Video of the Harvard lecture here--thanks for the great comments and questions! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODd...

Noch ein Job: Für das Projekt "Knowledge, Epistemic Marginalization, and the Politics of Resentment" (Co-PI: Joachim Blatter) suche ich einen Postdoc an der Universität Bremen.

Vertragsdauer: 3,5 Jahre
Stelle: 100%
Bewerbung: Bis 05.05.

Stellenausschreibung: www.uni-bremen.de/universitaet...

Three 2-year Postdoctoral positions at Aarhus University: Projects on personality cults and strategic communication in autocracies - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Three 2-year full-time postdoctoral positions in autocratic politics at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University (in connection to projects headed by Jakob Tolstrup and Alexander Baturo). Flexible start date. Application deadline: June 1, 2026.
international.au.dk/about/profil...

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics.

Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line?

What we find surprised us: a null!

url: osf.io/preprints/os...

What’s next: Quarto 2 – Quarto We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust.

And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official".

We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort:

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🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database.

- State elections update: new years + mail-in
- 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European
- Municipal elections: 1984-2025
- Meinungsbild public opinion
- New website & features

german-elections.com

New publication 📄 "Little change in a changing landscape: Tracking exposure to untrustworthy news in Germany from 2017 to 2024". So far, my shortest paper - and the first with @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social! Read our brief description of news web browsing @journalqd.bsky.social

FOUR GRAPHS ABOUT 🇩🇰'S GENERAL ELECTION

My read of the election in four graphs. First: big urban-rural divide. The two big mainstream parties, Social Democrats and Liberals, are now mainly rural/suburban, with niche parties dominating in cities. (1/4) #polisky

Jobs, jobs, jobs! Please spread the word

⁉️ Are anti-immigration people really "sexually modern"?

No

⁉️ Are people more supportive of anti-immigration platforms when these also include progressive positions on gender and sexuality?

Also no

I explore these questions w/ 🇬🇧🇩🇪 original survey data (+ a conjoint in 🇩🇪)

👉 osf.io/preprints/so...

If you are a PhD student researching on legislative studies, the Summer School of the @sgparliaments.bsky.social is an excellent opportunity to expand your network and to present and discuss your own research, all of that under the supervision of renowned scholars on the field.

The standard model of liberal, representative democracy is increasingly being challenged from the bottom and the top. In a new paper @Party Politics, Gidi Rahat and I seek to explain why political parties differ in the conception of democracy they advance.

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social

Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments.

📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026

Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)

Am kommenden Sonntag wird hier in Rheinland-Pfalz gewählt. Nach den Umfragen ist mit einem Kopf-an-Kopf zwischen SPD und CDU zu rechnen - so auch die Prognose von @zweitstimme.bsky.social. Wer vorne liegt, wird voraussichtlich den Ministerpräsidenten in einer künftigen Großen Koalition stellen. 1/X

It was an immense honor to contribute to the 30th anniversary issue of Party Politics. Richard Katz and I advocate for the continued relevance of studying party organization, both to understand how politics in democracies actually works and to articulate how it should work.

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Very happy to see this out in @bjpols.bsky.social

The last paper from my dissertation has found a home

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I’m hiring for a full-time one-year Research Assistant (“pre-doc”) position

Come work at LSE doing research on energy markets and environmental economics. Great opportunity to build research skills ahead of applying to PhD programmes

Deadline March 27th, apply here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch, Kira!!🎈🎉

2 two-year postdocs on children’s political socialization at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

🔥 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...

Building on my General Election Prediction App, I thought it might be fun to build an app that allows you to look at UK constituencies in a bunch of cool ways. So this app doesn't turn polls into seats. It looks at seats as they are.

livedataoxford.shinyapps.io/Constituency...

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Who produces hate speech? And how does that matter for content moderation?

We show that across different countries and platforms, a relatively small share of users are responsible for a very large share of hate - overall, 5% write 83-100% of hateful content.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This will be the 3rd edition. If you study pol. behaviour and work on #CEE, this is the right place to present your research. Dates: June 25-26. Discussants include @simonhix.bsky.social & @eliasdinas.bsky.social. Highlight: roundtable on dem. erosion with H. Kriesi, M. Svolik & N. Wunsch.

Very happy to share that our paper "Political socialization and immigrants' support for progressive politics: the case of green parties" with @antvalentim.bsky.social is now published in @psrm.bsky.social!

Link to paper: doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

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The Data Science Lab presents Inside Data Journalism, a spring talk series featuring leading practitioners who share practical insights into their work and the evolving field of data journalism.

More ℹ️👉 www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien...

Am Sonntag ist Landtagswahl in Baden-Württemberg. Was sagt das Zweistimme.org Modell vorher? ⬇️

An image of the schedule with speaker images. You can find the full schedule on tada.cool.

🚨 TADA Speaker Series Spring 2026 schedule is here! 🚨

We've assembled a fantastic lineup of researchers exploring the future of survey research in the age of LLMs.

Mar 18 - May 27, online at 17:00 CEST. Join us!

More info & signup: tada.cool

New working paper!

I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

We usually think that social identities precede preferences

We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences

Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

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.

Why does mainstream accommodation of far-right and Eurosceptic parties often electorally backfire? In my 3rd dissertation paper, just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social, I argue that voters specifically punish internally divided parties for accommodation: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
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