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Felicia Riethmüller

@feliciarthm.bsky.social
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Politikwissenschaftlerin (group identities, parties, text-as-data). Doctoral student at @ifdemgoettingen, research fellow at @manifesto_proj

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Kira Renée Kurz @kirareneekurz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In Frankreich protestieren seit Tagen Schüler*innen. Immer wieder kommt es zu Gewalt. Ein 🇫🇷 zur Ergänzung der in Deutschland bisher recht begrenzten Berichterstattung:
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Schulproteste in Frankreich: Sorge vor weiterer Gewalteskalation bei Schülerprotesten in Frankreich
In Frankreich haben erneut Tausende Schüler für bessere Lernbedingungen protestiert. In Lens wurde ein Jugendlicher durch eine Polizeigranate schwer verletzt.
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Felicia Riethmüller @feliciarthm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Since I first set foot into academia as a student research assistant, Philipp was there. Encouraging, supporting, sharing his brilliant thoughts alongside the funniest memes. He was one of the most genuinely kindhearted people I know, passionate about democracy, enthusiastic in all of his projects.
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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Bemerkenswert, dass Teile der Presse rechtswidrige Zurückweisungen von Asylsuchenden+ Grenzkontrollen hinnehmen, während mit Verve Vergesellschaftungen verteufelt werden, die im Einklang mit dem GG + demokratisch per Volksentscheid legitimiert sind + von einer Kommission für machbar erklärt wurden
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Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📣 It's update time! The Manifesto Project Dataset 2026a & Manifesto Corpus 2026-1 are here! What's new? 🧵:
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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Das ist der wichtigste Text zur Legitimität der Blockade des AfD-Parteitags - von Anne Gräfe und @ralfmichaels.bsky.social
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Anne Gräfe · Ralf Michaels · Warum die Blockade des AfD-Parteitags richtig ist
Wer Antifaschist:innen mehr fürchtet als Faschist:innen, der verwechselt Demokratie mit der grenzenlosen Toleranz für ihre Gegner. Solange es kein Verbotsverfahren gegen die AfD gibt, ist ziviler Unge...
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Prof Friederike Otto @frediotto.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...
A map of Europes with dots for all 854 cities analysed, pink dots for the cities that broke humid heat records, grey dots elsewhere. Pink dots conentrated over Southern UK, Germany, Poland and Benelux.
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Mario Sixtus @sixtus.net · 26/05/2026
Auch im Kleinen kann jede*r etwas tun, was einer Nicht-Kooperation mit der AfD auf Regierungsebene ähnelt: Sprecht nicht mit Bild, Welt, Compact, Nius, Servus TV, Tichy, Apollo usw.! Gebt ihnen keine Interviews, beantwortet ihre Fragen nicht, reagiert nicht auf Mails oder Anrufe! Trocknet sie aus!
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Zach Dickson @zachdickson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Thrilled that my paper (w/@sarahobolt.bsky.social,@catherinedevries.bsky.social,@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) was accepted at the American Political Science Review! We find that declining public services fuel support for the populist right — and show why the right benefits more than other parties 🧵
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Felicia Riethmüller @feliciarthm.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
This is a must-read for everyone working on group identities in party competition! Looking forward to re-reading it 😊
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Weil das Narrativ der "jungen rechten Männer" sich derart hartnäckig hält - einige Auswertungen aus den repräsentativen Wahlstatistiken der verschiedenen Bundesländer. Spoiler: *IN KEINEM BUNDESLAND DEUTSCHLANDS WÄHLEN 18-24-JÄHRIGE MÄNNER MEHR AfD ALS MÄNNER ZWISCHEN 35 UND 60.*
AfD Wahlanteile nach Geschlecht und Alter in allen Bundesländern. 
Landtagswahlen: Bayern, Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Hessen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (*=LTW 2021 am gleichen Tag wie BTW), Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Thüringen. 

