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Anna Kurella

@annakurella.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover. Research on party competition, voting behavior and representation.

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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July
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Claudia Landwehr @clandwehr.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Join us in Hannover, Oct 1-2, for the annual meeting of the @dvpw.bsky.social Analytical Political Theory Group! Call for papers: www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us...
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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Happy that our article is now available online at JEPOP! Using German data, @salvabarbaro.bsky.social, Maike Roth and me illustrate how voter preferences are translated into electoral outcomes, challenging common narratives about declining support for social democrats and rising right-wing support.
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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky
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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
New article , together with Salvatore Barbaro, in Public Choice: On the prevalence of Condorcet's Paradox. Analyzing 253 national elections, we show that Condorcet Paradoxes virtually never occur. This raises an important question: who is the Condorcet winner? link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Happy to share that the German Research Foundation DFG funds my new project: “Countering Polarization: The Borda count as a basis for proportional representation”. I am recruiting 2 PhD candidates to join me in Hannover as of March 2026 or later! Feel free to reach out!
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Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🚨 CfP: SekMethoden 2026 🗓️ March 12-13, 2026 🗺️ Hannover, Germany ⏰ DL Dec 07, 2025 👉 Apply here: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/sekmethoden2... 👥 @gessler.bsky.social, @lukrudolph.bsky.social, @donyhu.bsky.social, Jona Baumert, Morten Harmening and I look forward to your submissions!
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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social! Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan: 🧵⬇️
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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences
PDF | Large Language Models (LLMs) bring both risk and opportunity to scholarly communication, yet their effects on expert‐level research remain... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right
Political ideology is a fundamental aspect of politics and a well-researched area of political science, but difficult to measure. By examining the sentiment of political elites’ associations with ‘...
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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social! German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf Please share
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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Exciting news: as I’ve started a new chapter as an assistant professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover, my postdoc position at MZES is now open! It’s a fantastic opportunity for recent PhDs: wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure, and plenty of time to develop your own ideas.
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Fellowship for a Social Scientist at the MZES | Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung
The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) of the University of Mannheim offers
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Claudia Landwehr @clandwehr.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Call for papers! The annual meeting of the @dvpw.bsky.social working group on Analytical Political Theory will take place on Oct 9-10, 2025 in Mainz. This year, we are particularly interested in papers on democratic process preferences! theorie.politik.uni-mainz.de/files/2025/0...
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
@arminschaefer.bsky.social & @nilssteiner.bsky.social: 👉Educational gaps have widened across cohorts 👉Concerning the greens, especially among women 👉Cleavage crystallizes with generational replacement doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" #PoliSky #AcademicSky
Abstract of the paper "How education, generation and gender jointly structure green and radical right voting" by Armin Schäfer and Nils D. Steiner. Published online first in West European Politics.Figure 1, displaying the voting for a green party by cohort and education.Figure 2, displaying predicted probabilities and marginal effects of voting for a green party.
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
@annakurella.bsky.social & @milenarapp.bsky.social show that public opinion on new cultural policy issues is not strongly aligned with preferences on traditional economic & moral policies. doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of forthc. SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"
Abstract of the article "Unfolding GAL-TAN: the multi-dimensional nature of public opinion in Western Europe" by Anna-Sophie Kurella and Milena Rapp. Published online first in West European Politics.Figure 1, displaying the average structuring strength of latent conflicts across regions (north, central west, south).
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This has been true for the entire existence of the AfD, but it is worth emphasizing again and again: Among German voters, the AfD is the most unpopular party.
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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Ich habe mit ntv über die Positionen der Parteien im aktuellen Wahlkampf gesprochen – von der Rolle von Wirtschaft, Immigration und Klimapolitik bis zum GAL-TAN-Cleavage. Und zum Schluss gab es noch einen Exkurs zum Chaos-Theorem! www.n-tv.de/politik/Grue...
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"Grüne und AfD sind die neuen Pol-Parteien"
Selbst im Wahlkampf ist es nicht immer leicht, die Unterschiede zwischen den Parteien zu erkennen. Doch es gibt sie. Vor allem bei Themen wie Migration und Klima nimmt die Polarisierung zu, sagt die P...
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Christian Stecker @pluggedchris.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
131 Politikwissenschaftler haben im Open Expert Survey 2025 die Positionen der Parteien zu wichtigen Themen eingeschätzt. Im Vergleich zum OES21 ist vor allem die Wichtigkeit von Migrationspolitik gestiegen. Einen ausführlicheren Blick & die Pre-Release-Daten gibt es hier: oes25.de/OES25prerele...
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Dr. Sarah Wagner @sarahwagner.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Why would the CDU accommodate AfD policies, despite a plethora of research telling them not to? My brilliant friend @philswatton.bsky.social wrote a fantastic, easy to understand piece on measurement: dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com/p/measuremen...
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Measurement Makes Communicating Political Science Hard
Imagine you are a political practitioner for a social democratic party.
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Dr. Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Zur Bundestagswahl 2025 habe ich mit @pluggedchris.bsky.social, @annakurella.bsky.social und @jocmuel.bsky.social das Tool #PartyCheck auf Basis der OES 2025 Parteipositionen entwickelt. Nach 15 Fragen bekommt ihr einen Match. Schaut doch mal rein! party-check.org
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Party-Check
Wie stark stimmen Sie mit den Parteien vor der Bundestagswahl überein? Finden Sie es mit Party-Check heraus!
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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New Article, open access! doi.org/10.1177/0951...
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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍 🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations 📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p... Thanks for sharing! 🤝
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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Super happy to finally find this paper with @milenarapp.bsky.social on @thejop.bsky.social website! We analyze under what conditions far right parties benefit electorally from increasing importance of immigration issues/ green parties benefit from increasing importance of environmental issues.
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The role of issue salience and competitive advantages in spatial models of political competition | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
🚨 CfA: MZES-DVPW Conference "Methods of Political Science" 🗓️ Mannheim, Mar 27-28, 2025 ⏰ Deadline: Dec 16, 2024 🔗Apply via sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me... @gessler.bsky.social, @aleininger.bsky.social, @hannahrajski.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann & I look forward to your submissions!
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Milena Rapp @milenarapp.bsky.social · 02/07/2024
Very happy to see my first solo-authored paper published! I show that pro-European voters are increasingly considering European issues in their voting decisions. However, they still do so to a much lesser extent than Eurosceptic voters. Open access available: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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How Important is European Integration for Pro-European Voters in Times of Politicization? - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
The increasing success of Eurosceptic parties and multiple European crises have fostered the politicization of European integration. However, we know little about how pro-European voters behave in thi...
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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
New paper, together with @milenarapp.bsky.social : We discuss how voter preference data can be combined with party position estimates from expert surveys or manifesto data, and provide a rescaling technique to improve the fit. Hope this is useful for many!  www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting...
Researchers interested in policy voting and substantive representation face the challenge to combine party positions with voter preference data on a c…
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Sabine Carey @sabinecarey.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Most positions for postdocs on European social research at the MZES!! 👉 Check out our 3-6yr fellowship on European societies + integration tinyurl.com/ycd6wxn7 and our 2yr fellowships tinyurl.com/2vaxwmht. 📅 Deadline for both 22 Dec 2023 polisky #sociology #socialpsyc
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