Happening Today!

Zwischen Wien und Brüssel: Wer Europäer:innen wirklich repräsentiert Von transnationalen Interessen und unsichtbaren Gruppen: Was uns die Forschung über demokratische Repräsentation in der EU verrät

📃Read now: Zwischen Wien und Brüssel: Wer Europäer:innen wirklich repräsentiert (Between Vienna and Brussels: Who truly represents Europeans?) by @lucykinski.bsky.social

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📢 We are very happy to have Jana Jung for our third session of the TADA Spring Speaker Series.

Jana will present recently published work on whether psychometric tests work for LLMs.

When? 15th of April, 5pm (Berlin time)
Where? Online (Sign up for the newsletter at tada.cool)

See you there!

Zwischen Wien und Brüssel: Wer Europäer:innen wirklich repräsentiert Von transnationalen Interessen und unsichtbaren Gruppen: Was uns die Forschung über demokratische Repräsentation in der EU verrät

Demokratische Repräsentationen auf nationalstaatlicher sowie europäischer Ebene – @lucykinski.bsky.social gibt Einblick in die vielschichtigen Aushandlungsprozesse von nationalen und transnationalen Interessen. 🌍
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Second session of this term's TADA coming up!

Christopher Klamm will explain the use of Multimodal Conversational AI for survey research to us!

Tuesday, 1 April 2026 | 17:00 CEST | Online

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Join us next week for an exciting grand opening w/ Max in the TADA.cool spring 🌱 speaker series on LLMs in survey research ⬇️

Very excited for the first session of our TADA spring speaker series on LLMs in survey research!

**Telephone Surveys Meet Conversational AI**
With Max Lang
Tuesday, 18 March 2026 | 17:00 CEST | Online

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Please join us this spring for this exciting series of talks!👇

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

Attitude Manipulation and Voting Intentions - Political Behavior A large body of research documents the substantial effects of persuasive communication on political attitudes. However, opinion manipulation often represents merely an intermediate goal in a greater e...

Now in print (and open access):

What happens when voters learn their party disagrees with them?

I ran a pre-registered experiment with a representative sample of ~3,000 German voters to find out.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Do Journalists’ Political Orientations Translate into Partisan News Reporting? The Limits of Bias and the Limits of Counter Mechanisms Journalists are regularly accused of being strongly left leaning, which critics claim leads to biased reporting. Previous research suggests this assumption may be over-simplistic, but direct empiri...

Interesting: "Findings suggest that the left-right political orientation of journalists affects the use of subjectivity in reporting and political party composition, but in the opposite direction [from what was expected]: [Left-leaning] journalists seem to overcompensate for their individual views."

🧑‍🤝‍🧑Do politicians consider the gender of leaders when selecting coalition partners?

➡️Using a conjoint on 979 Spanish mayors, @albahuidobro.bsky.social finds that mayors, especially those on the center and left, prefer coalitions with parties led by women www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Overview of seminar series, details available at: https://www.ucd.ie/connected_politics/events/

Connected_Politics Lab Seminars, Spring Trimester ⤵️

- 28 Jan: @jessicadicocco.bsky.social
– 11 Feb: Akitaka Matsuo
– 25 Feb: @malojan.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, and Noémie Piolat
– 4 Mar: @vivifabrien.bsky.social
– 1 Apr: @elisaadamico.bsky.social
– 15 Apr: @miriamsorace.bsky.social

🍿 If you’re looking to understand what’s happening inside the Dutch far right, today is a great day to read this paper in
@epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨🎉 New Publication! 🎉🚨

This week, I'm joined by Rutger Bregman, Dutch historian and the guy who went viral telling Davos billionaires to pay their taxes.

We explore why so many of us feel stuck, unfulfilled, or disconnected from purpose, and how to redirect our talent toward what actually matters.

Episode 955✌🏼🌱

Last day to sign up! 👇

I posted it here before, but @favstats.eu and I wrote an entry about LLMs in the encyclopedia below 👇

Final version is out now at www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Or read the preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

Happening Tomorrow! 👇

Can really recommend this! @fabianhabersack.bsky.social is a fantastic JS host!

Happening this week! 👇

Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse. Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

TADA RG TADA ✨ Initiative

Our next #TADA session is just around the corner! 🚨

We are absolutely delighted to welcome Ju Yeon (Julia) Park, who will present her paper: "Toward a framework for creating trustworthy measures with supervised machine learning for text."

📅 Wed., Dec. 10, 17:00-18:00 (Berlin)

More info: tada.cool

A big thank you to our paper presenters August de Mulder, @andreavik.bsky.social, @feliciarthm.bsky.social, @robinweisser.bsky.social, and our discussant @pieterdewilde.bsky.social🙏

And of course to our roundtable of experts: Suzanne Dovi, @elinesevers.bsky.social , and @petraguasti.bsky.social 👏

🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)!

We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome!

👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop

@erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation

Cover page of the article. "Affective States: Cultural and Affective Polarization in a Multilevel-Multiparty System" by Dylan Paltra, Marius Sältzer and Christian Stecker. "Affective Polarization—the growing mutual dislike among partisan groups—has been identified as a major concern in democracies. Although both economic and cultural ideological divides contribute to ideological polarization, their affective consequences can differ. This paper argues that cultural polarization becomes especially consequential when mobilized by far-right parties. Using data from 116 elections in Germany’s 16 states (1990-2023), we combine more than 550 state-level manifestos with more than 150,000 survey responses to examine how party polarization translates into voter affect. Our analyses show that both economic and cultural polarization increase affective divides, but cultural disagreements fuel hostility only in the presence of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Acting as a cultural entrepreneur, the AfD amplifies the emotional impact of cultural divisions such as immigration, employing affective rhetoric and provoking strong rejection from other parties and voters. These findings highlight the catalytic role of far-right parties in transforming ideological competition into affective polarization."

🚨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)🧵

Next Generation SCEUS • A podcast on Spotify for Creators Welcome to Next Generation SCEUS, the podcast where we make the European Union a little less confusing and a lot more fun for (E)U! From quirky laws to the latest political drama, we dive into the…

🎙️ Listen now to the latest episode of our students' podcast, where they interviewed @lucykinski.bsky.social (project leader) and @clint0475.bsky.social (project assistant) about their INCONEX project funded by the @erc.europa.eu

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Podcast: buff.ly/Wui0qo9
Project website: buff.ly/ulzMTmf

Happy to have been part of this episode with @clint0475.bsky.social talking all things INCONEX, but also about the EU, what it means to be a political scientist these days, how AI will shape how we teach, and much more. Take a listen! 👂👇

🔔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!