Idee: Deutschland entführt Christian Stocker, regiert Österreich erstmal selbst und reißt sich alle Schätze des Landes unter den Nagel (Kaiserschmarrn, Fritattensuppe, Red Bull, Manner etc.).

🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓 Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes? Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas

I am delighted to have been invited to write a chapter on #TelevisedDebates for this excellent encyclopaedia edited by @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maxgroemping.bsky.social & @dominiquewirz.bsky.social www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/elg...

Great to see this out in the world! My entry, on letters to leaders, is available here dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇

Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky

🚨Publication Alert! My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵

Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

Für jene die immer meinen, man solle AfD/FPÖ halt mal mitregieren lassen, dann würden sie eh an der Realität scheitern. Eine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt das Gegenteil. Schlechte Regierungsarbeit schreckt die Wählerschaft rechtsextremer Parteien nicht ab. www.sueddeutsche.de/meinung/demo...

🎬 Excited to co-direct a #ecprjs26 Workshop w/ J. Dedeigne on hostile communication styles 🤬 Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻‍♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us! 📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay

😮 Hat Downs doch recht?! „Ich möchte uns jedenfalls nicht in einem Unterbietungswettbewerb sehen: Wer bietet sozusagen das niedrigste Rentenniveau an. Damit gewinnen wir keine Wahlen.“ So klar sprechen Politiker selten aus, dass es ihnen nicht um die Sache, sondern um Macht geht...

The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions is now acceptable applications for the 2026-27 year. Please share and encourage people to apply! Post Doctoral application apply.interfolio.com/177609 Visiting Scholar application apply.interfolio.com/177613

🚨New Cambridge Element 🚨 Cognition and Conspiracy Theories by Andreas Musolff is now free to read until November 17th! https://cup.org/47PLKBW #Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦

Are victimhood claims in political party manifestos and election programs on the rise? Yes, they are! Check out a brand new paper authored by @marlenevoit.bsky.social , @lucaskohler.bsky.social et al. -- published yesterday in @polpsyispp.bsky.social. Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops....

Ein Lieblingsprojekt (wieder) online. www.arbeiterzeitung.at Mehr als 200.000 Zeitungsseiten von 1945 - 1989 digital offen. Mit Volltextsuche von Politik bis Sport. Von 2004 bis 2021 gab es 2 Millionen Recherche-Cases. (Leider) weiterhin die einzige derartige zeitgeschichtliche Primärquelle.

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ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/... The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.

Interested in the sociodemographic background, policy preferences, attitudes and campaign strategies of candidates for the 2025 Bundestag election? The @gles.bsky.social Candidate Study 2025 is now available (doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA... @gesis.org) and includes CCS Module IV @ccs-project.bsky.social 👇

🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*? In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y

Out now: key data from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study. 75 countries, >32,350 journalists, >300 researchers, seven years of successful collaboration. Many thanks to all who contributed to this project! www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/

🤖 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 🇳🇱 Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025 🧵Thread

The increase in science funding applications from 2023 to 2025 across programs is huge. And most likely the competition will increase unless investments are made in science and research (which have repeatedly shown to pay off later for society at large). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New publication alert🔓🚨 Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity? Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.

📣 Studie zur Wahrnehmung und Wirkung der TV-Debatten 2025 mit Marco Hirsch, Kevin Brendel, Peter Hevesi, Paul Lukowicz, @jenniferbast.bsky.social und @hannahdecker.bsky.social. doi.org/10.5771/0340...

This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!

📢 New Publication Alert! Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup 👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

Die Arbeitseinheit Politische Kommunikation der RPTU in Landau sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (100% TVL-13) für 3 Jahre. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2... Post bitte gerne teilen!

New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America @prl.bsky.social @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

▶️ Party Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social 📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes. 1/

Here is the (open access) scientific paper for folks interested in digging deeper:

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Do candidates with a „dark“ personality are more likely to attack in televised debates? You bet! New research with @alessandronai.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

Excited about the very first EPSS conference in Belfast next year!🤩 @kenbenoit.bsky.social & I co-chair the Political Communication Section and invite submissions on contents & effects of political communication, broadly conceived, and media-politics relations⬇️Please reach out in case of questions

#tbp welche Gruppen wählten in Deutschland rechtsaußen (ungated)

Happy to share my co-authored piece with Tan Khai Ee, on one of the first empirical studies of Facebook ads in India. We examine how incumbency, personalization & issue focus shape campaign tone in subnational elections: Bihar (2020), West Bengal (2021) & UP (2022).

Here we go 🍎 as my first paper got published at WEP this week! I show that political out-groups are perceived to be more homogeneous and that this is driving negative feelings and (un)willingness to vote for the other group. It is open access, so you can give it a read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

We have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarisation and I will take it as an opportunity to introduce some of the features again. On ❄️ polarization.wiki you can find descriptions, formulas, data and applications of the most common measurements of political polarization.

😠@maierjuergen.bsky.social, @alessandronai.bsky.social & Nynke Verhaar: More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections 🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Partisan defections & vote switching continued to decline in 2024 as negative partisanship continued preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-g...

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

New study with Michaela Maier, Lea Gorski & Felix Schmidt! Using web-tracking and experience sampling data we show that German voters are equally exposed to positive and negative information; however the exact relevance varies across channels and methods of data collection. doi.org/10.1177/1077...

We have page numbers! Comparing the tone of campaign communication for 150+ parties in 28 countries for the 2019 EP and national elections @alessandronai.bsky.social, Nynke Verhaar and I found that only extreme parties attack more in second- than in first-order elections. doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Now open access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Walter Lippmann Best Article of the Year Award ✍️ @alessandronai.bsky.social, Chiara Valli, @maierjuergen.bsky.social & Loes Aaldering “Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context: Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data”

🌅📙 64.3 Are poor people poorly heard?👂 These authors (🧵⬇️) use citizen surveys in 🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦 & 🇩🇪 to claim that politicians hold biased views of what citizens want & shows that politicians perceptions parallel the rich for the most pressing economic issues. buff.ly/5UlH75b

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The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Here’s a summary thread: 1/