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Political Science | Postdoc Uni Saarland |
http://acteu.org
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Endre Borbáth
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Big supply-side takeaway: since the 1960s, parties increasingly drop “party” and classic ideology words. By the early 2020s, nearly 2/3 of parties no longer identify as “parties” in their official name; “movement” references rise in waves (e.g., post-2008).
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Katrin Weller
17 days ago
January 16, 2026: Julian Jaursch from the German Digital Service Coordinator
@bnetza.bsky.social
will introduce the EU's
#DSA
Data Access Portal during the series "Show & Tell – Social Media Data in Research Practice". Register here:
events.gwdg.de/event/1259/
#digitalservicesact
#platformdata
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Applications via the EU's DSA Data Access Portal: An Introduction
Researchers can submit requests to the EU's "Data Access Portal" to obtain non-public data from very large online platforms in certain cases. What information do researchers need to provide and what d...
https://events.gwdg.de/event/1259/
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Giuseppe Carteny
18 days ago
New Publication out! 🔥 Italy’s right-wing politics has changed dramatically over the past two decades. With
@gippone.bsky.social
and
@leonardo-puleo.bsky.social
we started from a basic question: Why has the radical right surged inside Italy’s right coalition? Radicalisation or something different?
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
21 days ago
🎶“The relationship between voters and parties is a complicated dance, with high potential for misalignment” 🎶 Find out more in this
#ActEU
blog post 👉
www.foederalist.eu/2025/12/acte...
✍️
@alexhartland.bsky.social
, Daniela Braun, Giuseppe Carteny,
@rosanavarrete.bsky.social
&
@annreinl.bsky.social
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The COMPTEXT Association
23 days ago
The Call for Papers and Panels for
#COMPTEXT2026
in Birmingham (23-25 April) is out; feel free to circulate:
shorturl.at/gRg0p
! Deadline: January 16!
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
23 days ago
European parties often miss what voters actually care about. New
#ActEU
research shows clear gaps between party platforms and voter priorities with consequences for trust and political stability. Read more in our latest
#PoliSci
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Out of step? The EU’s difficult election dance
Ein Blog über die Demokratie in Europa
https://www.foederalist.eu/2025/12/acteu-parties-voters-priorities.html
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Ceri Fowler
about 1 month ago
Deadline today!! :)
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Anna Kurella
about 1 month ago
Happy to share that the German Research Foundation DFG funds my new project: “Countering Polarization: The Borda count as a basis for proportional representation”. I am recruiting 2 PhD candidates to join me in Hannover as of March 2026 or later! Feel free to reach out!
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
about 1 month ago
And another job ad: We're looking for four student assistants!
#hiring
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James Dennison
about 1 month ago
Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Will Allen
about 2 months ago
Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access
@polcommjournal.bsky.social
article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals.
doi.org/10.1080/1058...
#polisky
#commsky
#migcitsky
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Chris Butler
about 2 months ago
Several recent studies have found that politicians aren't very good at estimating public support for policies. But we have little idea about whether politicians are good at knowing which issues are more important to voters. Our new publication has a first go at answering this question
rdcu.be/eQGm4
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How Politicians (mis)Perceive Policy Salience
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Dr. Silke Goubin
about 2 months ago
🚨Working on economic inequality perceptions and support for redistribution? Sonja Zmerli and I are coordinating a Section about perceived economic inequality at the next
@ecpr.bsky.social
's General Conference. 👉 Do consider submit your paper!
ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social
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Exploring the intricacies of citizens' economic inequality perceptions and their redistributive correlates: Ill-informed, attitudinally incoherent, or predictably irrational?
European Consortium for Political Research
https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/SectionDetails/1670
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
about 2 months ago
We are looking for a teamlead for our large-scale project SOUNDS!
#compsocsci
#PoliSky
#PoliSci
#hiring
#JobAlert
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https://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/upload/lehrstuhl/braun/Aktuelles_Dateien/N2232_Teamlead.pdf
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Martin Gross
about 2 months ago
Including the symposium on the EP elections 2024, guest edited by
@simonhix.bsky.social
👇
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WEP Journal
about 2 months ago
💥 OUT NOW: Volume 49, Issue 1 (2026) Lots of exciting research on: 👉 Polarisation: climate change, immigration, democratic deficit 👉 EU politics & voters/citizens 👉 Working class politicians 👉 Political protest 👉 Housing policy 👉 Symposium 2024 EP Elections 🔗
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/c...
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West European Politics
Volume 49, Issue 1 of West European Politics
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fwep20/current
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Chris Arnold
about 2 months ago
I am over the moon to announce that
#COMPTEXT2026
will take place at the "Institute for Data and AI" at the University of Birmingham. Look out for the imminent CfP on all channels. And go and tell your friends. Looking forward to hosting y'all in April 2026
#sciencerocks
@comptext.bsky.social
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Gabriella Lapesa
about 2 months ago
Join our CSS department
@gesis.org
! Postdoc/senior researcher position, tenure track! All info at:
www.gesis.org/institut/kar...