Bundestagswahlen: Baden-Württemberg, Rheinland Pfalz (da noch keine Daten für Landtagswahlen 2026), Saarland, Schleswig-Holstein (keine Repräsentative Wahlstatistik für Landtagswahlen)
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It’s been quite some time, but it still isn’t easy to grasp. I worked for Leo as a research assistant and found him to be a great scholar, but much more importantly a very inspiring and kind person. Please consider taking a moment to read this remembrance. www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/fors...
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Nachruf auf Leo Ahrens
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Es wird gerade viel diagnostiziert, dass die Arbeiter jetzt die AfD wählen. Problem ist, dass das fast ausschließlich über subj. Einschätzung als Arbeiter passiert. Verwendet man objektive Daten über Berufe ist die AfD keineswegs bei Arbeitern am stärksten. Hier mit Parteinähe und Daten des ESS.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Die Partei ist nicht nur unter jungen Wählern sehr erfolgreich, diese machen seit 2025 auch einen substanziellen Anteil ihrer Wählerschaft aus. Darüber wird witzigerweise viel weniger geredet.
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Es ist mE einfach wichtig, dieses Bild der "rechten jungen Generation" nicht weiterzuverbreiten, weil die Empirie das nicht stützt (Ausnahme Thüringen). Dass die AfD in RLP stärkste Kraft geworden ist bei den Jüngsten, liegt primär daran, dass die Jüngsten fragmentierter wählen.
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Felicia Riethmüller @feliciarthm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Aber Hauptsache, niemand kauft sich vom Bürgergeld Zigaretten, richtig?
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Yann Wernert @wernertyann.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Der erste von 2 Wahlgängen der Kommunalwahl zeigt ein gemischtes Bild: - mitte-rechts dominiert wie üblich in der Fläche, hat aber Mühe in den Städten - linke Kräfte dürfen u.a. auf Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Straßburg, Nantes, Lille hoffen 🧵(1/) www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Wie eine Krisendeutung aussieht, die statt Migranten oder Transferempfängern die eigentlichen Schuldigen für die sinkende Kaufkraft identifiziert und probate politische Antworten anbietet, demonstriert der... Sprecher des Tankstellenverbands?
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Learning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate that
ChatGPT and other AI tools may seem irresistible. But educators should beware, as they could end up trading away the thing that gives them value — the rich experience of slow learning
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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")
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Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄
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Lukas Haffert @lhaffert.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
This is a really interesting paper about the role of knowledge claims in rural resentment and urban-rural divides more broadly. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... cc: @svenhegewald.bsky.social @juliusk.bsky.social @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social @pauruh.bsky.social @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social
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‘They don't know what they're doing.’ Epistemic divides and rural consciousness in Switzerland
Established frameworks of rural resentment help explain right-wing voting behavior and anti-establishment attitudes, but they struggle to account for …
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Felicia Riethmüller @feliciarthm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Very much enjoyed being part of this panel and the great INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop! :)
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Institut für Demokratieforschung Göttingen @ifdemgoettingen.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
In der aktuellen #Rentendebatte sind die Interessen der jungen Generation in aller Munde. Eine soeben erschienene Studie von @robrentrop.bsky.social (IfDem, @uni-goettingen.de) zeigt, dass junge Abgeordnete sich tatsächlich stärker für die spezifischen Interessen junger Menschen einsetzen! ⤵️
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
www.researchgate.net/profile/Juan... What a great and necessary paper: "This article contends that this ‘polarisation narrative’ simplifies complex issues through a bad analogy: the construction of a spectrum where good should be found in the middle of diametrically opposed political positions."
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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Nach der #Stadtbild Aussage von Merz folgt jetzt der 8-Punkte Plan der Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz: ua mehr Abschiebungen nach Syrien und Afghanistan, KI-Einsatz bei Ermittlungen, dauerhafter Ausreisearrest etc.
