This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

Very happy to see this paper with @korinlind.bsky.social out at @psrm.bsky.social ! We study immigrants’ support for progressive/green parties, showing how the regime they were socialized in and which issues were salient matters for party support after migration. Link: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Very happy to share that our paper "Political socialization and immigrants' support for progressive politics: the case of green parties" with @antvalentim.bsky.social is now published in @psrm.bsky.social! Link to paper: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... Short summary in 🧵below: (1/5)

🚨 Please share widely! 🚨 I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame. Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.

Don't forget to apply until the end of the week! 🚨

We‘re very excited for the next edition of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim! ✨ Join us and apply until 1 March! More info in @melinscribe.bsky.social‘s thread below and here: summerschoolwpm.org Application form: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/wpm/

⏰ Two weeks left to apply for SekMethoden 2026 — the annual meeting of the DVPW Section "Methods of Political Science"! ⬇️ See below for the CfP and link to the application portal. @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

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!

I’m thrilled to share that I defended my dissertation on Monday! It examines how local elites help new parties attract voters and build local branches, using a unique dataset of ~450,000 local candidates in Germany. It took not one but three villages to write this. A 🧵 1/6

Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us

www.tagesanzeiger.ch/representati... It's really really frustrating to realize that many economists still don't know that political science exists.

Our study on public immigration misperceptions is out! Prior research overstated their prevalence due to flawed measurement. Our new approach separates real misperceptions from uninformed guessing — showing they’re less common than widely assumed and ideologically motivated. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

❗ Reminder ❗ Apply now for our Visiting Fellowships! 📆 Deadline: 28 November! Please share widely 👇🙂

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

More and more young people are turning to the far right. Why and what can we do about it? Join our #COVIDEU Workshop on Nov 21 (2–5 PM) to discuss causes and counter-strategies. 🚀 Hosted by @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social 💡 Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/bdenyfnw

Wonderful to see our paper on perceived inequality and populism at the EJPR. 👇

For my DFG-funded project “German Sexual Identity and Election Study” and my ERC-funded project “VisibleQueers”, I am looking for three student assistants (m/f/d) to provide dedicated support and active collaboration. Please share! www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/three-stu...

🚨 New paper out! Very happy to see our (Tom Arend, @fabioellger.bsky.social and mine) paper out at the @bjpols.bsky.social. We explore how voters react to new, disruptive political actors. 1/3

Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

⚠️New publication @ssreditorial.bsky.social 📖 #ethics in the practical implementation of #migration information campaigns ➡️ Sender credibility and Anxiety-trigger both impactful for information provision ➡️ but via distinct paths: No double-down-effect 🛄 Multi-treatment RCT, N=2612 in Nigeria

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 🧵:

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵

Feels like a good time to share this call for papers. Can't wait for EPSS 2026!

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

1.3K followers & counting. Thank you all for your incredible support! The EPSS journey is just getting started & we couldn’t do it without you. Thank you for so many of you who already joined EPSS! If you haven't already, please join: epssnet.org/sign-up/#join Let’s do this together.

🪧 New research 🪧 osf.io/preprints/os... Can protests move bystanders, people who observe protests without being part of the march? We conducted a 3-wave field experiment during real Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Berlin. Here's what we found 🧵👇

I'm on my way to Mannheim, looking forward to talk about our forecasting project (zweitstimme.org) with @hannahrajski.bsky.social. Join us at the MZES or online 🤗

Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply. https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017 A 🧵 with findings

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

❗ Reminder: Apply now for a fellowship at the MZES, University of Mannheim! 📅 Deadline: 26 April ❗ Please note the updated link 😊👇🏻 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

🚨 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

🚀 Our paper (with @eliaskoch.bsky.social) on ‘The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament’ is finally out as EarlyView at the EJPR!

Partisans often seem unwavering in their support for a politician/policy, even when faced with opposing evidence. But recent studies show that partisans can be persuaded. So how can both be true? My new @bjpols.bsky.social ky.social paper explores this Q: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇

Exciting news: as I’ve started a new chapter as an assistant professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover, my postdoc position at MZES is now open! It’s a fantastic opportunity for recent PhDs: wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure, and plenty of time to develop your own ideas.

This is also the venn diagram of our research interests

Does Mainstream Populism Work❓ I answer this question in a new paper officially out at @psrm.bsky.social❗ Check out the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/psrm... Key take-aways in the thread below 🧵⬇️:

New preprint available! In this paper, @antvalentim.bsky.social and I investigate why progressive parties, such as the greens, might be more attractive for immigrants from established democracies than those from (post-)authoritarian regimes: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵⬇️

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

Congratulations to Dr. @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Voter Targeting and Campaign Communication Strategies @humboldtuni.bsky.social @dynamics.bsky.social today 👨‍🎓🥳🍾

Just published on APSR First View: "Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative" by Lucas Leemann (@LucasLeemann), Patrick Emmenegger, and André Walter. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨Publication Alert 🚨 Just in time for the next #BTW25, in my latest article doi.org/10.1111/pops... I show that far-right parties benefit strongly from heightened migration debates, but that left-wing parties can also benefit to some extent by offering pro-immigrant, inclusive positions. #polpsy

📢 We are hiring: 4-year PhD position at the Department of Government @univie.ac.at 👇

Can facts ever change minds on immigration? I was skeptical—until working w. @landgravephd.bsky.social changed my own mind. Our new paper shows most Americans underestimate how difficult the US legal immigration process is. Sharing facts on policy makes people more positive: doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

I’m looking for an RA to work 20-30h during Jan-March 2025. Ideally (quasi-)native speakers of Swedish, and it involves reading policy/legal docs related to education and climate change. 24.92GBP/hour If you or someone you know are interested email me at [email protected]!

🚨 CfA: MZES-DVPW Conference "Methods of Political Science" 🗓️ Mannheim, Mar 27-28, 2025 ⏰ Deadline: Dec 16, 2024 🔗Apply via sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me... @gessler.bsky.social, @aleininger.bsky.social, @hannahrajski.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann & I look forward to your submissions!

🚨Jobs🚨 2 postdocs up to six years: shorturl.at/BP027 Small FAQ already provided. Get in touch if you have questions, I will try to update the FAQ regularly. Please share and apply!

CfA for a 4 year PostDoc Position at our Research Group at Humboldt University in Berlin. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!