La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz

Very excited to present new research with @dasalgon.bsky.social at the University of Barcelona @cpoliticaub.bsky.social We look at how self-determination protests in Catalonia 2015-2019 were represented in Madrid-based media (El País and El Mundo). Can't imagine a better place to present this!

Looking forward to presenting some work in progress with @dasalgon.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social at @powimz.bsky.social today!

I defended my dissertation last week! 🎉🎉🎉 I examine how mainstream parties & media respond to far-right challengers. Thanks so much to everyone who supported me along the way. I’m happy to carry on at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & continue ongoing work on reactionary politics & democratic defence.

📢 New article out (co-authored w/ @mportosg.bsky.social), just published in Social Forces (@sfjournal.bsky.social): "Breaking the mold: The changing modularity of protest forms during cycles of contention" doi.org/10.1093/sf/s... A 🧵 with the main takeaways from the article 👇

💥 Our paper is now out in Political Behavior - I'm very happy about it! We show how confrontational protest affects different dimensions of public opinion compared to demonstrative protest 👇 I also talked to ZEIT Online about our pre-print & the context a while ago: www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...

❗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

📢 Out April 16th: Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action? co-authored with Aidan Regan, Cyril Benoit & Tim Vlandas. As fuel prices rise and governments buckle under competing pressures, the book could not be more timely. www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (1/6)

Die neue APuZ #Zivilgesellschaft ist da: mit Texten von @swenhutter.bsky.social und @janapriemer.bsky.social, Tobias Montag, Siri Hummel, @nilskumkar.bsky.social, Wolfgang Schroeder und @viviankube.bsky.social - ab sofort bei @bpb.de bestellbar und morgen im "Parlament". www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...

My first publication is out in @wepsocial.bsky.social , with @lennartschuermann.bsky.social ✨ We analyze how protest increases before different types of elections. We show crucial differences in how civil society and parties prioritize elections in a multilevel system. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Street mobilisation during election campaigns in multilevel systems: a supply–demand analysis" with @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social — now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2634027 1/6

This is from Keir Starmer’s letter to Labour MPs today. This sort of stuff is shockingly partisan and nasty. It will only backfire with voters who switched to Green or are thinking of switching.

Im Oktober habe ich zusammen mit @w-i-d.de einen Multistakeholder-Dialog am @wzb.bsky.social organisiert. Worüber wir diskutiert und uns ausgetauscht haben, kann man nun hier nachlesen 👇

65.1🦋 #FarRight amplifiers 🔊 @dasalgon.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social show how far-right actors increasingly shape the agendas of mainstream parties, particularly around Islam, migration & cultural issues. #AfD

Ok, this is wild: an AI agent autonomously shames a developer because the latter didn't accept a pull request (we are talking matplotlib here) theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."

Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... @chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social

Two new articles in Party Politics With @gessler.bsky.social Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data" doi.org/10.1177/1354... With Hanspeter Kriesi "Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe" doi.org/10.1177/1354... Feedback very welcome!

Can culture help to explain prejudice? We (@maxschaub.bsky.social) explore this question by examining the rise of antisemitism during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. @wzb.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social @politikuhh.bsky.social @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes? doi.org/10.1017/S153... @kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social

In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵

Publication Alert 🚨 Our paper on the effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support has been published in the APSR! @apsrjournal.bsky.social Below is a summary of the results Extremely grateful to have written this with the wonderful @malojan.bsky.social and @theodoretallent.bsky.social 🥳

🚨NEW PAPER The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public. It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄

🔔 New paper on party brands with @swenhutter.bsky.social in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social We study the supply (how parties call themselves) and demand (what voters reward) sides. We pair a new European dataset of party names with conjoint experiments on voter reactions OA 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More: wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428... Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️

BITTE REPOSTEN! Wir brauchen Daten! Im Rahmen eines meiner Seminare @powimz.bsky.social sollen die Studis eigene Erfahrungen mit der Datenerhebung sammeln. Dazu haben wir eine Umfrage zusammengestellt (ca. 10 Min.). Wir sind dankbar für jede*n Teilnehmer*in :) survey.zdv.uni-mainz.de/index.php/34...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Brand Transformation in #European #Politics: The Rise and Limits of #Nonclassical #Names By @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Join us! Wir bieten eine volle Promotionsstelle für drei Jahre @powimz.bsky.social - Verlängerung um weitere drei Jahre möglich. Alle Details hier 👇

99-0. Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & yet, here we are.

I’m excited to share that my first book came out this summer! The book looks at how EU state aid cases become politicised (and de-politicised) and what this means for the EU’s legitimacy. At its core, the book shows how competition policy is never just technical, but also deeply political.

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt - a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage - 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵

Two PhD Positions in Project about Protests in Africa @sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD researchers in our project „Welfare States and Protest: Understanding the Contentious Outcomes of Social Policy in Africa". Application deadline is 14.1.26: www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Once again in re: the utterly abject poverty of the “Democrats Must Not Talk Funny because they are Alienating Real Folkz” Discourse™️ that we have suffered through in the last year while the Republicans keep Doing A Fascism & calling people “vermin” & “morons” & "piggy" & this hateful nonsense.

I am thrilled to have welcomed Martin Schulz to my lecture on European integration! The students were very interested in discussing the current challenges and opportunities of the European Union with him. By the way, it's my first time holding a Vorlesung as a Gastprofessor this semester at FU.

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👇

Join us tomorrow! @hertieschool.bsky.social @ankuepfer.bsky.social

Is meritocratic ideology an "opium of the masses" of sorts that tames redistributive demands? Not for lower income strata. The myriad mechanisms through which the rich exert disproportionate influence are probably better explanations of why we do not observe higher redistribution. Check it out!😊👇

“The U.S. military has killed more than 80 people since the campaign began in early September. But it does not know who specifically is being killed, and the strikes were not designed to take out high-ranking cartel leaders.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.

Ende letzter Woche stufte das US-Außenministerium #AntifaOst als ausländische Terrororganisation ein. Mit dem epd sprach über das Label: www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/2496...

SAVE THE DATE! We are pleased to announce that the 8th COMPTEXT Conference will take place at the Institute of Data and AI (lnkd.in/ebN7za_Q) of the University of Birmingham, 23-25 April 2026, with @chrisguarnold.bsky.social serving as the lead local organiser. Call for Papers coming soon!

🚨🎉New Publication Friday 🎉🚨 Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians w/ @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social & @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social Out now in Political Communication. #polisky #commsky doi.org/10.1080/1058...

💡New publication with @tevoelker.bsky.social and @swenhutter.bsky.social: "Civil Society and Democracy" In: List, R.A., Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Welchen Beitrag leisten »Mainstream-Parteien« zur Normalisierung von #rechtsextreme​m Gedankengut? Wie die extreme #Rechte die #Politik der Mitte beeinflusst, haben @tevoelker.bsky.social und @dasalgon.bsky.social von der @wzb.bsky.social in ihrer #Studie zu »Far-right #AgendaSetting« erforscht:

Next week my partner, Lenka Vrablikova, will become a liver donor to her identical twin Katka. They are raising money to cover the costs this life-saving surgery . Please donate if you are able to: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-katka...

We are hiring a PhD student to join us at the @hertiesecurity.bsky.social (start Sept. 2026)! If you want to conduct research on topics related to digital authoritarianism, state repression, contentious politics or social movements online, then this job might be for you!