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Armin Schaefer

@arminschaefer.bsky.social
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Professor for Comparative Politics @uni_mainz | Democracy | Political Participation | Inequality | Responsiveness & Populism

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Hilma Lindskog @hilmal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Do educational networks at workplaces shape political attitudes? 👬 Happy to share that the latest paper in my dissertation is now published in @bjpols.bsky.social.
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Having a job in a workplace with a considerable proportion of university-educated coworkers is associated with an increase in culturally liberal attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes - Volume 56
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Manès Weisskircher @manesweisskircher.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🆕 Our article "Varieties of left-wing authoritarianism?" shows how #BSW branches differ on key issues, what party and voters (don't) share, and what this reveals about an emerging ideology (with E. Linhart, @drphilphil.bsky.social, @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Varieties of left-wing authoritarianism? The local foundations and intra-party heterogeneity of the German challenger party BSW - Eric Linhart, Jan Philipp Thomeczek, Manès Weisskircher, Benjamin Höhn...
Research has emphasized both the existence of left-wing authoritarian attitudes among the European electorate and a lack of political supply. In Germany, this d...
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Noam Lupu @noamlupu.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Of the 919 candidates running as major-party nominees for the US House and Senate this November, only seven had a working-class job when they got into politics. That’s less than 1%, despite working-class jobs making up about half of the US labor force.” @carnes.bsky.social and I explain why.
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Why Working-Class Candidates Are Almost Never on the Ballot
Less than 1% of major-party candidates competing for a seat in the US Congress have a background in manual trades or service industries.
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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy to share our new article on academic freedom. @paulita.bsky.social, Christiane Thompson and Gregor Fabian examine how academic rank shapes experiences, expectations and perceptions of restrictions on academic freedom, based on a survey of 9.083 academics in Germany. doi.org/10.1111/1468...
Screenshot showing abstract: This article investigates the relationship between academic career ranks and restrictions on academic freedom. Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full-time academics at German higher education institutions, we examine how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research. Although precarious employment conditions and professional hierarchies may suggest otherwise, our findings show that doctoral candidates and postdocs on fixed-term contracts do not report experiencing restrictions on their academic freedom significantly more often compared to tenured professors. However, distinguishing between experienced restrictions, on the one hand, and expectations of restrictions as well as broader perceptions of academic freedom on the other, we find that non-tenured academics report more often to expect or perceive their academic freedom to be restricted compared to professors. We explain these rank-based differences with a chilling effect generated by a polemical and polarized discourse on ‘cancel culture.’ Academics on fixed-term contracts are more likely to be receptive to often polemical debates on ‘cancel culture’ and for the concerns that come with it. This suggests that structural employment insecurity plays a key role in shaping how academics assess their academic freedom. Our results challenge simplified accounts of ‘cancel culture’ by showing that discourse and institutional hierarchies intersect to produce differentiated vulnerabilities within academia. Although based in Germany, the findings speak to broader international concerns about restrictions on academic freedom and precarious academic labour.
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Very cool paper! 👇
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2
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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We chair an open panel on "New Cleavage Identities" at the DVPW Convention 2027. Questions: Which identities are emerging as new cleavage identities? How do they form and stabilize? How do elites construct and mobilize them? How do they affect vote choice? CfP: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2027/en/...
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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The German Local Manifesto Project (GLMP) is now online! 🇩🇪 GLMP provides a systematically documented & reproducible corpus of local manifestos & related political programmes from municipalities across Germany. Browse & download the data: localmanifestoproject.de @christinajuen.bsky.social
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German Local Manifesto Project
Besuche den Beitrag für mehr Info.
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
After Saxony-Anhalt, next Sunday's regional vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania could be even more devastating for the Christian Democrats. If current trends continue, the SPD may end up in first place, ahead of the AfD. The Greens and BSW are struggling to clear the electoral threshold, but...