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Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2025 is here! What's new? 🧵:
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PD Dr Philipp Köker @philippkoeker.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We have page numbers 🥳 Independent #judiciaries around the world are under threat from authoritarian #populists - but the threat starts long before these actors enter office! More on the dangers of "populists before power" 👉👉👉 doi.org/10.1080/1351... #OpenAccess @democratization.bsky.social
"Populists before power: delegitimization strategies against independent judiciaries" by Philipp Köker, Tilko Swalve, Merle Huber, Christoph Hönnige and Dominic Nyhuis
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Research on the dangers of authoritarian populism for liberal democracy has almost exclusively focused on “populists in power” and those cases where dramatic changes have occurred. However, there is a notable gap in understanding the strategies and dangers of “populists before power”. We argue that authoritarian populists also pose a threat where they cannot effect constitutional change. By using “delegitimization strategies” they can significantly weaken liberal democratic institutions through a systematic erosion of public trust. Focusing on independent judiciaries as targets, we illustrate how attacks that link criticism of decisions, judges and judicial institutions with narratives of systemic failure may unfold and highlight the value of delegitimization within the larger populist tool kit. Thereby, the paper lays the conceptual foundation for an integrated research agenda on “populist before power”, including counter-reactions to delegitimization attempts, and contributes to the growing literature on the relationship between populism and democracy.
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CPDS @comppoldataset.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
🚨 Newest Comparative Political Data Set released!🚨 Updated until 2023 Available here 👉cpds-data.org/data @leuphana.bsky.social @uniluzern.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract discussing the role of symbolic right-wing politics in cultural consumption, specifically referencing wine and classical music in pubs, based on a survey from Switzerland with 1,550 respondents.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · 05/07/2025
The Department of Homeland Security has spend over $800k worth of ads on Facebook and Instagram clearly targeted at people with Latin American / Mexican background telling them that "if you are here illegaly we will find you and we will deport you".
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Roderik Rekker @roderikrekker.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
(1/5) Out now in Acta Politica: Populist parties increasingly target scientists and scientific knowledge. By analyzing 15 annual waves of representative panel data from the Netherlands (2007–2022), I examine to what extent populist parties fuel science skepticism among their supporters.
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Felicia Riethmüller @feliciarthm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My colleague at @manifestoproj.bsky.social, @tiondelisa.bsky.social has published a new paper on populist in- and outgroups, which you should definitely read:
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Marius Sältzer @msaeltzer.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Hey y'all I am hiring a PhD student. Minimal teaching load and many opportunities for more ;) uol.de/job566en
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Research Associate in the field of "Digital Social Science" // University of Oldenburg
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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
In Portuguese elections this week, we saw more evidence of the far-right's rise 🇵🇹🗳️ Is the far-right the go-to party for Europe's young men? 🤔 Two ✨FREE ACCESS✨papers can provide some answers @tabouchadi.bsky.social doi.org/10.1332/2515... @gefjonoff.bsky.social doi.org/10.1332/2515...
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A gendered far-right wave among young voters in Western Europe?
"A gendered far-right wave among young voters in Western Europe?" published on 13 Dec 2024 by Bristol University Press.
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Some thoughts on the Portuguese election last Sunday. 1. The main story here is one of left versus right. The right as a whole scores a major win, getting 2/3 of the MPs (likely sufficient for a constitutional amendment, eg). The left as a whole was decimated.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
How is regional loss of manufacturing jobs linked to populism? In a new paper in @pvs-journal.bsky.social, @mbayerlein.bsky.social, Anne Metten & I find that industrial decline in Germany shapes electoral support for left-wing rather than far-right populist parties. A thread. 🧵👇 shorturl.at/RIjCr
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Industrial Employment and Populism in Germany—Exploring the Effect of Actual and Looming Decline - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
The regional decline of manufacturing employment is frequently linked to the rise of right-wing populism in many Western countries. Surprisingly, contributions that directly examine the relationship b...
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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Lucienne Engelhardt @luceng.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
🚨 Excited to share that my first dissertation paper got published in Politics and Religion this week! I examine: Is Christian religiosity linked to nativist attitudes? And does this relationship strengthen when PRR parties are in power?
