When the term ist over but everything still reminds you of the 'Intro to Public Policy Analysis' lecture you've taught until last week

Publication alert ❗📘👀 New open access article on autocratization and democratic survival on @ejprjournal.bsky.social together with the brilliant Guido Panzano (Kiel): what configuration of resistance actions account for democratic survival during autocratization? www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New article and special issue! Just out in Comparative Political Studies: “Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies: Information, Legacies, Temporalities", the intro to a special issue on countering illiberalism in liberal democracies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Thread 🧵1/7

Word!

Wow, that's really, really great news for all my friends and colleagues in the Netherlands - and especially for the joint-degree Bachelor programme "Politics and Public Policy" we offer together with the University of Twente!

Jetzt auch gedruckt! 📚 Unser Band „History and Theory of Compromise“ ist im schicken Hardcover erschienen. Er ist das Ergebnis einer internationalen Tagung des Projekts @kompromisskulturen.bsky.social im Sommer 2024 in Essen.

Very happy to share my second dissertation paper, now out in Party Politics. I study the role of Christianity in the rhetoric of European far-right parties doi.org/10.1177/1354...

I think the French are on to something here. Next stop: le laugenweckle.

That's a whopping 1 per cent increase! Huuuuuuuge!

Very nice (early) birthday present from EPSS - looking forward to Belfast in June!

Ready to check into the EP building in Brussels for the final event of our Horizon Europe Projekt #INCITE-DEM

NEW PAPER ALERT! My paper, with @bjornhoyland.bsky.social , on how “policy loss” shapes support for the EU has just been published in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Check it out! 1/

Available now as an open access book: "History and Theory of Compromise" ➡️ doi.org/10.1515/9783... #CulturesOfCompromise @kompromisskulturen.bsky.social

This month, we are thrilled to welcome @catherinedevries.bsky.social, who joins our department as Professor of Political Science, Head of Department, and Vice Dean of the School of Politics, Economics and Global Affairs. More info about DeVries can be found at her website: www.catherinedevries.eu

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 Special Issue in @the-peio.bsky.social: Public Opinion and International Organizations. In the SI intro, we map the field, place the SI papers & identify ways forward: rdcu.be/eXt2R with @jonastallberg.bsky.social, 🙏 @adreher.bsky.social, reviewers & SI authors #Polisky #InternationalRelations

Am vergangenen Wochenende war unsere Sprecherin @uteschnei.bsky.social im #SalonSC „Konflikte lösen!“ an der @bbaw.bsky.social zu Gast und hat im Panel „Kompromisse finden!“ mit Jörn Leonhard, @steffenmau.bsky.social und Stephanie Rohde diskutiert:

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

That's the only way to react to a bully! And I'm sure the mighty force of 13 German soldiers will be enough to end this for good...

Published in 2024: C. Şimşek. “Voices Unheard: How Feelings of Inefficacy Fuel Populism”. In: Comparative European Politics 22.5 (2024), pp. 662-683. dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41295-024-00378-4.

This is the key point.

What the hell is going on with Trump's foreign policy? Brooke reflects on a new word that helps explain it:

More from INCITE-DEM: awesome work by Petteri Repo and his colleagues at the University of Helsinki!

Yep, the times they are a-changing

After four years, our Horizon Europe project INCITE-DEM draws to a close. Come join us at our closing event in Brussels: Shaping the Future of Democracy! More info on how to register or join online in the 🧵below

We all know that research is influenced by scholars' ideological stances. However, this influence should ideally be restricted to shaping research topics and questions. As this study shows, however, scholars' ideologies also influence their data analysis strategies and conclusions. That's a problem.

Zwei wichtige Punkte von @pluggedchris.bsky.social : 1. Unser Wissen ist so kontextabhängig, dass wir nicht so tun sollten, als ob wir etwas SICHERES über den richtigen Umgang mit den Rechten wüssten. 2.) V.a. im Osten ist die Minderheitsregierung attraktiver als Festhalten an der starren Brandmauer

Ute Schneider von unserem Forschungsverbund "Kulturen des Kompromisses" (Münster-Duisburg/Essen) diskutiert mit Steffen Mau und Jörn Leonhard darüber, wie wir wieder kompromissbereiter werden können - unbedingt hingehen!!

