9 candidates for Landratswahl in Landkreis Traunstein in Bavaria — 8 men, and the poster walls make it look like even fewer: the usual Christian, Andreas and Sepp (Heinz and Hans not pictured😆) Same faces, same vibes. #Traunstein #Landratswahl2025 #Kommunalpolitik #Posterboys #Männerquote

Today at 16:00, I’ll be joining a great online discussion (with @sarahdingler.bsky.social ) on women in EU institutions—covering representation, careers, and change. Bonus: it’s virtual and the dress code is lounge (cocktails optional) 📧 Register at [email protected] #EUPolitics #WomenInPolitics

@ipp-csic.bsky.social Comparto este reportaje sobre los primeros resultados del modulo de la @ess-survey.bsky.social ‬que hemos diseñado con @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social @hildecoffe.bsky.social, Susan Banducci and Amy Alexander www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-...

Austria 🇦🇹 is often in the lower quintile when it comes to support for gender equality measures. Only 26% agree that parental support should be equal between men and women. 😐 #GenderEquality ps. #Germany not much higher.

Looking at attitudes about gender equality in Austria ahead of the ESS Topline presentation orf.at/stories/3394...

Sexism isn't just driving support for the radical right — it shaped vote choice across the board in #btw21 🗳🇩🇪 Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice. (Spoiler: not just the AfD!) 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

That’s a wrap on Joint Sessions 2025 ✨ thanks to Nadine and Maike for having Lara and myself in their workshop on political culture, where I could present our joint work on drivers of hostile sexism in Europe 👀🏡💶 @ecpr.bsky.social

Had an amazing time presenting my work at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2025 in Prague as part of the workshop on Political Culture! Thank you for the opportunity and an amazing organization by @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and Maike Rump! @ecpr.bsky.social @ecprpolculture.bsky.social

🧨Interested in the complex struggle for gender equality in EU politics? See our recent article on EUROPP @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social @politicsgenderj.bsky.social #Eu #EUropeanCareers @ecprsgeu.bsky.social @eup_journal t.co/aQcNSRaJxn

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💥 New: The complex struggle for gender equality in EU politics ✍️ @frechelena.bsky.social & @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social present insights from their new special issue @eupthejournal.bsky.social

The new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social report is out... and there is little good news in there for Democracy in 2024. Number of countries autocratizing is increasing. Freedom of expression is deteriorating. I fear the next report is going to be even bleaker. Full report here: v-dem.net/documents/54...

Great open access resource on the 2024 EP elections in French and English! Get the big picture on Germany’s EP election—read our breakdown here with @stefanhee.bsky.social shs.cairn.info/journal-poli... #EPElections2024

This week, my seminar on "Women & Politics: Actors, Discourses, Practices" starts. We look at actors such as female MPs and feminist movements, debates on abortion or focus on gendered interactions in parliament and on social media. Looking forward to interesting sessions 1/ #academicsky #gendersky

A commentary by me in today's Der Standard on Trump's approach to Europe, and why the EU is likely to be seen by the American radical right as the ultimate deep state. www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Women's representation has been stagnating around 30% for the past 30 years, after peaking at an all-time high of 36.4% in 2013—only to decline since. 32.4% after the 2025 Bundestag election. This is not progress. #GenderEquality #Politics #Bundestagswahl #Bundestagswahl2025

Highest turnout since 1990 in German federal elections #Bundestagswahl2025  #btw25

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

Reminder: deadline for this 5-year position in IR in one week 👇

Sahra knows something the others seem to ignore. Immigration is owned by AfD. You use it, you lose.

A start to 2025 for us with the publication in European Union Politics of ‘Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European Commission’, co-authored article with Pierre Alayrac, Sara Connolly, and Miriam Hartlapp, doi.org/10.1177/1465...

Farewell to Jeremy Richardson who retires tomorrow as Editor of @jeppjournal.bsky.social after 31 volumes, 251 issues and 2,231 articles. A good innings! As both an author and reviewer I've always enjoyed and valued Jeremy's wisdom. He'll be much missed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Some early figures from the #ESS Round 11 on attitudes about #GenderEquality in Europe presented by the fab @hildecoffe.bsky.social at the EIGE's Gender Equality Forum 2024! @martafraile.bsky.social Susan Banducci Amy Alexander Thanks to project Push*Back*Lash for the pic!

What have we learned in 40 years of research on women's careers in the #EU ? 🇪🇺 My latest in @EUP_TheJournal takes stock of what is special about women in EU institutions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... 🌟Spoiler alert: part of a Special Issue coming soon. More to follow!

I am immensely proud and happy to celebrate that my great friend @cwegscheider.bsky.social won the University of Salzburg's 2023 Dissertation Prize for his dissertation "Dissatisfied democrats?" Congratulations to Carsten and his excellent supervisors, Zoe Lefkofridi and @markuswagner.bsky.social.

New here! Refugee of toxic X... :-)