My first paper is out! Co-authored with @falkscheidig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

🚨 New Article in Politics and Governance When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction By @schnizzl.bsky.social and S. Kritzinger 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🧵 1/6 #Polisky

🚨 Western democracies are often described as polarized. @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social + I study how polarization actually feels. Now published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, we asked citizens in 5 European countries to report their emotions ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In the age of AI, there's a lot of talk about students not doing real work anymore. As a teacher, I catch myself focusing on the struggles rather than the wins. Time to fix that. A thread highlighting standout papers from my quantitative methods seminar last term @univie.ac.at. 🧵

Upcoming Guest Talk! 🎤 We are happy to announce that @jwaeckerle.bsky.social will be holding a talk about the interplay of power and femininity in politics on 4th of May. Not in Vienna? Feel free to join online! Find all details here: staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

O lance dos "tribunais dos vitoriosos" é sinistro porque eles também decidem quem não vão se sentar no banco dos réus. Basta ver o que aconteceu no Japão, onde os EUA pouparam uma penca de criminoso ao darem anistia em troca de informações sobre a Unidade 731 e seus experimentos biológicos.

Hitler's NSDAP never gained the support of more than one-third of voters in free and fair elections! Just like far-right leaders today, Hitler came to power because of the collaboration of right-wing elites, who either wanted to "fight off the left" or thought they could play the far right.

🚨 New paper with great co-authors (@oguzhan-alkan.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @zeynsom.bsky.social) in Political Behavior! How well do citizens perceive where parties stand? 🤔 Open access: rdcu.be/fb83Z

One in four ballots cast from overseas in Japan's general election arrived too late to be counted. www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZ...

🎉 New release! An updated version of the #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 (SUF edition) is now available via @aussda.bsky.social. 📊 Now includes the post–coalition formation wave (March 2025). 🔗 Download & explore: doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #openscience #elections #PoliSky

Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!

イラン攻撃に関する世論調査をまとめました。

In fairness, we did have a president vomit on a Japanese prime minister's lap.

If you are a PhD student researching on legislative studies, the Summer School of the @sgparliaments.bsky.social is an excellent opportunity to expand your network and to present and discuss your own research, all of that under the supervision of renowned scholars on the field.

Delighted to see our collaboration out in doi print 🎉 In this paper, we qualitatively and quantitatively analyse the concept of 'electoral personalism' through the case of Milei in Argentina and identify 3 key elements: self-promotion, ideological rhetoric and moral appeals. See link for more 👇

The kind of question that provokes an identity crisis among Austrian scholars 😬

This is like watching Trump bankrupt a casino in real time. Except this time we are the casino.

During the Brazilian Carnival, the São Paulo police dressed up as the Scooby Doo gang to arrest criminals.

Obrigado @radioescafandro.bsky.social e @tomaschiaverini.bsky.social por mais um episódio desgraçado. O episódio não é ruim; pelo contrário, é excelente. Desgraçado porque mostra que nada no Brasil escapa dos interesses mafiosos de certas castas. Mas obrigado por me fazer odiar ainda mais o Moro.

Japanese ojisan need to urgently stop with this whole culture of "resign to take responsibility". Did you face a major loss? Then put your s**t together, reorganize, plan accordingly, and prepare better for the next time. You don't take responsibility by throwing a bomb on your successor's hands.

Heartbreaking to see how the UK is destroying its excellent higher education system.

第51回衆院選・政党別「優勢度順」情勢一覧表 note.com/miraisyakai/... ここでは、小選挙区に立候補した1119人を、政党ごとに各社の情勢報道にもとづいて並べ替えています。各政党の状況がだいたい一目でわかると思います。6回目の更新を反映しました。

As a former Hachioji resident (Tokyo 24th constituency), I've always been disturbed by the fact that Hagiuda had that much of support. And now seeing him, especially after the major corruption scandal he was involved in the recent past, being side-by-side with the CRA candidate makes it even worse 🤦🏻‍♂️

Austria loses its WHO status as measles-free, too, together with Armenia, Azerbaijan Uzbekistan and Spain. This comes as no surprise, considering the rise in numbers in recent years and the decline in MMR vaccine coverage #VaccineHesitancy #PublicHealthImpact #AllChildrenNeedProtection

🚨 Job Alert! We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”. Start: March 1, 2026 Application deadline: February 2, 2026 Find out more👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Very excited to see the campaigns rolling. I still believe that the relationship between Komeito and CDP will remain as disproportional as it was before with the LDP (the gyaku-kyouyo illustrated by @miraisyakai.bsky.social).

