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Tristan Klingelhöfer

@klingelt.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) HebrewU; Ph.D. from JohnsHopkins; Party Politics, Political Psychology, Elections, Democracy; and 🎮 and 🥨; 🏳️‍🌈

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Markus Kollberg @markuskollberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨New Paper in @polbehavior.bsky.social! Julia Leschke and I ask: What works against populist rhetoric? We find: Advocating for pluralist ideals can mitigate the negative effects of populist rhetoric. link.springer.com/article/10.1... More details below ⏬
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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Happy to see our new paper on mainstream-to-challenger defection in print! w/ @denis-cohen.bsky.social & @aigneranna.bsky.social Check out Denis' summary below! Thanks to @nilssteiner.bsky.social, @conradziller.bsky.social & @ackermannk.bsky.social for organizing this SI! tinyurl.com/5aa9wrmb
First page of the journal article "From the center to the fringes: A comparative test of attitudinal explanations for mainstream-to-challenger defection" by Denis Cohen, Werner Krause, and Anna Aigner, published in Electoral Studies. The page shows the journal head, author affiliations at the University of Mannheim and the University of Potsdam, keywords, a link to the replication dataset, and the full abstract.Dot plot showing net balances of vote switching between mainstream and challenger parties, in percentage points, across 16 west European elections from 1973 to 2025. Each election is a point with a 95% credible interval, ordered left to right from most negative to most positive. Values run from about −6 to +15 points; positive values mean net gains for challengers. German elections are labeled individually and mostly sit between −4 and +4 points. Germany's February 2025 election, highlighted in red, is a clear outlier at nearly +10 points, placing it among the highest in the series alongside the Netherlands 2002, Greece 2012, Denmark 1973, and Italy 1992.
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Thorsten Faas @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de · 18/09/2026
Da mich schon ganz viele Fragen erreicht haben, wann wir endlich wieder eine Umfrage ins Feld bringen... here we go: www.wahlumfrage2026.de
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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Presenting at #ECPRGC26 in Kraków tomorrow! Where do parties hang their campaign posters? @klingelt.bsky.social and I walked every street of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg during the 2025 Bundestag election and collected 6,800+ photos, 10,000+ posters. THU 9:00–10:45, Room 08 @ecpr.bsky.social
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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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Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very belatedly sharing this because the last months were busy: The limits of appraisal theory for political emotions is out in Political Psychology! @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I ask whether appraisal theories of emotion work the same way in politics as in everyday life.
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The limits of appraisal theory for political emotions: Evidence from two U.S. surveys
Emotions, such as anger and anxiety, play a central role in political behavior and are extensively studied by political scientists. However, political science has largely adopted psychological theori...
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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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Matthijs Rooduijn @mrooduijn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Today we launch the new version of The PopuList! The PopuList provides an overview of far-left, far-right and populist parties in 31 European countries from 1989 until 1 May 2026. Explore the new website here: popu-list.org
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Home - The PopuList
The PopuList Interactive Version 4.0 Static Version 4.0 CSV Version 4.0 What is the PopuList? The PopuList offers researchers, journalists, […]
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Tobias Widmann @twidmann.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏
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2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🚀 New publication! Super happy that my study on local responses to the #FarRight is now out in @prxjournal.bsky.social! 😍 Focusing on mayors in Germany, I show why their role perceptions are crucial for maintaining the #Brandmauer (cordon sanitaire). 🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2474... #OpenAccess
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
No need to apologize. On the contrary: Thanks for your interest! The parties use many electioneering methods (e.g., tv, radio, cinema ads, information stands, fliers, gotv, rallies, and of course social media). Posters are comparatively rarely studied which is why we wanted to take a look at them.
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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Looking forward to presenting at #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week! @klingelt.bsky.social and I hand-collected 10,000+ campaign posters in Berlin and use automated image analysis to study placement and content strategies across parties THU, 5:10–6:50pm, Brookfield (Hilton) @epssnet.bsky.social
Map showing the spatial distribution of campaign posters by party across electoral precincts in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin. Nine panels display poster locations (dots) overlaid on precinct-level 2021 vote shares (shading) for: Die Linke (n=1,129), Die Grünen (n=1,459), SPD+JUSOS (n=693), CDU (n=639), AfD (n=107), FDP (n=348), Volt (n=780), and BSW (n=248). Each panel uses the party's color. Based on automated classification of 5,854 detected posters (conference version, ~50% of full corpus).
