The conference marked the end of @ackermannk.bsky.social’s second term as spokesperson. Kathrin, thank you so much for your dedicated service to the #AKWahlen over the past six years! Conrad and I will miss working with you in this capacity.

Two fantastic days of the annual conference of the #AKWahlen are now behind us. Many thanks for the many excellent presentations, the friendly atmosphere, and to the local Berlin team for the fabulous organisation on site! ❤️ Watch out for the special issue in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!

🗳️ Tag 1 der AK-Wahlen-Tagung @ FU Berlin 💡Hervorragende Präsentationen und intensive Diskussionen zu aktuellen Themen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung 🤝 Viele Gelegenheiten zum Networking 📝 Wir freuen uns auf den zweiten Tag mit weiteren spannenden Einblicken! #Wahlforschung #AKWahlen

Ich habe heute meine Ernennung zum Professor für Regierungslehre und Policyforschung an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg entgegengenommen. Ab dem Wintersemester lehre und forsche ich hier zu Demokratie, Parteien, Populismus. Ich freue mich auf die gemeinsame Arbeit mit Studierenden und KollegInnen!

Excited that my first PhD paper is published in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties!🎉 🧵 @wurthmann.bsky.social & I examine: Do They Know What They Represent? Parliamentary Candidates’ Perceptions of Their Own Party’s Positions 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

OK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

Habe für das neue @apuz.bsky.social -Heft der @bpb.de einen Artikel über das Wahlverhalten junger Menschen beigesteuert und bin ein ganz klein wenig stolz auf diese Grafik, die dabei entstanden ist. Mehr Grafiken gibts hier: www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...

„Der Anti-Wokeness-Diskurs fährt längst auf Autopilot, auch wenn sich Jens Jessen besonders schwungvoll hinters Lenkrad setzt.“ Meine Replik auf unsere Titelgeschichte in der vergangenen Ausgabe und ein paar Gedanken dazu, wo gerade die eigentlichen Probleme der Linken liegen.

Trend that was visible in previous polls continues: VVD losing support while CDA is gaining. PVV slightly ahead of GL/PvdA and CDA. Beyond these four parties, others are below 10% (D66 and JA21) or 5% (another 9 parties)

Today was my first day as a visiting fellow at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social Thanks to everyone at MZES for the warm welcome! 💫 I'll be here for the next four weeks, so if you're in Mannheim and would like to grab coffee, feel free to reach out! ☕

Das bemerkenswerte hier ist, dass die Verschiebung eben nicht 2015 passiert sondern 2017. Genau dann wenn Politik und Medien anfangen sich auf die aufsteigende AfD und ihre Themen einzuschießen. Wenn Migrationspolitik verschärft wird und Migranten dämonisiert werden. Es ist nicht Migration an sich.

"Der Sozialstaat ist ein Schutzfaktor, kein Krisenfaktor!" Freue mich riesig über mein ausführliches Interview in der @taz.de zur unsäglichen aktuellen Sozialstaatsdebatte!👇 @ifso.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social taz.de/Wirtschaftsw...

Looking forward to my first @ecpr.bsky.social conference! 💫 📣 On Wednesday, I will present joint work with @ackermannk.bsky.social on attitudes toward noncitizen voting. 📣 On Friday, I will present results from my interviews with local politicians in the US. Excited to meet everyone! #ECPRgc25

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election? I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮 epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Deadline: 7 November 2025

Extremely happy to see my first single-authored paper published! Check it out in @ersjournal.com 👇

If we don’t say “2026 MEN World Cup”, we should not say “2025 WOMEN European Cup”. Reject the “male norm” and just say “UEFA Euro 2025”, as there is no other one, so gender qualifications are unnecessary! Similarly, tag #EURO2025 rather than #WEURO2025

📢 New publication in Social Science Research: "Beyond Religious Categories" (with @hummlerteresa.bsky.social ) 📊 In a survey experiment, we investigate why Muslims are more likely to accept violent parenting practices than non-Muslims 📚 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

I’m presenting my paper on political trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds today at #EPSA2025 (@epsanet.bsky.social). Come join us at 11.20 in room -1.A.04! 📣

❕📣 My first paper is now published! “They don’t have the time for that, participating in politics” - How local politicians interpret political integration in the USA. It is available as open access in the Journal of International Migration and Integration. doi.org/10.1007/s121...

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025. In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:

🗞️ Honored to be featured in The New York Times discussing the far-right's strategic expansion in western Germany 📰 "Far-Right Party Tries to Expand Its Appeal in Germany’s West" by Clay Risen // Link (w paywall): www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/w... 📄 PDF for those behind the paywall: shorturl.at/1svWh

So sieht die Entwicklung in Österreich aus. Der Rückgang hat nichts mit dem rechtswidrigen Grenzspektakel zu tun, sondern mit der Situation in Syrien und zT verlagerter Fluchtrouten.

