Growth, Democracy or Climate Action? Governments are confronted with a tradeoff between growth, liberal democracy and effective climate action. They cannot achieve all three objectives at the same time. The authors consider which one has...

📢 Out April 16th: Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action? co-authored with Aidan Regan, Cyril Benoit & Tim Vlandas. As fuel prices rise and governments buckle under competing pressures, the book could not be more timely. www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (1/6)

Titelblatt der APuZ 13/2026 "Zivilgesellschaft"

Die neue APuZ #Zivilgesellschaft ist da: mit Texten von @swenhutter.bsky.social und @janapriemer.bsky.social, Tobias Montag, Siri Hummel, @nilskumkar.bsky.social, Wolfgang Schroeder und @viviankube.bsky.social - ab sofort bei @bpb.de bestellbar und morgen im "Parlament".
www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...

My first publication is out in @wepsocial.bsky.social , with @lennartschuermann.bsky.social ✨ We analyze how protest increases before different types of elections. We show crucial differences in how civil society and parties prioritize elections in a multilevel system. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Street mobilisation during election campaigns in multilevel systems: a supply–demand analysis" with @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social — now out in @wepsocial.bsky.social

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2026.2634027

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This is from Keir Starmer’s letter to Labour MPs today. This sort of stuff is shockingly partisan and nasty. It will only backfire with voters who switched to Green or are thinking of switching.

Im Oktober habe ich zusammen mit @w-i-d.de einen Multistakeholder-Dialog am @wzb.bsky.social organisiert. Worüber wir diskutiert und uns ausgetauscht haben, kann man nun hier nachlesen 👇

Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Far-right agenda setting: How the far right influences the political mainstream - Volume 65 Issue 1

65.1🦋

#FarRight amplifiers 🔊

@dasalgon.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social show how far-right actors increasingly shape the agendas of mainstream parties, particularly around Islam, migration & cultural issues. #AfD

Ok, this is wild: an AI agent autonomously shames a developer because the latter didn't accept a pull request (we are talking matplotlib here)

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

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."

Bildbeschreibung Policy Brief Wirksam gegen RechtsauBen Eine systematische Analyse zivilgesellschaftlicher Strategien gegen die extreme Rechte Christin Janicke Hans Jonas Gunzelmann Teresa Volker Swen Hutter Zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen spielen in der Auseinandersetzung mit Rechts extremismus eine zentrale Rolle. Sie setzen auf eine Vielzahl von Strategien, die von unterschiedlichsten Organisationen genutzt werden - von Gewerkschaften iiber Sport- vereine und Kultureinrichtungen bis zu Feuerwehren und Naturschutzverbénden. Das Projekt ,Wirksam gegen RechtsauBen" hat diese Strategien auf Basis von 191 Praxis- Handreichungen und 56 wissenschaftlichen Studien analysiert und fiinf iibergeord- nete Typen identifiziert: 1. organisationale Strategien, 2. Netzwerkarbeit, 3. politische Bildung, 4. Proteste und 5. Offentlichkeitsarbeit. Doch wihrend das Praxiswissen um- fangreich ist, bleibt die wissenschaftliche Evidenz zur Wirkung der Strategien be- grenzt. Daher braucht es einen systematischen Wissenstransfer zwischen zivilgesell- schaftlichen Handlungsfeldern, eine praxisnahe Forschung, Kooperationen zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis sowie eine langfristige finanzielle und politische Unterstützung- zung für zivilgesellschaftliche Akteur*innen.

Das WZB-Projekt „Wirksam gegen Rechtsaußen" hat Strategien von zivilgesellschaftlichen Institutionen in der Auseinandersetzung mit #Rechtsextremismus untersucht und systematisiert. Den neuen Policy Brief dazu gibt es hier: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
@chjncke.bsky.social @tevoelker.bsky.social

Two new articles in Party Politics

With
@gessler.bsky.social

Measuring party positions and issue salience with mass media and manifesto data"
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

With Hanspeter Kriesi
"Restructuring party systems in Northwestern Europe"
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Feedback very welcome!

Can culture help to explain prejudice? We (@maxschaub.bsky.social) explore this question by examining the rise of antisemitism during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.

@wzb.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social @politikuhh.bsky.social @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

Why did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes?

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

@kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social

In just over eight months, Berlin will hold its 20th state election since 1946. While its well known East West divide in voting behaviour is often attributed to the city’s former split into capitalist and socialist halves, these differences existed even before the city’s division. A thread. 🧵

Publication Alert 🚨

Our paper on the effect of Symbolic Policies on Climate Policy Support has been published in the APSR! @apsrjournal.bsky.social Below is a summary of the results

Extremely grateful to have written this with the wonderful @malojan.bsky.social and @theodoretallent.bsky.social 🥳

The Logic of Connective Faction: How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics Across democratic systems, ideological cleavages increasingly emerge not only between but also within political parties. At the same time, hyperpartisan and digitally networked media ecosystems amp...

🚨NEW PAPER
The Logic of Connective Faction:
How Digitally Networked Elites and Hyper-Partisan Media Radicalize Politics
w/ @yunkangyang.bsky.social & @mikecowburn.bsky.social

Online radicalization doesn't just affect the public.
It also reshapes how elites & parties behave. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄

🔔 New paper on party brands with @swenhutter.bsky.social in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

We study the supply (how parties call themselves) and demand (what voters reward) sides. We pair a new European dataset of party names with conjoint experiments on voter reactions

OA 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Research associate – doctoral candidate (75%) (ID 377) The Manifesto Project analyses parties’ election manifestos in order to study parties’ policy preferences. To this end, the project conducts conte...

📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...

Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️

BITTE REPOSTEN! Wir brauchen Daten!
Im Rahmen eines meiner Seminare @powimz.bsky.social sollen die Studis eigene Erfahrungen mit der Datenerhebung sammeln. Dazu haben wir eine Umfrage zusammengestellt (ca. 10 Min.). Wir sind dankbar für jede*n Teilnehmer*in :)
survey.zdv.uni-mainz.de/index.php/34...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

Brand Transformation in #European #Politics: The Rise and Limits of #Nonclassical #Names

By @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Join us! Wir bieten eine volle Promotionsstelle für drei Jahre @powimz.bsky.social - Verlängerung um weitere drei Jahre möglich. Alle Details hier 👇

99-0.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & yet, here we are.

I’m excited to share that my first book came out this summer! The book looks at how EU state aid cases become politicised (and de-politicised) and what this means for the EU’s legitimacy. At its core, the book shows how competition policy is never just technical, but also deeply political.

we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure

www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

📚 Three volumes
⭐ 431 entries
🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world

A very short 🧵

Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen Offene Stellen

Two PhD Positions in Project about Protests in Africa
@sophiahunger.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD researchers in our project „Welfare States and Protest: Understanding the Contentious Outcomes of Social Policy in Africa". Application deadline is 14.1.26:
www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Once again in re: the utterly abject poverty of the “Democrats Must Not Talk Funny because they are Alienating Real Folkz” Discourse™️ that we have suffered through in the last year while the Republicans keep Doing A Fascism & calling people “vermin” & “morons” & "piggy" & this hateful nonsense.

I am thrilled to have welcomed Martin Schulz to my lecture on European integration! The students were very interested in discussing the current challenges and opportunities of the European Union with him.

By the way, it's my first time holding a Vorlesung as a Gastprofessor this semester at FU.

Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