A warm welcome to our new Assistant Professor @retobuergisser.bsky.social 👋🥳

💭 What's ahead for Czechia after the parliamentary election? 📅 Oct 6 (Mon) 3:00pm CET 📍 Online 🗣️ @petraguasti.bsky.social @charlesuni.cuni.cz @danielhegedus.bsky.social @gmfus.bsky.social Vit Dostal (AMO) Andrea Michalcová (Centre for an Informed Society) Register ⤵️

✨ Two inspiring days at the #MEDemConference wrapped up with our #MEDemBoD meeting! A big thank you to @gesis.org for hosting us in Cologne — and for the chance to meet one of the city’s most famous residents: Die Maus, star of the legendary German TV show "Die Sendung mit der Maus". 🐭🎉

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU? Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇 @bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

Awards, awards, awards! 🏆✨ At the 11th Annual @oegpw.bsky.social Conference, three members of the Department of Government @univie.ac.at were among the awardees: 🎓 Best PhD – @christinagahn.bsky.social 📘 Best MA – Benjamin Riesch 📗 Best BA – Luca Conte 👏 Huge congrats to all! 🎉 #PoliSky 🧪

A few months ago @klarapernsteiner.bsky.social and I noticed something was off. The corrigendum now also includes @stawi-univie.bsky.social: "Table 1: Recent citations: the University of Vienna enters at #9 (11,144). Table 2: Recent citations: enters at #6 (293)" :) doi.org/10.1017/S104...

🚨New Publication Perceptions of Science and Politics During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria: Technocratic Overreach or Blame Deflection? 🧪 By @schnizzl.bsky.social, @jamoeberl.bsky.social & Alexander Bogner ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s116... 🧵1/10

Call for Papers: "Knowing Without Knowing: How False Confidence Shapes the World" 🗓️ Deadline: 23.4.2026 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/... Co-Edited with: M. Adamus, S. Chen #Misinformation #ConspiracyBeliefs #Polarization #ScienceDenial #Overconfidence 🧪 🔄 Help us spread the word!

📚 Neue Studie erschienen "Wie lässt sich konstruktiv mit verhärteten Wissenskonflikten umgehen? Eine quantitativ-qualitative Studie zur Wissenschaftsskepsis" Mit Alexander Bogner, Agnes Kirchner, Katharina Miko-Schefzig, Michaela Pfadenhauer & Markus Trimmel 🔗 epub.oeaw.ac.at?arp=0x00407b20

📯Neuer Digitize!-Kurzbericht von Katharina Pfaff und Jerg Gutmann @jerggutmann.bsky.social mit interessanten Ergebnissen aus der letzten Digitize!-Befragungswelle über Vertrauen der österreichischen Bevölkerung in die Justiz❗: digitize.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/us...

From 26 to 28 June 2025, the 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association will take place in Madrid, Spain. Many of our colleagues will attend the conference and present their research. #EPSA2025. The presenters are: 🧵 1/3

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social

📢 Final #ACPP dataset now available via @aussda.bsky.social 🔍 Tracked how people in Austria experienced COVID-19 📅 35 waves (Mar 2020–Jul 2023) 👥 ~1,500 interviews per wave 🌍 English translations 📂 SUF: doi.org/10.11587/28K... 📖 OA: doi.org/10.11587/P5Y... 📊 Explore: woco.univie.ac.at/dashboard/

@carolinaplescia.bsky.social presented her forthcoming book "The Meanings of Voting for Citizens: A Scientific Challenge, a Portrait, and Implications" Oxford University Press in the framework of a course at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev thought by Prof. Jennifer Oser. 📢🎥

Nächste Woche gehts los: Pint of Science – das Wissenschaftsfestival! 🧠🍺 Vom 19. bis 21. Mai präsentieren Wissenschaftler:innen ihre Forschung in 6 österreichischen Städten – Wien ist mit besonders vielen spannenden Events dabei. Hier ein Überblick! 🎟 pintofscience.at/events/wien #pint25 #pint25AT

⚠️ New AUTHLIB journal article - open access ⚠️ ❓How do illiberal far right parties influence discourse on immigration? Franziska Wagner (CEU), Dean Schafer (@mississippistate.bsky.social, @ceudeminst.bsky.social) Mehmet Yavuz (CEU, Uni Salzburg) have the answers. www.authlib.eu/journal-arti...

🎧 Podcast on illiberal transatlantic ties AUTHLIB's Daniel Hegedus & Zsuzsanna Vegh (GMF) spoke to CEU Democracy Institute's Review of Democracy about the commonalities of MAGA & the Patriots, the transatlantic illiberal network & its impact on CEE democracy. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/04/16/i...