Just over half a year ago, the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics was published. This means that authors working at Dutch universities, can now share a copy of their chapters online for free access, according to Dutch copyright law. My own chapters are linked below 👇

When getting access to samples for online surveys/experiments: With which companies besides Bilendi/yougov are you getting in touch? Asking mostly for Western democracies, maybe Poland. Thanks!

Kommt vorbei beim Tag der offenen Uni in Siegen! ☀️ #UniSiegen

“The most underexplored form of revolt against mainstream politics right now is the second kind, involving not angry young men lurching rightwards but anxious young women turning, if anything, more sharply left.” Kudos to @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social for this op-Ed (which I missed earlier).

This obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵

I was interviewed for the “Ideas” section of @politicalquarterly.bsky.social I was very happy to be asked to reflect a bit on my career in addition to contemporary politics. Hope you like it!

📣 Call for Submissions: ALLBUS Award 2025 🏆 Have you published a social science article using ALLBUS data in a journal or edited volume between 2022 and 2024? Please consider submitting it by 15 April 2025 ⭐ 👉 More information: www.gesis.org/en/allbus/ab... @gesis.org

Leaving Berlin after an inspiring #GOR25! Great discussions on #web #tracking & #bot #detection, and a fantastic #GOR #party. Already excited for next year!

📢 New Paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social! @conradziller.bsky.social and I examine how radical-right populist parties influence political support during times of progressive policy change❓ Our 3 main findings in a thread 🧵 👇 bit.ly/429gOK2

💬 Tomorrow, I will present my paper on local politicians' attitudes toward noncitizen voting at the @dvpw.bsky.social -conference on citizen's trust and societal polarization in times of transformation at the @uni-saarland.de.

🚂 On my way to this year's conference of the @dvpw.bsky.social section "Comparative Politics" @uni-saarland.de 👉 www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/br... I look forward to presenting joint work with Antonia Lang (@infer-frankfurt.bsky.social) on geographical disparities and citizen's discontent.

Read this insightful short thread. Tarik has the receipts. I would emphasize in particular the neglect of trade unions, among civil society organizations. There is no hope for progressive politics and policies without strong unions and party-union alliances.

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Please read this piece on the authoritarian practice of denationalization. The de facto erasure of trans people in the US. The product of a dehumanization of queer people that we also see in Europe. If you don’t speak up against “gender criticals” these are the politics you align yourself with.

📣 CfP for a Special Issue on the 2025 German Federal Election 💡 We are looking forward to your proposals (until 30/04/2025)! 👇 All detalis in the post below...

Another excellent trust workshop, this time organised by @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social and Carmen van Alebeek in Amsterdam. And the soft launch of the Political Trust Network!

Ah, nothing to worry about, just a distinguished 🇺🇸 scholar of authoritarianism writing this about the US 👉 'This time around, I am less optimistic that life under authoritarianism will be boring and tolerable for most people' 👇

DVPB und bap zur kleinen Anfrage der CDU/CSU. Der Neutralitätsdiskurs ist seit Jahren eine Gefahr für politische Bildung. Daher dir Wortmeldung. www.bap-politischebildung.de/kleine-anfra...

Woran man übrigens auch sehr schön sehen kann, dass Wahlrechts- und Repräsentationsfragen immer auch umkämpfte normative Fragen sind: Einfach mal vergleichen, wie die Diskurse um "verwaiste Wahlkreise" vs. Repräsentation von Frauen verlaufen. (Parität ließe sich ja auch über Wahlrecht sichern)

The CDU asks in parliamentary inquiry for information about the organizations and background of "protests against the CDU", including "Grannies against the Right". Very disturbing and part of a dangerous authoritarian trend to criminalize protest within "mainstream" parties in Europe.

Wie schlimm sind verwaiste wahlkreise? Die medialen Dramen scheinen doch arg übertrieben www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Der Aufstieg der Linken fasziniert mich. Ich hatte da so eine Vermutung und tatsächlich ist es so: Die Linke gewinnt dort wo die Grünen verlieren. Der Zusammenhang ist bemerkenswert, der Zusammenhang zu Gewinnen/Verlusten der SPD andersrum und zu denen der CDU nicht vorhanden.

Leute 👋🏼🙂 - Achtung, hier gibt es sehr dringend was zu tun! Bitte mitmachen und gerne weiterleiten 🙏🏼