Looking forward to seeing your paper, panel, roundtable etc. proposals for the Party Politics section of EPSS. Don't forget: submissions are due on November 7, and the conference will take place in Belfast on June 18-20. @epssnet.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social

Submissions with comparative perspectives across developed & developing world, innovative methodologies, or emerging challenges facing parties in the 21st century are particularly encouraged. Submissions: papers, complete panels, topical roundtables, or author-meets-critics. 2/

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... We'll feature two sections each Tuesday & Thursday to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This Tuesday: Party Politics & Historical Political Economy

▶️ Party Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social 📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes. 1/

Nothing is as resilient as an academics office plant that didn’t get watered all summer.

A regular reminder that the Political Studies Association of Ireland (@psaireland.bsky.social) publishes a weekly newsletter. Sign up to stay informed about job opportunities and events across the island: www.psai.ie/newsletter/ Maintained by PSAI Secretary @sarahwagner.bsky.social.

Good piece in which @sarahwagner.bsky.social draws important lesson on “left conservatism” from the German case.

Our newest piece on BSW is now published. We show that when attitudes toward Wagenknecht come into the game, policies are no longer that meaningful in predicting behaviour. Personalisation in a personalised party! What a surprise! 😀 @sarahwagner.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Still time to sign up for tomorrow's discussion of recent elections in Europe: @cristinachiva.bsky.social on Romania 🇷🇴, @hferrinholopes.bsky.social on Portugal 🇵🇹 @alesmichal.bsky.social for Czechia 🇨🇿 @sarahwagner.bsky.social takes Germany 🇩🇪 and @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social on Poland 🇵🇱 Join us!

Please join me online this Thursday afternoon for an #ECPRHouseSeries discussion of recent elections across Europe, featuring expert input from: @cristinachiva.bsky.social, @hferrinholopes.bsky.social, @alesmichal.bsky.social, @sarahwagner.bsky.social, and @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social. Details 👇

🔜 FREE #ECPRHouseSeries Roundtable 🗳️ Electoral Integrity & Disinformation in an Era of Democratic Backsliding 💻 Thu 12 Jun, 13:00 BST 👇 Speakers @cristinachiva.bsky.social @hferrinholopes.bsky.social @alesmichal.bsky.social @aleksszczerbiak.bsky.social @sarahwagner.bsky.social ‬Jonathan Polk

4. Most recently, we published @sarahwagner.bsky.social’s analysis of “left conservatism” is Germany and the UK:

What does the failure of Sahra Wagenknecht’s BSW party in Germany tell us about the potential and pitfalls of a “left-wing conservatism”? Sarah Wagner (@sarahwagner.bsky.social) explains in a new piece for Renewal:

We are delighted to announce that ‪@svenjakrauss.bsky.social‬ & @sarahwagner.bsky.social‬ have been shortlisted for the PSR Best Original Research Article Award! For their article: Take the Streets or Take the Parliament? Political Participation Choices of Radical Left Individuals

Just keep watching the Bundestag chimney—when the white smoke comes out, we've got one.

Kanzlerwahl-Tipp: Einfach so lange auf den Bundestag schauen bis weißer Rauch rauskommt.

📣 Neu von @sarahwagner.bsky.social und @wurthmann.bsky.social 📘 Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW). Eine politikwissenschaftliche Einordnung. Entstehung, Entwicklung, Positionierung und vieles mehr. 👇 #OpenAccess 😀 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Das Springer VS essentials "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW). Eine politikwissenschaftliche Einordnung" von @sarahwagner.bsky.social & mir ist nun open access erschienen. Möge es als Einstiegslektüre für interessant befunden werden. #BSW link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

📢🆕 In LGS Journal: In their article on day care & economic hardship, @marcdebus.bsky.social @keonhison.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social find that the number of full-time day care spots for children per capita in cities that face economic hardship is significantly lower. doi.org/10.1080/0300...

Coming soon!

New publication with @marcdebus.bsky.social and @keonhison.bsky.social - see below for explanation of our findings ⬇️

Not enough memes on this site

Die Linke’s glow up is giving 'girl gets dumped and comes back hotter, smarter, and ready to burn it all down'.

From about 47mins in you can hear @sarahwagner.bsky.social and myself commenting – in fluent Japanese – on the German election and the far left and right.