From March 13 to 14, 2025, the ‘PARTISAN’ project by @markuswagner.bsky.social hosted a workshop on partisan politics. Researchers from the Department of Government and international guests came together to discuss political stereotypes, affective polarization and more. ✍️ 🗳️

📣 New research in EJPR together with the wonderful @nathaliegiger.bsky.social, @stefaniebailer.bsky.social, T. Turner-Zwinkels & S. Heller: We find: 1) MPs use more constituency signals while campaigning, 2) voters notice the signals, 3) but don't reward that behaviour. doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Fascinating new research from Dr. @schnizzl.bsky.social @univie.ac.at challenges our assumptions about online surveys. Her comparative study reveals surprising results between probability-based & non-probability methods. Rethinking how we collect data? 👉🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

Exciting news for #MEDem! 🙌🍾

Die Diskussion, ob div. verkehrspolitische Maßnahmen eher Wirtschafts- oder Gesellschaftspolitik sind, hätten wir als Podcast aufnehmen sollen :) Danke an das gesamte @derstandard.at-Team für den Wahlkompass zur Wien-Wahl 2025: www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Early Bird Registration ends TONIGHT!⏳ Ready to enhance your research with survey-embedded experiments?Join Christopher [email protected] at MethodsNET Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social(CEU) his course on designing and implementing survey experiments. Register here: bit.ly/4gLbv9V

Gerade erst die Eurobarometer-Umfrage vom Februar gesehen: Die meisten Menschen in Europa sehen einen positiven Einfluss von Wissenschaft & Technologie auf die Gesellschaft, aber Österreich gehört zu den Ländern mit den höchsten negativen Bewertungen (18 % + 4 % = 22 %) … europa.eu/eurobaromete...

We are happy to announce that PhD student Belén Abdala successfully defended her thesis "From Voting to Candidacy: An Analysis of Individuals’ Motivations to Participate in Politics" on 12th of March! Congratulations, Belén! Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors! #PhDone

📣 Mein Bericht in der neuesten Ausgabe von Digitize!-News @stawi-univie.bsky.social zu politischer Professionalisierung: Die Bevölkerung erwartet, dass Politikerinnen und Politiker ein Vollzeitamt nicht mit einer weiteren Erwerbstätigkeit kombinieren. 👉 Bericht: shorturl.at/BVOzH

Neuer Digitize!-Kurzbericht von @ohuwyler.bsky.social 📯📖 mit interessanten Ergebnissen aus der 7. Digitize!-Befragungswelle ❗

In der Bundesregierung Stocker (plus Staatssekretär:innen) wird es acht Personen mit Background in Kammern/ÖGB geben (38%). Rein biografisch ist das also die "sozialpartnerschaftlichste" Regierung seit Kreisky.

Geschichtsvergessenheit oder einfach nur kollektives Rechercheversagen in praktisch allen Medien? Nein, das ist *nicht* die erste Dreierkoalition Österreichs, auch nicht in der Zweiten Republik. Dauert ca. 20 Sekunden, das zu recherchieren ...

We are happy to welcome @christinagahn.bsky.social as university assistant postdoc at our department 🎉

We are excited to announce the release of the new #AUTNES dashboard! 🥳 Discover insights on Austrian voters' attitudes and behavior from 23 waves of the AUTNES Online Panel Study (2017–2024) here: 131.130.71.40:3838/autnes/ 📝📈🗳️

I can’t believe it yet but I‘m #PhDone! A special thanks to my committee @heikekluever.bsky.social @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social @anselmhager.bsky.social @markuskollberg.bsky.social & @tiondelisa.bsky.social! I learned a lot and I am truly grateful for the experience @humboldtuni.bsky.social 🎓🥳

On 23rd of January, the Department of Government celebrated its 50th anniversary in the Skylounge of Vienna University with many guests and former employees. We would like to thank everyone involved for this wonderful and unforgettable event!

Happy 50th birthday, @stawi-univie.bsky.social! It’s been an honor to share part of this journey with you—wishing you all the best for the years ahead! 🤗

🚨 New Data: Digitize! CSES Post-Election Survey 2024 🔹 Data from the probability-based Digitize! Online Panel 🔹 Incl. CSES Module 6: "Representative Democracy under Pressure" 🔹 N=1683 Austrian voters 🔗 doi.org/10.11587/BS8... #CSES #Elections #Democracy @aussda.bsky.social

📯 We are looking for a university assistant (predoc) in research areas: political representation, party competition, political institutions, or political behaviour. Deadline: 10.02.! Find the job announcement here: staatswissenschaft.univie.ac.at/news-detaila...