The graph shows how the various parties have been polling in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since the last regional election. While the SPD has seen a surge in the polls over the last month, the CDU has been steadily losing support.
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Another great article from our SI on the 2025 GER election is out! Roßteutscher et al. find that “young men on lower tracks are the most likely to support the right-wing populist AfD, and that the political climate in their educational contexts amplifies this association.” doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
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Simone Leiber @sleiber.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
and one more in English 😄 (similar title, but with a different focus, emphasizing the role of social workers in advancing structural policy change): doi.org/10.1080/1369... [both articles—this one and the one from my previous post—are open access]
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Social work and the (in)accessibility of the welfare state: welfare mediation between street-level bureaucracy, clients’ everyday life, and policy-making
Social rights are not equally accessible to all. This article presents findings from a research project in Germany which aimed to analyse how and to what extent German social work actors represent ...
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In diesem in der @pvs-journal.bsky.social veröffentlichten Aufsatz verorte ich Manows Buch "Spaltungslinien" in der Debatte zum Postliberalismus. Der zentralen Annahme, dass rechtspopulistische Parteien heute wirtschafts- und sozialpolitisch links stünden, widerspreche ich. rdcu.be/swtwc7WqF9ta
Titelblatt zum in der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift erschienenen Aufsatz "Ist rechts das neue links? Die postliberale Erklärung des Populismus". Der Aufsatz ist öffentlich zugänglich.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls, with the AfD falling just short of a majority. Here are some takeaways based on the preliminary results across all 218 municipalities and local socioeconomic characteristics. A thread 🧵(1 /n) Full analysis + write-up: juliuskoelzer.de/saxony-anhal...
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Interesting first insights of an ongoing survey 👇
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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Women remain underrepresented in politics. In POQ, Gothreau & Laustsen report the results from the most comprehensive and geographically diverse test of citizens’ preferences for women candidates to date. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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PoWiMZ @powimz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
ℹ️ Mehr Informationen unter: internationale.politik.uni-mainz.de/internationa... Jetzt noch bis Ende August bewerben!
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Arndt Leininger @aleininger.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
 📢 A new resource for referendum research is now online! We're excited to launch RefSurv – an infrastructure for facilitating comparative research on referendum voting. 🔎📊 Explore it here: referendumsurveys.org 1/
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Welcome to RefSurv! - RefSurv
This website presents RefSurv - an infrastructure for facilitating comparative research on voting in referendums. RefSurv is short for referendum surveys and made for scholars who want to research re…
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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Working-class people almost never go on to become politicians, and that's not a fluke or a recent development: it's a ***built-in feature of elections*** in all democracies (w/ @noamlupu.bsky.social) theconversation.com/why-working-...
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Why working-class people account for around 1% of lawmakers in the US – and only 2% in the average democracy around the world
Campaigning anywhere for any office at any level of government is personally burdensome.
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Julia Reuschenbach @juliareuschenbach.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Ich bin über das Cover @spiegel.de aus der letzten Woche verzweifelt. Und vor allem über die zugehörige Erklärung von Chefredakteur Dirk Kurbjuweit. Freue mich sehr, dass meine Kritik nun im neuen SPIEGEL (online + Print) veröffentlicht wird 👉🏼 www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 18/08/2026
If you want to read something extremely bleak yet insightful this morning: www.newstatesman.com/cover-story/...
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A dream of Cambridge
The university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Our paper on citizens' expectations for and evaluations of democratic representation is now out in Representation! Great pleasure working with David Talukder on this paper! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Expectation Gap: Citizens’ Expectations for and Evaluations of Democratic Representation
Concerns about a potential erosion of political support in established democracies have motivated scholars to study the failure of democratic institutions in realising democratic representation. Ye...
