Awards, awards, awards! 🏆✨ At the 11th Annual @oegpw.bsky.social Conference, three members of the Department of Government @univie.ac.at were among the awardees: 🎓 Best PhD – @christinagahn.bsky.social 📘 Best MA – Benjamin Riesch 📗 Best BA – Luca Conte 👏 Huge congrats to all! 🎉 #PoliSky 🧪

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 🧵:

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/...

Economic crises tend to help the right because voters assign greater importance to issues owned by the right. When center-right parties preside over a crisis, voters often drift further rightward to nationalist parties rather than defect to the left onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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...

Spannendes neues Heft vom @idz-jena.bsky.social zum Thema “Uncivil Society”. @hajogu.bsky.social und ich schreiben darin über Teilergebnisse unserer aktuellen Forschung: “Konflikt oder Kooperation? Extrem rechte Einflussnahme in der Zivilgesellschaft”: www.idz-jena.de/wsddet/wsd17...

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
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But newly released survey data shows that this is not the case. Most of growth in far right support came from previous abstentionists, followed by previous center-right voters. www.rtp.pt/noticias/pol...

We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

For @elpais.com, I talked with @angelmunarriz.bsky.social about the increasing radicalization of the far right in Spain and Europe.

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing! Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems. Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance. Read more at: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗ New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself @ipz.bsky.social ‬ @wepsocial.bsky.social tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj A short 🧵 1/7

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...

Short-term rentals can disrupt urban life & influence the ballot box - @tonirodon.bsky.social, Raya & Llaneza link high Airbnb density in Barcelona to increased support for parties targeting home-sharing regulation: buff.ly/cpnXuCV @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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🚀 Seit heute steht unser vielfältiges Programm für die diesjährige #AKPF Jahrestagung in Berlin! Wir freuen uns auf 18 Vorträge in 6 Panels zum Thema #Parteien und #Bundestagswahl! 🙌 Auch ohne Vortrag kann man sich sehr gerne bis zum 30.9. anmelden und mitdiskutieren! Mehr Infos 👇 @dvpw.bsky.social

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

❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗ 📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣ ⁣ wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... ⁣ #Polisky @epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Glad to have the chance to talk with William Brangham @pbsnews.org tonight about political violence- and to see my new book’s cover flash on the screen for the first time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjMx...

@heikogiebler.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke, @macartan.bsky.social, Swen Hutter & @heikekluever.bsky.social investigate support for petitions on migration and climate change across the EU-27 in the context of the 2024 European Parliament elections 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Vor meinem Urlaub hatte ich große Freude daran dem @spiegel.de ein Interview zu geben rundum unsere (mit @rsenninger.bsky.social) Forschung zur einfachen Sprache in der Politik und deren Auswirkung:

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not? What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓 doi.org/10.1177/0032... 🧵 1/10

⏰ Noch 3 Tage: Abstracts für unsere diesjährige #AKPF Jahrestagung bitte per E-Mail an die 3 Sprecher:innen des Arbeitskreises. Mehr Infos 👇 #Parteien #Bundestagswahl @dvpw.bsky.social

📣New publication! Out in Perspectives on Politics Reassessing the Impact of Local Control: When Smaller Local Governments Permit More Housing Coauthored w/ @mvinaes.bsky.social 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153... We study the effect of a municipal reform in DK: 🏘️ What happens to housing supply? ⤵️ (1/2)

Erinnerung an den CfP für die diesjährige AK-Wahlen-Tagung in Berlin (18./19.09.) - Deadline ist der 15. Juni 🕖📝🏃

New research note in EPSR inspired by protests from the Last Generation. We find that mass obstruction by climate activists is unpopular—but doesn’t reduce support for climate goals. Vigilante backlash? No effect. Open access paper: doi.org/10.1017/S175...

Very good review on the relationship between immigration and the welfare state: policy effects on migration intentions, migrant fiscal contributions, and public opinion. Really useful! ⬇️

Today, we concluded our two-day workshop on Political Behaviour and Public Opinion. Many thanks to all presenters and participants for the inspiring discussions and contributions!

I missed this last month, but the Golder/Bormann Democratic Electoral Systems dataset has an update to v5.0, and now includes democratic elections from 1919 to 1945 mattgolder.com/elections

New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸 In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing. 📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Online first: "Policy over votes: why extreme governments respond to their supporters" by Timothy Hellwig, Lawrence Ezrow & @krausewe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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

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

🇪🇺🇦🇫 Published Today in CPS 🇪🇺🇦🇫 “Stand by those who share our values” – how refugees fleeing the Taliban improved European attitudes toward immigration Article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os... Thread: 1/8

Fascinating substack post by @laurenleek.eu on the problem of declining humans and increasing AI agents in survey responses. This is going to become a huge issue in survey research! open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

When politicians use simple language, citizens understand more and see them as less elite. New paper with @danbischof.bsky.social out in @thejop.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1086/736693

🧵 Ever wonder if people react differently to real vs. hypothetical democratic violations? You should! We look into democratic violations across six democracies 🇺🇸🇭🇺 🇵🇱🇧🇷🇲🇽🇮🇳 and find stark differences between real world and hypothetical scenarios:

Elites’ violent rhetoric increases support for political violence among co-partisans in the public link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

🔥Exciting postdoc position in political communication @ascor.bsky.social starting 1 Sep! The postdoc will work w/ @lindabos.bsky.social, @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social & me on media-politics relations + framing effects in the aftermath of elections. Interested?😀Apply by 5 May⬇️ tinyurl.com/4wz3u5vn

🚨 Rechte Gewalt in Brandenburg auf Höchststand! 🚨 Wir haben unsere Jahresstatistik zu rechten, rassistischen und antisemitischen Gewalttaten in Brandenburg für das Jahr 2024 veröffentlicht. Fazit: Rechte Gewalt erreicht mit 273 Angriffen erneute Höchstwerte. #rechtegewalt #brandenburg #rassismus

Gestern vor 22 Jahren haben Rechte in Frankfurt (Oder) Enrico Schreiber ermordet. todesopfer-rechter-gewalt-in-brandenburg.de/enrico-schre... Auch jetzt, wo rechte Gewalt in Brandenburg wieder Höchstwerte erreicht ist es wichtig daran zu erinnern. www.opferperspektive.de/aktuelles/st...

Our paper (w\ the wickedly talented @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social) is now out in @thejop.bsky.social Are more educated candidates systematically preferred? Yes. Is this systematic preference substantively large? Yes Is there an in-group bias among educated class? Also Yes. doi.org/10.1086/730745

🚨 READING TIP 🚨 Want to read an accessible book on the far right that goes beyond the usual media/pundit clichés? Try "Hate in the Homeland" by @milleridriss.bsky.social 📙

This is getting old: in true Weimar spirit, the #farright #AfD is once more attacking 🥁🥁🥁 the #Bauhaus movement.