The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10
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Very happy to share new research in @ejprjournal.bsky.social w/ my brilliant PhD student & former colleague @madeleinesiegel.bsky.social (new to bsky!): doi.org/10.1017/S147.... We ask whether the winner-loser gap in democratic satisfaction also exists among non-citizens without voting rights.
The German publication of "Triggerpunkte" had a huge impact on how people in politics and broader society think about current political conflicts. I can only encourage people in the UK to engage and better understand some of the essential dynamics underpinning the ongoing political transformations.
Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵
Pre-announcement: Call for questions, Selects 2027
Contribute your questions to the Swiss electoral study during the 2027 federal elections.
📅 Call: end of April 2026
🗓 Deadline: end of June 2026
Selects 2023, including datasets, questionnaires & documentation www.swissubase.ch/en/catalogue...
👍Very excited to see that my solo-authored article:
"Surveying Minoritized Citizens:
A Quantitative Study of Identification versus Categorization"
has been published in Survey Research Methods✨
I hope survey researchers to reconsider how they survey group membership💪
doi.org/10.18148/srm...
i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content
Vorurteile unter wissenschaftlicher Lupe 🔎
Das PARTISAN Projekt von @markuswagner.bsky.social untersucht, wie politische Vorurteile und Stereotype Konflikte verstärken.
Neugierig? Ein neuer Beitrag der Societal Impact Platform gibt Einblicke in das Projekt: impact-sowi.univie.ac.at/faecher/poli...
I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period.
Apply by 04 May 2026.
If you have questions about the position, send me an email!
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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 with great co-authors (@oguzhan-alkan.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @zeynsom.bsky.social) in Political Behavior!
How well do citizens perceive where parties stand? 🤔
Open access: rdcu.be/fb83Z
🚨Open Position!
We are looking for a Senior Scientist - Austrian Politics (20h/week).
Start: 1 September 2026
Application deadline: 28 April 2026
Find the full job advertisement here 👇
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...
New preprint out today (osf.io/preprints/ps...). We tested whether AI agents are actually infiltrating online surveys.
Spoiler alert: they aren't
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Screenshot of the AUSSDA (Austrian Social Science Data Archive) webpage for the “AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 (SUF edition).” The page shows the dataset title, version 2.0, authors, citation information with DOI link, and a description noting it is a multi-wave panel survey covering Austrian national elections (2017, 2019, 2024). On the right, there is a blue “Access Dataset” button and a metric indicating 8,594 downloads. Keywords and licensing information are listed below.
🎉 New release!
An updated version of the #AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 (SUF edition) is now available via @aussda.bsky.social.
📊 Now includes the post–coalition formation wave (March 2025).
🔗 Download & explore: doi.org/10.11587/HNU...
#openscience #elections #PoliSky
Delighted our paper (with an amazing group of co-authors) is forthcoming in the APSR
Takeaway for Labour and other centre-left parties: fixing public services is key to reducing support for the populist right
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My latest with Christina Zuber and Edina Szöcsik, finally out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social! We outline an emerging new paradigm in the study of parties and elections.
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Fantastic Job Opportunity for Behavioral Economists: Research Group Leader - 5year Ass Prof Position (non TT) + PhD Position + Research Allowance + Access to Funding Opportunities at the Excellence Cluster The Politics of Inequality!
More details are here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/c...
the front page of the paper, which can be read in: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pops.70056
we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology.
in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard.
we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:
Interesting new bot-detection strategy in online samples:
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📍 Backlash against asylum seekers in Austria 🏔️
@markuswagner.bsky.social & @lukrudolph.bsky.social show that hosting refugees in local communities sparked stronger anti‑asylum, anti‑immigrant and anti‑Muslim attitudes with political consequences too. 📊🗳️
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
👇🚨Just one week left to apply!🚨👇
Heading to Innsbruck #JointSessions26?
Don’t miss the chance to connect—book a meeting with @robert-a-huber.bsky.social
in advance to secure your spot.
📅 Be sure to schedule in local time so everything runs smoothly!
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!
Weil das Narrativ der "jungen rechten Männer" sich derart hartnäckig hält - einige Auswertungen aus den repräsentativen Wahlstatistiken der verschiedenen Bundesländer.
Spoiler: *IN KEINEM BUNDESLAND DEUTSCHLANDS WÄHLEN 18-24-JÄHRIGE MÄNNER MEHR AfD ALS MÄNNER ZWISCHEN 35 UND 60.*
Jobs, jobs, jobs! Please spread the word
Do we understand the politics of this kind of cost-shock inflation (and the policies that might help address it)? I think not so much: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Do researchers share their code upon request? Does running their orginal code on the original data produce the original results? We provide evidence in a new Royal Society Open Science publication. Studying more than 1,000 articles which use data from the European Social Survey, we find that... 🧵
