💻 🚀 Das Nationale Forschungsprogramm «Digitale Transformation» ( #NFP77) legt seine Ergebnisse vor: Der digitale Wandel bietet Chancen – doch sie lassen sich nur nutzen, wenn Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft zusammenarbeiten. 🤝🏛️ ➡️ www.snf.ch/de/e2nPYfBDa... #Digitalisierung

🆕 Voters at cross swords ⚔️ @walderm.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social analyse situations where the average voter and the party electorate don't align, using Swiss context to highlight how parties responses toward party #VoterPreferences compares to the median voter 🗳️ buff.ly/v4Ugd7E

And this one as well! With @walderm.bsky.social we exploit the Swiss Direct Democratic setting to study party responsiveness to voters' positions

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🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data. flexible start (earliest possible) deadline: 31 May 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

🔔We are hiring!🔔 In Geneva, we are looking for a new colleague in comparative politics: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta... Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

🆕 Side income impacts trust in politicians? 💰 @ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability

Mise au concours #Postdoc.Mobility. Approfondissez votre expérience de #recherche grâce à un séjour à l’étranger. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur cet appel, participez à notre événement d’information en ligne, le 17.11.2025. ➡️ sohub.io/f091 🗓️ Délai de soumission: 03.02.2026

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

📣 New EJPR publication! @stefaniebailer.bsky.social, @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and I study citizens’ attitudes toward MPs’ side income disclosure in 7 European countries. MPs who conceal income are trusted least, even less than those with very high side incomes. doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100303

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations

I am very happy to serve as section co-chair for #EPSS Belfast next June, please consider submitting your most excellent work!

Excited to have become a member of this great initiative - do the same and show support!

"Invitation Letters Increase Response Rates in Elite Surveys" with @nathaliegiger.bsky.social. Short report @ JEPS. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📣 New research in EJPR together with the wonderful @nathaliegiger.bsky.social, @stefaniebailer.bsky.social, T. Turner-Zwinkels & S. Heller: We find: 1) MPs use more constituency signals while campaigning, 2) voters notice the signals, 3) but don't reward that behaviour. doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Are you a parent, and an early career scholar? Are you going to #EPSA? I'm thinking of organizing an event on #parenting and #academia at EPSA. Are you interested? Drop me an email. I'm looking for "partners in crime".

📢 We are hiring: 4-year PhD position at the Department of Government @univie.ac.at 👇

📚 New book review published Ari Ray @ariray.bsky.social reviews "Unequal Democracies" (eds. Noam Lupu @noamlupu.bsky.social and Jonas Pontusson) in the SPSR @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

🚨 Publication alert I am so glad my publication "Political Attitudes and Sexual Identity in Germany: Examining the Sexuality Gap" has now been published in Swiss Political Science Review. While there is an increasing literature on political behaviour, research on... #LGB #LGBTQ

Out now! Thijs Vos, Lianne van Kalken, Geerten Boogaard and I look at voting patterns in Dutch municipal councils and what shapes the importance of the coalition-opposition divide onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Call for Papers: #EPSAXV in Madrid! 🚨 📅 June 26-28, 2025 📍 UC3M, Madrid, Spain 🔗 Submit: coms.app/epsa2025 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 18, 2024 Showcase your research in one of 18 divisions! 🌍🌞 Don’t miss out—join us in sunny Madrid! Details: epsanet.org

If you are a PhD student and work on inequality, you can get funded for spending some time at our Cluster 'Politics of Inequality' @excinequality.bsky.social www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/ungleichh...

New @excinequality.bsky.social working paper together with @mbusemeyer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social based on data from the #InequalityBarometer "Individual Ideology and Biased Perceptions of Income" kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/c...

"Encouraging politicians to act on climate." @ajpseditor.bsky.social (w @nathaliegiger.bsky.social, Maria Pérez & Kaya Axelsson) We study the motivations of local officials to learn about net zero policies in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭🇮🇹🇩🇪🇫🇷 link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We are hiring: The political science department at the University of Geneva is looking for a PhD candidate in political behavior: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta... French for teaching required, otherwise free to work on any topic of interest!

*** Assistant Professorship in Political Communication with Tenure Track *** Our department (IKMZ - University of Zurich) is hiring! More info: jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... Thank you for spreading the word and/or applying!

📣 Job alert: Hast du einen Master in Sozialwissenschaften und kennst dich in Umfrageforschung aus? FORS sucht eine*n wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter*in (80%, davon 40% im Homeoffice) für Datenerhebung & -analyse 👇 forscenter.ch/about-fors/s...

Most positions for postdocs on European social research at the MZES!! 👉 Check out our 3-6yr fellowship on European societies + integration tinyurl.com/ycd6wxn7 and our 2yr fellowships tinyurl.com/2vaxwmht. 📅 Deadline for both 22 Dec 2023 polisky #sociology #socialpsyc

Our research cluster ("The Politics of Inequality") at the University of Konstanz is offering fully funded Visiting Fellowships (2-6 months) for external researchers from the social sciences in the academic year 2024/2025. If you're interested, details here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/0...

We have reached 270+ scholars supporting MEDem 🎉! Join them by following the link: forms.gle/xqnKAkyNGq1e... "In the face of the democracy crisis at both national and EU levels, the need for this research infrastructure is more urgent than ever." – Gail McElroy, Trinity College Dublin