Auf die Revolte in der Fraktion folgt der Austritt aus dem BSW: Vier Landtagsabgeordnete in #Brandenburg haben nun die Partei verlassen. In der Fraktion wollen sie aber bleiben. www.maz-online.de/brandenburg/...

Das #BSW bleibe Sahra Wagenknechts Baby, so MZES-Fellow @wurthmann.bsky.social im Interview mit dem Deutschlandfunk. Aber was wird sich ändern? 👉 www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-weiter-m...

2500 paper submissions - what a huge success for @epssnet.bsky.social already. Big congratulations to @sarahobolt.bsky.social @simonhix.bsky.social @kenbenoit.bsky.social @macartan.bsky.social & everyone else involved in getting EPSS off the ground.

🚨🎉New Publication Friday 🎉🚨 Campaigning in the Age of Platforms: A Longitudinal Analysis of German Parties & Politicians w/ @ulrikeklinger.bsky.social & @andersoloflarsson.bsky.social Out now in Political Communication. #polisky #commsky doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Deadline for application to @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 conference is this Friday 7th of November. There's been an amazing response to the call for papers so far, we hope for even more great proposals this week. Here is the call for papers: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

We have a paper tracing US Members of Congress' engagement with far-right and questionable sources on Twitter. This correlates with how extreme they are. doi.org/10.1177/1354...

📊 now in English @fesonline.bsky.social: Gender gap in voting behavior in Germany📊 It's about the “big picture” since 1953 & current trends 2021-2025. The gender gap keeps growing, especially among the young. -> Longer trends are continuing & partly accelerating. library.fes.de/pdf-files/a-...

🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Interested in the sociodemographic background, policy preferences, attitudes and campaign strategies of candidates for the 2025 Bundestag election? The @gles.bsky.social Candidate Study 2025 is now available (doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA... @gesis.org) and includes CCS Module IV @ccs-project.bsky.social 👇

🚨 Job alert! 🚨 (English in comment) An meinem Lehrbereich ist zum 1.2.26 eine Postdoc-Stelle (100%) zu besetzen. Gesucht wird ein*e Kandidat*in mit Kenntnissen in quantitativen Methoden sowie Expertise in einschlägigen Themenbereichen. Mehr hier: www.verwaltung.uni-halle.de/dezern3/Auss...

The far right uses homosexuals as stepping stones for their agitation- but beware if they do not share their convictions. Then sexual minorities once again become a target. Not only in the Netherlands, but everywhere!

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

Crazy exit poll in the Netherlands. D66 almost certainly the biggest party. PVV the big loser but other far right wins bit back (FvD & JA21). Terrible night for the Dutch left and particularly GL/PvdA and Frans Timmermans.

#AfD hardliner #Höcke hires a former Austrian Freedom Party MP as spokesperson. The man has been convicted for violating 🇦🇹 weapons regulations and asking a public official to pass on information to him. Höcke himself has been convicted twice for using Nazi slogans. If the shoe fits etc

Coming soon: our introduction to the politics of human rights 🥳📚 Preorder available here: www.cambridge.org/highereducat... @sabinecarey.bsky.social

Adopting far-right rhetoric: Germany has failed to learn from its neighbors, says @wurthmann.bsky.social. "It seems that active politicians apparently aren't conscious of how central their task is in preventing something like that from happening." 👉 www.dw.com/en/does-adop...

Die Frageformulierung ist so natürlich schon komplett bodenlos. Aber es dann so verkürzt darzustellen ist schlicht Irreführung. Vollkommen inakzeptabel.

Now out in Party Politics 🎉 Our study (@jbpilet.bsky.social)suggests that when a mainstream right-wing party signals willingness to rule with the radical right, support for the radical right rises — while the mainstream gains nothing. 👉 A legitimisation effect. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

And we are more than happy to have you on board to continue Eric's legacy! Thank you for your committment to @pvs-journal.bsky.social and best of luck for the new task ahead!

Happy to serve as the editor-in-chief of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly (PVS/GPSQ) link.springer.com/journal/11615 @dvpw.bsky.social from January 2026 onwards. Thanks to Eric Linhart for his great work in the last six years! 1/3

Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)

🇪🇺 Europeans say no to tariffs! Check out the @uu.se press release on our new @jeppjournal.bsky.social study exploring what Europeans really think about trade barriers in an era of rising global tensions. www.uu.se/en/press/pre... Full paper: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Die rote Linie war erreicht als die AfD erstmalig im Verfassungsschutzbericht erwähnt wurde. No further need to discuss.

Tariffs might be the word of 2025. Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? @grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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...

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...

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

Wer Erik Ahrens ernsthaft für eine glaubwürdige Quelle hält (und auch noch Interviews mit ihm führt), offenbart sein Unwissen über die radikale Rechte in Deutschland.

#Wagenknecht welcomes the AfD’s support for the BSW’s election appeal and accuses the parties of the so-called “democratic centre” of blocking a recount out of self-interest. /1

Die ZEIT berichtet über eine Studie, an der ich gemeinsam mit Christian Breunig (Uni Konstanz) und dem POLPOP-Team um Stefaan Walgrave (Uni Antwerpen) beteiligt war. www.zeit.de/2025/42/mein... @polisciunibas.bsky.social @dgw.philhist.unibas.ch @unibas.ch

Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️‍🌈 But is this really the case? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

"Die Mehrheit in diesem Land ist rechts, aber bekommt trotzdem eine linke Politik" – dieser Satz ist also nicht analytisch gemeint, sondern strategisch. Er ist nicht da, um etwas zu beschreiben, sondern um etwas zu planen. www.zeit.de/politik/2025...

In der neuen @lagedernation.org sagt Gerald Knaus, Politikwissenschaft die behauptet, die Übernahme rechter Positionen führe zu einer Normalisierung dieser Position, ist nicht seriös. Seine Gegenargumente sind extrem dünn ("80 Prozent wollen weniger irreguläre Migration").

I am saddened to hear that Claus Offe has died. I have admired his work since I was an undergraduate student and believe few others have influenced my thinking as much as he did. He was kind, generous and encouraging in person. He will be greatly missed.

Mit Anton Pelinka (1941–2025) verliert Österreich eine Stimme des kritischen Denkens. Ein Nachruf seines langjährigen Kollegen am Institut für Politikwissenschaft Günther Pallaver: www.uibk.ac.at/de/politikwi...

Diese "Wir oder die"-Zuspitzung führt zu einer verlässlichen Gegenmobilisierung auf Seiten der AfD. Von steigender Wahlbeteiligung profitiert die AfD meist am stärksten. Die CDU sollte sich in Sachsen-Anhalt und anderswo eine bessere Strategie einfallen lassen.

‼️Zweimal ist (neue) Tradition: Wir schreiben die DVPW-#Impulstagung für das akademische Jahr 2026/2027 aus! Bewerben können sich DVPW-Mitglieder aus mindestens drei unserer Sektionen, Arbeitskreis und/oder Themengruppen. 👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione... Anträge bis 28.02.2026 an [email protected]

📣 Diversity Week 🏳️‍🌈 📆 13-16 October 2025 📍 University of Mannheim With contributions from MZES researchers Rainer Freudenthaler, @wurthmann.bsky.social (14 October), Andrea Chagas López, Oliver Rittmann (15 October) and many others. Programme and details: 👉 www.uni-mannheim.de/en/gleichste...

Encouraging numbers - the diaspora is still missing but pro-european PAS in the lead!

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Am Dienstag geht es los mit der Herbsttagung der @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social an der Erlanger @fau.de „Politische Öffentlichkeit - Akteure und Strategien“! Es warten tolle und sehr unterschiedliche Vorträge (mit Blick auf den sonnigen Schlossgarten). Last-Minute-Anmeldung: www.poloeff.de

For postdocs around, I can't recommend this enough! In just four weeks in Mannheim, I connected to lots of amazing young scholars, presented my research, finished writing up my dissertation and applied for my current job at LSE. MZES organized my stay so smoothly that I couldn't wish for more.

"What the government is trying to do is to erase LGBTQ+ Russians from society." For Context I wrote about the new law targeting online searches in Russia - the latest step in the Kremlin's crackdown on queer rights in the digital space. @contextnewsroom.bsky.social Read the article here 👇

In den Niederlanden gab es am Wochenende rechtsextreme Ausschreitungen. In den 4 größten Ländern Europas führen rechtsradikale Parteien in den Umfragen. Ich verstehe den Fokus auf das Spektakel, aber der Dauerfokus auf Trump, Kimmel, Kirk scheint mir stark zu vernachlässigen was in Europa passiert.

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers! ❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊 💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas 💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance 📆 Deadline: 28 November Full information: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

Es lohnt sich wohl, das hier nochmal zu wiederholen. Es wäre auch schön wenn deutsche Medien aufhören würden, die Selbstinszenierung von Jens Spahn mitzuspielen, er hätte irgendeine Expertise für US Politik und stattdessen darauf vorbereitet sind, dass es nur um dogwhistling nach rechtsaußen geht.

Lieber @spiegel.de, eine Regierungskoalition, die eine Partei der radikalen Rechten einschließt, ist keine konservative Regierungskoalition mehr. Danke, bitte.

For some reason, both of my dinners over the past two days in Berlin turned out to be Bavarian cuisine.

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!