🏆 Nominations open for EPSS Best Book Award 2027 📚 The 2027 EPSS Best Book Award recognizes an outstanding scholarly contribution to the field of political science. Through this award, the Society seeks to highlight scholarship that advances the discipline and fosters dialogue across its sections

Wie haben sich die Konflikte in der Ampel auf die Bewertung von SPD, Grünen und FDP im Zeitverlauf ausgewirkt? Eine @gles.bsky.social-Paneldatenanalyse mit @pluggedchris.bsky.social @leonsiefken.bsky.social zeigt einen kontinuierlichen Sympathieverlust unter den Wählerschaften der drei Parteien. /1

Congratulations to our former researcher @leuffen.bsky.social on his election as Rector of the @uni-konstanz.de !

Der Vorstand lädt im Oktober alle Mitglieder zu einer Informationsveranstaltung mit dem @scicommsupport.bsky.social ein: Richtig reagieren auf Anfeindungen und Bedrohungen! 📅 23.10.2026 🕙 10-11:30 Uhr 📍online Infos & Anmeldung 👉 meine.dvpw.de #Wissenschaftsfreiheit #Politikwissenschaft #PoWi

New working paper w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social @rantuna.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com! *Does publicly refusing to cooperate with the far right only strengthen it?* A widespread belief says yes. In this paper, we test it based on a natural experiment from Spain. tinyurl.com/5azkfnas [1/6]

Do deliberative mini-publics generate positive spill-over effects for the democratic resilience of the wider population? We will investigate this at @gesis.org with three field experiments in collaboration with @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social and @acmay.bsky.social (@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social).

📣 MZES Fellow @janaberkessel.bsky.social has been granted the Early Career Award of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP). #EASP2026 Congratulations! 👏🥳 1/5

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs Pursue your scientific career at GESIS! youtu.be/zMY2zqYFIMg We offer a job as a a Research Associate (PhD Candidate) for International Value Studies (#VALDEMCRIS Project) (Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 75 %): gesis.jobs.personio....

Assistant professorship in political science at the @eui-sps.bsky.social! Come and work with us. www.eui.eu/About/JobOpp...

Wie können wir die Wissenschaftsfreiheit gegen zunehmende Angriffe schützen? Ein neues Positionspapier einer DFG-Senats-AG zeigt auf, wie Resilienz von Wissenschaft & Wissenschaftssystem gestärkt werden kann & wie auch Politik, Wirtschaft & Gesellschaft unterstützen können: sohub.io/9tje

📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July

New research on immigration published in Ethnic and Racial Studies (@tandfresearch.bsky.social) includes analysis of our data. Marlene Hilgenstock (@gesis.org 🇩🇪) and Antonia C. Mayc (@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social 🇩🇪) assessed our data measuring national attachment and discrimination.

📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

📢 Neues Working Paper veröffentlicht! KonsortSWD Working Paper Nr. 16 zeigt, wie durch die Verknüpfung zweier Datenquellen neue Potenziale im Bereich Bildungs- und Integrationsforschung entstehen 📝 👉 Hier geht's zum Working Paper: www.konsortswd.de/publikation/...

Excited to share that Odelia Oshri, Reut Itzkovitch-Malka, and I have been awarded a research grant by the German-Israeli Foundation for our project “Outsiders at the Ballot Box: Integration, Discrimination, and Voting Patterns of Muslims in Europe”

MZES project director Dr. Sandra Morgenstern @snmorgenstern.bsky.social has been awarded this year’s prize from the Prof. Dr Anna and Prof. Dr Jörg Jiri Bojanovsky Foundation. The Foundation supports early-career researchers at the University of Mannheim in the field of empirical research... 1/5

‪📣 Dr. Leah von der Heyde, computational social scientist and survey methodologist ( @gesis.org , @kodaqs.bsky.social ), has been granted this year’s Lorenz von Stein Award for for the best dissertation from the School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim. Congratulations! 🥳 1/5‪

📢 We are hiring! The Institute of Sociology at the University of Bern is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology of Intergroup Relations (80%). Starting January 1, 2027 (or by arrangement) Application deadline: August 11, 2026 Learn more and apply: jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

Kühlen Kopf bewahren und #Forschungswerkstatt besuchen! Heute freuen wir uns auf Lena Maria Huber, Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) Universität Mannheim, und ihren Vortrag zum Thema "Claim and Response: How Group Appeals Shape Voters’ Perceptions of Representation." Beginn

MZES chair member Professor Bernhard Ebbinghaus gave a presentation on pension reforms as part of a hearing held by the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs of the EU Parliament. The slides and a video of the presentation can be found here: 👉 ebbinghaus.blog/2026/06/23/e...

📣 Verstärkung gesucht - bitte teilen! Mitarbeiter:in IT/KI (m/w/d) - Ausbau der institutseigenen KI-Infrastruktur - Vollzeit - unbefristet - E 12 TV-L BW - zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt - Arbeitsort: Mannheim - Bewerbungsfrist: 03.07.2026 Ausschreibung: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

This Wednesday, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social will join us in the Forschungswerkstatt @powimz.bsky.social to present her work on “Claim and Response: How Group Appeals Shape Voters’ Perceptions of Representation.” We're very much looking forward to her talk! See: politik.uni-mainz.de/startseite-i...

