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Political scientist @ University of Duisburg-Essen
https://conradziller.com/
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Johannes Hillje
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Auffälligkeit in den Daten der neuen
#Mitte-Studie
: Unter den jungen Befragten sind Fremdenfeindlichkeit und ein rechtsextremes Weltbild deutlich stärker verbreitet als bei den älteren Menschen. (Komplette Studie der
@fesonline.bsky.social
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🗳️ New study (w
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) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3)
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Steffen Mau
22 days ago
Wer reinschauen will... Das ist ein exzellent moderiertes Gespräch gewesen (mit
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Joshua Claassen
27 days ago
🚨 Who is willing to participate in video-based web surveys? 🎥 👉 Especially younger, male, and extraverted respondents as well as those with high survey interest. Check out our new
#OpenAccess
paper with
#tlenzner
@jkhoehne.bsky.social
@conradziller.bsky.social
in
#mda
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doi.org/10.12758/mda...
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Constantin Wurthmann
about 1 month ago
For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration. Please share!
www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...
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Three Student Assistants (m/f/d) Projects German Sexual Identity and Election Study as well as VisibleQueers
https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-student-assistants-m-f-d-projects-german-sexual-identity-and-election-study-as-well-as-visiblequeers
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Jacob Edenhofer
about 1 month ago
German Reunification Day invites both gratitude and reflection. Gratitude, because the peaceful revolution of 1989 was nothing short of a miracle — a bloodless dismantling of a repressive regime. Reflection, because the wounds of the transition still mark the country —and because
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Ron Filipkowski
about 1 month ago
Posted by the President of the United States.
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Sven Hegewald
about 1 month ago
Just out in
@cpsjournal.bsky.social
🚨 Together with
@dschraff.bsky.social
, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised? 👉
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised? Comparative Evidence from Nine European Countries - Sven Hegewald, Dominik Schraff, 2025
Recent studies in the United States and Europe have documented a growing divergence in voting behaviour and political attitudes between cities and the countrysi...
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00104140251369317
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Martin Kleiner 🧻
about 1 month ago
2024 haben die KI-Serverfarmen in den USA so viel Strom verbraucht wie ganz Polen. Und diese Zahl wird sich in den nächsten Jahren locker verzehnfachen. Den Planeten für diese Zufallsgeneratoren mit Massendatenspeicherung anzuzünden ist nicht "Künstliche Intelligenz", das ist menschliche Dummheit.
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Marcus Bösch
about 1 month ago
One of the guys buying US TikTok
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Parody Keir Starmer
about 1 month ago
As Reform's Nathan Gill admits taking bribes from Russian 'secret service pawn' Oleg Voloshyn, here’s a nice photo of Nigel Farage with Voloshyn’s wife.
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Alexia Katsanidou
about 2 months ago
Coming up on Monday the
@medem.bsky.social
conference at
@gesis.org
in Cologne. Stay tuned for the future of democracy research infrastructures
www.medem.eu/coming-up-th...
Keynotes from
@simonsaysnothin.bsky.social
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@sldelange.bsky.social
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Coming Up: The 2025 MEDem Conference & Workshop! - Monitoring Electoral Democracy
Coming Up: the 2025 medem Conference! We are thrilled for the upcoming 3rd MEDem Conference, scheduled to take place from September 29-30 at GESIS in Cologne!The 3rd MEDem conference will bring togeth...
https://www.medem.eu/coming-up-the-2025-medem-conference-workshop/
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Robert Reich
about 2 months ago
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
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Kathrin Ackermann
about 2 months ago
🥲 Thank you for the kind words,
@nilssteiner.bsky.social
! It was a great honor and pleasure for me to serve as spokesperson for
@dvpw.bsky.social
#AKWahlen
for 6 years and to work with you,
@conradziller.bsky.social
,
@heikogiebler.bsky.social
and
@melff.bsky.social
in the steering committee.
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Julius Kölzer
about 2 months ago
That was very cool! Many thanks to
@nilssteiner.bsky.social
,
@ackermannk.bsky.social
,
@conradziller.bsky.social
and everyone else for these two great days 🚂
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Nils Steiner
about 2 months ago
The
#AKWahlen
will meet again in Mainz on May 7-8, 2026, returning to our regular schedule. We hope to welcome many of you to beautiful Mainz next year!
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Nils Steiner
about 2 months ago
At the business meeting,
@sgarritzmann.bsky.social
was elected as a new spokesperson of the
#AKWahlen
of the
@dvpw.bsky.social
. 🎉 Welcome aboard, Susanne! We are very much looking forward to steering the working group together with you.
