Looking forward to this year's conference after the great one last year. If you want to grab a coffee, hit me up.

Happy to share that my first PhD paper “Beyond Proximity: Representational Isolation and Emotional Response in Climate Politics”, co-authored with @wurthmann.bsky.social and @lukashetzer.eurosky.social is published in @repjournal.bsky.social. 🎉 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0034...

🤝 Connect with leading scholars in legislatures, representation & political parties at the Summer School on Parliaments! @sgparliaments.bsky.social 🗓️ 27 Jul–6 Aug 📍 @goetheuni.bsky.social ⭐️ Includes a guided tour at the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament + a meeting with Members of Parliament!

Do you like studying historical parliaments? Presenting a new dataset of Roll Call Votes from the German Reichstag 1867-1918 by Frank M Häge. Read more in a new open access research note: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Stabile Liste an Forderungen die ohne mehr digitale Überwachung auskommen. Unterschrift ist raus.

Ich frage mich mindestens siebenmal pro Woche, wie man in irgendeiner Weise denken konnte, dass das ein sinnvolles Umfrage-Item sei

The German public is more approving of police violence when victims are immigrants, and this bias is highly resistant to new information. This shows our new study published in Science Advances. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/3)

Es wird gerade viel diagnostiziert, dass die Arbeiter jetzt die AfD wählen. Problem ist, dass das fast ausschließlich über subj. Einschätzung als Arbeiter passiert. Verwendet man objektive Daten über Berufe ist die AfD keineswegs bei Arbeitern am stärksten. Hier mit Parteinähe und Daten des ESS.

Ein wichtiger Zusatz, der nicht untergehen soll: Bei den Bundestagswahlen 2025 waren 1.15% aller Deutschen, die gewählt haben, Männer im Alter zwischen 18 und 24. Im gesamten AfD Elektorat machten die 18-24 Jährigen Männer 4% der gesamten Wählerschaft aus.

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!

📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:

Weil das Narrativ der "jungen rechten Männer" sich derart hartnäckig hält - einige Auswertungen aus den repräsentativen Wahlstatistiken der verschiedenen Bundesländer. Spoiler: *IN KEINEM BUNDESLAND DEUTSCHLANDS WÄHLEN 18-24-JÄHRIGE MÄNNER MEHR AfD ALS MÄNNER ZWISCHEN 35 UND 60.*

Teilt unsere Forderungen: centreforfeministforeignpolicy.org/2026/03/23/i... Unsere Geschäftsführerinnen Anna-Lena und Josephine haben den 10-Punkte-Plan zum »Schutz vor männlicher Gewalt« ebenfalls unterzeichnet und setzen sich auch so für Betroffene ein.

I attended this summer school 2 years ago, learned a lot and made awesome new friends. What that means: you should apply!

Für den Spiegel habe ich darüber geschrieben was andere grüne Parteien aus dem Erfolg der Grünen in Großbritannien lernen können. Eine Agenda die soziale Ungleichheit betont. Ein Zuhause für progressiven Aktivismus und progressive Identitäten. Kein mea culpa bei Anfeindungen. tinyurl.com/4hmhmdzd

🔥 POSTDOC POSITIONS ON CHILDREN'S POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION 🔥 Wanna understand young people's beliefs about political leadership, politics, and power? Then this is your chance! I'm looking for two 2-year postdocs to join my ERC-funded research project @au.dk international.au.dk/about/profil...

💬 How can we measure inter party communication? ➡️ Using a transformer based approach, @annather-nerd.bsky.social et al. classify how parties talk about rivals (positive-negative), studying coalition signals in Germany and campaigning in Austria www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Is the electoral bonus of a candidate's physical attractiveness dependent on their social media use? Roman Althans explores this in the context of the 2021 German federal election. Now open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

*Call for Abstracts* The abstract submission is now open for our (w/ @asheinze.bsky.social) special issue: Party Youth Wings Across Europe: Organisation, Influence, and the Future of Party Democracy We still have a few spots open (e.g. several countries in Southern Europe and CEE or the UK) 😊

📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

How do EU members states implement experimentalist governance for the transition towards renewable energy? Viktoria Brendler analyses this across Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK. Read it now, open access at PVS/GPSQ link.springer.com/article/10.1...