Some absolutely brutal closeups on Japanese TV while I try to talk about the future of the BSW

Why would the CDU accommodate AfD policies, despite a plethora of research telling them not to? My brilliant friend @philswatton.bsky.social wrote a fantastic, easy to understand piece on measurement: dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com/p/measuremen...

“It's the last thing you expect to see when you come into work in the morning.”

With <4 weeks until election day, how strong is #Germany's #farright #AfD? I have compiled 19 months of polling data so that you don't have to. Several major scandals have done no lasting damage to their support. And the events & debates of the last 12 weeks have been a boon for them.

»Eine richtige Entscheidung wird nicht dadurch falsch, dass die Falschen zustimmen. Sie bleibt richtig«, sagt Merz. Fraktion CDU/CSU so:

"It could be that the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance alliance saves the "firewall."" What a savvy political move. p.dw.com/p/4pmQq

🚨Neue Publikation zusammen mit @wurthmann.bsky.social und @sarahwagner.bsky.social🚨 Wer sollte Angst vor Sahra haben - woher kommen die Wähler des #BSW? Die Gründung des BSW hat das deutsche Parteiensystem stark durcheinandergewirbelt. Aber woher kommen die Wähler des BSW bei der Europawahl 2024?

Läuft gerade zäh für das BSW. Auch bei Maischberger konnte Wagenknecht keinen richtigen Treffer gegen Weidel landen. Aber das Paper von @leon-heckmann.de et al. dazu, wo das BSW seine Wähler herbekommt, ist nun offen einsehbar: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Exklusiv für #stern: Eine neue Analyse von Langzeitbefragungen zeigt, dass der bisherige Erfolg des Bündnis Sahra #Wagenknecht vor allem auf die Ukraine-Politik zurückgeht - und dass die neue Partei viele Wähler gewinnen konnte, die zuvor zur AfD tendierten. www.stern.de/politik/deut...

Why did voters defect to Germany's new left-authoritarian party, Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW)? New insights can be found here: doi.org/10.1177/2053... @leon-heckmann.de, @wurthmann.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social

Two manuscripts accepted - is it Christmas already? 🥳🍾

Thinking back about the year

Wir von der sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands?

Maybe its just a bit of bad luck but I feel like I am definitely waiting longer to hear back from journals

Angry and disheartened at the job cuts at Essex —a place where I studied, did my PhD, and grew through student politics. It’s where I met mentors, friends and my partner. This isn't just about budgets; it's about the erosion of a vibrant community that fosters education, activism, and connection.

🚨 Job Alert 🚨: Postdoc Opportunity @ LMU Munich! Join the ERC-funded CIVILSPACE project. We're looking for a postdoc with: 📊 Experience in survey experiments 🤝 Interest in civil society, non-profit, organization or interest group research ⏰ Application deadline: December 8, 2024

You are the company you keep #BSW #CinqueStelle

Not a lot of us on here just yet but we are a growing community!

Just to make sure that our new generation of researchers does not get less attention than more senior scholars, I have made a starter pack with PhD researchers in Political Science go.bsky.app/MYHYycU

Inspired by @dtoshkov.bsky.social and the upcoming conference abstract season, types of EPSA papers

🖊️ "The BSW’s growing influence could disrupt the traditional balance of power in Brandenburg and beyond" 🚨 NEW: @sarahwagner.bsky.social unpacks the rise of the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in Germany ahead of state elections in Brandenburg on Sunday. ukandeu.ac.uk/sahra-wagenk...

Wofür steht Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW)? 👉Dazu habe ich den BSW-O-Maten entwickelt: bswomat.de 🔗 👉Enthält 20-26 Aussagen aus dem BSW-Gründungsmanifest 📜 👉Nutzer:innen erhalten ein individuelles Ergebnis (%) für verschiedene Politikbereiche 📊 German Politics

Wer wählt die neue Wagenknecht-Partei? Ich habe einige Wochen lang potenzielle Wähler:innen befragt, einige von ihnen getroffen und mit @sarahwagner.bsky.social und @onachtwey.bsky.social über Wagenknechts Anziehungskraft und ihren Anti-Linksliberalismus gesprochen. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

A new party launched in Germany today. I talked to @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social about the context and significance of BSW: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-e...