"Sie empfinden sich als bedeutungslos" - MZES-Direktor Marc Helbling im @zeit.de -Interview zu den Gemeinsamkeiten von Linksradikalen, Rechtsradikalen und Fundamentalisten. 👉 www.zeit.de/2026/27/extr... (Bezahlschranke) 1/3

Irena Kogan, Mannheimer Soziologin und ehemalige MZES-Direktorin, wurde am 11. Juni von Wissenschaftsministerin Petra Olschowski mit dem Forschungspreis des Landes Baden-Württemberg ausgezeichnet. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 💐👏 Interview des @mwk-bw.bsky.social : 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zh3... 1/2

Der Bereich Internationale Politik der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz schreibt eine Stelle als Wissenschaftliche/r Mitarbeiter/in (m/w/d) in Teilzeit (50%) befristet bis zum 31.3.2028 (Elternzeitvertretung) aus. Bewerbungsfrist: 22.06.2026

🚨👩‍🎓 We're hiring a Full Professor in Macrosociology! 👩‍🏫🚨 Join us in beautiful Heidelberg 🏰 starting April 1, 2027. Please spread the word, and feel free to reach out if you have any questions regarding the position www.mwi.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/... #Sociology #sociologyjobs #AcademicSky

PVS/GPSQ has reached a CiteScore of 4.6 in the newest Scopus ranking. This places us in Q1 at rank 257/1530 in the more comprehensive Sociology and Political Science category. Thank you to all our authors! www.scopus.com/sourceid/23482

📢 WiMi (75%, E13) gesucht! Ich suche Verstärkung für mein Team an der @goetheuni.bsky.social Es geht um Netzwerkforschung & Mitarbeit im @erc.europa.eu -Projekt zum Zusammenspiel der Netzwerke von Kindern & Eltern. Laufzeit bis Ende 2028. Infos & Bewerbung: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

What predicts citizens' stances towards deliberative core principles in political talks and do true deliberative citizens exist? Find out in a new open access paper by Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck and @cschnaudt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s11615-026-00666-6

📢 Job: Research Associate (75%, E13) Join my team at @goetheuni.bsky.social. I'm looking for a researcher in sociology/network analysis for an @erc.europa.eu project on the interplay of children's & parents' networks. Until end of 2028. Info & application: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

#Wikipedia relies on a small group of elected administrators for key governance and maintenance tasks. Are offline Wikipedia meetups related to who ends up in these roles? In Wikipedia's early years, the answer is yes! 📝 doi.org/10.1609/icws...

Bewerbungsfrist endet in einer Woche! Apply, apply, apply! 😊

📃🥳Very excited to see our study published in @ersjournal.com! @acmay.bsky.social and I study how integration policies can foster a sense of belonging among immigrants and their children despite facing discrimination across 20 EU countries. 👉 Check out our findings here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

📢 #CallforPapers: Fachtagung des IAB in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Jugendinstitut (DJI) von 15-16.10.2026 in Nürnberg. Gesucht: empirische Beiträge zu Erwerbs- und Nicht-Erwerbstätigkeit im Kontext sozialer Ungleichheit. 🗓️ Frist: 30.06.2026 👉 iab.de/iab-veransta...

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Predoc position on foreign and security policy attitudes in the Baltic Sea region (3.5 yrs, 65%) Research on democratic resilience and societal responses to security crises. Open to different approaches and interests. Deadline: 30 June 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...

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1/ With the DR Congo facing another Ebola outbreak, I’ve been reflecting on research I published on the 2018–2020 outbreak, one of the most violent public health emergencies for healthcare workers. Key lesson: Public health emergencies become far more dangerous when they are politicized.

📢 WiMi (75%, E13) gesucht! Ich suche Verstärkung für mein Team an der @goetheuni.bsky.social! Es geht um Netzwerkforschung & Mitarbeit im @erc.europa.eu-Projekt zum Zusammenspiel der Netzwerke von Kindern & Eltern. Laufzeit bis Ende 2028. Infos & Bewerbung: 🔗 www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

📢 Job: Research Associate (75%, E13) Join my team at @goetheuni.bsky.social! Looking for a researcher in sociology/network analysis for an @erc.europa.eu project on the interplay of children's & parents' networks. Until end of 2028. Info & apply: 🔗 www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

❗️ Tue, May 26, 13:45-15:15 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with John Levi Martin, University of Chicago "Taking a Position in the Political Field, or, How the Nazis Became “Right”" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

❗️ Tue, May 26, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @hannohilbig.bsky.social "Long-run Political Change after the Great Recession" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

In a new (oa) contribution to Party Politics, @cklamm.bsky.social, Simone Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein, @sarahwagner.bsky.social and I study which additional topics parties addressed in their press releases when publishing their position on the COVID-19 pandemic: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2

🚨 New data release: GLES Panel 2026, Wave 34 (ZA10123) 💻📱 CAWI 👥 11,800 panelists 📅 2026-03-23 - 2026-04-07 🗳️covers state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate & Baden-Württemberg, geographical attachment & items on the employment practices of AfD MPs. 📥 dx.doi.org/10.4234/5.ZA...

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📣 New paper out in BJPolS 📣

Right-wing parties across Europe are reshaping the politics of immigration. What does that shift mean for immigrant voters caught in the crosshairs? Excited to share this new research with @jjhfahey.bsky.social in one week at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social Event information below ⬇️

❗️ Tue, May 19, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @hannahalarian.bsky.social "Right Migrants: How Far-Right Parties attract Immigrant Voters" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich „Politisches System Deutschlands und der EU“ (100%, 3 Jahre), Uni Oldenburg Bewerbungsfrist: 9.6.2026 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! 🙂 uol.de/job/wissensc...