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!

I’m always surprised that Berlin can be beautiful - sometimes.

🗳️ 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

Ich habe heute meine Ernennung zum Professor für Regierungslehre und Policyforschung an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg entgegengenommen. Ab dem Wintersemester lehre und forsche ich hier zu Demokratie, Parteien, Populismus. Ich freue mich auf die gemeinsame Arbeit mit Studierenden und KollegInnen!

In Nordrhein-Westfalen wählen ziemlich gleich viele Leute AfD und Grüne. Medial und politisch geht es heute allerdings fast nur um die AfD und ihre Themen. Die "besorgten Bürger" die Aufmerksamkeit bekommen, sind die Anhänger der AfD. Wir sagen ihnen klar: es lohnt sich rechtsextrem zu wählen

💥Online first: "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Soooo proud of you, Joscha!!!

Excited that my first PhD paper is published in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties!🎉 🧵 @wurthmann.bsky.social & I examine: Do They Know What They Represent? Parliamentary Candidates’ Perceptions of Their Own Party’s Positions 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

Please share this information and the call for papers in your departments, serve lists, emails etc. so it reaches especially those who aren’t using this platform! We very much hope to see as many people attend the EPSS inaugural conference in 2026 so spread the word!

🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨 If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be! More here 👇🏽

As someone who spent some time at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics, I can just say that this used to be a great place educating many excellent scholars. It will be a great loss to see polsci in Cologne defunded. Sign 👇

New work out showing that urbanity of living environment and acceptance link positively among different communities of LGBTQ+ people, non-binary people particularly. And informal and institutional support particularly impact those in the less urban areas. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

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

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...

❗📣 MZES Research Fellow @wurthmann.bsky.social has been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for his project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled "Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe". Congratulations! 🥳👏 #ERCStG 1/3

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

Mit anderen Worten: AfD: 35 Abgeordnete CDU: 24 Linke: 12 SPD: 6 BSW: 6 Rechnerische (!) Mehrheiten: AfD + CDU (59) CDU + Linke + SPD (42) CDU + Linke + BSW (42) Sonst geht derzeit gar nichts mehr in #ltwsa Mehrheit bei 42 von 83 Sitzen. Vorher kleiner Fehler bei Übertragung. AfD + BSW knapp (41)

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

Reminder. Am Montag diskutieren wir für die @boell.de den Aufstieg der extremen Rechten. Die Veranstaltung ist online (auf deutsch) und man kann sich weiterhin dafür anmelden.

Das Programm setzt klare fachliche Prioritäten etwa im Bereich MINT & KI - das ist kein Ausdruck von Wissenschaftsfreiheit. Die trifft die akute Lage seltener als andere Fachbereiche. Dazu: Es wird keine einzige langfristige Perspektive geschaffen. Das ist kein Hafen. Allenfalls 'ne Pegelstelle.

❗ Welcome to @sabrinahabchi.bsky.social and @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social , our new MZES Visiting Fellows in September. It's great to have you with us 😊

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits? Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

Der #Call for Proposals für die #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 von DVPW, @oegpw.bsky.social & SVPW/ASSP ist offen. Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge für Panels & Papers bis zum 14.11.2025! Alle Infos 👉 www.dvpw.de/veranstaltun... #CfP 14.11. #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #DACH #Europa #Zukunft #SpreadTheWord

🎉 As of today, September 1, 2025, Prof. Dr. Johannes Breuer heads the "Research Data & Methods" team at CAIS. Together with the University of Duisburg-Essen, he has been appointed Professor of Digital Social Sciences. 🎉 🔗 www.cais-research.de/en/news/joha... @johannesbreuer.com @unidue.bsky.social

"We show that negativity toward other groups is not always key to going viral. Rather, positive ingroup emotions appear to play a leading role in times of crisis." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

New study out today—“Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised?“ finds a substantial political cleavage between urban and rural populations in multiple European countries. Place-based affective polarization is associated with voting along liberal vs nationalist divide #PoliticalScience

Der Ex-Kanzler, sein Team und ihr rechtes Mediennetzwerk Vertraute von Sebastian Kurz mischen beim Aufbau einer Allianz rechtspopulistischer Krawallmedien mit. Das Geld kommt von einem deutschen Multimillionär, die Verbindungen reichen bis zu Viktor Orbán. www.falter.at/zeitung/2025...

My 2nd dissertation paper is out in @nature.com Humanities and Social Sciences Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... I study and explore how associations with 'left' and 'right' vary systematically by semantic and political position.

Wie jedes Jahr fordert das Finanzamt sämtliche Belege für Ausgaben an, weil man sich nicht vorstellen kann, dass Fachliteratur etc. auch Geld kosten. Schon länger nutze ich einen R-Code, um meine Aufstellung systematisch vorzunehmen & teile diesen heute, weil geteilte Freude ja doppelte Freude ist.

New paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social‬: Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement (open access) doi.org/10.1080/0140...

close eyes inhale... exhale.... inhale... exhale...

Such an important editorial for any scientist to read - in the US and beyond.

In an open access contribution to the volume 'Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance', Jale Tosun and I study the politicization of climate change in Germany and how it affected party competition and carbon emission policies. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Science for democracy. Much needed. Powerful @science.org editorial by @gretchentg.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social “The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📢 New Publication Alert! Our (@msaeltzer.bsky.social) latest article, "Issue congruence between candidates' Twitter communication and constituencies in an MMES: Migration as an exemplary case", has just been published in Parliamentary Affairs. academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

Check out this Elgar Encyclopedia entry on Political behavior of LGBT+ people penned by @wurthmann.bsky.social and myself. The piece summarizes what we know about queer political behavior and identifies some the remaining gaps. 🏳️‍🌈 www.researchgate.net/publication/...