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