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

Every day I’m more surprised by how childish and how much of a bully he can be (hey @asslatam.bsky.social, please keep Bluesky updated! 😅)

🚨Job Alert! The Department of Government is looking for a PhD researcher with a focus on political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy or political behaviour. Start: October 1, 2026 Deadline: January 28, 2026 Interested? Find out more: tinylink.net/CiQaE

After Bukele endorsed Trump's intervention in Venezuela, Senator Ruben Gallego asked if Bukele would be okay if the US invaded El Salvador to extradite him.

From my favorite U.S. cartoonist @mluckovich.bsky.social (already weeks ago).

Wow. I'm really looking forward to seeing the campaigns and outcomes of the next elections to the Japanese Lower House (hopefully soon, to not lose the timing), especially to see if the reversed-supply model was actually working or if the LDP was the only benefitted in the former coalition.

2025 is nearly over, thank you to our followers! We're running our traditional Craziest Moment (and politician) of the Year contest again. Share your candidates below, and let us know if we missed any! Merry Christmas Feliz Navidad Feliz Natal

No surprises, but Kast won the elections in Chile after getting much of the support from the center and moderate-right. And now the world will have for the first time a literal descendent of the Nazi regime in power. Kast's father was a Nazi official who fled from Germany to scape the trials.

Agora não tenho mais desculpa pra não apoiar a @radioescafandro.bsky.social e o @tomaschiaverini.bsky.social

👀 Political Sciences at University of Vienna ranked #33 worldwide... www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gra... @univie.ac.at #rankings

Bruno Abbud é jornalista e escritor autor do livro Nobres Traficantes. No nosso episódio 151, ele contou a história cinematográfica de um traficante que transportava grandes quantidades de cocaína do Brasil para a Austrália. Escute: open.spotify.com/episode/5oyD...

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

Que mané "I've called home my entire life" tu era golpista em Niterói rapá

"A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife’s sister’s husband." A parte do cara com mata virgem no quintal de casa preocupado com o cara com elevador pra iate, que por sua vez se preocupa com o genro chegando de helicóptero, foi bem isso aqui haha Episódio sensacional!

"In a month Chile will elect a new president. The race is between a communist, Jeannette Jara, and the son of a real Nazi official, José Antonio Kast. The Kast in Chile are the sole direct descendants of the Nazi involved with politics in the entire world (besides some smaller ones in Germany)"

Giving the Peace Nobel to María Corina Machado (MCM) is a terrible decision that signals the world that everything (yes, everything) is on sale. Maduro is a dictator, yes. But this award doesn't help the situation nor the people in Venezuela.

Vienna hosted the first ever Tram Driver World Championship on Saturday, with the city's skilled drivers emerging victorious out of 25 teams from across the world battling it out in a tense competition. u.afp.com/SPcP

I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must. A brief 🧵

Apenas desejo saúde, mas muita saúde ao Jair. Para que ele possa desfrutar bem de cada um dos quase 10.000 dias de prisão que ele tem pela frente (e que ficou barato, por sinal). E o mesmo vale para a corja inteira.

🧪 🗳 New in Scientific Data "The #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024: A Dataset of Austrian Voter Attitudes and Behavior” The new data descriptor offers background on study design & data quality. ➡️ doi.org/10.1038/s415... 📂 Dataset: doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #OpenScience @aussda.bsky.social

Meet Christina Gahn and Michael Imre, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients Project Title: Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades Christina Gahn, University of Vienna Christina Gahn is a postdoctoral researcher in the…