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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 15/06/2026
📘 Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right is out today online with Oxford University Press! A wee thread about our new-born book 🧵 academic.oup.com/book/62992
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Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right
Abstract. Many of today’s populist radical right (PRR) leaders in Europe came through their party’s youth wings. Yet, we know little about these organizati
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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🎉 Publication Day! 🥳 And this one feels special: after many years of wondering about, studying, and learning from #PartyYouthWings, my comparative study on German PYWs is now out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1017/S175... 🔓 #OpenAccess @ecpr.bsky.social
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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Image showing the abstract of the paper "Self-Fulfilling Prophecies at the Voting Booth" by Werner Krause and Christina Gahn, published in the Journal of Politics. The abstract describes a quasi-experimental study across 25 countries finding that parties polling just below electoral thresholds are approximately 45 percentage points less likely to clear them, and that this effect diminishes when voters are informed about polling uncertainty.
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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Predoc position on foreign and security policy attitudes in the Baltic Sea region (3.5 yrs, 65%) Research on democratic resilience and societal responses to security crises. Open to different approaches and interests. Deadline: 30 June 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - Interdisziplinäres Forschungszentrum Ostseeraum (IFZO) 26/ES12
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
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Martin Gross @martingross.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Wanna talk about the cordon sanitaire (the "Brandmauer"?) 🚨We (@christinajuen.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I) have a new paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010... What do we do in the paper? A 🧵: 1/7
Abstract of the article "The Cordon Dilemma: How Voters Evaluate Cooperation With the Far-Right in Parliament" by Martin Gross, Christina-Marie Juen and Christian Stecker. Published online first in Comparative Political Studies.
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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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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
🚨 Stellenausschreibung 🚨 Promotionsstelle zu Parteien in ländlich-peripheren Räumen (4 Jahre, 75 %) Das Projekt verbindet qualitative Interviews, die Analyse lokaler Parteistrukturen und Inhaltsanalysen von Wahlprogrammen. 🗓️ Bewerbungsschluss: 31.05.2026 www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...
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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in - Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Gesundheitsmanagement 26/Op09
Stellenausschreibung Allgemeine Betriebswirtschaftslehre
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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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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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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🚨 New Article in Politics and Governance When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction By @schnizzl.bsky.social and S. Kritzinger 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🧵 1/6 #Polisky
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When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction | Article | Politics and Governance
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@leoniedejonge.bsky.social and @matthiasdilling.bsky.social have my immense gratitude for their substantive advice as well as organizing the special issue (in progress). Check out their own amazing paper as well as the other inspiring contributions! www.tandfonline.com/toc/prxx20/8/1
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Political Research Exchange
Volume 8, Issue 1 of Political Research Exchange
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
As far as mainstream parties, almost in a knee-jerk manner, exclusively associate PRRPs with negative emotions, they are falling prey to a serious misunderstanding. This likely poses a serious obstacle to them finding an effective strategy to fight back.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The radical interpretation breaks fundamentally with the focus on discrete emotions. Emotions and emotional appeals, here, are complex, multivalent, and open-ended. Research in this vein should utilize discursive approaches and allow for a simultaneous experience of positive and negative emotions. 🍹
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The paradigmatic interpretation retains the view of discreet emotions as basic “building blocs”, conceiving mixes as combinatory. Instead of analyzing (the effect of) specific discreet emotional appeals in isolation, scholars should also look at patterns of combinations and sequencing. 🍸
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Intricately linked – Reading both kinds of evidence together and against arguments of previous studies, I advance two theoretical interpretations of mixing emotional appeals, a paradigmatic and a radical one.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Deliberate – While the exact story slightly differs between FPÖ and AfD, their campaigners saw appeals to positive emotions as central to making inroads into electorates of mainstream competitors. Mixing in positive emotions was a deliberate attempt by PRRPs to broaden their constituency.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Frequent – A simple but holistic (sentiment) analysis of campaigns (manifestos, social media posts, press releases, posters, and video ads) from Austria (2017), Germany (2017) and Italy (2018) shows negative emotional appeals do indeed distinguish PRRPs but positive emotions are not an aberration.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Combining an analysis of campaign communications with in-depth interviews of PRRP campaigners, I argue that appeals to positive emotions are frequent, deliberate and intricately linked to appeals to negative emotions in PRRP campaigns.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Recent studies already highlight that, under certain circumstances, PRRPs appeal to positive emotions, such as hope, pride, or happiness, in addition to negative ones. Yet, the overall role of positive emotions remains unclear, both in terms of their prevalence and the underlying rationales.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Populist radical right parties (PRRPs) predominantly appeal to negative emotions, like fear and anger. But this is not the whole story. @prxjournal.bsky.social, I ask to what extent and why PRRPs add positive emotions to negative ones in their appeals to voters. 🍹🍸 🧵 doi.org/10.1080/2474...