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Nils Steiner
about 2 months ago
The conference marked the end of
@ackermannk.bsky.social
’s second term as spokesperson. Kathrin, thank you so much for your dedicated service to the
#AKWahlen
over the past six years! Conrad and I will miss working with you in this capacity.
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Nils Steiner
about 2 months ago
Two fantastic days of the annual conference of the
#AKWahlen
are now behind us. Many thanks for the many excellent presentations, the friendly atmosphere, and to the local Berlin team for the fabulous organisation on site! ❤️ Watch out for the special issue in
@electoralstudies.bsky.social
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🗳️ Tag 1 der AK-Wahlen-Tagung @ FU Berlin 💡Hervorragende Präsentationen und intensive Diskussionen zu aktuellen Themen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung 🤝 Viele Gelegenheiten zum Networking 📝 Wir freuen uns auf den zweiten Tag mit weiteren spannenden Einblicken!
#Wahlforschung
#AKWahlen
about 2 months ago
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Kommunalwahl in Nordrhein-Westfalen: Konsolidierte Koalitionsparteien, erstarkte AfD und Verluste bei den Grünen. Darüber konnte ich am Wahlabend mit dem Deutschlandfunk sprechen 🎙️➡️
www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-weiter-n...
#Kommunalwahl
#NRW
@emppolitikwiss.bsky.social
@unidue.bsky.social
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about 2 months ago
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#APSAbyseaplane
maybe not the environmentally friendliest way to travel, but certainly the coolest 😎 Looking forward to discussing latest polsci research and meeting friends and colleagues at
#APSA2025
about 2 months ago
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Empirical Political Science #Duisburg
about 2 months ago
On Thursday, September 11, 2025,
@conradziller.bsky.social
will present the paper „Understanding Public Support for Integration Councils in Germany“ (co-authored with
@hummlerteresa.bsky.social
and
@paulvierus.bsky.social
) at
#APSA2025!
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Social Science Research
2 months ago
@conradziller.bsky.social
and
@hummlerteresa.bsky.social
investigate differences in the acceptance of two different parenting styles between Muslim and non-Muslim respondents. Read this open access article here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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DemCastDonGA
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Anne Applebaum
3 months ago
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
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Savchenko Volodymyr
3 months ago
🇺🇸‼️ The Alaska summit marks a major success for Putin, as it effectively ends his diplomatic isolation. His true goal is not peace, but securing Trump’s support, NYT reports. 📍 The Kremlin seeks to ease Washington’s frustration over its delays in implementing a ceasefire.
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Nils Steiner
3 months ago
How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election? I explore this in a short letter now published in
@eupthejournal.bsky.social
. Read it here:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📢 New publication in Social Science Research: "Beyond Religious Categories" (with
@hummlerteresa.bsky.social
) 📊 In a survey experiment, we investigate why Muslims are more likely to accept violent parenting practices than non-Muslims 📚 Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline
Public discourse on immigrant integration often refers to cultural differences between immigrants and members of receiving societies, particularly imm…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X25000821
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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦
3 months ago
🤬 Putin appears to have teamed up with a Libyan warlord to trigger a fresh migrant crisis in the EU, - The Telegraph The European Commission has tracked an increased number of flights between the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and Minsk.
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EPSS
3 months ago
EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵
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Gilda Sahebi
3 months ago
Die Polarisierungsunternehmer* haben gewonnen. Der autoritäre Umbau rückt ein großes Stück näher. Das war nur die erste von vielen Kampagnen&Kulturkämpfen autoritärer Kräfte. Die AfD hat nun eine Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitung für die Übernahme von Regierungsmacht.
www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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Bundesverfassungsgericht: Brosius-Gersdorf zieht Kandidatur zurück
Die Juristin steht als mögliche Richterin am Bundesverfassungsgericht nicht mehr zur Verfügung. Sie reagiert damit auf die ablehnende Haltung der Union. SPD und Grüne üben scharfe Kritik an Unionsfrak...
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/brosius-gersdorf-rueckzug-102.html
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Empirical Political Science #Duisburg
3 months ago
📰Lesetipp!
@conradziller.bsky.social
erklärt im Welt Artikel zur NRW-
#Kommunalwahl
in Köln, warum die Aufstellung eigener Kandidaten der Parteien positiv zu bewerten ist und inwiefern die Karten in Köln neu gemischt werden! 👇
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Frau Büüsker
3 months ago
As in: Ich darf euch vorschreiben wir ihr zu sprechen habt und zwar so, dass ich, weißer Mann, der Standard bin.
