📯One month left to apply 📯If you want to join our team @au.dk to study young people's beliefs about political power, this is your chance! Two 2-year postdocs in my ERC-funded project YOPOW: international.au.dk/about/profil...
🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3
w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh
#econtwitter #econsky
Do apply to this six-year research and teaching position! Apart from teaching two classes a term, you should have ample time to focus on your research goals as part of an international department in a great (and affordable) city.
🚨 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...
Job vacancy announcement for a postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna Department of Government, starting August/September 2026. Research focus includes political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields. Application deadline: 29 April 2026. Full details are also available through the shared link.
🚨 Job Alert 🚨
We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026!
Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields
📅Apply by 29 April 2026
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
🔥 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...
📢 Our study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections is now published in @pvs-journal.bsky.social
📖 doi.org/10.1007/s116...
👉Socioeconomic factors explain where the AfD runs, but not its success
❗Mainstream party competition is central to counter PRRP success
Russia, Venezuela, Iran, China, the Sahel region, the United States ...
Want to know why state agents carry out brutal repression — or participate in illegal coups?
Our new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship" provides answers — it just got published by @academic.oup.com:
tinyurl.com/ystwm3tf
🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social):
We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys.
Short version:
It mostly doesn’t.
w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social
URL: osf.io/preprints/os...
How do parties debate minorities? New study based on all parliament speeches in Germany and the UK 1980-2021, with @younghyunlee52.bsky.social , F. #Piñeyrúa, & @max-web.bsky.social, published in the edited volume Computational Social Science of Social Cohesion and Polarization:
As always, also attendants of the @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social Mittelbau Colloquium!
Thank you @irisv.bsky.social🙋♂️
Thank you @christian.czymara.com 🙏. Glad to hear that
Thank you @psinzig.bsky.social 🙏
Lars-Christopher Stövsand, Yassine Khoudja,@infer-frankfurt.bsky.social members, @aalrababah.bsky.social, @ccavaille.bsky.social, and other EPSA 2024 panel participants.
9/9
Many people helped make this along the way, and I'm likely forgetting some (apologies in advance.) For their invaluable feedbacks and support, I sincerely thank to Constantin Ruhe, Fenella Fleischmann, Katrijn Siderius, Taylan Acar, @irisv.bsky.social, @psinzig.bsky.social,
8/9
A preregistered experiment complements this: inclusive religious messages from prototypical RLs reduce hostility and support for violence, even among listeners of politicized leaders.
7/9
Using survey data from 1,671 Muslim immigrants, I show that (in correlational analyses) sermons from non-politicized (vs. politicized) leaders are associated with less hostility toward outgroup, a lower likelihood of justifying religiously motivated violence, and more inclusive identities.
6/9
Beyond 3Bs, this paper focused on the meaning of identity and elite communication. Specifically, how religious leaders (RLs), as identity entrepreneurs, define religious identity and how their stance on politics affects intergroup attitudes among believers.
5/9
But it can be limited for understanding how religion shapes political and intergroup attitudes as it likely conflates several factors (religious orientation, socialization, organizational resources, political context etc..) that might make it difficult to isolate the effect of religion.
4/9
Many studies analyzing the relationship between religion and political/social attitudes among Muslims measure religiosity through belonging, belief, and behavior (3Bs). This is useful for some political behaviors, such as elections.
3/9
In the first chapter (doi.org/10.1177/0010...), I examined how government policies regarding minority religions affect conflict between majority and minority groups in the West.
In the second, I looked at how elites, their political orientation and identity framing shape intergroup attitudes⬇
2/9
🎉 I am excited and grateful to share that the second chapter of my dissertation is now forthcoming in the @thejop.bsky.social.
it has been a long journey. Hours, thoughts, and re-assessments at each stage of the study, but it is finally here🥲
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
1/9
Now officially published in jpeaceresearch.bsky.social.
Link to full-text:
academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...
#PoliticalScience #PoliticalPsychology
Am 12. Januar 2026 ist Matthias Koenig gestorben. In einem Nachruf würdigt Monika Wohlrab-Sahr den Soziologen als integeren Menschen und akribischen Wissenschaftler, der hochgradig normative Fragen mit Herzblut und analytischer Distanz zu behandeln verstand.
www.soziopolis.de/matthias-koe...
📄 New WP version out: revised text, tightened argument, and new analysis.
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social)
Grateful for the helpful comments and presentation opportunities. Further feedback welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
We’re organizing a workshop at Aarhus University. Please share and consider submitting!
🗓️ 13–14 April 2026 | 📝 Deadline: Mon, 16 Feb 2026 (extended abstract) — junior scholars prioritized
🎤 Keynotes: @stefwalter.bsky.social (Univ. of Zurich) & @hhuang.bsky.social (Ohio State)
Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Matthias Koenig. He inspired me to follow an academic path and taught the very first sociology course I ever took. I will always admire the brilliance and unique precision of his thinking.