4/6 🧵 In @electoralstudies.bsky.social Fonseca, @deborathome.bsky.social & @guedesneto.bsky.social use DiD with 🇧🇷 reform to answer: do party funding incentives help promote underrepresented groups? No, as parties seek to secure rewards by investing in non-competitive candidates doi.org/qzkw

3/6 🧵In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, Bowles show that elite-preferred candidates performed better in providing local public goods in 1960s 🇹🇿. IV design leveraging ballot symbols allocated deterministically that happened to influence voting choices doi.org/qzk6

2/6 🧵In @ajpseditor.bsky.social, @kbuzard7.bsky.social, Canen & Saiegh study risk from policy uncertainty & lobbying. Stock market data from 🇺🇸. Results show that policy uncertainty is lower for lobbying firms & that only few firms lobby b/c of high costs and diminishing returns. doi.org/qzk7

6/6 🧵In @apsrjournal.bsky.social, Tuñón shows religion ⇏ conservative politics. In 🇧🇷, progressive bishops helped the leftist PT win votes - especially where labor unions were weak. When Pope John Paul II replaced them, PT support dropped. The church filled the gap unions couldn't. doi.org/qzk8

5/6 🧵In @cpsjournal.bsky.social Huberts shows that when public services are broken but hard to fix, politicians don't solve the problem, they suppress it. Evidence from 🇲🇽-City finds that by monitoring & quietly appeasing vocal opposition they keep issues as water off the ballot. doi.org/qzk3

1/6 📰🧐 Research Digest March 2026 - Lobbying and policy uncertainty in 🇺🇸 - elite selected candidates in 🇹🇿 - party funding incentives to promote underrepresented groups in 🇧🇷 - quiet appeasement to keep issues of the agenda in 🇲🇽 - progressive bishops and PT votes in 🇧🇷

Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren? Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.

In our new blogpost, Prof Vimal Ranchhod and Dr @arindamjana.bsky.social (University of Cape Town) explain why wealth inequality is much more persistent and harder to measure compared to income inequalitity: wealthpolicies.eu/blog-4-the-g...

Do politicians' backgrounds shape policy? Prof Pimenta & Dr Lima underline lawmakers come from privileged backgrounds and this bias influence which policies get passed. In their PoWER research, they explore how policy-makers' career influence income concentration wealthpolicies.eu/how-politici...

We now check manuscripts for the possibility that AI has been used to produce the paper. Springer's system does some automated checking but doesn't catch everything. So, in certain situations we check the refs for hallucinations. Latest manuscript: multiple hallucinations. Author will be banned.

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...

CRC 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" Enters Third Funding Phase! 🌏🥳 DFG is supporting the CRC for another four years until the end of 2029! #socialpolicy Read more: socialpolicydynamics.de/en uni-bremen.de/en/

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Elon Musk hat auf einer Großdemonstration zu Gewalt aufgerufen. Doch die Bundesregierung und viele Medien sind weiterhin auf seiner Plattform X. Was muss eigentlich noch passieren, bis sie diesem gewaltbereiten Rechtsradikalen den Rücken kehren? Ein Kommentar. netzpolitik.org/2025/komment...

ChatGPT shows signs of the same biases that arise in audit studies of human beings. When you give ChatGPT resumes, it's biased in how it evaluates minorities. When you ask ChatGPT to generate resumes for women & minorities, it generates systematically different types of resumes

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Mehr #Dauerstellen, mehr Transparenz, klare Karrierewege – im neuen Positionspapier #Personalstrukturen im deutschen #Wissenschaftssystem fordert der #WR eine grundlegende Reform der Strukturen. Zum Papier und weiteren Informationen 🔗 www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/202...

This fall, we’re launching two new Master’s programs focused on applied methods in the social sciences at Uni Marburg. More info + details 👉

I still don’t understand why we’re not adjusting the semester dates such that the teaching ends before the summer heat kicks in? If the University of Mannheim (and many other institutions worldwide) can do it, we can too. What we’re currently going through is completely avoidable.

Die Union schreckt vor keiner rassistischen Abscheulichkeit zurück. Nicht nur beendet sie (zusammen mit der SPD) den Familiennachzug. Sie begründet ihn auch noch mit einer Verbesserung der Sicherheit, so als ob nachgeholte Frauen und Kinder unser Land bedrohten.