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GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
https://www.gesis.org/institut/karriere/jobs/details/postdoc-senior-researcher-in-computational-social-science-css-116
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Daniel Devine
3 months ago
Although not yet available to read (January 2026!), very happy to see our book on political trust online. Co-edited with
@mfair.bsky.social
and available open access, we think it'll be a useful addition to the field.
www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r...
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Dr. Silke Goubin
3 months ago
Shout-out to all
#PoliticalTrust
researchers interested in attending the first
@epssnet.bsky.social
conference in
#Belfast
@annakern.bsky.social
,
@danjdevine.bsky.social
,
@cvalebeek.bsky.social
,
@hannesbey.bsky.social
and I are coordinating 3 trust panels!
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Ceri Fowler
3 months ago
Very pleased to say my new article is out
@polstudies.bsky.social
! In it I compare single individuals to those with partners with different past vote choices/party identifications and demonstrate that this is associated with an individual's own vote choice.
doi.org/10.1177/0032...
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Partner Effects and Gender Gaps in Vote Choice in the United Kingdom: Brexit and Subsequent Elections - Ceri Fowler, 2025
This article explores differences in voting behaviour between those that were single and those that had a Eurosceptic or Europhile partner at the United Kingdom...
https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217251371944
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Tanise Ceron
3 months ago
📣 New Preprint! Have you ever wondered what the political content in LLM's training data is? What are the political opinions expressed? What is the proportion of left- vs right-leaning documents in the pre- and post-training data? Do they correlate with the political biases reflected in models?
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
4 months ago
We are looking for a project manager for our large-scale project SOUNDS! Learn more:
bit.ly/SOUNDS-Manager
#compsocsci
#PoliSky
#PoliSci
#hiring
#JobAlert
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Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing
4 months ago
Their lecture was followed by
@giucarny.bsky.social
and
@alexhartland.bsky.social
, who continued the discussion by presenting further perspectives and examples on assessing polarization and analyzing the sentiment and topics of political posts.
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Manifesto Project
4 months ago
More than 20 new elections ❗️ Albania 2017, 2021 Bosnia-Herzegovina 2022 Canada 2021 France 2022 Germany 2025 Greece 2023 May Hungary 2022 Israel 2022 Japan 2021 Latvia 2022 Malta 2003, 2008, 2013, 2017, 2022 Portugal 2022 Serbia 2023 Spain 2023 United Kingdom 2024 United States 2024
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Maurits Meijers
4 months ago
🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025
www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
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Postdoctoral scholarship holder in computational political science | University of Antwerp
YUFE vacancies
https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacancies/academic-staff/?q=4123&descr=Postdoctoral-scholarship-holder-in-computational-political-science
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Stefan Müller
4 months ago
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) ⤵️
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Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master
https://www.change.org/p/keine-wiso-ohne-powi-für-eine-starke-politikwissenschaft-im-bachelor-master
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PROTEMO Project
4 months ago
💡📚 Passionate about emotions, gender & migration? We’re hiring a Research Associate for the
#PROTEMO
project at
@uni-saarland.de
! 🌍 Focus: migrant women’s experiences of domestic violence & how emotions, security & politics intersect. 📝 Apply by 10 Sept 2025 👉
www.protemo.eu/news-post/we...
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
5 months ago
The amount of data available is greater than ever, yet remains mostly unused by social scientists &
#PoliSci
researchers. The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) aims to change that - and receives 29 million Euro in funding from Saarland's state gov!🎉 Read more:
bit.ly/SoundsPM
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Project analysing society and the economy with new data sources garners millions in state funding
Satellite images, social media and barcode scanners in shops offer a wealth of data that has so far been little used in the social sciences. New AI-supported methods are helping with the evaluation, b...
https://www.uni-saarland.de/en/news/society-data-sounds-39208.html
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Michal Ovádek
5 months ago
I have a new paper out in
@wepsocial.bsky.social
looking at immigration rulings in the UK (
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
). It's a short read, but the two main findings are: 1) the success of an immigration appeal depends a lot on who the deciding judge is 2) BAME women are (surprisingly) strict judges
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Judicial diversity and immigration appeals: evidence from the United Kingdom
Almost all studies of judicial behaviour and diversity conceptualise judges’ race and gender as independent, additive variables. Specifically, black and female judges are often seen as more liberal...
https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2527542
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Anne Rasmussen
5 months ago
🚨 New paper in Science Advances
@science.org
Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? T HeideJorgensen,
@gregoryeady.bsky.social
& I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments Thread 🧵1/n
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
6 months ago
How is
#polarisation
reflected on social media❓
@uni-saarland.de
's
@alexhartland.bsky.social
responded to this question in his presentation at the
#ActEU
mid-term conference 🎓 Check it out on YouTube 👉
youtu.be/3l9XQFZAlQU
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Studying polarisation with social media data | Alex Hartland | #ActEU Mid-Term Conference
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
https://youtu.be/3l9XQFZAlQU
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Ingmar Weber
6 months ago
🚨Job Alert W2 (TT W3) Professorship in Computer Science "AI for People & Society"
@saarland-informatics-campus.de
/@uni-saarland.de is looking to appoint an outstanding individual in the field of AI for people and society who has made significant contributions in one or more of the following areas:
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Indira Sen
6 months ago
Do LLMs represent the people they're supposed simulate or provide personalized assistance to? We review the current literature in our
#ACL2025
Findings paper and investigating what researchers conclude about the demographic representativeness of LLMs:
osf.io/preprints/so...
