New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social : “Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?” @polstudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0032... A short 🧵:

Published in Pers.Indiv.Differ. with my formidable former colleague Almuth 🎆 @dezim-institut.de on the general mechanisms of PRRP support. We show: low tolerance for ambiguity connects personality traits to right-wing authoritarianism, populist att & anti-immigrant sentiment -> higher AfD support.

💥 Update! 💥 This paper is now officially published in Volume 30, Issue 4 of The International Journal of Press/Politics! 🗳️ Experimental evidence that voters prefer moderately tailored messages - highly tailored ones can backfire & targeting can be too much: doi.org/10.1177/1940... #IJPP

New article on parliamentary reactions 👏 (with @jocmuel.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social) online first at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

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...

On my way to Vancouver 🇨🇦 for my first @apsa.bsky.social ! 🥳 Starting off with the @polcomm.bsky.social Preconfoerence tomorrow presenting a new project with @klingelt.bsky.social on „The Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from Campaign Poster Locations in Central Berlin“

New Publication 📖 with @aikowagner.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social "Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany" Full paper (open access)👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... What did we find? 🧵

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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

check out the new publication by @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social and @k8em0.bsky.social on how useful the concept of cordong sanitaire still is for studying the far right

Thrilled to receive the 2024 Best Paper Prize ✨! Sad I can’t attend the celebration in person, but thankful for the recognition and this community.

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 "From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me

I learned so much from @rdassonneville.bsky.social's Voters Under Pressure, Tillman's Authoritarianism and the Evolution and Bartels's Democracy Erodes from the Top. In @comppol.bsky.social, I review each book on its own terms and draw out implications for the view that elections confer mandates. 🧵

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties. A thread 👇 (1/n) #OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

New publication @wepsocial.bsky.social w/ Timothy Hellwig and Lawrence Ezrow! We argue and show that non-centrist/extreme governments prioritize their core supporters over the median voter when making policy. However, this strategy is likely to backfire at the next election. tinyurl.com/ynexbzwh

Excited to see my book "Parties under Pressure" reviewed in Party Politics. Sincere thanks to @klingelt.bsky.social for the very thorough review! You can find it here: doi.org/10.1177/1354.... (1/) @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Lovely if gloomy retirement conference for my colleague Dick Katz today. @klingelt.bsky.social offered a prescient quote from Giovanni Sartori, who had lived through fascism, on the perils of demolatry.

🚀 Our paper (with @eliaskoch.bsky.social) on ‘The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament’ is finally out as EarlyView at the EJPR!

Incredibly honored that our (@sricht.bsky.social @loewnic.bsky.social) paper "Changing affective alignments between parties and voters" @wepsocial.bsky.social won the inaugural Rudolf Wildenmann prize for election research of Forschungsgruppe Wahlen e.V. www.forschungsgruppe.de/Aktuelles/Wi...

🚨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...

🚨 First publication alert! 🚨 My first paper, based on my master’s thesis, is out! 🎉 With @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social & @lizamugge.bsky.social, we examine how people with disabilities are represented in German politics descriptively & substantively. 🇩🇪♿ 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964... 🧵👇

New paper with @ankuepfer.bsky.social accepted at EJPR🎉 When do MPs debate each other & when do they avoid discourse? Applying a new framework to study the emergence of elite discourse, we find that ideology and gov/opp dynamics shape MPs incentives to seek & avoid dialogical interactions. #polisky

Now available Open Access: 📰 Does (immigration) framing influence public opinion? 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New publication alert! Social media is often seen as a catalyst for the transnational spread of far-right and anti-gender movements. But is it really? How does it work? My research examines how anti-gender movement organizations exchange across borders online. Curious about the findings? 🧵👇

Zur Bundestagswahl 2025 habe ich mit @pluggedchris.bsky.social, @annakurella.bsky.social und @jocmuel.bsky.social das Tool #PartyCheck auf Basis der OES 2025 Parteipositionen entwickelt. Nach 15 Fragen bekommt ihr einen Match. Schaut doch mal rein! party-check.org

Just published on APSR First View: "Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond" by Valentin Daur @valentindaur.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎉 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, @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, & Marko Kukec. More: academic.oup.com/book/59247

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝

🚨 Out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social : "Citizens' Preferences for Multidimensional Representation". Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & I investigate citizens' preferences regarding 6 dimensions of representation using surveys conducted in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪. Short 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1017/S15375

