🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social) Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? 💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵

Some people like using our (w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social) heroes & villains paper to teach partisanship. We've made it easier (and fun?) for students with a new online playground 🦹 doi.org/10.1017/psrm... www.turnbulldugarte.com/heroes-playg...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships. osf.io/preprints/so... 1/15

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3

📣 Deadline extended: 12 February 2026 We look forward to receiving further applications!

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations - https://cup.org/49PM2eq - Ida Bæk Hjermitslev & @markuswagner.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

🚨 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...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

NEW - Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success - https://cup.org/3NpBdXI - Albert Falcó-Gimeno, @jurado.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨Job Alert Apply for our fully-funded PhD position at the Department of Government. If you want to pursue research in an area of comparative politics broadly conceived, check our offer 👇! Deadline is 28 January.

We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher: - focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related - 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26 - 30h/week, incl some teaching - deadline: 28 Jan 26 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend. Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social

🎄 Now if this isn't the perfect Christmas gift for scholars of elections! A fresh @cses.bsky.social Module 6 Advance Release for you all to analyze and explore!

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

What sort of shameless headline-seeking shyster would do a poll like this...? www.thetimes.com/article/8653...

21. There was, however, one extremely positive new development, and that is the relatively new textbook by @saragoodman.bsky.social and Jennifer Cyr, a collaboration of 30+ female and non-binary scholars. ♥️ It is a breath of fresh air in the increasingly complex (U.S.) qualitative literature.

❄️ December is here, so it's a good time to plan methods training for 2026! I’ve been asked about methods schools recently, so here’s a non-authoritative list. I did my PhD in Europe, and focus on quantitative political science, so this is inevitably biased and may be outdated. Additions welcome! 🧵👇

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers 🎓 Affective Polarisation in Comparative Perspective 🪑 @luanarusso.bsky.social & @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social ⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/AGcZGGN #Polisky #CallforPapers #CallforPanels

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

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a PI-Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for my project "What Citizens Think They Should and Can Do in Democracies”. The project comes with 1 PhD (co-supervised w/ a proper academic adult) and 2 RA positions + funding for interviews and surveys. 1/2

"The Credibility Revolution in Political Science" osf.io/preprints/so...

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

Excited to share a new preprint with @bnbakker.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social! doi.org/10.31234/osf... Affective polarization research focuses almost exclusively on valence, despite affect having at least two core dimensions. We show that emotional arousal matters!

🔔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!

(1/10) 🚨Preprint alert!🚨 In this article, I challenge claims of a generational rise of conservative men. In the media and recent academic publications, the so-called ‘youth gender gap’ has been interpreted as a generational phenomenon. doi.org/10.31234/osf...

For the Guardian, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social and I write about how building new homes is not enough to tackle the housing crisis. Housing is a redistributive issue and progressive policy solutions need to acknowledge that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵

Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

holy crap... @nickhunebrown.bsky.social with some great, important work

Do policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies? My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm. Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10

IN NEW ISSUE: Elite Cooperation and Affective Polarization: @markuswagner.bsky.social & @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social examine the link between the two by using 20 years of German coalitions data - buff.ly/DoGL3EA (OPEN ACCESS) @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

A voice that still carries: Aimee Mann’s greatest songs – ranked!

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I’ll keep pushing this line of analysis because I’m increasingly convinced the clearest path out of this mess is for Dems to adopt a relentless anti-corruption, anti-inequality, anti-oligarchy, pro-democracy platform. The Dem leadership hasn’t realized it yet, but they’re now a reform party.

We are hiring an Associate Professor in Politics, Technology and Computational Social Science. The post will be part of our new Centre for Advanced Social Science Methods (CASSM) and is a joint hire with the Oxford Internet Institute. All details in the job ad below. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

❗️Please share widely: TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... Deadline: 10 Dec 2025

Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism. What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections? My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social! 1/7

Another great @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper I'm happy to have edited is out here, on workers' descriptive representation, by @manuelwagner.bsky.social and @laurenzennser.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was great to host the Comparative Representation in Advanced Parliamentary Democracies workshop at UT. It is always fun and inspiring to hear about the cutting-edge research. @utgovernment.bsky.social

Verlieren Mitte-Links-Parteien Stimmen, wenn sie sich gesellschaftspolitisch zu progressiv aufstellen? Für @derstandard.at berichte ich über eine Studie, die nahelegt, dass es sozialdeokratischen Parteien eher schadet, wenn sie sich rechten Forderungen anbiedern: www.derstandard.de/story/310000...

I am really happy to share this year's prize for the best dissertation at the @ipz.bsky.social with @reidingerve.bsky.social! This is an exciting end to an intense but also joyful dissertation journey.

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...