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Postdoctoral researcher @TU Chemnitz - Political parties and polarization. tichelbaecker.com
I’m thrilled to share that I defended my dissertation on Monday! It examines how local elites help new parties attract voters and build local branches, using a unique dataset of ~450,000 local candidates in Germany. It took not one but three villages to write this. A 🧵 1/6
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Denis Cohen
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Just published in
@bjpols.bsky.social
:
@sergipardos.bsky.social
and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment.
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Jeyhun Alizade
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Glad to see this out at
@ajpseditor.bsky.social
! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties.
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Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ajps.70013
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Noam Gidron
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Thinking about immigration from a cultural perspective heightens distrust of political opponents—with Adams,
@rwillh11.bsky.social
and
@ttichelbaecker.bsky.social
at
@bjpols.bsky.social
. Might interest scholars of polarization and ideology, and those analyzing open-ended questions.
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Arndt Leininger
7 months ago
Another great paper by
@ttichelbaecker.bsky.social
of now also TU Chemnitz. Congrats, Thomas!
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British Journal of Political Science
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NEW - Beyond Observational Relationships: Evidence from a Ten-Country Experiment that Policy Disputes Cause Affective Polarization -
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@noamgidron.bsky.social
, James Adams,
@rwillh11.bsky.social
&
@ttichelbaecker.bsky.social
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Important research by
@annekreft.bsky.social
reveals the scale and impact of political violence in Germany. Drawing on a survey of over 1,400 politicians, the study shows that 1 in 5 politicians reduces their political activity as a result.
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Felicia Riethmüller
8 months ago
Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in
#PartyPolitics
! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals. 🔓:
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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Sofia Ammassari
8 months ago
Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been conditionally accepted in
@cpsjournal.bsky.social
! Drawing on membership surveys of the League 🇮🇹 and the Sweden Democrats 🇸🇪, I show that women members are *more active* than men because they are more embedded in party networks.
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Arndt Leininger
8 months ago
Another great publication by
@ttichelbaecker.bsky.social
and his first with TU Chemnitz affiliation: "Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics" out in EJPR.
#openaccess
Thanks for helping us put Chemnitz on the map, Thomas!
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Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/
@jeyalizade.bsky.social
,
@fabioellger.bsky.social
and
@mgruenewald.bsky.social
exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply.
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017
A 🧵 with findings
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Arndt Leininger
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New 📰: In "Can Individual MPs Damage Their Party’s Brand? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Public Procurement Corruption Scandal" out in
@thejop.bsky.social
@lukrudolph.bsky.social
and I show that the "mask affair" cost the CDU 4%-points in elections.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار
over 1 year ago
🚨 Just published in American Political Science Review 🚨 with Durgesh Pathak
@sarahthompson.bsky.social
and Aliz Toth We show that strategic messaging by party leaders can effectively shape volunteer rank&file recruitment with consequences for long-term party development
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Johanna Rickne
9 months ago
We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩
@abrarbawati.bsky.social
,
@josefinemagnusson.bsky.social
Moa Frödin
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Korinna Lindemann
9 months ago
New preprint available! In this paper,
@antvalentim.bsky.social
and I investigate why progressive parties, such as the greens, might be more attractive for immigrants from established democracies than those from (post-)authoritarian regimes:
osf.io/preprints/os...
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Noam Gidron
9 months ago
🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit,
@liorsheffer.bsky.social
and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization.
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Timea Balogh
10 months ago
🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with
@rwillh11.bsky.social
, James Adams,
@simonweschle.bsky.social
, and
@cbwlezien.bsky.social
!! Out today @JEPOP
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?
Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457289.2024.2429533#abstract
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Excited to share that I’ve joined the team led by
@aleininger.bsky.social
at TU Chemnitz as research fellow. I’m looking forward to exploring the legacies of democratic transitions and to connecting with my new colleagues in Chemnitz!
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Felix Haass
12 months ago
My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data:
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Very happy that our
@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social
Element is now out!
@noamgidron.bsky.social
and I review the two dimensional framework and how it resonates with ordinary citizens! Check out
@noamgidron.bsky.social
's 🧵 to see what we find! 👇
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Arndt Leininger
about 1 year ago
🚨 Job alert: I have an opening for a researcher position (65% FTE, 2 years) in a project on "Elite Affective Polarization in Israel and Germany" funded by the German Israeli Foundation and conducted jointly w/
@liorsheffer.bsky.social
. 🗓️ 17/01/2021
www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...
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Rahsaan Maxwell
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Do you think framing immigration debates as pro vs anti is oversimplified? If so, you'll appreciate our new research note in IMR (w M Helbling, F Jaeger, R Traumueller). We examine preferences for immigration policies across a wide range of detailed proposals (1/n)
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Laia Balcells
about 2 years ago
What Difference Do Museums Make? A chapter co-authored with Elsa Voytas in the Oxford Handbook of Transitional Justice
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Vincent Heddesheimer
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1/ New Pre-Print When do firms engage in climate politics? We argue that lobbying occurrence, intensity, and targeting depend on the multifaceted potential impacts of climate change on firms. A short 🧵https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/yq27d/ Polisky
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Delighted that this article on measures of affective polarization w/ NoamGidron, Will Horne and Jim Adams is now available online in POQ 🥳 We examine the relationship between hostility towards out-parties and out-partisans across 10 countries. Our novel dataset is also available on dataverse!
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What Do We Measure When We Measure Affective Polarization across Countries?
Abstract. Measures of affective polarization—that is, dislike and hostility across party lines—have been developed and validated in the context of America’s two
https://academic.oup.com/poq/advance-article/doi/10.1093/poq/nfad033/7277372
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