As promised, the new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...

As promised, the new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...

"Ohne #Engagement gäbe es keine #Demokratie. Denn sie lebt davon, dass unterschiedliche Personen zusammenkommen und sich gemeinsam für Ziele einsetzen. #Verbände, #Initiativen & #Vereine stiften #Gemeinschaft." 📣 @swenhutter.bsky.social, @wzb.bsky.social Süddeutsche Zeitung:

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

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...

Die neue APuZ #Zivilgesellschaft ist da: mit Texten von @swenhutter.bsky.social und @janapriemer.bsky.social, Tobias Montag, Siri Hummel, @nilskumkar.bsky.social, Wolfgang Schroeder und @viviankube.bsky.social - ab sofort bei @bpb.de bestellbar und morgen im "Parlament". www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...

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NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Street mobilisation during election campaigns in multilevel systems: a supply–demand analysis" with @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social — now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2634027 1/6

🔔 Happy to share our new paper in npj Climate Action on the effects of major climate protests on politically interested bystanders, co-authored with David Schieferdecker, @jacobsenjannes.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social, and Jule Specht. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Die Forscherinnen Greta Groß und Rebecca Kittel haben Debatten im Deutschen Bundestag analysiert und zeigen, wie KI-basierte Sprachmodelle helfen, Politik im Parlament zu verstehen. @bundestag.de bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2025... @swenhutter.bsky.social @dasalgon.bsky.social

Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... @chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Two new articles in Party Politics With @gessler.bsky.social Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data" doi.org/10.1177/1354... With Hanspeter Kriesi "Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe" doi.org/10.1177/1354... Feedback very welcome!

How did German civil society react to the outbreak of the war in Ukraine? Who gets involved in a crisis? ✨✨New study in SPPS from our team; lead by Luise Hamdani, co-authored by @ronjademel.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social, and Jule Specht✨✨ A few key takeaways & Open Access paper here ⬇⬇⬇

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Cultural #Roots of #Prejudice: #Cultural Scripts & the #Reactivation of #Antisemitism in #Germany By @kanol.bsky.social & @maxschaub.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

📰 Issue 33:2 out! 👉 Special Issue: European Democracy in Action? The 2024 European Parliament Elections, guest edited by @sarahobolt.bsky.social, Sebastian-Adrian Popa, and Wouter van der Brug Read the whole issue: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3... 📸 © European Union 2024 - Source : EP

@heikogiebler.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke, @macartan.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social: Mobilizing Europe’s citizens to take action on migration and climate change: behavioral evidence from 27 EU member states 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

20 years of protest survey data now available! In the last 20 years, the @protestinstitut.bsky.social has conducted more than 30 protest surveys at demonstrations. We have made this huge dataset now publicly available at @gesis.org. Details it the blog post: protestinstitut.eu/20-jahre-pro...

🎙️ Meine Antrittsvorlesung ist in der Reihe „Hörsaal“ erschienen. Hier spreche über die Eigentumselite - also sehr reiche Familien - und was diese auszeichnet und verbindet. @mpifg.bsky.social @tuberlin.bsky.social 🎧 Jetzt nachhörbar: www.deutschlandfunknova.de/podcasts/dow...

🔔 New paper on party brands with @swenhutter.bsky.social in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social We study the supply (how parties call themselves) and demand (what voters reward) sides. We pair a new European dataset of party names with conjoint experiments on voter reactions OA 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Our latest paper on party brands in Europe is outin @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! More to come as the brilliant @eborbath.bsky.social and I finalize a book manuscript that brings together insights on party names, action repertoires, organizational adaptations, and how voters respond to them.

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Brand Transformation in #European #Politics: The Rise and Limits of #Nonclassical #Names By @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S153...

#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - Brand Transformation in European Politics: The Rise and Limits of Nonclassical Names - https://cup.org/4s16wI9 - @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social#OpenAccess #FirstView

PhD opportunity at the University of Oxford. The Morelli scholarship funds a doctoral student to work with me on on democratic backsliding, strategies of democratic defense and regeneration, or the rise of illiberalism. Deadline Jan 9. More information at users.ox.ac.uk/~ssfc0073/

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info: ppeg.wzb.eu We hope that data is helpful to the community!

Big city life! 💫 I'm glad to spend this week at the Center for Civil Society Research @wzb.bsky.social. Many thanks to @swenhutter.bsky.social for the invite & @tevoelker.bsky.social for providing me with a desk to distract her from work 🧑‍💻 Looking forward to the exchange with friendly colleagues!

💡New publication with @tevoelker.bsky.social and @swenhutter.bsky.social: "Civil Society and Democracy" In: List, R.A., Anheier, H.K., Toepler, S. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Civil Society link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!

🏆 Der #DVPW #Dissertationspreis 2025 wird geteilt und geht an Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social und Julian Michel @julianpolsci.bsky.social! Beide Arbeiten leisten einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erforschung der #Stabilität von #Demokratie. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳

Congratulations, Teresa! Very proud supervisor moment!

Our recent paper on civil society and cleavage formation (w @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social) was featured in the Research-in-Brief series at @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social. Check out their summary of the project here 😊 cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/news/civil-s...

Very happy to see "The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines" out in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Really pleased to this out as part of special issues on "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies". Huge thanks to the SI editors, @dpzollinger.bsky.social and @davidattewell6.bsky.social for putting the special together and all of their support during the process.

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How do populists define “the people”? @tiondelisa.bsky.social examines how right-wing populists construct ingroup identity through opposition. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/sGDTDQV @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky #polsci #ECRs

In our new article, @tevoelker.bsky.social and I show how far-right actors have increased their influence on mainstream parties' agenda-setting. For the @euobserver.com, Hannah Kriwah has written about our study, and I had the pleasure to comment on it. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right” How much more research do journalisten, politicians, pundits and strategists need before they finally change course?

Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"

"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study. @tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read! Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN

New publication for everyone interested in climate politics, far-right climate obstruction, and the role of elite cues! 📚 "Climate action versus environmental protection?" now out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social (with Matthias Diermeier). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access!) (1/5)

2/@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I set out 3 puzzles: How does a new cleavage work without strong intermediary orgs? How to reconcile cleavage theory w fragmented party systems? How are structural divides (e.g. ed) mobilized indirectly in political conflict today? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@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: 🧵⬇️

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Join us for the second part of our new online series "Science under Pressure". 📅 Monday, September 29, 1 p.m. "When the State Threatens Science – Examples of the USA and Eastern Europe". Online-Discussion with @dziblatt.bsky.social and Kriszta Kovács. www.wzb.eu/en/events/wh...

📣 Calling all future postdocs 📣 @iast.fr is hiring! This is an incredible opportunity. I couldn't have imagined a better place for my postdoc. The community is fantastic, full autonomy and great resources. Located between the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean, & the Atlantic. Anything more I need to say?

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out: Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape" with @sophiahunger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Taking a closer look at @mierkezat.bsky.social @swenhutter.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social's paper on cleavage formation and civil society and cannot recommend it highly enough! Really insightful theorizing, e.g. on changes in the form of civil society and its effect on group-party linkages: