Publication 🚨🎉 I contributed a chapter on "Campaigning and Digital Media" to Developments in American Politics 10. Somewhat surreal to be writing for a textbook that I used in my undergraduate degree. Thanks to the outstanding editorial team: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Die „Thüringer Zustände 2025" sind erschienen und zeigen eine klare Entwicklung: Rechtsextreme Positionen sind 2025 sichtbarer, sagbarer und alltäglicher geworden. Der bereits im Vorjahr beobachtete Rechtsruck – insbesondere unter Jugendlichen – hat sich fortgesetzt.

Britain is about to have its seventh Prime Minister in just over a decade - but is Brexit to blame? Read my thoughts in the LSE British Politics blog @lseblogs.bsky.social ✏️ blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

10 years of Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving. People say “we now see the chaotic effects”, but actually some of them manifested immediately after, disrupting basic public goods 💦🌊 ⬇️ Nominally order and sovereignty were restored in 2021, but really we just fossilized a new bad equilibrium.

Do far-right parties gain electoral support by embedding their members in sports clubs, cultural societies and volunteer fire brigades? Excited to present my research on far-right infiltration of civil society at #EPSS2026 tomorrow! 🗓️ Saturday, 3:20 - 5:00 pm 📍Broadway (Hilton)

Very happy to be presenting joint work with @hannaschwander.bsky.social & @mistermenzner.bsky.social at #EPSS2026 today. We examine support for militant democracy & when citizens favour restricting the rights of political organsiations. Hope to see you there! 🕰️ Today, 15.20-17.00 (ICC, Hall 2a)

Why is the Europe-wide strive for power by radical right parties not sparking more of a reaction by opposing voters? At #EPSS2026, I present what if hopefully only the beginning of a project on that question. Come around and tell me what you think 🤝 📅 Friday, 9:00-10:40 📍 Boardroom (Hilton)

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

Looking forward to presenting at #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week! @klingelt.bsky.social and I hand-collected 10,000+ campaign posters in Berlin and use automated image analysis to study placement and content strategies across parties THU, 5:10–6:50pm, Brookfield (Hilton) @epssnet.bsky.social

On my way to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast. I'm very much looking forward to presenting two papers! Paper I on party strategies in contested liberal democracies: 13:30-15:10, 20 June, Lagan B (Hilton)

Excited to be in Belfast for the first time for #EPSS. Tomorrow, I’ll be presenting at two panels. One at 9am on citizens' evaluation of political representatives, and the second at 3.20pm on climate and security. Looking forward to connecting with old friends and meeting new colleagues!

🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/…

Looking forward to presenting ongoing work on how growing up amid rapid deindustrialization shaped support for Brexit at CES in Dublin and #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week: CES: Tuesday, June 16, 9-10:30am, O'Connor Building - L1.20 EPSS: Thursday, June 18, 3:20-5pm, Meeting Room 3b (ICC)

Excited for #epss2026, where I'll share work about immigrants' occupational essentialness and public views on welfare: Friday, 10.50, Broadway (Hilton). With stellar coauthors @jacquibroadhead.bsky.social @mfreino.bsky.social @deniskierans.bsky.social @isabel-ruiz.bsky.social @msumption.bsky.social

Say hello to our incoming Editors in Chief @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social at #ecpg2026! Michal and Maarja will lead our new Editorial Team from July 2026

‪ 📢 OUT NOW: „Thüringer Zustände 2025“: Rechtsextreme Positionen sind sichtbarer, sagbarer & alltäglicher geworden. Bestellt die Printausgabe über die Herausgeber*innen oder lest online rein: www.idz-jena.de/fileadmin/us...

Looking forward to the 1st @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast this week! #EPSS2026 @kenbenoit.bsky.social & I organise the Political Communication Section covering 17 panels & a wide range of exciting and highly topical subjects. Do come along 😀⬇️ Full programme: tinyurl.com/47eu732s

Off to a conference marathon: first @ces-europe.bsky.social in Dublin, then @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast. At CES, @dnwildi.bsky.social and I present papers on the climate divide and LLM claims analysis. In Belfast, @dasalgon.bsky.social presents our Chile/Spain movement parties paper. ☕/🍻? DM me!

