🆕 Vulnerability and Voice 🔇
These authors 🧵 investigate how the gender of representatives influence their ability to estimate party voters' policy position when electorally vulnerable, using original survey data from Germany and Switzerland 👩💼
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Die beiden Herren im Vorschaubild gilt es zu ignorieren, es geht um einen viel interessanteren Kollegen bei uns am Fachbereich.
Daniel Höhmann ordnet im «Echo der Zeit» (ab 28:47) ein, warum Riehen ein politischer Sonderfall ist: ungewöhnlich viele junge Menschen im Parlament – und was das bedeutet.
⚖️ Why it matters
This underscores how gendered expectations still structure political behavior, creating unequal constraints for men and women MPs.
💡 What this means
Gendered role expectations continue to shape political behavior. Women MPs face stronger expectations to be knowledgeable about women’s issues. When re-election is uncertain, women legislators have stronger incentives to engage more closely with voter preferences.
📒 What we find
Women MPs are not generally more accurate than men in estimating voters’ preferences on women’s issues. However, consistent with a strategic argument, their accuracy increases significantly when they are electorally vulnerable.
🔎 What we do
Empirically, we rely on a unique pair of parallel surveys of citizens and elected representatives in Germany and Switzerland, allowing us to directly compare politicians’ perceptions with voters’ actual preferences.
📢 Are women MPs better at estimating their party voters’ preferences on women’s issues? In our new paper (with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and @breunig.eurosky.social), we analyze whether and under which conditions women MPs assess these preferences more accurately.
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
@dahoehmann.bsky.social has been interested in politics since his school days – less so in active participation and more in looking at political processes. Today, his research focuses on the question of how women are represented in politics.
What drives his passion for this topic 👇
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.
Our amazing team is back in the media! 🫠😎
Check out this intriguing article by @dahoehmann.bsky.social, Tomoko Latteier, and @stefaniebailer.bsky.social in the University News:
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shorturl.at/VBukv
Today’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is a timely reminder that violence against women also threatens gender equality in politics.
Our study shows how online abuse discourages young women from entering and staying in politics.
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 @dahoehmann.bsky.social and Tomoko Latteier
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
@polisciunibas.bsky.social
@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch
@unibas.ch
@hateaid.org
1️⃣ Young women are more likely to be attacked based on their gender.
2️⃣ Women youth party members are more likely to indicate that this is a reason for them to resign from politics.
▶️ A first leak in the political pipeline that threatens equal representation and democratic inclusion.
Empirically, we draw on an original survey of youth party members in Switzerland 🇨🇭 The results show pronounced gendered patterns in the character and consequences of online abuse.
🔎The study investigates the frequency, character, and consequences of online abuse among youth party members and asks to what extent it affects women’s and men’s decisions to pursue a career in politics.
🗣️ 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....
It was a fantastic workshop with excellent presentations and discussions! Thank you to everybody who joined us in Basel.
Absolute delight to attend this last week 👇
Ein wichtiger Punkt, den @dahoehmann.bsky.social hervorhebt, ist die ungleiche Repräsentation im Parlament:
„Der Bauernverband hat beste Verbindungen ins Parlament und deutlich mehr Einfluss als andere Lobbys. Das ist international gesehen ein Unikum.“
@unibas.ch
@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch
Saskia Esken nimmt Abschied 👋, Männer machen Karriere 👨 Kein Dank, keine Würdigung – Politik bleibt Männersache.
Daniel Höhmann und Corinna Kroeber ordnen ein und sprechen über Sexismus in der SPD:
Echt schlau, bitte lesen! 👇👇👇
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🎉 We are so thrilled to share that our amazing postdoc Magdalena Breyer has won the 3rd prize of the 2025 SAGW Early Career Award! 👏
Congratulations, Magdalena 💐🎉
We are very proud and inspired by your work!
@mabreyer.bsky.social
@unibas.ch
@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch
Our team just returned from the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague, where we hosted the workshop "Inequality and the Politics of Class in the 21st Century", organized by our amazing Magdalena Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social and Peter Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social University of Oslo 😀
Zwei intensive Tage voller Debatten, Impulse und neuer Forschung liegen hinter uns – ein großes Dankeschön an alle Teilnehmenden und an die @SchaderStiftung für die tolle Zusammenarbeit!
Das Sprecher*innenteam: @dahoehmann.bsky.social @pluggedchris.bsky.social @jschwanholz.bsky.social Marion Reiser
@dahoehmann.bsky.social und @mariathurk.bsky.social zeigen, dass Erfahrungen mit unüblichen Koalitionen auf Landesebene einen positiven Effekt auf die deren Bewertung auf der nationalen Ebene haben kann.
🎉 Es geht los!
Heute startet unsere Tagung „Wie wird jetzt regiert?“ im Schader-Forum in Darmstadt.
Auf dem Programm:
🔹 Aktuelle Forschung zur Regierungsbildung
🔹 Panels zu Koalitionspolitik, Wahlorganisation & Reformvorschlägen
🔹 Impulse aus Politik & Medien
👋 Willkommen beim offiziellen Bluesky-Account der DVPW-Sektion „Regierungssystem und Regieren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland“!
🔍 Hier informieren wir über Aktivitäten der Sektion (Calls, Workshops etc.), neue Publikationen & Debatten zum Regieren in der BRD.
‼️ We are very proud and thrilled to share that our amazing Postdoc Daniel Höhmann received an honourable mention for the Teaching Excellence Award 2025 in the category "Supporting Learning"! 💐🥂🥳
👏 Huge congratulations, Daniel, for your outstanding commitment and skill in teaching statistics! 👨🏫😁
Being shortlisted for the University-wide Teaching Award (top 3 of all teachers @unibas.ch !!!) for his extraordinary skills in teaching ADVANCED STATISTICS, is something only the great @dahoehmann.bsky.social can achieve! Congrats! So we'll deserved 🥳🥳🥳
Vielen Dank, Stefanie