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Cool new paper in Neuron discussing how neuroscience can help us study misinformation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Wealth around the world has become increasingly concentrated among a small group of people. @evawegner.bsky.social & @mqpellicer.bsky.social ask in their project @inqdp.bsky.social: How does politics contribute to growing economic #inequality? www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/news/stor...

Interne Masken-Ermittlung belastet Jens #Spahn, berichtet die FAZ. Der bei der Beschaffung von Corona-Masken entstandene Schaden für Steuerzahler:innen liegt vermutlich viel höher als angenommen. Spahn, heute Unionsfraktionschef, wollte sich nicht äußern. www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt....

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

This sounds like straight out of a dystopian movie. It's so evil I can hardly believe it

Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

In a second paper with @turnbulldugarte.com, we ask: Does working-class descriptive representation enhance perceptions of system legitimacy? Using two survey experiments, we argue that (1) it does, quite a lot (2) this is for candidates and institutions (3) it is conditioned by class identity.

In the German system, the professor is - supervisor - employer - examiner of "their" PhD students. Plus, they usually function as gatekeeper to the relevant scientific community. What can possibly go wrong? 🤔

Dazu passend: Wie Lobbyist:innen versuchten, den Koalitionsvertrag mitzuschreiben www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/l....

NEU: Die Lobby-Akte der Regierung #Merz. Noch am Morgen ihrer Amtseinführung stehen einige Minister:innen im Lobbyregister - und der Medienstaatsminister an der Spitze eines Medienunternehmens. www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/l....

Harvard's Steve Levitsky, coauthor of How Democracies Die: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime." Must-listen interview - remarkably clear about the severity of the situation we now face www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

Maps upgrade! 🗺️ We expanded our maps of inequality page to include additional data on the spatial distribution of election results, rent prices, and education levels across Marburg. Explore: inq-dp.eu/index.php/ma...

RECHERCHE: Ein Rüstungskonzern schickte fertige Textbausteine zum Einfügen, ein Interessenvertreter bat darum, Unterlagen "versehentlich" im Kopierer liegenzulassen. Wie Lobbyist:innen versuchten, den Koalitionsvertrag mitzuschreiben. www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/l...

A budget is a moral document. Show me a budget and I’ll show you who you think matters and who doesn’t.

"Pläne der CDU zur Abschaffung des #IFG: Frontalangriff auf die Bürger." Guter Kommentar 👇 www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

Ohne das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz (#IFG) hätte ich in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten nicht den illegalen Drohnenkrieg der USA aufdecken, Ex-Minister des Lobbyismus überführen oder über Korruption in Ministerien berichten können. Darum jetzt Petition unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.

Informative, but important to highlight it is not only a Max Planck issue. The German higher ed system gives so much power to professors over their PhD candidates/postdocs that it is ripe for abuse

Die abwegige Idee, dass eine Entschuldigung von Selenskyj bei Trump angebracht sein könnte - die Eskalation im Oval Office ging von Vance aus - stammt von Fox News. Der Sender stellte Selenskyj im Interview diese Frage. So framt man eine Debatte - und deutsche Medien machen mit!

Medien, die angesichts des global vernetzten Faschismus solche Überschriften produzieren. Was macht ihr beruflich? Weil Journalismus im 21. Jahrhundert kann es nicht sein, liebe @faznet.bsky.social.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.

Schaut Merz eigentlich gerade die Pressekonferenz von Zelenskyy und Trump oder ist er mit den Omas gegen Rechts beschäftigt?

Meine zehn Cent zum CDU-Deep-State: www.fr.de/meinung/kolu...

Fantastic short clip in response to nativist remarks by CDU leader Merz, stating the well-documented but oft-ignored fact that women are much more likely to get assaulted by their partner at home than by (immigrant) strangers outside of the home.

Zur Bundestagswahl bringen wir im Fluchtforschubgsblog @fluchtforschung.bsky.social eine Neuauflage von "Fluchtforschung gegen Mythen". Wissenschaftler:innen diskutieren die Begriffe "Pullfaktor", "Vollzugsdefizit", "Ausreisepflicht" u.a. 👇

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

Canada & Mexico should put tariffs on US oligarchs If Tesla wants to sell cars in Canada & Mexico then Musk himself, as main shareholder of Tesla, should have to pay tax in Canada & Mexico Put a wealth tax on him, and condition Tesla’s market access to him paying the tax 7/x

He is cutting aid to South African to punish them for ending apartheid.