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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A major milestone for #DemocracyResearch. 🏛️ MEDem has been included in the ESFRI Roadmap, recognizing its role in advancing the empirical study of Democracy in Europe. 🇪🇺 Thank you to everyone who helped bring us to this point! 🙏 #ResearchInfrastructure⚙️

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Holzleitner, Schütze: Austria set to become a centre for European democracy research

European research infrastructure MEDem included in the ESFRI Roadmap 2026 – headquarters at the University of Vienna

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Do authoritarians, populists and radicals view democracy differently? @dielea.bsky.social examines 14k Western Europeans, showing authoritarianism, not populism or radicalism, poses the greatest challenge to liberal democracy. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/bs7LLul @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky

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Support for (liberal) democracy among authoritarian, populist, and radical Western Europeans - Lea Kaftan, 2026

Authoritarianism, populism, and radicalism are considered important risks to citizens’ support for democratic institutions. Most studies have so far analyzed va...

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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

About one week left to submit proposals for our #AKWahlen conference in Mainz. No fee, open topic, nice people & city! More here: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a... Cc: @sgarritzmann.bsky.social @conradziller.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

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DVPW @dvpw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

‼️ Mit Blick auf die erwartete Programmentscheidung der @epssnet.bsky.social hat der Programmbeirat die Anmeldefrist für Chairs, Discussants & Vortragende bis zum 8. Februar 2026 verlängert! 👉 meine.dvpw.de #3LT #Dreiländertagung #DACH #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #Europa #Zukunft #Bodensee

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 29/01/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Voices of the party base: How supporters want established parties to respond to new parties - cup.org/4q1M0ET - Dominik Duell, @dielea.bsky.social, @sopro.bsky.social, Jonathan B. Slapin & @chriswratil.bsky.social #FirstView

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DataCite @datacite.org · 19/01/2026

How can you link and track research outputs & activities to save time and elevate impact? ORCID iDs and DataCite DOIs work together to make this possible! Find out how on 10 February at our webinar in honor of Love Data Week. datacite.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @orcid.org #LoveData26

Promotional graphic for International Love Data Week featuring the event title "Elevating your Research’s Impact and Visibility with ORCID and DataCite." The event is scheduled for February 10, 2026, with time zones listed. Includes a QR code and the logos of ORCID, SPARC, and DataCite.

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Jan Böhmermann 🤨 @janboehm.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

"Wenn man die Lage Polens auf dem Globus anschaut, sind die vom Deutschen Reich gestellten Fragen übrigens nachvollziehbar." Was für ein wahnsinnig gefährlicher Trottel!

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥 @jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites! It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov. You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

*Computational Text Analysis with R* by @dielea.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social 🗓️ 13 – 15 April 2026 🏢 Online 🌐 t1p.de/TextAnalysisR

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Last day 📢📢📢

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PRÜF @pruef-demos.de · 03/01/2026

Die nächsten PRÜF-Demos sind am 10.01. in Hamburg, München und Düsseldorf, jeweils um 14 Uhr! Mehr Infos gibts bei @pruef-hh.bsky.social @pruef-by.bsky.social und @pruef-nrw.bsky.social #pruef

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PRÜF Hamburg @pruef-hh.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Save the date schonmal vor den Feiertagen: Am 10.01. gehen wir wieder gemeinsam auf die Straße! 📅 10.01.2026 (Samstag) ⏰ 14 Uhr 📍 Hamburger Innenstadt (genauer Ort folgt) #pruef

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Pedro Magalhães @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Long ago, in a study of the democratic attitudes in Germany, Dalton raised the possibility of “Fragebogendemokraten” (questionnaire democrats): people who hesitate to express their sincere dislike for “democracy” in surveys, providing instead the “socially desirable” response (1)

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

📄 🚨 New Research on Polarization, Fragmentation, and Democracy in @democratization.bsky.social Nils-Christian Bormann and I explore the impact of ideological polarization and fragmentation on the democratic systems of interwar Europe: lnkd.in/erjJr9qF #polarization #democracy #data #history (1/4)

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life. As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked:  “How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?” My answer: skillpower 🧵

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We finally published the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA)! 🗳️💽🤓 Find out more about party positions, cabinet formation, and parliamentary elections in 25 European democracies between 1919 and 1939! We also collected geo-referenced data for 6 countries! 🗺️📍 rdcu.be/ehRgD

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Introducing the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data & Assemblies (AIEEDA)

Scientific Data - Introducing the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data & Assemblies (AIEEDA)

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

🎉 Big step for #MEDem! We’ve officially applied for the #ESFRIroadmap2026— backed by 15 governments, 1,000+ researchers & 100+ institutions/associations. One more milestone toward building Europe’s infrastructure for comparative #DemocracyResearch ✅ Read more on our #MEDemBlog 👉

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MEDem has applied for ESFRI Roadmap 2026: Shaping the Future of European Democracy Research - Monitoring Electoral Democracy

MEDem has applied for inclusion on the ESFRI Roadmap 2026: Shaping the Future of European Democracy Research On April 8, 2025, MEDem (Monitoring Electoral Democracy) took a major next step toward shap...

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David Mair @davidmair4.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Do you care about democracy in the EU? @ec.europa.eu wants to hear your views on disinformation, information manipulation, elections, free media, civil society, societal resilience, citizen participation and engagement. Researchers - share your evidence! Deadline 26 May ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

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European Commission - Have your say

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Übermedien @uebermedien.de · 31/03/2025

Leben auf Okinawa in Japan so viele Hundertjährige wie nirgends sonst auf der Welt? Nö. Medien behaupten das trotzdem immer wieder. Jetzt ohne Paywall lesen: uebermedien.de/103765/japan...

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Japan: Das Märchen von den vielen Hundertjährigen

Viele Medien berichten immer wieder, dass auf Okinawa in Japan so viele Hundertjährige leben sollen wie nirgends. Doch das stimmt nicht.

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Quick reminder: Join us on August 1, 2025 for a short online conference discussing your research ideas! 😎

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

📣 Last Chance to join! #GESISworkshops

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Earlier this month, Paul Bederke had the opportunity to attend the 1st OSCARS Annual Meeting in Rome (March 3–4, 2025), where he represented our HarDIS project – Harmony in the Democratic Ideological Space. oscars-project.eu/projects/har...

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HarDIS - Harmony in the Democratic Ideological Space | OSCARS

In today’s democracies, the relationship between political parties and voters plays a critical role in shaping political outcomes. However, research on this interaction, including party responsiveness...

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

In about a month, we submit our application for the ESFRI Roadmap 🇪🇺 Help us reach 1,000 researchers by showing your support here: forms.gle/dm8K4xFgXD9b... ⚙️ Regardless, we’re sure you’ll find MEDem’s tools & services useful once they’re live. We’re already working on first prototypes this year! 🏗️📊

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Basierend auf einer Vielzahl von Datenquellen zeigen wir in unserem Research Brief eine Sache: Verluste an die radikale Rechte sind nur marginal relevant für die elektorale Krise der Sozialdemokratie. Anders gesagt: heutige Wähler von radikal rechts sind keine früheren Sozialdemokraten.

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

This overview deserves another share, important to be informed of the extent of the authoritarian actions of the Trump administration

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

Scatterplot titled “Empirical Evidence of Ideological Targeting in Federal Layoffs: Agencies seen as liberal are significantly more likely to face DOGE layoffs.”
• The x-axis represents Perceived Ideological Leaning of federal agencies, ranging from -2 (Most Liberal) to +2 (Most Conservative), based on survey responses from over 1,500 federal executives.
• The y-axis shows Agency Size (Number of Staff) on a logarithmic scale from 1,000 to 1,000,000.

Each point represents a federal agency:
• Red dots indicate agencies that experienced DOGE layoffs.
• Gray dots indicate agencies with no layoffs.

Key Observations:
• Liberal-leaning agencies (left side of the plot) are disproportionately represented among red dots, indicating higher layoff rates.
• Notable targeted agencies include:
• HHS (Health & Human Services)
• EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
• NIH (National Institutes of Health)
• CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
• Dept. of Education
• USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development)
• The National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE), despite its conservative leaning (+1 on the scale), is an exception among targeted agencies.
• A notable outlier: the Department of Veterans Affairs (moderately conservative) also faced layoffs despite its size.

Takeaway:

The figure visually demonstrates that DOGE layoffs disproportionately targeted liberal-leaning agencies, supporting claims of ideological bias. The pattern reveals that layoffs were not driven by agency size or budget alone but were strongly associated with perceived ideology.

Source: Richardson, Clinton, & Lewis (2018). Elite Perceptions of Agency Ideology and Workforce Skill. The Journal of Politics, 80(1).

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Katrin Weller @kwelle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

*JOB* befristete Stelle bei @gesis.org im Kontext des Aufbaus eines Datenportals für die Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung (DP-REX) speziell zu online Inhalten über AVERA datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de/rex-forschun.... Ausschreibung unter: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

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Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in Community Datentreuhand

GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften ist eine von Bund und Ländern finanzierte, international tätige sozialwissenschaftliche Einrichtung der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.Vorbehaltlich der finalen...

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

New data & publication at BJPols Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data - by Leonce Röth @dasalgon.bsky.social @dielea.bsky.social & André Kaiser 💥 2,226 regional elections | 21 countries | 1941-2019 Data portal: multi-level-cross-level-politics.eu Data: github.com/leonce-colla...

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Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data: Introducing Three Integrated Datasets | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data: Introducing Three Integrated Datasets - Volume 55

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

New data out for studying party politics and elections across levels in 21 democracies worldwide! 🗳️🧐🥳🤓😎 Check out our online data visualization tool, too: multi-level-cross-level-politics.eu And our data: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

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Replication Data for: Studying multi-level systems with cross-level data

Here we provide code and data and a replication guide for the replication of Studying multi-level systems with cross-level data. The released datas...

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Are you a PhD student or early career PostDoc researching how citizens and parties behave in democracies, what factors weaken democracies, and what factors strengthen them? Are you currently working on one of your first academic manuscripts? We are organizing a workshop just for you! Please share!

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

📢 Ready to dive into computational text analysis with #rstats? Join @dielea.bsky.social, @janschwalbach.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social for the #GESISworkshop and gain hands-on skills to enhance your research! More info & registration ➡️ t1p.de/comp-text-an...

GESIS Workshop
Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R
Lea Kaftan and Jan Schwalbach (both GESIS) & Jens Wäckerle (Cologne Center for Comparative Politics)
Online from 01 to 03 April 2025

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

📣 Calling all curious minds! Interested in human behavior, decision-making, or social interactions? 🧠 Learn to design, run, and analyze lab experiments on trust, cooperation, and competition with hands-on guidance from Florian Heine @vuamsterdam.bsky.social. ➡️ tinyurl.com/LaboratoryEx...

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Laboratory Experiments | Florian Heine (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) | 24 - 28 March 2025 | Cologne

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GESIS Training @gesistraining.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

*Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R* by @dielea.bsky.social, @jwaeckerle.bsky.social & @janschwalbach.bsky.social. 🗓️ 01 – 03 April 2025 🏢 Online 🌐 t1p.de/comp-text-an...

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Jarek Kantorowicz @jkantorowicz.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

🎓 We are looking for a dedicated Post-doctoral Researcher in Empirical Approaches to Rule of Law to join our interdisciplinary Horizon Europe NET-ROL project. This full-time, 36-month position is based in the heart of The Hague! To learn more about this call, see👇

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Lets study Party Competition over democracy with political science tools - I argue in a recently published paper on Democracy as Electoral Issue in Germany - to better understand the effect of pro- and anti-democracy appeals in elections! | www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

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Party Competition Over Democracy: Democracy as Electoral Issue in Germany | Article | Politics and Governance

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Delighted that the European Election Study (EES) 2024 🇪🇺 is released today! This is only possible thanks for the generosity of academic colleagues across Europe who funded it and the hard work of the EES exec and GESIS Hope you enjoy the data!

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 14/02/2024

In the European Research Council MULTIREP project we are looking for a postdoc in Computational Social Science. If you are a political/social scientist doing technical/methods stuff or data/computer scientist working on social science applications, 👇 is for you wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I am so proud that my #openscience project Harmony in the Democratic Electoral Space (HarDIS) will start in January next year. Funded by the OSCARS, we will extend Party Facts, design community-based linkage key databases, and harmonize data: www.oscars-project.eu/projects/har... Stay tuned! 🤓

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HarDIS - Harmony in the Democratic Ideological Space | OSCARS

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Reminder: Let us know how we can support your research best by filling out this short survery! We at #MEDem want to know about your challenges and appreciate your feedback! 😊🤓

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

🌍🔬 MEDem Community Survey! 🔬🌍 To better understand your personal needs, motivations, and expectations as researchers in the #MEDem #Community, we are conducting a short survey. It only takes 4 minutes! 📋 Share Your Voice here: unipark.de/uc/medem-use... Thank you! 🙏

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Another week, another list of new publications in the field. So much exciting scholarship has appeared. 1. Widmann & Simonsen show in PSRM that radical right challengers play an important role in shaping public discourse in a negative moral-emotional direction www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Setting the tone: the diffusion of moral and moral-emotional appeals across political and public discourse | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Setting the tone: the diffusion of moral and moral-emotional appeals across political and public discourse

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

📄New article out with @gessler.bsky.social: With a vignette survey experiment in Germany and Poland, we show that citizens’ attitudes towards democracy vary substantially, clearly influencing their reactions to undemocratic actions. doi.org/10.1017/gov.... 1/8

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The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core

The Democracy I Like: Perceptions of Democracy and Opposition to Democratic Backsliding

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Mariken van der Velden @marikenvelden.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

🚨📣 🚨We are hiring! One great fully-funded PhD position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on Simulation & Virtual Field Experiments for Democratic Citizenship. 🚨📣 🚨 Reach out to me for more information! #Commsky #CSS #polcomm workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

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Vacancy — PhD Position: Simulation & Virtual Field Experiments for Democratic Citizenship

Are you eager to push the boundaries of virtual field experiments? Interested in joining an international team exploring how (social) media impacts democracy? If you want to tackle these challenges, p...

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Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

After receiving reviews, we published an update to the Democratic Electoral Systems data, 1919-1945, now also including data on the length of parliamentary and presidential terms. Thank you, reviewers! 🙏 #polisky #histsci #data 📄Manuscript: doi.org/10.12688/ope... 💾Data: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

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Georg Restle @georgrestle.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

Glaubt irgendjemand da draußen wirklich, dass wir die Grenzen nur hochziehen müssen und dann wird das schon: mit bezahlbarem Wohnraum, mit guten Löhnen und besserer Gesundheitsversorgung für alle? Oder werden dann neue Schuldige gesucht? Bürgergeldempfänger*innen? Queere Menschen? Kinderlose?

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 06/06/2024

Rechte Gewalt im Landkreis Sonneberg stieg im letzten Jahr sprunghaft an. Gibt es einen Zusammenhang mit dem neu gewählten AfD-Landrat? www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/sonn...

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Sonneberg: Gewalt-Anstieg durch AfD-Landrat?

Rechte Gewalt im Landkreis Sonneberg stieg im letzten Jahr sprunghaft an. Gibt es einen Zusammenhang mit dem neu gewählten AfD-Landrat?

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