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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Do you want to understand whether investments in public services can make democracies more resilient? Come and do your PhD with @heikekluever.bsky.social and me! We offer great conditions, a supportive team, and lots of room to develop your own ideas. Any questions? Please, do reach out!

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026

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Annina Hermes @anninahermes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Do far-right parties gain support by embedding their members in sports clubs, cultural societies and volunteer fire brigades? I‘ll present my research on far-right infiltration of civil society at #SGEU2026 today. 🗓️ Wednesday, 4:00 - 5:30 pm 📍 Palazzo Pedagaggi, Aula Magna

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DYNAMICS_PhD @dynamics.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Research by day, networking by night! Great to see many of our PhD Researchers and Alumni presenting their work at the first Annual Conference of the European Political Science Society in Belfast. We are proud of the ideas they shared and the conversations that continued after the panels ended.

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Maurice Baudet von Gersdorff @m.baudetvg.net · 18/06/2026

So excited to be at the @epssnet.bsky.social Conference! Interested in the link between heat and everyday aggression, and what we can learn about it from one million amateur football matches? I'd love to see you there: 📅 19 June 🕥 9:00–10:40 📍 Meeting Room 2a (ICC) #EPSS2026

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Luca Schenk @lucaschenk.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

For those of you at #EPSS2026 this week curious about the connection of radical right normalization and anti-minority hate crime, join me at panel CP08: "Migration, Minorities, and Self‑Determination", where I am excited to present ongoing work on the topic! 🗓️ Fri, 06/19 ⏰ 1:30 pm 📍Lagan B (Hilton)

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Why is the Europe-wide strive for power by radical right parties not sparking more of a reaction by opposing voters? At #EPSS2026, I present what if hopefully only the beginning of a project on that question. Come around and tell me what you think 🤝 📅 Friday, 9:00-10:40 📍 Boardroom (Hilton)

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Annina Hermes @anninahermes.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Do far-right parties gain electoral support by embedding their members in sports clubs, cultural societies and volunteer fire brigades? Excited to present my research on far-right infiltration of civil society at #EPSS2026 tomorrow! 🗓️ Saturday, 3:20 - 5:00 pm 📍Broadway (Hilton)

From Sports Clubs to Ballot Boxes: Far Right Infiltration of Civil Society and Consequences for Political Behavior
Annina Hermes
June 2026
Abstract
Does the strategic infiltration of civil society associations strengthen far-right parties?
While existing research on far-right normalization emphasizes elite cues and electoral breakthroughs, less is known about how extremist actors gain influence through grassroots embedding in everyday social life. I argue that by entering and assuming leadership positions in non-political associations - sports clubs, cultural societies, church councils - far-right actors can strengthen their party through three channels: normalizing their ideology and lowering the perceived costs of supporting it, shifting attitudes through trusted personal contact, and mobilizing existing sympathy into participation and organizational capacity. I construct a
novel dataset linking AfD candidates and members to leadership positions in more than 480,000 civil society associations across Germany between 2013 and 2025, providing the first systematic measurement of far-right embeddedness in local civic life. Leveraging variation in the timing of leadership turnover within associations, I employ a staggered difference-in-differences design to estimate the effect of AfD infiltration of civil society organizations on electoral support for the AfD.
This study highlights a critical mechanism through which democratic societies become vulnerable to extremist influence: the everyday social spaces meant to strengthen civic life can become vehicles for undermining democratic norms and empowering anti-democratic
movements.

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Elias Koch @eliaskoch.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

On my way to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast. I'm very much looking forward to presenting two papers! Paper I on party strategies in contested liberal democracies: 13:30-15:10, 20 June, Lagan B (Hilton)

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Irene Rodríguez @irenerodriguez.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

📣My first solo paper is now published Open Access in @electoralstudies.bsky.social ! 🎉 Through a DiD, it studies what happens to expressed immigration concern after a radical right party achieves its first major institutional breakthrough 🧵 Read it here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Legitimising prejudice? The impact of radical right party presence on anti-immigration attitude expression

Are citizens hiding their true preferences? The entry of nativist and nationalist radical right parties can help normalise certain attitudes considere…

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Hanna Schwander @hannaschwander.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📣 The Politics Lecture Series is back with a fantastic line-up! Our opening talk by Aksel Sundström from the University of Gothenburg has the promising title "“Thirsting for New Leaders? Droughts and Demand for Women Politicians” Tue, 28 April 2026, 12–1 pm, Room 002 Everyone is welcomed!