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Felicia Riethmüller @feliciarthm.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals. 🔓: doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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Social group appeals are a crucial but often overlooked aspect of party competition. Challenger parties differ from
dominant parties not only in their issue entrepreneurship and anti-establishment rhetoric, but also in how they approach
social groups. Whereas dominant parties can and must use their policy record when appealing to groups rhetorically,
challenger parties compensate for their lack of policy influence and long-lasting group ties by using more symbolic groupbased appeals, creating affective affiliations with voters while avoiding accountability or dividing their potential base.
Similarly, they are more inclined to use negative group-based appeals. Using a most-similar-systems design and a new
dataset of 15,460 tweets from German subnational parties, our main finding is that dominant parties, particularly those
having held the prime minister’s office, favour policy-based group appeals, while challengers rely more on symbolic appeals.
However, differences in appeal strategies diminish during campaign times. Our findings underline the importance of groupbased appeals for mainstream-challenger competition.
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Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"Noch weiter links?" Die SPD hat sich mit ihrem Wahlprogramm 2025 sowohl sozio-kulturell als auch sozio-ökonomisch deutlich weiter rechts als vor vier Jahren positioniert.
In dieser Grafik ist eine Vierfeldertafel zur Positionierung der deutschen Parteien bei der Bundestagswahl 2025 im Vergleich zu 2021 abgebildet. Die beiden Achsen stellen die sozio-kulturelle sowie die sozio-ökonomische Dimension des Parteienwettbewerbs dar. Die SPD ist auf beiden Dimensionen nach rechts gerückt. Die FDP ist auf der sozio-ökonomischen Dimension ebenfalls klar nach rechts gerückt. Die Positionen der anderen Parteien (AfD, Grünen, Linke und CDU/CSU) haben sich im Vergleich zu 2021 nur minimal verändert.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 06/05/2025
92 years ago today, the Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute for Sexuality, where the first study of trans people was conducted, and burned all of its contents. Fitting that today is also the day SCOTUS greenlights the project of the eradication of trans people from society in the US.
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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
🧵 New paper out in EJPR! Morten Harmening, Jona-Frederik Baumert @sebastianjblock.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @jvelimsky.bsky.social & I examine how parties engage in geographic representation in local politics using parliamentary questions in 12 German city councils. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/1475...
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Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils
A well-established body of research has highlighted the importance of geographic representation in party-centred political systems. In party-centred systems, geographic ties are commonly expressed th....
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Institut für Demokratieforschung Göttingen @ifdemgoettingen.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Sind #Querdenken & Co Schnee von gestern? Mitnichten, wie neue Forschung am IfDem (@jschhlmr.bsky.social) zeigt. Mehr dazu bald! 📅
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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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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 11/03/2025
Merz sagte in einem Satz, er möchte "irreguläre Migration" begrenzen & im buchstäblich nächsten Satz, er will den Familiennachzug aussetzen. Familiennachzug ist REGULÄRE Migration. Es geht auch Merz nicht um "irreguläre Migration". Es geht um jede Migration. Das wird von niemandem mehr hinterfragt!
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
The idea that support for Trump will evaporate because of bad policy echoes similar arguments made about the European far-right—when they first enter parliament, first join coalition gov's, first win elections. And yet, that doesn't seem to be true: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 1/3
Data from the PopuList project showing that support for far-right parties has not decreased recently.
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Maximilian Pichl @maxpichl.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Übrigens: Das Asylrecht ist ein Experimentfeld von Law&Order. Fällt der Amtsermittlungsgrundsatz im Asylrecht ist möglich, dass dies am Ende auch im Sozialrecht eingeführt wird (dort gilt bisher Paragraf 20 SGB X) - wie es schon jetzt Überlegungen gibt, die Bezahlkarte fürs Bürgergeld einzuführen
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RAV @rav-ev.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Mit dem heute verkündeten Sondierungspapier verneigen sich Union und SPD vor dem Rechtsruck der Gesellschaft und markieren den Weg hin zu einer Politik der Ausgrenzung und Entrechtung. 1/13
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Let's call this what it is: This is censorship of scientific research. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
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