A highly relevant topic studied by an excellent scholar. Well-invested money by the ERC! Congratulations @wurthmann.bsky.social Looking forward to hear more about this project.

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

🌈 #GenderingDemocracy No.25 ♀️ #IWD25 The new German Bundestag will be smaller, more right-wing wing & more male-dominated. @corinnakroeber.bsky.social & @lenastephan.bsky.social discuss the potential long-term consequences for women’s political representation in Germany. 👉 bit.ly/4iiCoTa

Neu im #DVPWblog: Kleiner. Rechter. Männlicher. @corinnakroeber.bsky.social & @lenastephan.bsky.social analysieren, wie sich #Wahlrechtsreform und #Rechtsruck bei der #BTW2025 auf die Repräsentation von #Frauen im Bundestag ausgewirkt haben. 👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/frauena...

♀️ International Women's Day takeover on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social starts today! 👀 Look out for blog pieces @corinnakroeber.bsky.social & @lenastephan.bsky.social, @hildecoffe.bsky.social @clemencedeswert.bsky.social @robindevroe.bsky.social @elisestorme.bsky.social and more... #IWD2025

Für den Verfassungsblog haben @lenastephan.bsky.social & ich unsere Analyse der Kandidierendenlisten ins Deutsche übersetzt und weiter gedacht. Ergebnis: die Wahlrechtsreform führt Sonntag nicht nur zu einem kleineren, sondern auch einem männlicheren Bundestag.Hier geht’s zum Beitrag: goto.now/ao0DQ

#Germany’s federal election is taking place this Sunday 🇩🇪🗳 Its results are almost certain to produce a significant decrease in the number of #women in the German #parliament, write @corinnakroeber.bsky.social and @lenastephan.bsky.social @unigreifswald.bsky.social [email protected] 👇

As Germany heads to the polls on Sunday, here are some articles we have published on German elections that can guide you through what to expect… 🗳️ 📊

Women will disappear from the next Bundestag. Learn about the mechanisms through which the new German electoral law will reduce women’s presence in Sunday’s election on @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social shorturl.at/v0uyi - joint work with the great @lenastephan.bsky.social

Danke an die Kolleg:innen von der Open Expert Survey, die für Daniel Morgenstern, @sophiahunger.bsky.social & mich Fragen zur Brandmauer aufgenommen haben 👏 📣Auf oes25.de/OES25prerele... gibt es alle Ergebnisse & pre-release Daten! Kurz: Es gibt klare Unterschiede im Ausmaß der Brandmauer Lang: 🧵👇

🚨 Women will disappear from the next Bundestag! While national news reports close to equal % of women candidates compared to 2021 shorturl.at/KSYvj, the upcoming election on Feb 23 will lead to an even more male-dominated parliament. Here's why the new electoral system is pushing women out—🧵

Last but not least, we investigate: What drives prime-ministerial performance? Our analyses highlight:

Is the idea of weak CEE PMs a myth? Our dataset reveals wide variability in PM performance, challenging assumptions of uniform weakness. PMs with strong parliamentary & party backing excelled at conflict resolution & policy influence. CEE PMs are far more dynamic than stereotypes suggest.

Building on a standardized concept of prime-ministerial performance, we developed an expert-survey tool to measure it across 11 CEE countries. We gathered 200+ expert responses.

Our book rethinks prime-ministerial performance by asking: What tasks must PMs fulfill in parliamentary democracies? Using a "delegation chain" framework, we identify 2 core tasks: 1️⃣ Running state affairs (e.g., cabinet conflicts, policies, crises). 2️⃣ Maintaining parliamentary & party support.

🔍 Interested in prime ministers’ careers, performance, or politics in CEE? Our new OUP book will be worth your time. Why bother reading the 228 pages? Over the next days, @janberz.bsky.social & I will share threads summarizing its main contributions. Stay tuned!

🎉 Excited to announce our book "Prime Ministers in Central and Eastern Europe: Careers, Context, and Performance" is out and published by Oxford University Press! Co-authored by the amazing Florian Grotz, @janberz.bsky.social, & Marko Kukec. More: academic.oup.com/book/59247