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Christian Rauh

@chrauh.bsky.social
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Amongst other things dad (P+J), political scientist (WZB Berlin & University of Potsdam), bike nerd (n+1), and music addict (Kick, Snare, Kick Kick, Snare). www.christian-rauh.eu

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
📄 New working paper w. Alex De Juan, @felixhaass.bsky.social & Henry Thomson: We study Weimar Germany in 1932 to ask whether far right electoral success pacifies extremist movements - or can fuel violence when mandates do not translate into power. osf.io/preprints/so...
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Jan Schwalbach @janschwalbach.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨New article in Nature Scientific Data: The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415... with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @sopro.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @miklossebok.bsky.social 1/6
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The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures
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Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Job Alert! We now have another position in computational social science. In the context of an interdisciplinary method center, we offer a 4+1 year 100% postdoc position with no teaching! If you have any questions, send me a PM. uol.de/en/job/postd...
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Postdoctoral Position in Digital Social Sciences and Humanities // University of Oldenburg
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Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
📢 Introducing the new Global Policy North Online Workshop Join us for a monthly online forum to share and discuss exciting new research throughout Semester 1. 📄 Details in the CfP. 💬 Questions? Get in touch. We’d love to see you there! Cc: @globalpolicy.bsky.social; @uofgsps.bsky.social
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Claudia Salowski @claudiasalowski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ich spendiere mal einen Geschenklink, verbunden mit dem Kommentar, dass mMn die Wissenschaft mitnichten ratlos wirkt, sondern die Politik sich eher konsequent beratungsresistent zeigt. 🤷‍♀️ www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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Wählerschaft der AfD: Das sind die drei AfD-Wählertypen
Warum ist die AfD so stark? Ein Blick in die neueste Forschung zeigt, wer sie wählt – und welche acht Strukturmerkmale den Unterschied machen.
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WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#Kompromiss und Repräsentation: Pola Lehmann hat in ihrem neuen Buch untersucht, wie Parteien Wähler*innenpräferenzen in den #Bundestag einbringen, aber auch wann und warum sie in diesem Prozess Kompromisse schließen müssen. @manifestoproj.bsky.social www.wzb.eu/de/news/repr...
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Repräsentation und Kompromiss
Streit und Kompromiss sind wichtig für eine Demokratie. Dazu gehört die Auseinandersetzung der Parteien über die künftige Gestaltung der Politik, über Inhalte und Lösungen für...
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Štěpán Jabůrek @stepanjaburek.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨New Data🚨 We just released the "Machine-translated ParlSpeech V2" on Harvard Dataverse! It contains 3.5M parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, NL, SE) translated into English using open-source models. w/ Adam Černý @chrauh.bsky.social @janschwalbach.bsky.social ⬇️
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Democratic ideal is under stress 😫 🪨 These authors 🧵 find out to what extent citizens support democratic rights and procedures in the face of major societal challenges, using a conjoint experiment on preference for pandemic policies buff.ly/U4Kykbw
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The democratic ideal under stress: Citizen commitment to democratic rights and procedures in challenging times | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
The democratic ideal under stress: Citizen commitment to democratic rights and procedures in challenging times
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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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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚? Our new (well…) study in @ejprjournal.bsky.social suggests that commitment to democratic rights and procedures does not look particularly robust once citizens face concrete crisis-related trade-offs. (1/6)
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
There are many images today of the far right mobilizing and marching, from Erfurt to DC. But today also marks the start of the Tour de France! Being a municipality located on the Tour de France route *reduces* the far-right vote share 🚴🏿🚴🏿🚴🏿 #tdf2026 #ef0407
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
What are people really doing with chatbots? 👀 Turns out that a lot of them are writing/reading various kinds of fiction, and in particular, they're generating a ton of erotica! What does this mean for the future of reading? Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.22748 Web Explorer: ai-fiction-wild.com
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Saw that coming ... sci-bot.ru
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Looong weekend 😎
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026
President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I'm baffled time and again - besides all the political and strategic doubts one can reasonably have, it is also just really bad software all around.
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Incredible what a sh**show MS365 really is ...
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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!
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Job Vacancies - Institute for Political Science
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 11/05/2026
Guy Buffet - The Making of the Perfect Martini
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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New paper out in Nature Human Behaviour. "Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources" with @seramirezruiz.bsky.social DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415... Ungated: rdcu.be/fh0Ss
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Government policy documents across 185 countries largely cite Global North sources - Nature Human Behaviour
This analysis of 1.2 million policy documents from 185 countries identifies global inequalities in whose knowledge is cited in policymaking. Governments in the Global South rely more on foreign source...
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A kind of #AesopRock monday morning ... (Oh, this is definitely checkers, I don't play chess ...)
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Arndt Leininger @aleininger.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
📢 We're hiring for my project RESPOL on residential mobility & electoral realignment 📍 University of Hamburg 📅 4y, 75% FTE 🔍 pol behavior, comp politics, regional inequalities 📊 quant, administrative & survey data Please share with talented MA students! 🔗 www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...
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Job advertisement
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Michal Ovádek @movadek.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I recently published my book on institutional contestation in the EU. Not only is the finished product free to access and read (academic.oup.com/book/61769), I am now also releasing all the data and code behind the book on Github: github.com/michalovadek...
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Contested Competences in the European Union: The Law and Politics of Institutional Choice
Abstract. What role do rules really play in shaping the behaviour of legislative actors? In theory, competences and procedures provide a framework within w
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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In the age of AI, there's a lot of talk about students not doing real work anymore. As a teacher, I catch myself focusing on the struggles rather than the wins. Time to fix that. A thread highlighting standout papers from my quantitative methods seminar last term @univie.ac.at. 🧵
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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Jetzt an der LMU: Master Computational Social Science (M.Sc.) Bewerbungen für die 2. Kohorte sind offen. Der interdisziplinäre Studiengang verbindet Kommunikationswissenschaft, Soziologie und Politikwissenschaft mit daten- und computergestützten Methoden. Info-Sprechstunde: 27. April.
LMU CSS Master
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Sara Mitchell @sbmitche.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 13/04/2026
Entlastung an der Tankstelle: Regierung schickt allen Pendlern einen Sanifair-Bon www.der-postillon.com/2026/04/sani...
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Entlastung an der Tankstelle: Regierung schickt allen Pendlern einen Sanifair-Bon
Berlin (dpo) - Endlich kommen die versprochenen Erleichterungen im Zuge der Spritpreiskrise bei den Bürgern an: Das Wirtschaftsministerium hat heute d
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Ansgar Wolsing @ansgarw.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
For a detailed explanation of why the two-thirds majority is so important, see: bsky.app/profile/juli...
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Governance Journal @govjournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
New Article: Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach From: @adrianabuneauib.bsky.social, @sergiulipcean.bsky.social, @chrauh.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Marko Bachl @bachl.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This is a very good paper and you should all read it. However, to this part, I want to reply with Arthur Spirling: "Open generative AI models are a way forward for science" (doi.org/10.1038/d415...). Seriously, please don't default to sending students and other researchers to closed models.
Screenshot from a table "TABLE 1. AI-powered text analysis workflow."

