I am super happy to have received this year’s CDSS teaching award for my seminar “democratic representation in parliament”. In addition to the positive feedback from students, this is a great valuation of the effort put into preparing courses and giving feedback.

Come visit us next year, we have good feedback and tasty food.

The innovation I have been waiting for the most

👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@[email protected]), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)

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...

Three weeks left to apply 👇

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds" Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"... www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Want to get an overview of research on #youthpolrep? We have started a 💥thematically sorted bibliography💥 on our website! Let us know, if there are publications still missing 🤗

The actual truth: Wenig hat der Demokratie in den letzten Jahren so geschadet wie die ständige Verharmlosung der extremen Rechten durch selbsternannte "liberale" oder "konservative" Akteure und die komplett absurde Hufeisen-Gleichstellung von radikal-rechten mit links-progressiven Kräften.

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Have you ever wondered if young politicians perceive their roles as representatives differently than their older colleagues? Then, my new research note in Party Politics may interest you. I investigate age differences in the representation styles of politicians. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

📢 New Publication Alert! Our (@msaeltzer.bsky.social) latest article, "Issue congruence between candidates' Twitter communication and constituencies in an MMES: Migration as an exemplary case", has just been published in Parliamentary Affairs. academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

NEW - Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL "exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population" - @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

“You will see a lot of police and you will be happy” is a sentence so bleak that it would be scrapped from any dystopian novel because too on the nose. A grim, grim thing is going on across the Pond.

Where 2024 Labour voters are now: Still Labour: 52% (5m) Don't know: 13% (1.3m) Now Lib Dem: 10% (1.0m) Now Green: 8% (0.8m) Now Reform UK: 7% (0.7m) Now Won't Vote: 4% (0.3m) Now Conservative: 3% (0.3m) Now SNP/PC: 2% (0.2m) Now Other: 1% (0.1m) Dead: 1% (0.1m)

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

It's term paper grading time again. Despite some odd moves, it is again great to see how students combine their own interests with the course content. Some really smart ideas and interesting perspectives in there.

imho the only important thing about the UK government lowering the voting age to 16 is that a European government has woken up and pointed at young people saying "you exist!" and frankly that's non-trivial

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)

Was viele nicht zu verstehen scheinen: Hier wurde ein Drehbuch durchgespielt, mit dem Ziel, eine für die AfD und damit für die schwarz-blaubraunen Träume gewisser Kreise bedrohlich wirkende Richterin zu verhindern und ein nur der AfD nützendes Kulturkampfszenario nach US-Vorbild durchzuziehen.

„Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft dürfen sich nicht von "Plagiatsjägern" treiben lassen. Bestehen Anhaltspunkte dafür, dass eine Anzeige politisch motiviert ist oder selbst nicht den Maßstäben wissenschaftlicher Redlichkeit genügt, sollte ihr keine öffentliche Beachtung geschenkt werden“ — so ist es.

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

If you are at ipsa, go check out our new paper if you are interested in migrant public opinion and/or support for democracy.

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Gestern Interview mit Rheinischer Post zur Frage, inwiefern Zusammenarbeit BSW/AfD wem nützt oder schadet. Jetzt laufen - wie erwartbar - die Mail- und Postfächer voll. Wissenschaftsfreiheit stirbt auch damit, wenn so aktiv versucht wird, Meinungsäußerung einzuschüchtern.

Increasing vegetation in urban areas by 30% would have prevented 1.16 million of those heat-related deaths from 2000 to 2019 Botanical gardens, wetlands, rain gardens, green walls, tree-lined streets cool city air by 4 to 5 degrees C. #heatwave leahy.substack.com/p/cooler-cit...

In our new publication to @nature.com Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @muhx2.bsky.social and I explore if the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine increased support for European integration among Europeans. The answer is yes! A short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The upcoming conference of the @sgparliaments.bsky.social in Barcelona will also feature a panel focusing on young parliamentarians! Come by if you are around :) #sgop25

On my way to #sgop25 conference for 3 exciting days of science in Barcelona. I will present research on the attitudes of migrant origin candidates and the representation style of young politicians. If you want to grab coffee, please let me know. @sgparliaments.bsky.social

As @indubioproreto.bsky.social pointed out a few days ago, there is some interesting data from the Federal Returning Office in Germany on the age and gender divides in the general election. A few points stand out: 1) The AfD performs well across all age groups, with the exception of the oldest. 1/3

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I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸 @epsanet.bsky.social‬ A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵

🚨 Excited to see my first solo-authored paper now published in IJPOR! 🚨 Do election outcomes affect participation in post-election surveys? And specifically, do election winners respond more than losers? The short answer: not really. The slightly longer answer: 🧵👇 academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

Apparently Meta has started restricting/blocking accounts of multiple German Parties (of course left of center) and Greenpeace. netzpolitik.org/2025/moderat...

Our newest piece on BSW is now published. We show that when attitudes toward Wagenknecht come into the game, policies are no longer that meaningful in predicting behaviour. Personalisation in a personalised party! What a surprise! 😀 @sarahwagner.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

1/ In die Milliarden-Masken-Affäre von Spahn kommt neue Bewegung. Spoiler: Es tun sich Abgründe auf. Ein seit Monaten vorliegender Aufklärungsbericht wird im BMG unter Verschluss gehalten. Dazu, und was das alles mit dem Sohn von Helmut Kohl zu tun hat – ein längerer Thread 🧵

I desperately hope we do live in a simulation after all. Only reasonable explanation.

The bureaucracy cost index of Destatis (Germany's statistical office) shows that 🇩🇪 bureaucracy costs at the federal level have *declined* by ~6% since 2012.

We are looking for a PhD student! Check out the cfa below, please repost for N and diversity 👇👇🔥🔥🔥

Now with page numbers. If you are interested in parliamentary interruptions and their strategic nature, go check it out. doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Ein Jahr lang wurden EU-weit #Unterschriften gesammelt und vergangene Woche dann der #Erfolg: Die #Petition " #VerbotVonKonversionsmaßnahmen in der EU” hatte die Marke von 1.000.000 Unterschriften überschritten. www.queer.de/detail.php?a... Ein Thread dazu - wie es nun weiter geht. (1/11)

From Bluesky to the Guardian! In my new op-Ed, I argue that the “male glaze” of media and politics is empirically, normative, and politically wrong and that progressives should focus more on the left turn of young women.

Also visible in Germany in 2025: 38% of men younger than 25 voted for a left-wing party (SPD, Greens, Linke). This is *more* than left-wing parties got among the total population of men (33%). Age differences in male far-right voting, by contrast, were negligible.

The first paper of my dissertation has been published in West European Politics! @wepsocial.bsky.social See the thread below:

Um zu wissen ob die Beobachtung der AfD und ihr Erfolg zusammenhängt bräuchte man vielleicht eine größere Sample Size als 1 🙃

Die FPÖ hat heute das größte Stimmenplus, aber im Vergleich zur bundesweiten Sonntagsfrage hat sie bei Wiener LT/GR-Wahlen noch nie so unterperformt.

Thank you very much for the great feedback, inspiring presentations, awesome people and good organisation ❤️