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Taktisches Wählen soll eine Regierung der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt verhindern. Für @zeit.de schreibe ich, warum die Strategie der politischen Mitte in Ostdeutschland kurzfristig helfen mag, aber langfristig nicht ihre strukturellen Probleme löst – und mache einen Vorschlag. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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Landtagswahlen: Der Preis des taktischen Wählens
Je mehr Parteien es über die Fünf-Prozent-Hürde schaffen, desto geringer sind die Chancen der AfD auf eine Mehrheit. Über die Chancen und Schwächen der Strategie
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 10/08/2026
Learned a lot talking to Peter Enns for my podcast’s latest deep dive intvw about his new paper "How a Seemingly Innocuous and Intuitive Methodological Choice Confused a Generation of Research on Policy Responsiveness." Some rare good news for democracy? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/deep-dive-...
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Deep Dive episode: What if democracy is actually more responsive to public opinion than we think?
I sit down with Peter Enns, a political scientist at Cornell University, whose new research offers an optimistic view of democracy and representation
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We are hiring a postdoc in Comparative Politics at JGU Mainz! Join our friendly and productive team, led by Armin Schäfer (@arminschaefer.bsky.social). • Full-time position • Five-year contract (!) • Start: from 1 October Apply by 22 August: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/56328 Please share!
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 29/07/2026
Are you looking for a good home for your research on the dynamics of #farright mobilisation and its implications for democracy? Look no further than this call 📣 We're particularly interested in innovative theoretical and empirical studies that critically engage with the radical–extreme distinction
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Far-right mobilisation and democratic transformation
This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection examines the contemporary dynamics of far-right mobilisation and its implications for democracy. ...
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This is awful. I hope England wins.
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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.
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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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Twan Huijsmans @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Europe’s growing urban-rural divide in voting along the transnational cleavage is not merely a reflection of underlying educational differences, as @theresakuhn.bsky.social, @bramlancee.bsky.social and I show in this new study in @ejprjournal.bsky.social. A short thread 🔽
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Andres Meza @nbody6.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy to see my work with @ivobantel.bsky.social and @lucasleemann.bsky.social published in Party Politics. We look at how affective polarization shapes voters' preferences for technocratic and populist governance in Germany showing that it largely depends on partisanship 1/4
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
NEW PUBLICATION!🚨 The 2023 Swiss federal elections were the first ever held under mandatory campaign finance disclosure rules. So how does an open-list PR influence campaign spending? Greater voters' ability to cast preference votes = more money spent onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 25/06/2026
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - ‘Left behind’ and an undemocratic mind? The link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations - cup.org/3Svhicc - @vanessaschwaiger.bsky.social #FirstView
Logo for the European Journal of Political Research displaying the text "EJPR European Journal of Political Research" in cream letters on a blue background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess".
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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Arrived in Bamberg yesterday for a very special event: a workshop celebrating Thomas Saalfeld and his achievements. Safe to say that without Thomas, I would never have done a PhD. Thank you! If you'd like to read the Festschrift in his honor: www.routledge.com/Democracy-at...
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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This spring, I had the honor of giving the 2026 @ecpr.bsky.social Stein Rokkan Lecture. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii5V... Based on joint work with @dpzollinger.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, I argued that the lens of cleavage politics is most useful to study democratic resilience.
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House Series: Cleavage Politics and Democratic Resilience
YouTube video by ECPRDigital
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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New paper, with Patrick Fournier & @zeynsom.bsky.social, out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... a brief 🧵
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Do Citizens Perceive an empty Left-Authoritarian Quadrant? Citizen Perceptions of Parties’ Positions in a Multi-Dimensional Space - Ruth Dassonneville, Patrick Fournier, Zeynep Somer-Topcu, 2026
Given that there are few parties in the left-authoritarian quadrant of a two-dimensional ideological space, citizens that combine economically left and sociocul...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 09/06/2026
🚨 🚨 🚨 new publication (with @antonialang.bsky.social) klaxon!!! Over the past decade, scholars have increasingly turned to “place” as a key factor in political behaviour — particularly on the far right, in Europe & the US. Urban-rural divides are especially intriguing. But are they true cleavages? 🤔
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West European Politics @wepsocial.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
📈 Does economic inequality feed on itself? Marius Busemeyer takes stock of 25 years of political economy research and argues inequality has become self-reinforcing: rising gaps depress turnout and blunt redistribution, which lets them widen further. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
First page of the article “The comparative political economy of inequality: the maturation of an emerging field” by Marius R. Busemeyer, published online first in West European Politics. The page shows the title, the author’s affiliation at the University of Konstanz, and the abstract.