📢 Our study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections is now published in @pvs-journal.bsky.social 📖 doi.org/10.1007/s116... 👉Socioeconomic factors explain where the AfD runs, but not its success ❗Mainstream party competition is central to counter PRRP success

Very happy to see our new article “Reference groups and electoral behavior” (coauthored with Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard & Michael Lewis-Beck) published! Using ANES, DNES and AUTNES data, we show that liking or disliking social groups shapes vote choice.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me. I am happy to help you throughout this process.

‼️ The editorial board of @pvs-journal.bsky.social invites proposals for a special issue in 2027: 👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione... Submit your proposals by 31 May 2026 to [email protected] #CfP #PVS #GPSQ #PolSci #specialissue #Journal

A new open access paper in PVS with current relevance: How do different generations evaluate a potential coalition between the CDU/CSU and the LEFT? by @wurthmann.bsky.social @kirareneekurz.bsky.social and @sarahwagner.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s116...

Received: 24 October 2025 Revised version received: 18 December 2025 Accepted: 2 January 2026 👉 Submit to @pvs-journal.bsky.social for a quick turnaround. Kudos to the handling editor, @martingross.bsky.social.

Do voters vote strategically to prevent the AfD from winning a direct mandate? Short answer: yes. Long answer: read now in a new open access paper by Sven Hillen and @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Zur Landtagswahl Baden-Württemberg haben wir (@pluggedchris.bsky.social @marcdebus.bsky.social @nilssteiner.bsky.social T. Bräuninger) die Online-Wahlhilfe Party-Check entwickelt: party-check.org 🗳️ Neben einem Prozentmatch für diverse Themenbereiche gibt es eine Links-Rechts Verortung. #ltwbw 1/

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky

Looking for speeches from all German state parliaments? @cgnguyen.bsky.social , Eric Beltermann, Sabine Kropp & Antonios Souris have you covered. Introducing the StateParl Corpus. Now open access with PVS: doi.org/10.1007/s11615-025-00643-5

partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

⏳ 5 days left to apply! 4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at in a collegial & supportive department. Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related. Deadline: 28 Jan 26 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

I am happy to announce that I have joined the team of Politische Vierteljahresschrift / German Political Science Quarterly @pvs-journal.bsky.social as Managing Editor alongside the new Editor-in-Chief Marc Debus. I will assist Marc and the team of Associate Editors in managing this great journal.

NEW - Gender Bias in Legislative Oversight: Do Parliamentarians Control Women Ministers More Tightly than Men Ministers? - https://cup.org/45Rm9Z6 - @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, @lenastephan.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social & @camilamontero.bsky.social #OpenAccess

The "smartphones/social media" discourse suffers from some amazing historical amnesia. There was no 2008 financial crisis and no global pandemic starting in 2020, it's all SCREENS SCREENS SCREENS. Major world events? Just the backdrop against which SCREENS happened.

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🚨Publication Alert! My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

I had a great time, got insightful feedback and met cool people this year. Can fully recommend sending an abstract. (there is an english CfP)

New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies. Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇

📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer” I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies ➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election) tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2

📣 Apply Now: Be part of the GESS 📣 🎓 #ApplyNow to our fully funded doctoral programs beginning Fall 2026! 📊 #Business 📊 #Economics 📊 #SocialSciences Application Deadlines: 📬 Early: 15 Jan 2026 📬 Final: 31 March 2026 🔗 Don’t miss your chance to apply via our Online Application Portal:

"The kids are alright. The real problem might be older generations projecting their own racial anxieties onto them. Instead of treating Gen Z as a lost cause, it’s time to heed what their significantly lower racial resentment signals: They’re moving forward." newrepublic.com/article/2030...

"Gehören Sie zur politischen Mitte?", fragte die @zeit.de und löste mit ihrem Tool eine hitzige Debatte aus. @marcdebus.bsky.social ordnet das Tool und die zugrundeliegenden Daten der @gles.bsky.social ein. Lesenswerter Beitrag von @cendt.de und @jalenz.bsky.social ! 👉 www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

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

Crazy support numbers for Zohran Mamdani among young women: 84% (!) of women aged 18-29 voted for Mamdani in the NYC Mayoral Election. But also important: young men voted MUCH MORE STRONGLY (67%) for Mamdani than old men (37%).