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Julian Garritzmann
4 months ago
I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my
@erc.europa.eu
project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g.
#NLP
,
#LLM
, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.
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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
4 months ago
Die Geheimkontakte von Platzeck, Pofalla, Stegner usw. nach Moskau sind insofern nach Berichten von FAS/FAZ und Spiegel interessant, da es sich entweder um von der Scholz-Regierung gedeckte oder um Verratshandlungen handelt. Gelogen wird in jedem Fall.
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Anke Domscheit-Berg
4 months ago
WTF! 20 Jahre bleibt ein Programmierfehler in einer Software im Kultusministerium BaWü... u soll der Grund für 1.400 unbesetzte Lehrerstellen sein, für die es Geld im Haushalt gab, aber irgendwie merkte das keiner, 20 JAHRE LANG!!! Bis zum Computer Update!
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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
4 months ago
Er versucht das nun seit Wochen mit seinem Freund Krah und schafft, da ihm schon in Brüssel nichts gelingt, nicht einmal das: Wie erbärmlich dieser Typ ist
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Reto Mitteregger
4 months ago
Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."
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Clara Jeffery
4 months ago
“The stunning reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere confirms the global climate system has entered a catastrophic phase>' This is very very bad news:
www.intellinews.com/southern-oce...
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Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse
A major ocean current in the Southern Hemisphere has reversed direction for the first time in recorded history, in what climatologists are calling a ...
https://www.intellinews.com/southern-ocean-current-reverses-for-first-time-signalling-risk-of-climate-system-collapse-389540/
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Tarek Naguib
4 months ago
Eine neue Studie zeigt mittels einer Umfrage auf, dass die Erfüllung gewisser sozialer Normen, die typischerweise im Rahmen der «Integration» verlangt werden, von «Ausländern» stärker erwartet wird als von der Gesellschaft als ganzes.
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Integration for whom? The migration bias in social norms
Abstract. Integration has become a dominant framework in the governance of immigration, indicating what states and “host societies” expect immigrants to do and how to behave to become accepted members...
https://direct.mit.edu/euso/article/doi/10.1162/euso.a.30/131345/Integration-for-whom-The-migration-bias-in-social
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Empirical Political Science #Duisburg
4 months ago
(2/2) 🤝However, social openness and positive intergroup contact in the neighborhood can mitigate this negative impact. ➡️ Social openness builds trust — including trust in politics. 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#Research
#Trust
#Migration
#Discrimination
#Integration
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Integration is local: how neighborhood social climate buffers the negative impact of ethnic discrimination on the political trust of immigrants and their descendants
Neighborhoods and the social climate within them represent critical social settings that influence the political attitudes of immigrants and their descendants. Specifically, this paper investigates...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01419870.2025.2520902#abstract
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Teresa Hummler
4 months ago
Extremely happy to see my first single-authored paper published! Check it out in
@ersjournal.com
👇
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The New York Times
4 months ago
President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.
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Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Russia to Replenish Its War Chest
President Trump has issued no new restrictions on Russia this year, in effect allowing Moscow to acquire the money and materials it needs in its conflict with Ukraine.
https://trib.al/fX03GB6
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Klara Raiber
5 months ago
New paper out in
@ssreditorial.bsky.social
! A. Bertogg,
@ppraeg.bsky.social
and I find that cargiving is associated with better cognitive health - so some positive effect for a change
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📢 New publication in Social Science Research: "Beyond Religious Categories" (with
@hummlerteresa.bsky.social
) 📊 In a survey experiment, we investigate why Muslims are more likely to accept violent parenting practices than non-Muslims 📚 Link:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline
Public discourse on immigrant integration often refers to cultural differences between immigrants and members of receiving societies, particularly imm…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X25000821
4 months ago
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Constantin Wurthmann
4 months ago
As someone who has already published in PVS and serves on the board of the German Political Science Association, I’m incredibly proud of the German Political Science Quarterly, which now has an impact factor of 2.5!
@pvs-journal.bsky.social
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Jessica Kuhlmann
5 months ago
❕📣 My first paper is now published! “They don’t have the time for that, participating in politics” - How local politicians interpret political integration in the USA. It is available as open access in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.
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🗞️ Honored to be featured in The New York Times discussing the far-right's strategic expansion in western Germany 📰 "Far-Right Party Tries to Expand Its Appeal in Germany’s West" by Clay Risen // Link (w paywall):
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/w...
📄 PDF for those behind the paywall:
shorturl.at/1svWh
5 months ago
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John Holbein
5 months ago
Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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