Last Saturday, I had the privilege to present our project’s work at the CSS section of the @psaireland.bsky.social in Galway: “Between presence and absence: social classes and vulnerable groups in parliamentary debates.” - I’d like to thank @alonadolinsky.com for her amazing feedback on the paper!

Dear hive: Does anyone have an idea on how to recruit *production workers in the Netherlands* for a qualitative study? Asking for a PhD colleague. Slim chance, but all hints would be welcome. Feel free to share as well! Thanks!

Our new study in @jwpp.bsky.social shows that online abuse on social media discourages young women from pursuing political offices—before their actual political careers have even begun. with @dahoehmann.bsky.social and Tomoko Latteier www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Am Mittwoch hatten wir unseren Erstsemester-Apéro 😁🎉 Unsere neuen Studierenden wurden mit Snacks, Sandwiches und Bier versorgt 🍻🥪 und rätselten bei einem PoWi-Quiz, organisiert von unserer tollen Fachschaft 😎 Es hat riesig Spass gemacht – und wir heissen Euch ganz herzlich willkommen an Bord!! 💐😄

In einem weiteren spannenden Beitrag in DeFacto zeigen Maxime Walder, Gaia Fieramosca, Nathalie Giger und Denise Traber, dass sich Wählende vor Abstimmungen selektiv informieren 🗳️🤳 Lies den Beitrag hier! 😊👇 www.defacto.expert/2025/08/04/s...

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

Mehr Sozialstaat und eine "antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" werden häufig als Mittel gegen den AfD-Erfolg genannt. Doch was ist dran an der These & welche Sozialpolitik wünschen sich die AfD-Wähler tatsächlich? Eine Datenanalyse von @schieritz.bsky.social und mir. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

🎉 We’re SO HAPPY to have wrapped up our 3-year SNF-funded project “Do Citizens Distrust Politicians? The Role of the Representative Function” with a 2-day workshop “Citizens’ Preferences for Representation and Their Consequences for Political Behaviour” — it was a huge success! 🙌🤯

In a new paper we show how misinformation derails support for public action on climate change by casting doubt on the scientific consensus (which undermines public opinion). Disinformers attack expert consensus because they know it works. Free: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Vicente Valentim Receives the 2025 Robert A. Dahl Award for “The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand” The Robert A. Dahl Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor an untenured scholar who has produced…

📣 Call for Papers is open! In_equality Conference 2026 | 15–17 April | Konstanz We invite papers on the political causes & consequences of #inequality Submit Aug 8–Oct 5 ➡️ inequality-conference.de @uni-konstanz.de

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We have a new paper out in @jepsjournal.bsky.social, with @laiabalcells.bsky.social, @sergisme.bsky.social and Ethan vanderWilden. We test a number of experimental treatments aimed at strengthening social norms against radical-right support, but find mostly null results. 1/3

Now Out on First View: "Re-Stigmatizing the Radical Right: A One-Way Street?" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Even in times of sociocultural conflict, a progressive left electorate is more averse to sociocultural *and* socioeconomic inequalities than (far) right voters. New paper with @siljahausermann.bsky.social Palmtag @tabouchadi.bsky.social @stefwalter.bsky.social Berkinshaw tinyurl.com/d42wyb79 1/n

I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section. I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.

This is such a great new piece of research by @curdknupfer.bsky.social et al. It should be mandatory reading for journalists. academic.oup.com/joc/advance-...

How much competition within the right field? ❗Segmentation is eroding, especially among young voters❗ New article out by @siljahausermann.bsky.social ‪@dpzollinger.bsky.social @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself @ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj A short 🧵 1/7

NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Can government policies moderate political backlash to structural change? Yes, the effect operates through material benefits and social recognition. 🚨New WP by @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @thmskrr.bsky.social and @susanadptavares.bsky.social 🚨 shorturl.at/zFbZE

❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗ New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself @ipz.bsky.social ‬ @wepsocial.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj A short 🧵 1/7

Why are working class people under-represented in legislatures? We propose one potential mechanism: working-class individuals are *perceived* as less likely to achieve political success, and are subsequently 'pragmatically' discriminated against. We provide an experiment in the UK to test it:

Another piece on candidate selection of mine is forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social : Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR” (doi.org/10.1086/734244)

Now out with volume number! “Selecting and Ranking Female Candidates under PR” (with Michael Jankowski @cerpintaxt.bsky.social) in European Journal of Political Research (doi.org/10.1111/1475...)