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Ralph Scott
6 months ago
📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 "School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support" Just published in
@wepsocial.bsky.social
with
@nspmartin.bsky.social
and
@rolandkappe.bsky.social
.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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Divya Mani Adhikari
6 months ago
I am happy to share that our work titled "Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires" has been accepted to the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) Conference 2025. Check our work:
doi.org/10.1145/3719...
@cui.acm.org
#CUI2025
#ACM
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Exploring LLMs for Automated Generation and Adaptation of Questionnaires | Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces
https://doi.org/10.1145/3719160.3736606
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Observatory of Online Politics
6 months ago
🤖💬 Can AI tell the difference between toxic speech and emotionally charged political debate? Liliia Mairova and Ariq Suryo Hadi P. provide some interesting insights in the next blogpost of the Observatory:
politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/to...
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Observatory of Online Politics - Toxicity_1
01.07.2025 In times of political tension, the way people speak online, especially on social media, can become a reflection of deeper divides in society. Just like elections reveal what people really ...
https://politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/toxicity_1
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Teresa Hummler
6 months ago
Extremely happy to see my first single-authored paper published! Check it out in
@ersjournal.com
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Kenn Rushworth
6 months ago
In doing so we find that the UK's registration difficulty level is closer to that of countries transition in and out of democracy, as opposed to other electoral democracies (according to V-Dem's categorization)
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Kenn Rushworth
6 months ago
Mine and
@profsob.bsky.social
paper Comparing registration systems using the International Difficulty of Registration Index (IDORI). How difficult is electoral registration in the UK? has been published. Please read it here, url:
academic.oup.com/pa/article/d...
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Comparing registration systems using the International Difficulty of Registration Index (IDORI). How difficult is electoral registration in the UK?
Abstract. Electoral registration in the UK is often critiqued for making it hard for voters to participate in elections. However, without a tool for a syst
https://academic.oup.com/pa/article/doi/10.1093/pa/gsaf031/8176725
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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
6 months ago
Our new
#PoliSci
collected volume on border regions as laboratories of European research is finally here. Check it out (in German):
www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...
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Dr. Silke Goubin
7 months ago
A key function of the state is to ensure the
#welfare
of its citizens. But do more generous welfare policies also foster more
#political
#trust
? 🎉 Our paper, co-authored with Matthijs Gillissen and Anna Ruelens, was accepted @polstudies.bsky.social!
@vd-researchgroup.bsky.social
#HIVA
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Observatory of Online Politics
7 months ago
📢 New on the Observatory of Online Politics blog! 🎯 TikTok and its role in the 2025 German Elections By
@rosanavarrete.bsky.social
& Ariq Suryo Hadi P. Read more
politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/ti...
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Observatory of Online Politics - TikTok_2025
20.06.2025 While TikTok is becoming increasingly relevant among social media users, its role in elections remains understudied. The successful social media campaign targeting youth by the party Die L...
https://politics.i2sc.net/blogposts/tiktok_2025
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Fabienne Lind
7 months ago
Wann join us in Vienna? 😊Apply for a 4year phd position with the
@compcommlab.bsky.social
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Indira Sen
7 months ago
Here's another workshop at the intersection of
#NLProc
and politics:
cpss-sig.github.io/CPSS-2025/cf...
Deadline is June 13th, if you have any questions about the submission format, ping me,
@gabriellalapesa.bsky.social
@cklamm.bsky.social
or
@dede1989.bsky.social
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Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
7 months ago
What are the drivers of political
#engagement
in Europe❓
#ActEU
researcher
@alexhartland.bsky.social
(
@uni-saarland.de
) explores the triggers of political participation in our latest video recording from our December mid-term conference 📺 Watch it on YouTube ➡️
youtu.be/M7Rcmco6jCQ?...
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Triggers of political engagement | Alex Hartland | #ActEU Mid-Term Conference
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
https://youtu.be/M7Rcmco6jCQ?si=I1Y0Qt9pUVnL85Q4
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🛎️ New Publication 🛎️ How did public and party priorities interact during the 2024 European Parliament elections? In our new
@wepsocial.bsky.social
article, Daniela Braun,
@giucarny.bsky.social
@rosanavarrete.bsky.social
@annreinl.bsky.social
and I find some connections
tinyurl.com/yhc4ae8m
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The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign
International crises and Euroscepticism have made European issues prominent in citizens’ lives. This article studies the role of three key European issues – migration, the environment, and EU integ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402382.2025.2498838#d1e792
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As migration, climate change, and other issues cut across borders, we would expect increasing links between public and party salience In reality, we find the relationship is largely dependent on the issue and country context. PTVs increase where parties talk more about migration or the environment
8 months ago
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But this is not consistent across the public as a whole. Where we really see a difference is in the mediating effect of individual priorities. When the public cares, they support parties who care too. We see this in both our aggregate and country-level analysis on migration and the environment.
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