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Cornelius Erfort @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Really excited to see my final dissertation paper out 🎉 Do parties shift their issue priorities when polls decline? Looking at press releases from 68 parties in 9 countries, we find little evidence that they do.

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Franziska Veit @franziskaveit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

New working paper! I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF doi.org/10.31235/osf... We usually think that social identities precede preferences We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

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Alba Huidobro @albahuidobro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉 📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.

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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

From context to congruence: Immigration salience and voter socialization

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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Happy that our paper with @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, and @lstoetze.bsky.social found a home at @thejop.bsky.social. You can read it here 👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us

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The Electoral Effects of State-Sponsored Anti-LGBTQ Measures | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

📣 New op-ed in Süddeutsche Zeitung: What the data say about the “Brandmauer” I summarize key findings from a study with @anninahermes.bsky.social across 57 democracies ➡️ Far-right parties don’t get weaker in government, they get stronger (~6 points by the next election) tinyurl.com/4j6jaud2

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Demokratie: Wenn die Rechte mitregiert, wird sie nicht geschwächt – im Gegenteil

Eine Untersuchung von 57 Ländern zeigt: Wenn die Rechte in Verantwortung kommt, gewinnt sie dazu. Daraus lässt sich für Deutschland lernen.

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Humboldt GovLab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

More and more young people are turning to the far right. Why and what can we do about it? Join our #COVIDEU Workshop on Nov 21 (2–5 PM) to discuss causes and counter-strategies. 🚀 Hosted by @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social 💡 Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de 👉 Register: tinyurl.com/bdenyfnw

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Isolde Hegemann @isoldehegemann.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I ran a simulated social media experiment with 1450 Republicans to test different fact-checking interventions. AI produced the largest decrease in engagement with Trump misinformation, outperforming independent fact-checkers and doing so far more consistently than Community Notes.

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Milan Thies @milanthies.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New 📝 out in @reggovjournal.bsky.social 1. Governments are taking a more active role in education and training 2. Linking technical issues to politically salient debates, such as climate change and digitalization, helps open the door to new public policies onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Humboldt GovLab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

🎉 Today at @humboldtuni.bsky.social the 1st Annual Workshop of the Humboldt Governance Lab! 🚀 Inspiring discussions on the challenges facing democracy & how to strengthen it. 🔗 More information on the GovLab: hu-govlab.de

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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

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Elias Koch @eliaskoch.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social! We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy. 🌐 hu-govlab.de Follow us for research, updates & collaborations. #GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch

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HUMBOLDT-GOV.LAB | aktuelle Spitzenforschung

Das Humboldt Governance Lab (Humboldt GovLab) ist ein Forschungslabor an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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Annina Hermes @anninahermes.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

It was so inspiring to participate in the CERIUM-FMSH summer school. The brilliant group of researchers, excellent guest speakers, thoughtful discussions and great atmosphere really made it special. Thanks so much for organizing this @rlachat.bsky.social and @rdassonneville.bsky.social!

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Romain Lachat @rlachat.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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!

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Romain Lachat @rlachat.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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

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Franziska Veit @franziskaveit.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Excited to present work on the impact of local unemployment in formative years on anti-immigration attitudes in adulthood tomorrow at #epsa2025 Saturday 11.20am-1pm Room 1A.08

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Can traditional campaign tools still mobilize young voters in the digital age? 📬 With @heikekluever.bsky.social, I present evidence from a field experiment ahead of the 2024 European elections targeting first-voters. Join us after sleeping in on Saturday 🙌 #epsa2025 ⏰: Sat, 11:20 📍: -1.A.06

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Cornelius Erfort @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸 @epsanet.bsky.social‬ A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Who ideologically collaborates with the occupier under military occupation? 🪖 At #epsa2025 I'll be presenting joint work w/ Salma Mahamed on how the German occupation in WW2 impacted membership in the Danish Nazi party, using now digitized individual-level membership data ⏰: Friday, 13:10 📍: 0A.05

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Annina Hermes @anninahermes.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Very excited to present my paper with @heikekluever.bsky.social on the consequences of far-right parties in government at #EPSA2025 on Friday! 🗓️ Friday 4:50-6:30 📍 Room 0A.06 | Panel P10-S253

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