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pw-portal @pw-portal.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Die Rechtspopulisten von heute sind ökonomisch links, schreibt Philip Manow & sieht in der Öffnung des Nationalstaats den zentralen Konflikt der Gegenwart. Unser Rezensent Floris Biskamp (@theflorislava.bsky.social) kann Manows Suche nach der "politikwissenschaftlichen Weltformel" wenig abgewinnen.
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Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Philip Manow: Spaltungslinien. Europas Parteiensysteme und die Dekonsolidierung des Nationalstaats
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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Which immigrants do citizens prefer? A meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments
Meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments reveals patterns of similarity and variation in public immigration preferences worldwide.
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Claudia Landwehr @clandwehr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I had a great time presenting my book project with @arminschaefer.bsky.social today @lsepoltheory.bsky.social Thank you @kspiekermann.bsky.social for the invitation and to everyone attending for excellent comments!
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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members? Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP: academic.oup.com/book/62754
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Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right
Abstract. This book investigates women’s involvement as members of populist radical right (PRR) parties. The latter have long been characterised as ‘men’s
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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wanna talk about the cordon sanitaire (the "Brandmauer"?) 🚨We (@christinajuen.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I) have a new paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010... What do we do in the paper? A 🧵: 1/7
Abstract of the article "The Cordon Dilemma: How Voters Evaluate Cooperation With the Far-Right in Parliament" by Martin Gross, Christina-Marie Juen and Christian Stecker. Published online first in Comparative Political Studies.
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Seid einfach besser gelaunt, ihr Verzagten. Dann wird es auch wieder. Soziologische Analyse am Limit. SZ, 15.5.2026, S. 9.
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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Did German left parties abandon economic equality in favor of equal rights, as the diagnosis of the "Lifestyle-Left" suggests? Analyzing party programs since 1970, we caution against sweeping claims in Unequal German Democracy (open access). 3 key qualifications👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We very much enjoyed hosting the “AK Wahlen & politische Einstellungen” conference of @dvpw.bsky.social at JGU Mainz in 2026! Thank you for your excellent presentations and for contributing to such a nice atmosphere. In 2027, we will meet in Duisburg on 13–14 May. We hope to see many of you there!
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DVPW @dvpw.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
75 Jahre DVPW – 75 Jahre #Politikwissenschaft in Deutschland Heute Abend wird gefeiert! In Lüneburg mit und an der @leuphana.bsky.social diskutieren ehemalige und amtierende Vorstände zu Stand und Perspektiven unseres Fachs. #DVPW75 #75JahreDVPW #PoWi
Foto von einer kleinen, brennenden Kerze in Kuchenform mit dem Schriftzug "Happy Birthday". Unten rechts das Logo der DVPW in Dunkelgrau. Text in Dunkelgrau und Weiß: Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft #75JahreDVPW #DVPW75.
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Claudia Landwehr @clandwehr.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Just arrived in sunny London 🌤️ I look forward to spending May at @conunitucl.bsky.social, working on the new book I'm writing with @arminschaefer.bsky.social Let me know if you're around and want to get coffee or chat about democratic theory - or both!
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Jessica Kuhlmann @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New paper out with @antonialang.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social 📣 Why is support for the Alternative for Germany often high in low-diversity rural areas, while ethnically diverse cities show mixed patterns? Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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