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

🧵 How does education shape political behavior? @professormpersson.bsky.social and I contribute with two chapters to the new Research Handbook on Education and Democracy👇

⚖️🗳️ Fehlendes Verfassungsgericht, intransparente Lobbystrukturen im Parlament und ein wachsender Einfluss von finanzstarken Akteuren – die Analyse der @republik.ch zeigt: Auch unser direktdemokratisches System steht unter erheblichem Reformdruck. 🇨🇭🔧 Lesenswerter Artikel unter 👇👇 tinyurl.com/3b7d9buy

🎉 We are so thrilled to share that our amazing postdoc Magdalena Breyer has won the 3rd prize of the 2025 SAGW Early Career Award! 👏 Congratulations, Magdalena 💐🎉 We are very proud and inspired by your work! @mabreyer.bsky.social @unibas.ch @dgw.philhist.unibas.ch

@denisetraber.bsky.social, Garret Bindig, and @robinweisser.bsky.social presented ongoing work from our project on social class identities. Drawing on our pilot study, we examine the salience of social identities, test class-based appeals, and assess their impact on political behavior 📊🔍

Our team just returned from the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague, where we hosted the workshop "Inequality and the Politics of Class in the 21st Century", organized by our amazing Magdalena Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social and Peter Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social University of Oslo 😀

Super excited to present my paper on how political issue priorities have shifted in social space over the past ~25 years. Features graphs like this. (Starry sky background because @enlar.bsky.social said these plots look like constellations).

‼️ We are very proud and thrilled to share that our amazing Postdoc Daniel Höhmann received an honourable mention for the Teaching Excellence Award 2025 in the category "Supporting Learning"! 💐🥂🥳 👏 Huge congratulations, Daniel, for your outstanding commitment and skill in teaching statistics! 👨‍🏫😁

Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️

Are you interested in social class? I've two working papers which show: 1️⃣ Using actor recordings of different accents, that people derive class from accent and this causally influences trait evaluations 2️⃣ That class-based descriptive representation improves support for the political system. 🧵

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

An die Quali-Kolleg:innen: Unsere Fokusgruppen aus dem Triggerpunkte-Projekt sind nun archiviert und frei verfügbar. Neben Sekundäranalysen zu politischen Debatten eignen sie sich erfahrungsgemäß auch gut für Interpretationsübungen in der Lehre. Zum Datensatz: doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANG...

🚨Why do masses support democratic backsliding?🚨 A new @AJPS_Editor paper with Yotam Margalit, @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Itamar Yakir explores this question in the Israeli context. Our findings emphasize the role of leader attachment and affective polarization. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

Im ersten Research Brief diskutieren @siljahausermann.bsky.social und ich den Mythos einer Linken die angeblich gespalten ist zwischen denen die Umverteilung wollen und denjenigen denen es um progressive Gesellschaftspolitik geht. www.pw-portal.de/repraesentat...

Two great job opportunities in polisci/CPE at @ipz.bsky.social Less than 2 weeks left to apply!

Just published on APSR First View: "Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative" by Lucas Leemann (@LucasLeemann), Patrick Emmenegger, and André Walter. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 Got page #s! 🔎 When do political differences by social class emerge? During youth or on the job? 📊 @macarenaares.bsky.social & I find they appear early in life & consolidate during employment (🇨🇭+🇬🇧panels) 📖 tinyurl.com/2tv5v698

A quick reminder: we are hiring! The deadline for the application is 20 January. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have questions about the position. jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵

In this research note we show how the anti-far-right movement Le Sardine managed to curb far-right electoral performance in Italy's 2020 regional elections. Using a diff-in-diff design, local exposure to Sardine events significantly reduced far-right vote shares. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

How do voters react to different women's representation trajectories, and what does this tell us about progressive mobilization and backlash dynamics? I tackle this question in a paper that was part of my PhD and is now out in CPS: doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/7