💡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/...

miami herald apparent scoop: venezuela strikes are imminent www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

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!

I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!

Our recent paper on civil society and cleavage formation (w @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social) was featured in the Research-in-Brief series at @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social. Check out their summary of the project here 😊 cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/news/civil-s...

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

Our new article "Far-right contention in civil society"@europeansocieties.bsky.social is out now: direct.mit.edu/euso/article... Check the thread below for a summary ⬇️

I contributed some quotes citing our research to this @euobserver.com piece on the German center-right's relation to the far right. 🔗 euobserver.com/migration/ar... TDLR: We are witnessing a shift in the party of Merkel's "Yes we can" towards ethno-nationalist frames widely used by the far right.

💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social: 📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets" 🧵A short thread about the paper:

Delighted to see @theguardian.com covering the findings of a 🇩🇪 study by @dasalgon.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social on how political opponents can unintentionally amplify far-right narratives #AfD 🗞️ 📘 Read their article in our First View, or check out the coverage 📰

Mit WDR 3 Resonanzen habe ich heute über die Aussagen von Friedrich Merz gesprochen, darüber wie sein Kurs die radikale Rechte normalisiert und stärkt und warum er vielleicht mal öfter mit jungen Frauen sprechen sollte. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

Wie die AfD die Rhetorik der anderen Parteien beeinflusst&die Debatte zu Migration bestimmt. Die Ergebnissen unseres Papers mit @dasalgon.bsky.social in der @tagesschau.bsky.social

If you've been reading that fantastic new paper by @dasalgon.bsky.social & @tevoelker.bsky.social on how mainstream parties lose if they adopt far-right issues: We looked at a case study & found similar dynamics for media. This was partly based on data from Daniel & Teresa!❤️ bsky.app/profile/curd...

"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study. @tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read! Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN

Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"

“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right” How much more research do journalisten, politicians, pundits and strategists need before they finally change course?

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

In our new article, @tevoelker.bsky.social and I show how far-right actors have increased their influence on mainstream parties' agenda-setting. For the @euobserver.com, Hannah Kriwah has written about our study, and I had the pleasure to comment on it. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 far right; mainstream parties; political communication; agenda setting; automated text analysis @dasalgon.bsky.social · @tevoelker.bsky.social @ejprjournal.bsky.social

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

🆕 Research by @dasalgon.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social shows how far-right actors increasingly shape the agendas of mainstream parties—especially around Islam, migration & cultural issues. 📖 buff.ly/PbHSKpC #politics #communication #mainstreaming”

How do populists define “the people”? @tiondelisa.bsky.social examines how right-wing populists construct ingroup identity through opposition. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/sGDTDQV @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci #ECRs

#NeuesAusDerForschung @dasalgon.bsky.social und @tevoelker.bsky.social unterstreichen in ihrer Analyse (für Deutschland, seit 1990), dass die Übernahme rechtsextremer Positionen durch andere Parteien deren Ideologie und Positionen normalisiert und verbreitet: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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 ⬇️

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

👏 Die 100 wichtigsten Köpfe der Berliner Wissenschaft: Wir gratulieren dem Soziologen Dr. Eylem Kanol, dem Historiker Dr. Hanno Hochmut und Politikwissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Thorsten Faas, @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de im sechsten Teil der Serie des @tagesspiegel.de

Hochaktuell sind die neuen WZB-Mitteilungen zum Thema Weltordnung, denn die Regeln, nach denen das globale Zusammenleben über Jahrzehnte funktionierte, gelten nicht mehr. Ein Heft über Krieg & Frieden, über Demokratie, Profit & Wissenschaft, über China, Amerika und die EU. www.wzb.eu/de/publikati...

From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT). rdcu.be/eIkms

👋🎉 We welcome our new BA & MA students in their first semester! 🎓 Join us for our Introduction Event on 📅 7 October! Find the 🕙 program here: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/soziologi...

Some professional news as I took my oath of office today: On September 1st, I joined the University of Hamburg as a full professor of democratic political decision making👋 I'm very excited about this job & the chance to continue researching democracy, party competition and digitalization here 1/2

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Congratulations! 🏆 Penny Goldberg receives the A.SK Social Science Award 2025. The WZB honors the economist @yalejackson.bsky.social for her research on global trade linkages and inequality. www.wzb.eu/en/press-rel... 📅This year's award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out: Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape" with @sophiahunger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

New article on parliamentary reactions 👏 (with @jocmuel.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social) online first at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

💥Online first: "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Very excited to be at APSA in Vancouver this week! I am looking forward to the conference and to many interesting presentations. #apsa2025 Let me know if you would like to grab a coffee and discuss any of the topics that I'll be talking about ⬇️

Please consider signing this petition and supporting the great political science research and teaching at the University of Cologne!

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

@wzb.bsky.social is looking for a new director Two weeks left to apply; these are really great permanent senior positions with resources to support an ambitious research agenda hugely important topic www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... please share with people not on here

📢 Launching this fall: PolCom Classics! A monthly online webinar where leading scholars revisit “classic” themes in political communication - mis/disinfo, framing, digitalization & more. 🗓 Every last Thu, 12–13 CET First session: Sept 25 w/ @rensvliegenthart.bsky.social. @nefca.bsky.social

One of the several reasons why a bunch of senior officials in the GWB administration needed to go to jail was precisely so that we did not arrive at the point we are now with 👇, & disappearances/renditions, & all the other things, happening daily, totally divorced from both domestic & int'l law.

📢 Call for papers: "Political Identities in Europe" workshop, Nov 13-14, 2025 @uvahumanities.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social How are political identities constructed across Europe? Deadline: Sept 26, 2025. 🔗 Info & submission: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Es ist ermüdend. Die immer gleichen abgedroschenen und unfundierten Narrative über die Linke und den Aufstieg der radikalen Rechten. Was macht man aber wenn Leitmedien unbeirrt von Kritik und journalistischen Standards den Unsinn reproduzieren? Der immer gleiche Tanz aus Provokation und Empörung...

On Thursday at 8:30: I'll be presenting joint work with @dasalgon.bsky.social on how parties react to political violence and contribute to political polarisation. @kanol.bsky.social , Gary LaFree and I organised a panel with excellent cotributions by @britdavidson.bsky.social and Leoni Heyn

Tomorrow 10:45: I'll be presenting a working paper with @lennartschuermann.bsky.social which shows that effective state action against the far right increases public support for democracy. This is part of the great panel by @larboe.bsky.social , @javidibad.bsky.social & @sldelange.bsky.social

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08