It has been an eventful year for the GLES team, marked by the early federal elections in February. Before we take our Christmas break, we would like to wish all our colleagues, cooperation partners, data users, and people who follow our work a happy holiday season and a good start to the new year.

GLES data in the news: "Die Zeit" created a tool to compare your own attitudes on various issues to the attitudes of the GLES Cross-Section 2025 respondents: www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Interested in the sociodemographic background, policy preferences, attitudes and campaign strategies of candidates for the 2025 Bundestag election? The @gles.bsky.social Candidate Study 2025 is now available (doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA... @gesis.org) and includes CCS Module IV @ccs-project.bsky.social 👇

New data on candidates for the 2025 German federal election is now available 🎉

🚨New GLES release for #BTW25: GLES Candidate Study 2025 (ZA10102) 📅24/03–09/06/2025 👥512 interviews 🗳️Political background & nomination, campaigning, political issues, democracy & representation, sociodemographic background 🌍Includes CCS Module IV (@ccs-project.bsky.social) 📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

Excited that my first PhD paper is published in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties!🎉 🧵 @wurthmann.bsky.social & I examine: Do They Know What They Represent? Parliamentary Candidates’ Perceptions of Their Own Party’s Positions 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

🆕 Fully revised GLES Panel questionnaire cumulation covering all waves! This systematic overview of the question program helps researchers to plan and preregister their analyses. 📄 access.gesis.org/dbk/79344 The document's creation from the wave questionnaires is fully reproducible. 🧪 osf.io/hsgpv/

The GLES team at @gesis.org is searching for a doctoral candidate to work with us and do research on elections and political attitudes. If this sounds interesting to you, check out the full job announcement here 👇 www.gesis.org/en/institute...

Being at @epsanet.bsky.social presenting joint work together with @joschbrl.bsky.social about populist attitudes of immigrant-origin individuals. Friday at 1.30. Come and join!

🚨 Next GLES data release for #BTW25: GLES Cross-Section 2025 (ZA10100) 💻📝 CAWI/PAPI 👥Sample = 7,337 📅 Fieldwork: 24/02/25 - 23/04/25 🌍CSES Module 6 included 📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA10100.1.0.0

🚨 New GLES release for #BTW25: GLES Rolling Cross-Section 2025 (ZA10101) 💻📱 CAWI | 👥 daily samples, total n = 8,562 📅 Fieldwork: 06/01/25 – 31/03/25 🔄 Pre- and post-election waves in RCS design plus supplementary wave 📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

📢 Call for Questions for the #GLES The DGfW and @gesis.org are conducting a Call for Questions for ‪#GLES Tracking T62 in October 2025 🗓️ Deadline for submissions: 23.07.2025 🕒 Interview time available: ~5 minutes 🚀 Fieldstart: 22.10.2025 ℹ️ More information: www.gesis.org/en/gles/data...

📢 Fieldwork for the GLES Candidate Study 2025 has started! 👥 All candidates of the parties represented in the Bundestag before #BTW2025 are invited 📅 24/03–09/06/2025 💻📝 Mixed mode: CAWI & PAPI 🌍 Collection of CCS Module IV 👉 More information & questionnaire (DE): www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025...

🚨 First GLES data released after #BTW25: GLES Tracking February 2025, T60 (ZA10105) 💻📱 CAWI cross-section 👥 2,227 interviews 📅 11/02–20/02/2025 🗳️ Special focus on the 2025 federal election, candidates & coalitions – plus a new item on the war in Ukraine ➡️ dx.doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

How well do you know the German federal election? 🗳️ Test your knowledge with this quiz, prepared by our GLES member Sina Chen. Challenge yourself and see how many questions you can answer correctly! 🔗 www.t-online.de/nachrichten/... (German only) We’d love to hear your results!

The GLES Candidate Study is the sixth in our series of GLES surveys for #BTW2025📣 All candidates of the parties represented in the Bundestag before #BTW2025, questionnaire including CCS Module IV 🎊 More information: www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025... 🔎 @gesis.org

📢 New article in the #GESISBlog (German only) about the challenges of @gles.bsky.social to realize all #GLES studies for #BTW2025 within a few weeks instead of almost a year as planned⌛🎊 blog.gesis.org/wahl-2025-wi...

The GLES Cross-Section is the fifth in our series of GLES surveys for #BTW2025📣 Mixed mode survey (CAWI & PAPI) of ca. 7,000 respondents interviewed within six weeks following #BTW2025. Comprehensive questionnaire including CSES Module 6🎊 More information: www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025... 🔎 @gesis.org

The GLES Tracking is the fourth in our series of GLES surveys for #BTW2025📣 Online cross-sectional surveys of around 1,500 respondents with questions on voting intentions, political attitudes, and political issues 🎊 More information: www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025... 🔎 @gesis.org

The GLES Nomination Study is the third in our series of GLES surveys for #BTW2025📣 Data collection on internal party nomination procedures of constituency candidates of the parties represented in the Bundestag prior to #BTW2025🎊 More information www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025... 🔎 @gesisorg.bsky.social

#neuhier #introduction #newhere #newkidontheblock Hi everyone at Bluesky, we just started here and would like to introduce us briefly: As the largest European infrastructure institute for the social sciences GESIS offers advice, expertise and services at all stages of scientists' research projects.

The GLES Rolling Cross-Section (RCS) is the second in our series of GLES surveys for #BTW2025📣 About 160 interviews per day over 48 days before #BTW2025 in an RCS design and re-interviews of respondents after #BTW2025 in an RCS design🎊 More information: www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025...

🚨New data: GLES Tracking October, T59 (ZA10002) 💻📱CAWI cross-section, 👥1,131 interviews, 🚀plus 791 interviews of people in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg 📅09/10–17/10/2024 🗳️Special focus on the 2024 state elections & community CfQ questions! ➡️ doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...

The GLES Panel is the first in a series on the GLES surveys for #BTW2025📣 The first Panel wave on #BTW2025 is already in the field, with two more pre-election waves, a post-election wave, and a government formation wave to follow🎊 More information: www.gesis.org/en/gles/2025... 🔎

🚨 New data release! 🚨 GLES Candidate Study European Election 2024 (ZA7960)!🎉 Questions include background & nomination, election campaign, attitudes, democracy & representation. Special focus on use of social media in election campaigns. ➡️ dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

The GLES is gearing up for the 2025 early federal election! 🎉 The design includes pre- & post-election surveys, cross-sections & panels, and more to provide in-depth insights into voter and candidate behavior & attitudes. Stay tuned, more to come!📣 ➡️ gesis.org/gles

📊 New Publication: GLES Candidate Study 2021 Methods Report! 🎉 @joschbrl.bsky.social l, @joshuaesr.bsky.social, and @axburg.bsky.social dive into the processes behind candidate data collection, data curation, and data quality for the 2021 German federal election.🔍📋 ➡️ doi.org/10.21241/sso...

🗞️ In a new contribution to the GESIS blog [in German], @axburg.bsky.social , @joschbrl.bsky.social , and @marcdebus.bsky.social describe how the GLES Nomination Study can be used to investigate the links between sociodemographics and intra-party candidate selection: blog.gesis.org/ist-der-weg-...

Data collection of GLES Candidate Study European Election 2024 has started!🎉 Questions on candidates' backgrounds, recruitment & selection, attitudes, policy positions, campaigns & special focus on social media campaigning Pre-release questionnaire: www.gesis.org/en/gles/over...

🚨 New data release! 🚨 GLES Candidate Study European Elections 2024, Social Media Accounts (ZA7959)! 🎉 The data covers accounts from Facebook, Instagram, X, and personal websites of German candidates for the upcoming European Elections. ➡️ doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

🚨 New data: GLES Tracking March 2024, T57 💻📱 CAWI cross-section, 👥 1,145 interviews, 📅 06/03–15/03/2024 Party “Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht” newly including in questions on voting intention, perceived left-right ranking and position issues ➡️ dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

Do you do research on political candidates? The Comparative Candidate Survey (CCS) launched a Call for Questions/Modules to be included in their Round IV questionnaire. This questionnaire will automatically also be part of the GLES Candidate Studies fielded between 2025 and 2030! 👇

Data collection of GLES Tracking T57 has started yesterday!🎉 The newly founded party “Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht” was added to the questions on voting intention and party perception. Further information and the pre-release questionnaire are available here: www.gesis.org/en/gles/stud...

Using the gles.bsky.social 2021 candidate study, @wurthmann.bsky.social and I find that Bundestag candidates who identify as LGB+ adopt more progressive positions on societal affairs and are also more progressive than their respective party: shorturl.at/BDGQS (oa in EPSR)

Great day to announce that joint work of Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social & myself on "LGB+ identity and its implications for the policy positions of parliamentary candidates" is now published open access in the European Political Science Review. Polisky #Polisky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨 New data: GLES Tracking November 2023, T56 💻📱 CAWI cross-section, 👥 1,118 interviews, 📅 08/11–15/11/2023 Recurring questions on voting & attitudes, and new items on antisemitism and support for climate protection & climate activist groups dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

📢 New dataset: GLES Tracking 2009 -2023, Cumulation! The cumulation comprises cross-sectional data from 2009 to 2023 & therefore enables analyses of long-term developments of voting behavior & attitudes covering 4 Federal Elections in Germany. dx.doi.org/10.4232/1.14...

Besides potential voters, the GLES also surveys candidates running for office in the Federal Elections. Check out our recently published short report on the 2021 Candidate Study [in German], which shows exemplary results of the study: www.gesis.org/gles/kurzbericht