We often define the ideological space in terms of the economic and cultural dimensions; how does this resonate with ordinary citizens? This is the question Thomas and I explore in a new Element, analyzing answers to open-ended survey questions 🧵 cup.org/4gEYCOj

One year ago, I published my article on the AfD's youth wing in IPSR. 🎈 It has now been given proper page numbers and is also available #OpenAccess. 🔓 If you want to understand why the party currently wants to separate from the JA (once again), read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication alert! 🚨 Why do parties sometimes bend over backwards to accommodate new demands, and why do they remain focused on their core policies at other times? Over the moon to see my single-authored study out in EJPR! 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1475...

📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc. 🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture. (2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

How frequently do far-right speakers attack prevailing historical interpretations in their parliamentary speeches and what characterizes these attacks in their sentiment & content? We investigate these questions in a new paper, out open access @bjpols.bsky.social. (1/) cup.org/4hZpJVk #polisky

To complete the X migration, I am happy to share my recent article, now open access in @jeppjournal.bsky.social. The argument: Intra-party divisions are one important reason why mainstream parties take on the issues and positions of Eurosceptic and anti-immigration parties. doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Populists have arguably made political discourse more emotional, appealing to anger and fear. In a paper @wepsocial.bsky.social, @sricht.bsky.social, @loewnic.bsky.social, and I investigate whether voters have adapted and privilege their affective orientations as a yardstick when voting. Polisky 🧵

Und nochmal für die deutsche Bubble: haben Wahlumfragen - genau genommen die Darstellung von "Schwankungsbreiten" - einen Einfluss auf Wahlentscheidungen von Bürger*innen? Ja, vor allem wenn die Umfrage knapp ist und Journalist*innen das auch korrekt interpretieren. 📊🗳️👇 polisky commsky polcom

1/4 New article at EJPR!   @ChristinaGahn & I explore the impact of displaying margins of error (MoE) in public opinion polls on citizens' voting intentions.   We use a vignette experiment with > 3000 respondents in Germany.   Paper (Open Access): tinyurl.com/y28fvfk8 polisky commsky polcom

"Does Right-Wing Violence Affect Public Support for Radical Right Parties? Evidence from Germany" Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with page numbers! Blog Post: theloop.ecpr.eu/right-wing-v... Full Article (Open Access): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11

In the eyes of many citizens, democracy fails to meet its promises. In a new paper just published in Res Publica, Armin Schäfer and I argue that deliberative responsiveness constitutes a promise representative democracy can and should fulfill. Open access link: rdcu.be/dp9lj

My book is here! Such a wonderful feeling to see it in print. While the book covers a group of parties that is very successful in the volatile party systems of Centr.&Eastern Europe, I learned a lot from studying these parties for party system change in general. A thread 1/10

Excited that this workshop on cleavage politics is happening at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2024 in Lüneburg. Find all the information here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... You can propose papers until 23 November. We look forward to your submissions! Feel free to get in touch with any questions. polisky

New article w/ Jochen Müller @pluggedchris.bsky.social & @marcdebus.bsky.social in Regional & Federal Studies State parties' incentives to avoid coalitions bridging the gov-opp divide at federal level is dependent on level of legislative party system fragmentation doi.org/10.1080/1359... polisky

Publication day🚨Parties and party systems change and so must our understanding of them. "Party People" with @allansikk.bsky.social (Oxford University Press, @ecpr.bsky.social) out now as 📖, soon to follow on Oxford Scholarship Online 💻 tiny.cc/partypeople #partypeople #evolution #candidates

No-fault divorce also applies to coalitions! See why 👇🏼 This article was made possible by my inclusive academic village. (among others, @comppollu.bsky.social @hannaeback.bsky.social @agustingoenaga.bsky.social @robertklemmensen.bsky.social Julie Hassing Nielsen and Jon Polk @pollu.bsky.social)

What is the role of abortion rights in the upcoming #PolishElections 🇵🇱on Sunday? Read our piece for Engenderings 👇 blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2023/...

Finally our JEPP paper "Democracy challenged: different party families politicize different democratic principles" (with @gessler.bsky.social @tabouchadi.bsky.social @lleemann.bsky.social has a volume number. A thread 👇1/n