Im Podcast Unibâle von @primenewsbasel.bsky.social spreche ich über die Auswirkungen von Hass im Netz auf die politischen Ambitionen von jungen Frauen und Männern.

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

From October 2025 - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess

For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

"But the SVP is different": I hear this often, especially compared to A/fD. But 2024 data confirm different story: programmatically, the overlaps are strikingly close. The real difference is govt participation, not ideology. And yet, many still label the SVP as a center-right ("bürgerlich") party

Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social

Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭 21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET @alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions. 👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Mit WDR 3 Resonanzen habe ich heute über die Aussagen von Friedrich Merz gesprochen, darüber wie sein Kurs die radikale Rechte normalisiert und stärkt und warum er vielleicht mal öfter mit jungen Frauen sprechen sollte. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

🗣️ Our new study in @jwpp.bsky.social shows that online abuse on social media discourages young women from pursuing political offices—before their actual political careers have even begun. With @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and Tomoko Latteier #GenderSky 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mehr Sozialstaat und eine "antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" werden häufig als Mittel gegen den AfD-Erfolg genannt. Doch was ist dran an der These & welche Sozialpolitik wünschen sich die AfD-Wähler tatsächlich? Eine Datenanalyse von @schieritz.bsky.social und mir. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

Autoritäre Kräfte schränken Frauenrechte gezielt ein. 👉 Wie wird Antifeminismus als politisches Mittel eingesetzt? 👉 Und warum unterstützen auch Frauen Akteure, die ihre Rechte angreifen? @mabreyer.bsky.social ‪@sarahbuetikofer.bsky.social www.polit-forum-bern.ch/veranstaltun...

NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Another piece on candidate selection of mine is forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social : Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR” (doi.org/10.1086/734244)

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

If you happen to have capacity for an extra first-time attendee do drop me a DM. :)

Can government policies moderate political backlash to structural change? Yes, the effect operates through material benefits and social recognition. 🚨New WP by @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @thmskrr.bsky.social and @susanadptavares.bsky.social 🚨 shorturl.at/zFbZE

Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️

Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals. 🔓: doi.org/10.1177/1354...

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa

I cannot recommend this summer school enough!

🚨 Call for Expressions of Interest – BrIAS x ULB Solidarity Fellowships 🚨 Are you a researcher at risk working on democratic governance? The new BrIAS program invites expressions of interest from early-career researchers who wish to apply for a ULB postdoctoral Solidarity Fellowship.

Are you interested in political partipation among youth and immigrants? @ aleininger.bsky.social and I edited a special issue for Politics and Governance (@cogitatiopag.bsky.social) - here are 13 new articles! doi.org/10.17645/pag...

Exceptionally long, but familiarly pompous and uniformed, puff piece on the “good” nativism of Mette Frederiksen in Denmark. Completely ignores most basic data and, of course, any academic research. Some quick points 🧵

Linking public service deprivation to immigration rather than to cuts & administrative burdens is a POLITICAL CHOICE My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽 🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV 🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ Yet another form of far right normalization

💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and Michael Pinggera. We map the welfare preferences of voters at the poles of the second, GALTAN dimension of political conflict. 🧵

Wann nehmen die Parteien diese robusten Befunde aus der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung zur Kenntnis? www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/am-e...

@sophsuda.bsky.social und ich durften heute für den SRF Fragen der Leser*innen zur deutschen Bundestagswahl beantworten. Dabei waren viele interessante Fragen aus der schweizerischen Perspektive: www.srf.ch/news/srf-new... @unibas.ch

🚨 Got page #s! 🔎 When do political differences by social class emerge? During youth or on the job? 📊 @macarenaares.bsky.social & I find they appear early in life & consolidate during employment (🇨🇭+🇬🇧panels) 📖 tinyurl.com/2tv5v698

Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal: “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany” Here's a summary thread... 1/n

📢 Excited to share our new @wzb.bsky.social Working Paper together with the brilliant @meretstephan.bsky.social! ❗️Key finding: Anti-racist protests can change voting behavior, pushing society toward greater inclusivity. 📄 Link: bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/zz2... 🔍 For a quick summary, see thread 👇

Today is a really(!) good day to make sure all your friends know there's no need to keep holding onto the old place 🐦 Are they worried about losing @altmetric.com impact? They've got you covered now. Not only that, Bluesky is notably better! https://buff.ly/4hhUS61

1/ Happy to announce a new paper at @PolBehavior with Andreas Jozwiak & Eroll Kuhn. Recent work links ⬆️immigration flows to backlash, esp⬆️far right voting. We ask if it's a general feature of migration politics by testing effects of *co-ethnic* immigration. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com) is now out on: ❓How do people derive social class of representatives and the public? The headline is that working-class parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as such (compared to otherwise identical lay public) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apply to be our colleague in Basel! Assistant Professorship in Political Science (without Tenure Track) with a focus on Environment and Development. Deadline 20 January: buff.ly/3VLujgD

Heute durfte ich zu meinem Lieblingsthema, der Funktionalität von Minderheitsregierungen, mit meinem Lieblingsradiosender, radioeins vom rbb, reden! #Karrierezielerreicht Zum nachhören: www.radioeins.de/programm/sen...

[OUT] 'Are poor people poorly heard?', new paper by Awenig Marie, researcher at SciencePo ULB (#Cevipol), in collab w/ Julie Sevenans, Christian Breunig, Stefaan Walgrave, Karolin Soontjens, Rens Vliegenthart, in European Journal of Political Research ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New Cambridge Element 'Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century' by Simon Bornschier, @lhaffert.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, Marco Steenberge & @dpzollinger.bsky.social out now! Read #OpenAccess here: cup.org/3ZLtQ0o #cambridgeelements #politics

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 Excited to share that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! It examines voter responses to mainstream party legitimization of (former) pariah parties. A thread 👇1/n... doi.org/10.1017/S000...

#Israel begeht im besetzten Gazastreifen einen #Genozid an der palästinensischen Bevölkerung. Dafür hat Amnesty International Belege gesammelt und heute in einem 296-seitigen Bericht veröffentlicht. 1/6 www.amnesty.de/pressemittei...

📣We are hiring!🔥I'm looking for a PhD & Postdoc. 🔍Research focus on far-right parties, movements & ideologies in int'l perspective, with emphasis on the ways in which the far right is embedded in everyday culture. (2 further positions available, please share!) uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/...

Right in time with the exodus of academics from Twitter, the article I wrote together with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and Sébastien Boyer is finally published! 😁 Find the open access article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 The deadline for our Joint Sessions workshop on class politics is next week (21 November) - apply here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Come work with me! I am looking for a doctoral student in a research project on the political representation of urban and rural places. Duration: 4 years Start date: March 2025 (or later) Deadline: November 21st. jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta... #polisky