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A complex cocktail: reappraising the role of positive emotions in the appeal of populist radical right parties
Negative emotions are held to be at the very core of the emotional appeal of populist radical right parties (PRRP). Building on emerging studies that paint a more nuanced picture, I argue that appe...
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
🚨 Western democracies are often described as polarized. @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @mtsakiris.bsky.social + I study how polarization actually feels. Now published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social, we asked citizens in 5 European countries to report their emotions ⬇️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion/IR (3 yrs) @unigreifswald.bsky.social Work on democratic resilience in times of crisis using cross-national survey data. flexible start (earliest possible) deadline: 31 May 2026 🔗 www.uni-greifswald.de/en/universit...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate - Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) 26/E08
Stellenausschreibung des Interdisziplinären Forschungszentrum Ostseeraum (IFZO)
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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10 journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...
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Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6
Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6
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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Much of the coverage of the Hungarian election has focused on Orbán. We know less about the strategy behind Péter Magyar’s and Tisza’s breakthrough. I’ve written a short piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on why this challenge succeeded.
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Christoph Nguyen @cgnguyen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Do citizens care who makes policy? In Germany, some policies can be adopted either by federal or state governments. But do voters have preferences over which actor adopts a policy? Turns out, they mostly do not. New paper out @epsrjournal.bsky.social 🧵 1/8 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Federalism and citizen preferences: a vignette experiment on policy-making in Germany | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Federalism and citizen preferences: a vignette experiment on policy-making in Germany
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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
An @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social post on our recently published paper in @psrm.bsky.social is now available! 👇
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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
How does coalition participation influence party membership?@hannaeback.bsky.social @michaelimre.bsky.social and I find that junior coalition partners lose more members than parties that govern alone, and an increasing ideol. diversity within the cabinet is related to a decreasing number of members.
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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Ein wichtiges Projekt zur Zukunft ländlich-peripherer Räume und genau die Zusammenarbeit, die es braucht. Ich freue mich sehr, dass die DFG die Forschungsgruppe "AdaptInfra" fördert. Wer sich für ländliche Räume und Parteien interessiert: Eine passende Promotionsstelle wird in Kürze ausgeschrieben.
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Patricia Correa @pcorreavila.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Spread the word! Applications for the Summer School on Political Parties are open now! We moved to Bristol (UK)!
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Niklas Bolin @niklasbolin.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
New book coming June 2026! Edited with @mhagevi.bsky.social: "A Research Agenda for Political Parties" covers key developments in party politics, from organisation and leadership to digital campaigns, AI, and coalition governance. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r...
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A Research Agenda for Political Parties
‘This wide-ranging, approachably-written, and innovative compendium features an impressive cast of contributors and provides plenty of food for thought for anyone who studies – or wants to study – twe...
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Emilie van Haute @emilievh.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Looking forward to see this one out! It was fun to discuss past and future developments in intraparty democracy research. Kudos to @niklasbolin.bsky.social and @mhagevi.bsky.social for steering this much needed reflective work!
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
When the “rules of the game” are not universally accepted anymore, we need to understand better which parties seek to make changes and why. For this, it is important to consider their very own organizational models, both on paper (e.g., in their statues) and in practice.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
In turn, parties exhibiting a high degree of decentralized personalism tend towards liberalism and consensus democracy. The results hold when controlling for the Green and PRRP party families that were identified in previous research as challenging the liberal, representative standard.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
We develop and apply indices that operationalize (largely based on PPDB) Gidi’s typology of party personalism and link it to V-Party measures of democratic conceptions. We find that high centralized personalism goes together with supporting direct democracy, illiberalism, and majoritarianism.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Previous studies have examined ideology and populism to explain parties’ conceptions of democracy. We argue that party personalism is part of the story: Party organization both reflects and shapes the worldviews of its personnel, activists, and voters, including their vision of democracy.
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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
On the one hand, we see an increase in participatory and deliberative democratic innovations layered next to traditional representative institutions. On the other hand, democratic backsliders challenge liberalism “from above”. Where do political parties stand re/ democracy in their political system?
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