Rechtsextreme, demokratiegefährdende Einstellungen, was ist wichtig, im Hinterkopf zu haben, wenn es um Ergebnisse wie die der Mitte-Studie geht? Einordnungen mit Politikwissenschaftler & Rechtsextremismusforscher @kai-arzheimer.com - 30min Vertiefung 🎧 www.deutschlandfunk.de/mitte-studie... 2/2

Crazy support numbers for Zohran Mamdani among young women: 84% (!) of women aged 18-29 voted for Mamdani in the NYC Mayoral Election. But also important: young men voted MUCH MORE STRONGLY (67%) for Mamdani than old men (37%).

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

Diesen Mittwoch in der Forschungswerkstatt Politikwissenschaft @powimz.bsky.social : Nathasha Wunsch stellt ihr neues Buch vor! 16 Uhr in P5 - wir freuen uns schon 🎉

Kickoff done! “Marburger Stadtgespräch” & Future of Democracy (Mon, 20 Oct). @leaelsaesser.bsky.social on working-class political careers, the role of trade unions, and contrasts with uni graduates. Thanks also to our engaged audience for a great discussion! More: tinyurl.com/e3pyhstd

How can we compare the size and structuring power of different cleavages over time? Check out @jacobgunderson.bsky.social 's great paper and dataset for scholars working on cleavages at the party system level! The latest from @dpzollinger.bsky.social and I's Special Issue in @wepsocial.bsky.social.

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

💫💫💫 Great News: We are over the moon that our paper "Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment?" is now published in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social 🍾 🤗 👉🏻 doi.org/10.1017/S000... w/ Juha Ylisalo, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social 🧵1/5

Kommt alle zum Projekttag! Im Rahmen des Projekttages stellen Studierende im Master ‚Empirische Demokratieforschung’ ihre eigenen, im Rahmen eines Projektmoduls erarbeiteten Forschungsprojekte vor Eingeladen sind alle Studierenden und Mitglieder des Instituts.

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

New-ish research by @nilssteiner.bsky.social & @arminschaefer.bsky.social, made @powimz.bsky.social

Why do rustbelts vote radical right? Studying the German Ruhr area, @nilsblossey.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social and I show: it’s not just about deindustrialization, but also about the original industrialization. Where coal is buried deeper and mining started later, the AfD is stronger today 1/12

I am really happy to share this year's prize for the best dissertation at the @ipz.bsky.social with @reidingerve.bsky.social! This is an exciting end to an intense but also joyful dissertation journey.

JUST OUT: "Boundaries and Cleavages: Elements of a Cultural Sociology of Political Divides." OA: direct.mit.edu/ecps/article... It develops what the cultural sociology of group formation can contribute to research on political cleavages. (And why "Somewheres vs Anywheres" really doesn't cut it.)

We are gearing up for the #ISIWealthConference2025. It starts tomorrow and you can find the full program here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Thanks to this marvelous team 👇, we are ready to host a wonderful set of wealth inequality scholars from across the globe. Watch the hashtag for updates!

Calling all comparative legislative scholars! We’ve got a new dataset with committee memberships from 14 countries over 35 years, spanning almost 15,000 MPs in 260 parties! Grateful for my excellent coauthors! #polisky #gendersky

This is gonna be a busy but exciting term @powimz!! 👇👇👇

Right now: Gunnar Otte and Natasha Nisic opening this year's congress of the Academy of Sociology @unimainz.bsky.social sponsored by @ipp-jgu.bsky.social Looking forward to three inspiring days in Mainz!

I promise @davidattewell6.bsky.social 🧵 is worth your time - in fact, the entire @wepsocial.bsky.social SI is 👇

ARE YOU LISTENING MAURICE DUVERGER?? YOUR BOYS TOOK A HELL OF A BEATING TONY DOWNS, CAN YOU HEAR ME? WHERE IS YOUR MEDIAN VOTER NOW???

Ein von Michael Zürn und mir verfasster Nachruf auf Claus Offe. Ein bemerkenswerter Mensch und Wissenschaftler www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

Hi bsky people - if you care about how the EU seeks to fund all things "social-ecological transformation", which institutional architecture has emerged out of it, and why it is both contested and an unrealized promise: please have a look at our special issue on the politics of sustainable finance 👇

Morgen Abend, 18 Uhr (deutscher Zeit). InstaLive zu diesen jungen Leuten, was sie denken, was sie wählen. Sneak Preview zu Ergebnissen unserer Jugendwahlstudie zur btw 2025, die wir mit der @fesonline.bsky.social durchgeführt haben @arminschaefer.bsky.social @juliareuschenbach.bsky.social

Thank you to all who joined us in Cologne this week for the 2nd Max Planck Summer School for Women in Political Economy! A fantastic line-up of speakers and participants, thoughtful discussions and global perspectives. Huge thanks to organizers @palmapolyak.bsky.social and @dustinvoss.bsky.social!

'It has been widely observed that the speed of America’s democratic slide surpasses that of other “elective autocracies” such as Narendra Modi’s India and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s Turkey. But that understates Trump’s impatience.'

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: