Budget - Unis rufen zu Demos gegen Kürzungen auf 📅 Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2027 um 13.00 🏛️ Start am Ring vor dem Hauptgebäude der Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/pr...

Finally, the data stems from the Austrian National Election Survey project, which conducted an online panel survey with 23 waves, three of which assessed alt. media use. Big thanks to those making the data available via @aussda.bsky.social. See also for details/link: bsky.app/profile/schn... 5/5

New paper in IJPP📗 How does right-wing alternative media use affect political anxiety and anger as well as trust in political institutions? Drawing from 3 survey waves, RW alt. media use was positively related to anger. In turn, anger negatively affected pol. trust. OA: doi.org/10.1177/1940... 1/5

Upcoming Guest Talk! 🎤 We are happy to announce that Christoffer Green-Pedersen will be holding a talk on the topic "Coalition Voting in Comparative Perspective: Under What Circumstance do Voters take Coalitions into Account?" on 1st of June.

NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView

🎯 New paper alert! It includes the main theoretical & empirical contribution of my dissertation: disentangling targeting and tailoring in political social media advertising. Really happy @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I found such a great home for it 🏠 Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369... 1/4

My first paper is out! Co-authored with @falkscheidig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

Can attitudes change our identities? 🪪 Group-based anti‑immigration appeals nudged participants to newly claim “working‑class” or “Christian” even without strong objective ties or changes to policy views - showing instrumental belief justification. #Identity #Immigration Read the study recap:

🚨 New Article in Politics and Governance When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction By @schnizzl.bsky.social and S. Kritzinger 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🧵 1/6 #Polisky

In the age of AI, there's a lot of talk about students not doing real work anymore. As a teacher, I catch myself focusing on the struggles rather than the wins. Time to fix that. A thread highlighting standout papers from my quantitative methods seminar last term @univie.ac.at. 🧵

"Kann sich die Sozialdemokratie noch retten?" 🥀 fragt @markuswagner.bsky.social im Kommentar der Anderen im @derstandard.bsky.social Neben den Gründen für den Wählerverlust der Sozialdemokraten zeigt Prof. Wagner außerdem mögliche Wege aus der Krise auf: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

I’d especially like to encourage women to apply. We’re a fantastic department with excellent scholars, in beautiful Vienna. Data shows that women are less likely to apply for positions than equally qualified men (Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund 2011), so if you’re considering it, please go for it!

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

🎉 New release! An updated version of the #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 (SUF edition) is now available via @aussda.bsky.social. 📊 Now includes the post–coalition formation wave (March 2025). 🔗 Download & explore: doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #openscience #elections #PoliSky

New blog post ✒️ Who gets emotional about politics and what impact do knowledge, interest, and confidence-in-knowledge have? Find out more about the sophistication-emotion link in our latest blogpost:

I've been asked over the last few days/weeks what I think will happen on April 12th in Orbán's 🇭🇺 (and the aftermath), so here's my assessment, looking at everything as it stands now 🧵 tldr: It's complicated, and no one really knows (and those who say they do are either lying or overly confident) 1/

Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!

It was an immense honor to contribute to the 30th anniversary issue of Party Politics. Richard Katz and I advocate for the continued relevance of studying party organization, both to understand how politics in democracies actually works and to articulate how it should work. doi.org/10.1177/1354...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social) Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? 💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement. link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🧵

This was one of the classes I wished I was a student again to join! 👇👇

The 2024 Austrian parliamentary elections made history: the far-right FPÖ became the strongest party for the first time, and Austria saw its longest-ever government formation, ending in the first three-party coalition since 1947. 📜 Curious? Find out more in our blog: tinyurl.com/2k5dptuc

👇 Let me know if you have any questions on the position, Department or city!

🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)! We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome! 👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop @erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation

At the recent Zweitstimme.org Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behaviour at the Hertie School, researchers from across Europe shared new insights on elites, participation and polling, highlighting how data, methodology and communication are reshaping the study of democratic politics.

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info: ppeg.wzb.eu We hope that data is helpful to the community!

🎉 Kicking off the Zweitstimme.org Workshop! We’re looking forward to two days discussing new work on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behaviour. Today’s sessions: 👉 Panel I – Elites 👉 Panel II – Participation 👉 Panel III – Party Strategies Huge thanks to @hertieschool.bsky.social for hosting us!

📢 New paper out! How do partnership constellations relate to poverty in Germany? Together with @emstruffolino.bsky.social, we examine different-sex partnerships and how low education and non-employment cluster, distinguishing non-migrants, descendants of migrants, and EU vs. non-EU migrants.

I‘m excited to take part in the @zweitstimme.bsky.social Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behavior at the @hertieschool.bsky.social this week! I'll be presenting first results from a project with @klingelt.bsky.social on the Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems.

👀 Political Sciences at University of Vienna ranked #33 worldwide... www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gra... @univie.ac.at #rankings

Im Oktober erschien in den Salzburger Nachrichten (@sn.at) ein Artikel von @irisbonavida.bsky.social zu personalisierter Onlinewerbung mit Kommentaren von mir. Darin verweise ich auf aktuelle Forschung von Kolleg*innen sowie auf Ergebnisse meines eigenen Experiments: doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Excited to present ongoing work from my @dfg.de project "Powerful Polls" @uni-muenster.de on Wednesday (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social). Say hello if you are in Münster! Thanks for the invite & the fabulous organization @danbischof.bsky.social, @elenaleuschner.bsky.social & @mwegemann.bsky.social.

On Wednesday, the brilliant @krausewe.bsky.social will join us in Münster to present work w @christinagahn.bsky.social on opinion polls and elections! We are so thrilled! You can join via Zoom: uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/62265873291 co-organized @danbischof.bsky.social + @mwegemann.bsky.social y.social

Scholars have long paid attention to disproportionality between parties’ votes and seats emerging from the electoral system. In @sespjournal.bsky.social, Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social, and I show that disproportionality can also be a by-product of pre-electoral coalition formation.🧵

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting ⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...

Neue FWF-Studie (vorgestellt im Sept.) zu Postdocs bestätigt, was wir seit Jahren sagen: - 82 % finden die Karriereperspektiven zu unsicher, - 91 % fordern mehr unbefristete Stellen unterhalb der Professur. Das Problem ist bekannt – wann wird es endlich gelöst? 🤷‍♀️ #IchBinHanna @nuwiss.bsky.social

❗️Please share widely: TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... Deadline: 10 Dec 2025

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020) 📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661 📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... 💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

I‘m very honoured to receive one of the two best PhD prizes of the Austrian Political Science Association @oegpw.bsky.social! 🥳 Big congratulations also to Christoph Ivanusch, two @humboldtuni.bsky.social dissertations winning is a first! Thanks again to everyone supporting me in my PhD journey!

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 🧵:

A few weeks ago I arrived from fieldwork in Peru, where I was collecting archival data on the internal armed conflict. Today I finally have a new version of this paper examining how the conflict affected and continues to affect the success of female politicians francisca-castro.com/research/wor...

💥 Update! 💥 This paper is now officially published in Volume 30, Issue 4 of The International Journal of Press/Politics! 🗳️ Experimental evidence that voters prefer moderately tailored messages - highly tailored ones can backfire & targeting can be too much: doi.org/10.1177/1940... #IJPP

Very much looking forward to a great discussion 👇

➡️📍📑 New Working Paper with @sumpierrez.bsky.social and Rainer Bauböck Work on migrant voting rights often has a state-centric perspective. We propose *migrant franchise constellations* as a migrant-centric approach. A 🧵 with our argument and new data! 🗳️ preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

On my way to Vancouver 🇨🇦 for my first @apsa.bsky.social ! 🥳 Starting off with the @polcomm.bsky.social Preconfoerence tomorrow presenting a new project with @klingelt.bsky.social on „The Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from Campaign Poster Locations in Central Berlin“

Very happy and thankful that @michaelimre.bsky.social and I received some funding for our project "Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades" by @apsa.bsky.social!

🚨 Neue Veröffentlichung! 🚨 Im sogenannten “Election Report” schauen wir uns die Nationalratswahl 2024 nochmal aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive an und bereiten sie mit aktuellen Daten auf 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Lest hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 "From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me