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...
Can published findings be reproduced from the same data + same analysis? As part of SCORE, Miske and 127 co-authors tested this across social and behavioral science papers from 2009–2018.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
OA: osf.io/preprints/me...
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Initiative pour limiter la population suisse à 10 millions - © Chappatte dans Le Temps, Genève 👉chappatte.com
Great conference to launch an excellent new book on French Democracy in Distress. @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social @vtiberj.bsky.social @caterinafr.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social
BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of Voting Advice Applications (VAAs) on electoral outcomes and voter behavior in the European Parliament elections in Germany, Italy, and France. The text mentions a novel regression discontinuity design and statistical analysis of VAA usage and voter alignment.
NEW -
Quality Not Quantity: How a VAA Affected Voting Behavior in Three Large-Scale Field Experiments - https://cup.org/491pwNQ
- @fresejoris.bsky.social, @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
🇪🇺🇩🇪 Published Today in @bjpols.bsky.social 🇮🇹🇫🇷
How a voting advice application affected voting behavior in three large-scale field experiments:
shorturl.at/2ekBj
TLDR of our study (with @simonhix.bsky.social & @rlachat.bsky.social) below 👇 1/14
📣 AUTHLIB Final Conference
🗺️ Mapping the Illiberal Challenge: Patterns, Drivers, Consequences
📅 Jan 8–9, 2026
📍 @weareceu.bsky.social, Budapest
Two days on illiberalism, democracy & democratic responses.
👉 Register today to secure your spot: www.authlib.eu/authlib-fina...
Where is the French democracy going?
Very proud of this new collective book
It adresses citizens, parties, institutions, social movements etc... and gathers a brilliant team of scholars
Thanks to @fondationmsh.bsky.social and @cerium-udem.bsky.social for making this possible, to our guest speakers: @vinarceneaux.bsky.social @florianfoos.bsky.social @sldelange.bsky.social @simonchauchard.bsky.social @jrovny.bsky.social, and to @rdassonneville.bsky.social for the co-organization
@bogatyrev.bsky.social @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social @ludwigschulze.bsky.social @mzuquete.bsky.social @ojrj.bsky.social @pablogg.es @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social @yaseminsivri.bsky.social
The CERIUM-FMSH summer school comes to an end. Thanks to this fantastic group of promising young scholars: @annasawallisch.bsky.social @anninahermes.bsky.social @francescayton.bsky.social @gaetanoinglese.bsky.social @galron3.bsky.social @ginaaniano.bsky.social Isolde Hegemann
Last day of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school. Today with @jrovny.bsky.social on democracy and illiberalism. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social
Day 4 of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school, with @simonchauchard.bsky.social on Misinformation, Rumors and Hate Speech. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social
It was great talking about recent developments in campaign and (social) media influence at the CERIUM-FMSH summer school - and even better to learn about so many promising PhD projects on these topics. Thanks for having me in sunny Paris @rlachat.bsky.social & @rdassonneville.bsky.social!
We welcome today @sldelange.bsky.social at the CERIUM-FMSH summer school, to talk about far-right and populist parties. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social
For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !
On the second day of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school, @florianfoos.bsky.social discussed about political campaigns and their effects. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social
Day 1 of the CERIUM-FMSH summer school. @vinarceneaux.bsky.social presents research on the effects of social media on public opinion. @rdassonneville.bsky.social @fondationmsh.bsky.social @cerium-udem.bsky.social
Looking forward to welcome the participants of the 2025 CERIUM-FMSH summer school, on Challenges to Electoral Democracy. With @rdassonneville.bsky.social , @fondationmsh.bsky.social, @cerium-udem.bsky.social
I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!
Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!
"We are living through a revolutionary change, a broad shift away from the transparency and accountability mandated by most modern democracies, and toward the opaque habits and corrupt practices of the autocratic world"
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
“even if [Europeans] cannot stop the attacks on US academia, different groups can help US-based academics in other ways.”
My new op-Ed in @theguardian.com
Published Today in PSRM:
Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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L’Europe veut réarmer - © Chappatte dans Le Temps, Genève 👉 www.chappatte.com/fr/images/le...
Zelensky in the crossfire - © Chappatte in NZZ am Sonntag, Zürich 👉 www.chappatte.com/en/images/ze...
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À la une du journal @lemonde.fr aujourd’hui, un dessin par @chappatte.bsky.social (Suisse) : www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
If you understand German: I tried to make the case I am outlining in the thread below on German television.
The Trumpists really mean it. Just as on the domestic level, they are going for regime change - for a fundamentally different world order: