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Dylan Paltra

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PhD Student @Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg I Political Science | Parties 🎉 | Image & Text-as-Data 🌆 | He / Him | dpltr22.github.io

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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I couldn't have found any better words. Goodbye, Philipp. You will be deeply missed.
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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you know graduates looking for a PhD position? The interdisciplinary IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” studies political and social change around the Baltic Sea—escalating crises, shifting expectations, and competing narratives. Please share shorturl.at/7nIrZ
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Research Assistants - International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes” 26/ES20
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Deutsche Philologie
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Lena Stephan @lenastephan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy to see our paper with @annevanbavel.bsky.social on the negative consequences of political harassment towards MPs on their staff out in Parliamentary Affairs! Almost all staffers witness harassment towards MPs which discourages them from politics … (1/3) academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...
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The negative spillover effect of political harassment toward MPs: evidence from MPs personal staff
Abstract. Harassment politicians face has direct consequences on their working reality, yet the indirect spillover effects on those who witness it remain u
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Emma Hoes @emmahoes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Thrilled to share that I have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project HIDDENPOL: The Hidden Politics of Everyday Media. 🎈 @erc.europa.eu
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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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Stefano Sangiovanni @stesangio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
📢 First paper from my PhD dissertation now out in JEPOP! Parties don’t just campaign on policies. They also try to convince voters they’re competent, trustworthy and capable of governing. But do valence appeals actually relate to polling gains during election campaigns? 📄 doi.org/10.1080/1745...
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Valence strategies and polling support during electoral campaigns
Valence issues play a central role in electoral competition, yet less is known about whether emphasizing valence during campaigns is associated with shifts in party support, and under what conditio...
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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🥳 New Paper with @jadevrielink.bsky.social and @skruikemeier.bsky.social: on how voters perceive the political ads they receive, and why that tailoring perception matters more than we usually assume. 🧵 1/3 📄 doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Hand-drawn doodle illustration in three steps. On the left, a large smartphone with "VOTE for me" on the screen, surrounded by small icons such as animals and speech bubbles. An arrow points to a smiling person looking thoughtful, with thought bubbles above showing the same motifs (pets, music, people). Another arrow points to the same person, now beaming, holding up the smartphone with the "VOTE for me" ad and giving a thumbs up. The illustration shows how political advertising that feels personally relevant is evaluated more positively.
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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
An der @unigreifswald.bsky.social sind zwei unbefristete Vollzeitstellen ausgeschrieben: eine für Politikwissenschaftler:innen, eine für Soziolog:innen. Bewerbungsfrist: 31. August 2026. Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht. Die Ausschreibungen folgen im nächsten Post. Fragen gerne per DM.
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Koichi Osamura @koichiosamura.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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Bureaucratic appointments and coalition support in presidential systems – An analysis of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies - Koichi Osamura, 2026
How does the provision of political appointments influence coalition support in multiparty presidential systems? While the importance of cabinet portfolios for ...
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Sophie in't Veld @sophieintveld.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Excellent! Who is next? No place for Palantir and Thiel in Europe.
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Jessica Haak @haakjes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
💭 Looks like the heat wave has brought some attention to my study - enough that it got a mention in the New York Times 👉 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w... It’s also a good example of how weather extremes can shift public attention toward climate change (without necessarily prompting policy change).
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As Europe Sweats, Some Politicians Talk of Air-Conditioning, Not Climate Action
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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's a wrap! Conference marathon is over! First, I had such a great time presenting my work at @ecprgender.bsky.social in Newcastle upon Tyne. I met so many bright and young scholars working on exciting and important topics! I thank everyone involved in organizing this fantastic #ECPG2026!
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Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
📢 PhD position in Political Science Join the ERC-funded #DEMOLAW project, studying the design, creation and survival of democratic laws across the US, UK and EU using computational methods. 📍 Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen 📅 Apply by 12 July 2026 #PhD #PoliticalScience #AcademicJobs
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🆕 An emotional #Climate 🌳 🫩 @dienerjulius.bsky.social argues that the emotional investment in #ClimateIssues is on the up, particularly among young MPs or MPs from #Green and progressive parties, by looking at who was most emotionally engaged during German speeches from 2011-2020
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An emotional climate: Legislators’ emotional engagement with climate issues across age, party and time | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
An emotional climate: Legislators’ emotional engagement with climate issues across age, party and time
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Tobias Rüttenauer @ruettenauer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
📢 Open positions! I’m recruiting 2 postdocs + 3 PhD positions at C³S, @goetheuni.bsky.social in #ClimateJustice, environmental inequality, #Demography & #ComputationalSocialScience 🌍📊💻 3–4 years + strong support for training🎒 Deadline: 23 June 2026 More: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen...
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Benedikt Seisl @bseisl.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Officially finished my PhD and defended on Friday, May 22 🎉🎓 It’s been years of balancing teaching, research, work, and mental health – with plenty of challenges and growth along the way. This means a lot, and I still can’t believe that it’s done.
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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Coming to @ecprgender.bsky.social #ECPG2026 and working with quant methods or curious about using them in gender & politics research? Come along & meet other researchers at the @strathplacelab.bsky.social pre-conference social 🍻 📍 Two by Two Brewery 🕡 18:30, 14 June RSVP here: bit.ly/4dPyr8F
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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 15/05/2026
🎉🚨New Publication 🚨🎉 Beyond thrilled this is finally out! First large-scale, cross-national database of parties' social group appeals — who they speak to, the stance they take towards the groups, and whether a policy is mentioned. 55 years, 8 European countries, fully public and available here:
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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🎯 New paper alert! It includes the main theoretical & empirical contribution of my dissertation: disentangling targeting and tailoring in political social media advertising. Really happy @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I found such a great home for it 🏠 Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369... 1/4
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Targeting and/or tailoring?! A theoretical framework and its application to political social media advertising
Despite the widespread use of data-driven campaigning (DDC), there is limited conceptual clarity and empirical understanding of how political parties employ the advertising strategies of targeting ...
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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich „Politisches System Deutschlands und der EU“ (100%, 3 Jahre), Uni Oldenburg Bewerbungsfrist: 9.6.2026 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! 🙂 uol.de/job/wissensc...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in im Bereich „Politisches System Deutschlands und der EU“ zur Habilitation // Universität Oldenburg
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Jule Kegel @julekgl.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
My first paper is out! Co-authored with @falkscheidig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...
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Dr. Dominika Tronina @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New Job! Started as a Postdoc at the Uni of Oldenburg 🪩🥳 Within the SCEPTIC project, we examine how online information environments are reshaping trust and social cohesion. Excited to work with @msaeltzer.bsky.social @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social Sebastian Block, Andreas Peter
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Julius Diener @dienerjulius.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)
A screenshot of the title page of the paper
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Marta Vukovic @martav.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Soo, since yesterday I am officially PhDone! 😮🎓✨🥂 I’m incredibly grateful to my supervisors Sylvia Kritzinger & @markuswagner.bsky.social for their guidance & support in this journey, and to my wonderful committee @gessler.bsky.social & @chrisclaassen.bsky.social for the thoughtful discussion. 1/2
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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Does anyone else have issues accessing the @manifestoproj.bsky.social website? I tried several times since yesterday, but I always get 503 error.
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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
My 2nd @comptext.bsky.social is officially in the books! It was an incredible conference and a fantastic opportunity to reconnect with old friends and meet so many new faces in the field. Huge thanks to everyone involved in organizing #COMPTEXT2026, I‘m already looking forward to next year!
Learning and Teaching Building of the University of Birmingham on a sunny day.Me giving a presentation in a lecture theater inside University of Birmingham.My name tag from the COMPTEXT CONFERENCE.An image showing a canal in the inner city of Birmingham.
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
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Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
Offene Stellen
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Still in 2025, some political scientists argued that we should not misinterpret Trump's illiberal policies as undemocratic. Some continue to say the same about the European far right. It's time to understand that racism, misogynie, anti-queerness are building blocks of authoritarianism. 1/
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Semih Çakır @mascakir.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨 New paper with great co-authors (@oguzhan-alkan.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @zeynsom.bsky.social) in Political Behavior! How well do citizens perceive where parties stand? 🤔 Open access: rdcu.be/fb83Z
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Daniel Höhmann @dahoehmann.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
📢 Are women MPs better at estimating their party voters’ preferences on women’s issues? In our new paper (with @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and @breunig.eurosky.social), we analyze whether and under which conditions women MPs assess these preferences more accurately. doi.org/10.1017/S147...
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Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Electoral vulnerability and women MPs’ estimation of voters’ preferences on women’s issues
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PoWiMZ @powimz.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Neue Professur "Politisches Verhalten und Repräsentation" Univ.-Prof. Dr. Constantin Wurthmann tritt zum 1.4.2026 die neue Professur "Politisches Verhalten und Repräsentation" am Institut für Politikwissenschaft an. Wir begrüßen Herrn Wurthmann und seine Mitarbeiterin, Frau Wiegmann, herzlich.
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Jule Kegel @julekgl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Lisa Oswald @lfoswaldo.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc! @goetheuni.bsky.social Focus: CSS, political behavior, political communication & transforming information environments. 📍 Frankfurt | ⏳ 3 years | 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2026 Full job ad here: www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794987/Zen... (search for “political behavior” to find it)
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Goethe-Universität — Zentrale Einrichtungen
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Die Forschungsministerin freut sich auf Insta darüber, dass jetzt "Porträts" von Frauen der Geschichte in ihrem Haus hängen. Nur: Die sind mit KI erstellt. Und schleifen die Gesichter der Frauen gemäß moderner westlicher Schönheitsideale glatt. Was für ein irres Projekt Z.B.
Ki-generierte VersionOriginalbild mit dem die KI gefüttert wurde
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 22/02/2026
This creep's entire line of thought here is eugenicist trash. People are PEOPLE. You don't measure their value by energy consumption. They have inherent value as HUMAN BEINGS. A fucking LLM has no inherent human value. You cannot compare them.
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NSU-Watch @nsuwatch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov Ermordet vor 6 Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, beim rassistischen Anschlag von #Hanau. Wir gedenken Ibrahim Akkuş, verstorben an den Spätfolgen.
Hintergrund: Schwarz-Weiß Bild des Gedenkens auf dem Marktplatz in Hanau, Menschen halten Schilder mit den Gesichtern der Ermordeten. Darauf die Schrift: 
Wir gedenken:

Gökhan Gültekin
Sedat Gürbüz
Said Nesar Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Hamza Kurtović
Vili Viorel Păun
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Ferhat Unvar
Kaloyan Velkov
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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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Julius Diener @dienerjulius.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I am happy to announce that I have joined the team of Politische Vierteljahresschrift / German Political Science Quarterly @pvs-journal.bsky.social as Managing Editor alongside the new Editor-in-Chief Marc Debus. I will assist Marc and the team of Associate Editors in managing this great journal.
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
NEW - Gender Bias in Legislative Oversight: Do Parliamentarians Control Women Ministers More Tightly than Men Ministers? - cup.org/45Rm9Z6 - @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, @lenastephan.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social & @camilamontero.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract of a scholarly article discussing the influence of legislators' gender on the questioning behaviors in parliamentary activities.
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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Diese Studie ist eine Sensation: Heike Klüver hat 1.237 Regierungen in 57 Demokratien über 50 Jahre ausgewertet. Die Schlüsselfrage: Werden Rechtsextreme „entzaubert“, wenn sie mitregieren? Die Antwort – eindeutig: Nein. Sobald rechtsextreme Parteien an der Regierung sitzen, profitieren sie.
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Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🎊 I successfully defended my PhD at the University of Mannheim yesterday! Huge thanks to my fantastic supervisors, Christian Stecker (@pluggedchris.bsky.social) and Chris Arnold (@chrisguarnold.bsky.social), for guiding and supporting me every step of the way! #multimodaldata #politicalbehaviour
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Allow me to translate: “it’s okay to kill these people because they’re queers”
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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
📄 New paper out in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social with my amazing co-author @plutscher.bsky.social ! 💡 Ever wondered if authoritarian strongman messaging also works in democracies? We find that, yes, it did under Trump during the BLM protests in the U.S. in 2020. polisky csssky socsky commsky
Abstract for the publication "Does Hard Propaganda (Also) Work in Democracies? Evidence from the United States"
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Fear, anger, and populism on Twitter/X 😡 Using machine learning on 1M UK tweets, @giulianoformisano.bsky.social, Jörg Friedrichs, Florian S. Schaffner & Niklas Stoehr seperate #Populist from #Governmentalist rhetoric and track how emotions drive #PoliticalCommunication
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Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media
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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years) We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald. ✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - International Research Training Group 2560 “Baltic Peripeties" 25/E19
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
🚨Publication Alert! My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵
Cover page of the article. "Affective States: Cultural and Affective Polarization in a Multilevel-Multiparty System" by Dylan Paltra, Marius Sältzer and Christian Stecker. "Affective Polarization—the growing mutual dislike among partisan groups—has been identified as a major concern in democracies. Although both economic and cultural ideological divides contribute to ideological polarization, their affective consequences can differ. This paper argues that cultural polarization becomes especially consequential when mobilized by far-right parties. Using data from 116 elections in Germany’s 16 states (1990-2023), we combine more than 550 state-level manifestos with more than 150,000 survey responses to examine how party polarization translates into voter affect. Our analyses show that both economic and cultural polarization increase affective divides, but cultural disagreements fuel hostility only in the presence of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Acting as a cultural entrepreneur, the AfD amplifies the emotional impact of cultural divisions such as immigration, employing affective rhetoric and provoking strong rejection from other parties and voters. These findings highlight the catalytic role of far-right parties in transforming ideological competition into affective polarization."
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Nathalie Giger @nathaliegiger.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Excited to be back at my alma mater, the University of Zurich, for the Digital Democracy Workshop! Looking forward to two days of interesting presentations, reconnecting with familiar faces, and meeting new ones. Thank you very much for hosting me @karstendonnay.bsky.social over the week!
The photo shows the front of the main building of the University of Zurich.
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Teresa Bücker @teresabuecker.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Ich kotze. „Fragen Sie mal Ihre Töchter“, entgegnet Merz einen Journalisten, der nachfragt, ob eine Entschuldigung angemessen wäre. Zur Erinnerung: Junge Frauen haben die CDU kaum gewählt. Die Merz-Regierung macht keinerlei Gleichstellungspolitik. Aber Frauen für Rassismus instrumentalisieren.
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Dylan Paltra @dpltr22.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🚀Two post-doc positions at my institute! If you have any questions about our institute or Oldenburg, please feel free to reach out!
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