Highlighted: "Establish high-tier API access to three commercial LLMs: OpenAI's GPT-4o, Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro"
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Department of Comparative Politics UiB @sampol.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
📣 New article 🌟 👥 Adriana Bunea, Sergiu Lipcean & Christian Rauh 👉 Responsive to What? Explaining the Information Quality of Public Comments on Bureaucratic Policymaking Using a Text-as-Data Approach 📗 Open access in: Governance 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gove...
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Impressive paper. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Oscar Stuhler @oms279.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Now out in the American Sociological Review We present the first large-scale assessment of the structure and evolution of temporalities expressed in U.S. climate change news coverage (2000 to 2021). For this, we analyzed more than 23,000 statements about climate change effects and actions. 🧵 1/
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Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
📚 2 PhD positions in International Relations at @stockholm-uni.bsky.social! The positions are linked to my ERC-project about local change and public support for protectionism #academicsky #polisky Deadline April 10, 2026, apply here! 👇 su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... - su.varbi.com/what:job/job...
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PhD student in International Relations
The Department of Economic History and International Relations is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. Its International Re
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
When starting a new dataset/corpus, get an overview first ... 🇪🇺 #EuropeanCouncil meetings 1975-2025
A visual quantitative overview of European Council meetings 1975-2025 (meeting months, annual meeting frequency, lenght of EUCO conlsuions in words as well as key context events)
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Benjamin Lauderdale @benlauderdale.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Nick Vivyan, Chris Hanretty (@chanret.bsky.social) and I have a new book out: “Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice”. The core of the book is making the argument that citizens’ views about political issues neither reduce to an ideological orientation nor to a lack of substance. (1/10)
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Neat! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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-...
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Bootstrapping against the deadline 😬
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 11/02/2026
OPINION: As the current consensus goes, Europe has smothered itself in unnecessary regulation, and growth will return once red tape is cut. This agenda is bound to disappoint.
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Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis
The continent’s old growth model no longer works in today’s world. And EU leaders need a plan that matches the scale of this shift.
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Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
I was interviewed for a podcast! I talked with Wendo King'ang'i about (large) language models and opinion mining. It was recorded some time ago, so my affiliation is old, but the topic is still relevant, and I tried to make it as accessible as I could.
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Observing Opinions: What Are Language Models? by What is it about computational communication science?
In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Johannes Gruber from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam to unpack the world of language models. Johannes explains what language models really are and how they shape how ...
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Ronen Steinke @ronensteinke.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Geschichte wiederholt sich nicht, aber sie reimt sich.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
This map shows where ICE is conducting the most "at large" arrests. Notice a pattern?
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Eighty-one years ago today, over 7,000 prisoners of the German Nazi camp #Auschwitz, including some 700 children, were liberated by the soldiers of the Soviet Army. 1,689 days of murder, pain, suffering, and humiliation were over. Today, we all remember. We must keep remembering.
A historical black and white photo of young survivors in striped uniforms standing behind a barbed wire fence at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Black and white historical photo of liberated prisoners walking under the 'Arbeit Macht Frei' gate at Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
Black and white historical photo showing a large hall filled with discarded clothing, with a person visible in the background.
Historical black and white photograph of Auschwitz concentration camp after liberation showing dilapidated wooden barracks and victims' bodies on the ground.
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Ulrich Schneckener @uschneck.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
EU-Mercosur: Fatale Fehlentscheidung von acht deutschen Grünen im EP auf mehreren Ebenen - geopolitisch ebenso wie parteipolitisch (Schützenhilfe für linke EU-Gegner und rechte EU-Feinde). Trump und Putin sind erfreut.
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🤦‍♂️ www.politico.eu/article/eu-m...
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EU-Mercosur trade deal stalled as MEPs send it for judicial review
Opponents of the Latin American accord prevail, potentially delaying it for up to two years.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026
Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.
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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Sharing this sentiment tonight.
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