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...

Delighted to see that my #EJPR article now has page numbers! ☺️

Thrilled to share that the Palgrave Handbook on the 2024 EP Election is finally out! 🤩 Martin Dolezal and I co-authored the #Austria chapter on the rise of the #FPÖ, voter disaffection, and mapping 🇦🇹 and 🇪🇺 parties in the 2D policy space via #manifestoberta. 📖 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

❗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 Publication ✨ My paper on multi-option referendums is now available open access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social If you are interested in referendum design and/or immigrant enfranchisement and/or multi-method work, read on...

“What we’re seeing right now mirrors elements of different historical periods, but this has never all happened at once.” On the bright side of this #illiberal #backlash, I appreciate the US for curating this year’s most interesting summer reading list. 📚 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Thrilled to share that this study, which I started back in 2021, has finally been published! 🎉 While topic modeling may not be the most cutting-edge anymore, the discussion on validation & standardization is still highly relevant. Proud of this work & contribution! 🙌📚 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Had a phenomenal time at the 1st ever Extremism & Democracy SG Conference #SGED25 in London — taking lots of new ideas and inspiration home. Really enjoyed @kai-arzheimer.com’s keynote reflecting on the field and history of the SG since its inception in 1999. Already looking forward to #SGED27!

Join us in London next week for our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference. Keynote by @kai-arzheimer.com, roundtable and panels on populism and radicalism. Observer only registration available- with @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @sajuria.com

Hello #PolSky! 👋 What are your favorite non-journal sources for research inspiration? What are you reading or listening to these days? 🎧📚 Think blogs, podcasts, newsletters — anything accessible and rigorous that helps spark ideas. Bonus points if it’s great for #teaching in political science! 💡

Out today on #FirstView - "Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates" - tinyurl.com/yc65ezcy by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social

What I can’t wrap my head around: Are some Democrats really thinking that with every impeachable act they let pass & someone doing crazy stuff remains in office, the probability that transition of power will work after elections remains unaffected? Sure, it goes down — every single time.

Hard to overstate how reckless and dumb this all is. What gives some hope is that, time and again, it’s the far right’s own incompetence that gets in its way. Though, if these kinds of f***ups are the only safeguard... www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

#OpenAccess on #FirstView - "A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition" - tinyurl.com/4v87v98b by @fabianhabersack.bsky.social

"Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power" by Frederik Hjorth, Jacob Nyrup, and Martin Vinæs Larsen. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

In the US, it’s the “woketopus”, a supposed deep-state cabal pulling the strings. In Germany, Markus Söder claims that NGOs have “spread like octopuses” in Green party-led ministries. Different country, same playbook.

Leaving #Canberra and heading back home to Austria (sadly, no kangaroos there). My #visiting #fellowship has been incredibly rewarding—great conversations, new friendships, and plenty of ideas to take home. Grateful to #ANU for the support that made this possible. Hope to be back in the future!

The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.

What @benstanley.eu says! I genuinely have nothing more to add... 👇

🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Thrilled to see my article “A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties’ Programmatic Responses to Competition” finally published in Government and Opposition! 🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/gov.... @govandopp.bsky.social #OpenAccess

#AfD radikalisiert sich, „gutmeinende“ Moderate sucht man vergebens – zugleich schreitet #Normalisierung voran. Gefährlicher Mix! @asheinze.bsky.social: „Die AfD ist mit dem Kurs der Radikalisierung jetzt sehr gut gefahren. Das bedeutet, dass es eigentlich auch weiter in diese Richtung gehen kann.“

“Yet much of the blueprint comes not from Trump’s own policy team, but from a power-consolidation playbook established over the past decade by the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán.” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/12/the-orbanisation-of-america-inside-the-14-february-guardian-weekly

Thrilled to speak at #ANU School of Politics & IR this Thursday about my recent #EJPR article! I’ll be discussing how voter loyalty and opportunities shape parties’ policy priorities. 👉 Full article (Open Access): doi.org/10.1111/1475... 📅 Thu 20 Feb | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 📍 ANU (RSSS Room 3.72)

Danke an die Kolleg:innen von der Open Expert Survey, die für Daniel Morgenstern, @sophiahunger.bsky.social & mich Fragen zur Brandmauer aufgenommen haben 👏 📣Auf oes25.de/OES25prerele... gibt es alle Ergebnisse & pre-release Daten! Kurz: Es gibt klare Unterschiede im Ausmaß der Brandmauer Lang: 🧵👇

Cool new data resource! 🤩

Proofs in, article out soon in Government & Opposition. Stay tuned! 🔥

You wonder how the CDU/CSU playing with the "Brandmauer" to AfD last week has influenced German voters? @mafaldapratas.bsky.social @jmfernandes86.bsky.social & I have you covered. We surveyed sample of 2,000 German voters. 🧵with first results 👇. Spoiler: It did not go down as well as CDU/CSU hoped.

Re-upping my #EJPR article: Shows why strategies like #Merz’s are a dangerous gamble: accommodating #AfD claims when their voters are electorally unavailable. At best, no immediate damage. At worst, it repels a party’s voters without securing replacements. Only lasting effect is #normalization.