Man wird ja noch träumen dürfen...

PLEASE SHARE 📣 Multi-position (PhD and postdoc) call for an interdisciplinary project on "AI in the News Ecosystem: Navigating Trust and Authenticity” Project @ddc-sdu.bsky.social (Digital Democracy Centre (SDU)). Multiple positions with different backgrounds and profiles. Links in🧵 #commsky

In the final session of the final INCITE DEM event (12.30pm), @olivertreib.bsky.social, @canersimsek.bsky.social & I will present findings on dimensions of #inclusiveness that make people more/less willing to participate in & accepting the results of #democraticinnovations. 1/2

As a man of the people, I will always defend trail hunting, which I know is a top priority for all my working class constituents who own horses and enjoy simple pleasures like ripping foxes apart for laughs.

X-Mas is near, and like so many of us, I'm going to visit my family, who live down in the Swabian South. So I thought, let's get in the mood by baking a wonderfully crusty Swabian "genetztes Brot". Yum! Happy Holidays everybody!

Journal article: “the data are available on request” The data:

Very happy to share that the Faculty Board has appointed me as the new Head of our Public Administration department, starting in January. I’m really looking forward to this new role, above all because our group is made up of a bunch of fantastic colleagues.

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...

I guess that's what happens when you take your main musical inspirations from Radio 6 shows like Iggy Confidential or Don Letts' Culture Clash Radio and then spend the whole summer going down the rabbit hole of 1960s Habibi Funk and Ethio Jazz...

Wanna know what happens when small citizen groups aross Europe deliberate about democratic innovations and how the outcomes match the perspectives of political elites and the wider public? Join our final event in Brussels on 27 January 2026!

Tomorrow's politicization class will be on the EU in party politics ... excellent opportunity for plot procrastination ...

Labour MP here explaining bond rates (not Bond rates) with, I thought, a comic little pause on ‘bananas’.

Here's more on how my good friend @murphyami.bsky.social, in an effort to rediscover his long-dormant Irish family roots, went down the rabbit hole of trying to learn Gaeilge. And all that simply because of Brexit. Easy!

(1/5) How can scholars write effective response memos that boost their chances of publishing? 📝 Aksel Sundström shares tips for crafting strong responses to reviewers—an often-untaught skill for grad students–in his article published in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S174... #polisky

Fun fact from the latest Copenhagenize index: Utrecht is more Copenhagenized than Copenhagen itself, taking the top spot in the global ranking of bike-friendly cities. This invites a discussion of the Weberian distinction between ideal types and real types but I'll leave that for another occasion.

What's the most bike-friendly city in Germany? The latest Copenhagenize index has Münster on top of the list (ranked 7th worldwide). Even though not everything is perfect, a huge amount of effort has gone into improving the ageing cycling infrastructure - well done and keep going, Münster!

Ever wondered what the ramblings of a mostly drunken aunt from Ireland, Brexit, and an ingenious English wordsmith have in common? Here's part 1 of a presumably longer series... (and many, many more brilliant stories)

Vergangene Woche war unser Sprecher Ulrich Willems zur Buchvorstellung von "Der Kompromiss. Eine demokratische Lebensform" (@transcript-verlag.bsky.social) am @fkhbadhomburg.bsky.social zu Gast: www.forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de/index.php/ar...

Surprised everybody buys the centre-left's story that yesterday's vote in the EP was a decisive departure from the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the far right. Analyses of voting patterns by people like @simonhix.bsky.social indicated that there were already common votes with the far right 2019-2024 🤔

...and more cowbell!

After the @uni-muenster.de's minibus had safely brought us to Enschede, the delegation of @ifpolms.bsky.social couldn't resist and used the UT photo frame to snap a little group pic