had a really good time at last week's DVPW Political Economy section meeting in @unimainz.bsky.social @ipp-jgu.bsky.social! Many thanks to the organizers & hosts: @bjoernbremer.bsky.social @leaelsaesser.bsky.social @thomasrixen.bsky.social @claraweinhardt.bsky.social

No pun intended!

I cannot think of a democracy anywhere in the world where this sort of thing could happen. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

"Warum junge Männer die AfD wählen – und junge Frauen die Linke" - (unter anderem) darüber habe ich mit dem Handelsblatt gesprochen: www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deut...

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

2 more days to apply for this 5-year research-focused postdoc position in my @erc.europa.eu team at @goetheuni.bsky.social on the politics of the educational cleavage!

Oh no, I might have to change my Introduction to Comparative Politics slides yet again... have a look at @ganghof.bsky.social 's paper 👇

Online first: "Pathways to politics: a sequence analysis of political apathy and involvement" by @sjungkunz.bsky.social l & Paul Marx doi.org/10.1080/0140...

The @powimz.bsky.social crowd enjoys the sunset cruise at the @ecpr.bsky.social conference in Thessaloniki. 😎 Together with @clandwehr.bsky.social, @arminschaefer.bsky.social, @stallbaum.bsky.social, @lionmert.bsky.social & @kwalz.bsky.social.

@powimz.bsky.social at #ECPRGC25 in Thessaloniki

We cannot think of democratic innovations as simple add-ons to existing institutions. Instead, we need to reform the institutions that are already in place. What a powerful pitch of my dear colleagues @clandwehr.bsky.social and @arminschaefer.bsky.social’s super important book! #ecprgc25 #deminno

Missed my flight to Thessaloniki but still made it on time for the first panel this morning. I look forward to our discussions tomorrow morning at #ecprgc25 on 'Class, Gender, Diversity and Political Representation.' ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Thrilled to share this 16-country conjoint experiment with @catherinedevries.bsky.social & @simonhix.bsky.social. We find strong support for majoritarian reforms and tougher legal enforcement, even when paired with policies people dislike. Policy-inelastic institutional preferences exist! A 🧵...

🌅📙 64.3 Are poor people poorly heard?👂 These authors (🧵⬇️) use citizen surveys in 🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦 & 🇩🇪 to claim that politicians hold biased views of what citizens want & shows that politicians perceptions parallel the rich for the most pressing economic issues. buff.ly/5UlH75b

How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election? I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sounds very interesting! 👇

Look at the distribution of wealth among politicians around the world relative to the people they represent! The median politician in South Africa's has 200x the wealth of the typical household in that country.

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1/ 🚨 What if intro political science textbooks were better and cheaper? We built one: ✅ $1/chapter ✅ Modular & flexible ✅ Written by top scholars ✅ Full (free!) instructor resources 🌐 www.politicsexperiment.com Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!

Now out in @ajpseditor.bsky.social: @luciamotoliniac.bsky.social, Marko Klašnja and I show that greater pressures to spend more money on campaigning leads not just to more politicians who are rich, but especially to more politicians who are are *super* rich onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨 Updated until 2023 Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data @leuphana.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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:

🎧 HÖRTIPP: #Forschungspodcast #MindsOfMainz – #DerGutenbergTalk | Folge 24: Wehrhafte #Demokratie – ein Bekenntnis zu Freiheit und gemeinsamen Werten | mit Prof. Kai Arzheimer 👉 www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of-mai... @kai-arzheimer.com @powimz.bsky.social #Politikwissenschaft #Innenpolitik

“It is estimated that there are around 7 million to 8 million people not correctly registered or missing from the registers entirely. This is not many less than the 9.7 million people whose votes gave the government a landslide majority.”

Our Element is out! 🎉 Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms? www.cambridge.org/core/element...

As @indubioproreto.bsky.social pointed out a few days ago, there is some interesting data from the Federal Returning Office in Germany on the age and gender divides in the general election. A few points stand out: 1) The AfD performs well across all age groups, with the exception of the oldest. 1/3

🚨 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. 🧵

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social

Very stark GAL-TAN divide by age and gender in the UK electorate. On both and their interactions with education see also this paper by Armin Schäfer and @nilssteiner.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Great piece by @garritzmannj.bsky.social 👇

Is downward class mobility linked to far-right party voting and how? @dafnoukos.bsky.social, @a-gugushvili.bsky.social‬ & Tim Vlandas argue it significantly affects far-right voting but only under specific conditions. Read OPEN ACCESS in @polbehavior.bsky.social‬: buff.ly/Cljvggt 🧵 1/2

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Ein Gespräch über Populismus, Autokratie und das, was Demokratie einzigartig macht.

New blog post about Lords reform. How ideas about semi parliamentary systems can give a clear purpose to change alexparsons.co.uk/blog/posts/s...

Very cool to see this out: What started as a term paper in our MA Empirical Democracy Studies program @powimz.bsky.social (from @arminschaefer.bsky.social’s course on coalition politics) has now been published in CPS. Big congratulations to @timo-sprang.net! bsky.app/profile/timo...

🧵 Do radical parties receive fewer ministries? I investigated this fundamental question in my first single-authored article which is now online in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Find out here 👇

And 🥁🥁🥁 another very cool publication by one of our former MA students 👇

Delighted to organize and chair this panel tomorrow. Promising research on cohorts, voting for radical right parties and satisfaction with democracy, with some really fascinating findings. ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Great to listen to the keynote by @kai-arzheimer.com. Not only a kind person but also a star of the field! @powimz.bsky.social @ipp-jgu.bsky.social

After missing my connecting train in Brussels, I am finally on my way to the @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference. I will be presenting joint work with @nilssteiner.bsky.social on the interplay of education and cohorts in explaining differences in satisfaction with democracy. Looking forward!

Join us in London next week for our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference. Keynote by @kai-arzheimer.com, roundtable and panels on populism and radicalism. Observer only registration available- with @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @sajuria.com

Greatly looking forward to next week's @powimz.bsky.social research lab with @christopherojeda.bsky.social

“Strongmen” Don't Redistribute: Illiberal Leaders on the Right and Worsening Economic Inequality | Article | Politics and Governance www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Welcome to our profile! We are the research center for Interdisciplinary Public Policy (IPP) at JGU Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social.

Neu im #DVPWblog: Warum wählen manche ehemaligen Industrieregionen rechts, andere links? M. Bayerlein @mbayerlein.bsky.social, A. Metten & J. Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social zeigen: Entscheidend ist, ob der Jobverlust real ist – oder nur gefürchtet. #PoWi #Populismus 👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/von-der...

What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."