Which country do people think their government should learn from AND what do politicians do when public opinion and evidence disagree? Come by my @epssnet.bsky.social panels on Friday at 15:20 (ICC, Room 3A) and at 9:00 (Glenbank, Hilton). The other presenters are asking even better questions.

I will be at EPSS this week, with the following projects: "Reindustrialization and Political Change" (with @hannohilbig.bsky.social @vheddesheimer.bsky.social) at PE03: Politics of Artificial Intelligence and Labour "The Lifecycle of the Class Vote" (with @noahdasanaike.bsky.social) at

Ein Muster, das sich wiederholt: Die AfD droht Hochschulen juristisch, wenn AfD-kritische Veranstaltungen stattfinden. Hochschulen sagen ab und begründen es mit „Neutralitätsgebot". An der TU Berlin trifft es diesmal 14 Veranstaltungen des studentischen Kongresses „Take Back The Future" des SDS

We are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.

🎉 Publication Day! 🥳 And this one feels special: after many years of wondering about, studying, and learning from #PartyYouthWings, my comparative study on German PYWs is now out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S175... 🔓 #OpenAccess @ecpr.bsky.social

New paper, with Patrick Fournier & @zeynsom.bsky.social, out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... a brief 🧵

Please check the EPSS diversity-related events and notes and join us next week!

Wie wahrscheinlich ist, dass Unileitungen ihre Mitarbeiter gegen eine regierende AfD schützen werden, wenn sie schon bei einer Mail vom Anwalt einknicken?

Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words. Link below: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social

Very happy to see our book "Trigger Points" finally out in English, and fully open access! Hopefully a useful resource for anyone working on polarization, class, inequality, migration, diversity, and climate change.

🚨 🚨 🚨 new publication (with @antonialang.bsky.social) klaxon!!! Over the past decade, scholars have increasingly turned to “place” as a key factor in political behaviour — particularly on the far right, in Europe & the US. Urban-rural divides are especially intriguing. But are they true cleavages? 🤔

We are hiring! Let me know if you have any questions about working with us.

📢 PhD position in Political Science Join the ERC-funded #DEMOLAW project, studying the design, creation and survival of democratic laws across the US, UK and EU using computational methods. 📍 Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen 📅 Apply by 12 July 2026 #PhD #PoliticalScience #AcademicJobs

DGS-Stellenmarkt: Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d): College for Social Sciences and Humanities, Universitätsallianz Ruhr, Essen

A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

🚨 What happens with voters when politicians use simpler language? New @thejop.bsky.social paper with @rsenninger.bsky.social: simple language changes not just what citizens understand, but who they think politicians are. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Und ja, wir verwenden den Begriff "Rassismus" viel zu selten, wenn wir über rechtsextreme Akteure und Medien sprechen. Obwohl es genau darum geht: Rassismus.

Super excited to share that the first study of my PhD just got published (w/ Michael Hameleers, @lindabos.bsky.social, @tonivdmeer.bsky.social)! We disentangle audiences’ understanding of misinformation threats and how they arrive at their perceptions: doi.org/10.1177/10776990261451790

🚨New paper out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social! I examine how high rental prices influence local political satisfaction in German cities. 🔎🏢 doi.org/10.1017/S175... For a preview of the results check the 🧵below👇:

🎉🎉🎉 The inaugural EPSS Conference in Belfast is just around the corner! Join us in Belfast from 18th to 20th of June, 2026 🎉🎉 🎉

📢 Happy to share our new paper, just out in the European Political Science Review! 🎉 "Priming common European and democratic values does not reduce affective polarization" cambridge.org/core/journal... Short thread 🧵👇

We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

Why knowing who is more likely to vote for a political party doesn't necessarily explain the party's overall electoral success- our new paper with Tim Vlandas out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...

Our book presentation “key texts of the Alt-Right” takes place this Thursday at @humboldtuni.bsky.social Come by and listen to our analyses of right-wing “scholars” such as Jordan B. Peterson, Martin Lichtmesz and Björn Höcke.