📣 Call for Papers!

Die Themengruppe Vergleichende Parlamentarismusforschung lädt zur Tagung am
🗓 1.–2. Oktober 2026

📍 in Greifswald (dieses Jahr bei uns vor Ort – ich freue mich sehr!)

Einreichungen bis 15. Mai 👇

Hier gehts zum Call for Papers shortlink.uk/1tdsI

I’d especially like to encourage women to apply. We’re a fantastic department with excellent scholars, in beautiful Vienna. Data shows that women are less likely to apply for positions than equally qualified men (Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund 2011), so if you’re considering it, please go for it!

Participants of our Joint Sessions workshop on gender and quantitative methods in Innsbruck, with beautiful mountains in the background

Me and Maarja smiling proudly, with Innsbruck mountain background ✨

and that's a wrap on our @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions workshop that brought together incredible scholars applying quant and computational methods to politics and gender topics!

for @maarja.bsky.social (who graciously came down from the mountains for this ⛷️) and I, this was a dream come true ✨

📢 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...

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!

Herzlichen Glückwunsch!

Find out more and apply Deadline: Thursday 7 May 2026

📣 Applications are open for the Summer School of the Standing Group on Parliaments!

🗓️ 27 Jul–6 Aug, Goethe University Frankfurt

@sgparliaments.bsky.social proudly presents its Summer School which offers a platform to:
✔️ Explore recent advancements
✔️ Present research
✔️ Receive career advice

⌛️7 May

cc @hildecoffe.bsky.social

Gleichbehandlungskommission kritisiert Postenvergabe unter Gewessler "Sachfremde Motive" waren laut Gleichbehandlungskommission bei einer wichtigen Stellenbesetzung im Umweltministerium "in hohem Maß ausschlaggebend"

Wir kennen das: Spitzenfunktionen in der Verwaltung, die mit ehem. Mitarbeiter:innen aus Ministerkabinetten besetzt werden.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.profil.at/oesterreich/...

Aber wie verbreitet ist das Phänomen?

Dazu erscheint heute eine Studie von mir: doi.org/10.15203/424...

BJPolS abstract of a scholarly article discussing the influence of legislators' gender on the questioning behaviors in parliamentary activities.

From January 2026 -

Gender Bias in Legislative Oversight: Do Parliamentarians Control Women Ministers More Tightly than Men Ministers? - cup.org/45Rm9Z6

- @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, @lenastephan.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social & @camilamontero.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

We‘re very excited for the next edition of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim! ✨

Join us and apply until 1 March!

More info in @melinscribe.bsky.social‘s thread below and here: summerschoolwpm.org

Application form: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/wpm/

💡 Understanding this bias helps explain broader challenges women face in political leadership roles and may inform reforms in parliamentary practices.

⚖️ Tighter scrutiny can create unequal working conditions: women ministers have to respond to more questions and justify decisions more often, thus, having less time for policy-making.

🔍 Based on interviews with 32 MPs we explore why this pattern exists: MPs implicit assumptions that women are less capable or trustworthy are drivers of increased scrutiny.

📈 The findings are clear: women ministers receive more oversight (written and oral questions) than male ministers across similar contexts.

📊 Using data from five European democracies since 1990, we analyze how often MPs ask written and oral questions to ministers.

🤔 The core argument: parliamentarians ask more questions to women than men ministers because of stereotypes about competence and trustworthiness i.e., bias, not performance.

📚 Our findings in short: Oversight is not neutral. Gender shapes how ministers are treated in parliament-even in established democracies.

🚨 So excited about our new paper in @bjpols.bsky.social : h7.cl/1iliZ! Together with @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, @lenastephan.bsky.social, @camilamontero.bsky.social, we analyze how gender shapes the extent to which ministers are scrutinized by parliament.

We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:

- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)

We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.

✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group

Blurring or Accident? Voluntary and Involuntary Sources of Ambiguous Party Positions and Their Consequences for Democracy European Consortium for Political Research

Working on party positioning, policy complexity, or political ambiguity using text-analytic, survey-experimental, or other methods? 💡

If you still need a home for your paper at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2026, then look no further! 👇

Only 5 days left to apply! ⏰

#ecprjs26

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"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library The communication of political leaders towards voters has become increasingly important in modern democracies – even more so during crises. This article addresses the question of which factors influe...

@lorehayek.at, @sarahdingler.bsky.social und @msenn.bsky.social vom @polsciuibk.bsky.social haben sich die Frage gestellt „Who Gets to Speak When the Roof is on Fire? Leadership in Political Crisis Communication“ 🎤

➡️ Den ganzen Artikel gleich hier lesen: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

When blame governments other governments in crises?

🎤 @christianschw.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social, @lorehayek.at & @msenn.bsky.social analyse Covid-19 press conferences

👉 They identifiy crisis severity, geography, and value proximity as key drivers

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wahlsystem und Wahlrecht – Barrieren und Lösungsansätze für die Wahl von Frauen - Nomos eLibrary

📢 Neue Publikation

Mit @sarahdingler.bsky.social und @corinnakroeber.bsky.social habe ich für die Zeitschrift des @juristinnenbund.bsky.social den Beitrag „Wahlsystem und Wahlrecht – Barrieren und Lösungsansätze für die Wahl von Frauen“ verfasst. Hier gehts zum Heft: www.djb.de/zeitschrift/...

Congrats!!!

Mapping rhetorical styles in political crisis communication Crisis communication is inherently rhetorical, as it seeks to persuade audiences to accept interpretations, follow directives, and trust leaders. Studies that apply Aristotle's triad of appeals to ...

We (i.e. @lorehayek.at ek.at, @christianschw.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social and I ) address this question of how to identify rhetorical styles in crisis communication in a new (#openaccess) publication in Policy Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0144...

We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

New #openaccess publication by @lorehayek.at, @sarahdingler.bsky.social and myself: "Who Gets to Speak When the Roof Is on Fire? Leadership in Political Crisis Communication" in Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
doi.org/10.1002/rhc3...