Im Bundestagswahlkampf bröckelt die #Brandmauer, und #Merz rückt die #CDU näher an die #AfD heran. Warum das in der Regel nach hinten losgeht und keine sinnvolle Strategie ist, diskutiere ich im neuen #Politikwissenschaftsblog auf @derstandard.at: 👇 www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Was können Mitte-rechts-Parteien in Deutschland aus den Erfahrungen anderer Länder im Umgang mit der extremen Rechten lernen? LÉONIE DE JONGE (@leoniedejonge.bsky.social) schickt eine Postkarte aus den Niederlanden. verfassungsblog.de/niederlande-...

Despite overwhelming evidence that “policy accommodation” often falls short, political leaders keep making the same choices. Why? A brilliant read from @philswatton.bsky.social 👇

𝗞𝗮𝗻𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗸𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻? 🗳️ Regelmäßig taucht diese Frage auf und es ist bemerkenswert, wie unklar der öffentliche Diskurs dazu oft bleibt – trotz jahrzehntelanger Forschung mit einer eigentlich ziemlich klaren Antwort: 𝘌𝘴 𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘬𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘵 (𝘢𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘯𝘦𝘪𝘯). 🧵

Wo bleibt die wehrhafte Demokratie von der immer alle sprechen? #USA #CapturedMedia #CapturedInstitutionen #IlliberalDemocracy

In the US, #Trump v. US has blurred lines btw. POTUS and nat. interest. Now, science bends to political loyalty—papers are scrubbed of banned terms, grant reviews frozen, self-censorship spreads. Meanwhile, in AT, #FPÖ wants research in German only, and in DE, #Lindner and #Merz flirt with Trumpism.

Thanks for sharing, @timbale.bsky.social! 👍 I wrote this before the #CDU pushed through the migration law with #AfD support and before the AfD’s latest surge—so, it feels even more relevant now. The election in three weeks will be one to watch!

Beinhalten Wahlergebnisse so etwas wie einen klaren Regierungsbildungsauftrag? Dieser Frage sind @carolinaplescia.bsky.social, Alejandro Ecker und ich auf Basis neuer Daten der @gles.bsky.social nachgegangen. Ein kurzer Thread 👇

🚨 Out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social : "Citizens' Preferences for Multidimensional Representation". Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & I investigate citizens' preferences regarding 6 dimensions of representation using surveys conducted in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪. Short 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1017/S15375

WO STEHEN DIE BURGENLÄNDISCHEN PARTEIEN? Ich habe mir mal die Wahlprogramme aller Parteien im #Burgenland angesehen, d.h. alle, die eines zur Verfügung stellen. Auf Basis des #ManifestoBERTa Modells des @manifestoproj.bsky.social, habe ich diese nach 56 Policy-Themen auf Satzebene klassifiziert. 🧵

Excited to share that I’ve started my #VisitingFellowship at ANU in Canberra! 🌏📚 It’s only been a week, but I’ve already had some great conversations with amazing scholars here. Looking forward to meeting more colleagues, learning about their brilliant work, and collaborating with them in future.

🥁 The E&D Team is proud to announce that we're organising our very first stand-alone @ecpr.bsky.social conference. 🪩 The inaugural E&D Biannual Conference will take place from 9-10 June 2025, in collaboration with Queen Mary University London. SAVE THE DATE! More info & CfP to follow soon! 🍿

What an incredible resource — can’t wait to incorporate it into my teaching (once I get my copy). 😉 Congratulations to @robert-a-huber.bsky.social and @cerpintaxt.bsky.social! 🥳

@ÖVP; Wahlversprechen gebrochen-wie reagieren Wähler:innen generell? In Umfrageexperiment publiziert in EJPR finden wir in Ö 58,3% wollen Versprecheneinhaltung, 41,7% akzeptieren Bruch. Diese Zustimmung ist sig. höher, wenn Bruch im eig.pol.Interesse. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Important question: when and which political parties lie? This new publication is pretty clear in its findings: radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Based on an analysis of 32 million tweets in 26 countries. doi.org/10.1177/1940...

This 👇

In a new working paper, @fghjorth.bsky.social and I show that party elites have significant power to shape group linkages through their rhetoric, suggesting that such linkages are more dynamic and elite-driven than suggested by predominant structural accounts. 🧵

Dass man #Stocker für genau „den Richtigen“ hält, um in Gespräche mit #FPÖ einzutreten, ist kein gutes Zeichen. Es signalisiert man möchte das so zähneknirschend und (nach außen) widerwillig wie möglich machen. Es ist klar woher das kommt, aber klug ist das nicht. (1/2)

Haltungsänderungen in der Politik folgen oft auf Wahlniederlagen, personelle Wechsel oder das Scheitern alternativer Bündnisse. Im Falle der #ÖVP und den gescheiterten #Koalitionsverhandlungen trifft alles zu. Trotzdem wirkt die Kehrtwende in den letzten Tagen wie eine grandiose Selbstaufgabe. 🧵

I wrote something for The Loop based on my recent article in EJPR: doi.org/10.1111/1475... 👇

This year, I’ve had the privilege of teaching in the first-ever cohort of MSc #Digital #International #Affairs at the Diplomatic Academy, Vienna. Learning stats & programming can be daunting, but it’s been amazing to see my students rise to the challenge. NEXT UP: #Automated #Content #Analysis

A commonly held notion is that Germany's far-right party AfD is especially successful in the country's more rural areas. However, a look at the party's election results in over 10,000 municipalities suggests that the link between rurality and AfD support is rather diffuse. A simple thread. 🧵👇