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Magda Breyer

@mabreyer.bsky.social
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Postdoc political science | University of Basel | Political behavior, social status & class, gender | she/her magdalenabreyer.net

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Annika Brockschmidt @ardenthistorian.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ethnopluralismus ist ein verschleiernder Begriff für eine rassistische, rechtsextreme Weltsicht - völkischer Rassismus, ohne das Wort „Rasse“ in den Mund nehmen zu müssen. Jedem „Volk“ gehöre ein Territorium, und jedes „Volk“ zeichne sich durch bestimmte Eigenschaften aus.
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In diesem in der @pvs-journal.bsky.social veröffentlichten Aufsatz verorte ich Manows Buch "Spaltungslinien" in der Debatte zum Postliberalismus. Der zentralen Annahme, dass rechtspopulistische Parteien heute wirtschafts- und sozialpolitisch links stünden, widerspreche ich. rdcu.be/swtwc7WqF9ta
Titelblatt zum in der Politischen Vierteljahresschrift erschienenen Aufsatz "Ist rechts das neue links? Die postliberale Erklärung des Populismus". Der Aufsatz ist öffentlich zugänglich.
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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
How do individuals normatively assess changes to the social order and what does this tell us about electoral realignment? New publication with @dpzollinger.bsky.social and Tabea Palmtag out now in the Journal of European Public Policy 😊 doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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Übermedien @uebermedien.de · 03/08/2026
Ohne Abo: In „Zeit“, FAS und SZ plädieren Autoren dafür, positiver über Care-Arbeit zu berichten, um jungen Menschen nicht die Lust auf Familie zu nehmen – Kinder haben ist schließlich was Schönes. Aber die vielen Negativberichte über Familienalltag sind nicht das Problem. uebermedien.de/118956/
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„Historisch wenige Babys“: Sind die vielen Artikel über gestresste Familien mit schuld? | Meinung
Medienberichte über stressige Care-Arbeit sind nicht der Grund, dass Männer keine Lust mehr auf Kinder haben. Das Problem liegt woanders.
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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
In June, Switzerland will vote on what is so far the most radical far-right popular initiative launched by the Swiss People‘s Party SVP: capping the population at 10M (currently ≈9.1M). In this thread, I’ll break down what it’s about and how it fits into broader findings on Swiss direct democracy
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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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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
🆕 Mainstream or normalised? 🤷‍♀️ @asheinze.bsky.social & @gefjonoff.bsky.social look at the meaning of mainstreaming and normalisation in existing literature on the #FarRight and discuss an expanded framework for future research
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Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right
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Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Angriffe auf Gesundheitseinrichtungen in bewaffneten Konflikten nehmen weltweit zu – trotz völkerrechtlichem Schutz. Mario Behrens (Politikwissenschaftler, Uni Basel / swisspeace) ordnet die Entwicklung im VSAO Journal ein. 👉 www.vsao-journal.ch/de/artikel/a... @mbehrens.bsky.social @unibas.ch
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Angriffe auf Gesundheitseinrichtungen haben massiv zugenommen
In bewaffneten Konflikten weltweit werden Angriffe auf Gesundheitseinrichtungen und Gesundheitspersonal zunehmend als strategisches Mittel eingesetzt. Auch staatliche Akteure missachten vermehrt das h...
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Daniel Höhmann @dahoehmann.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Im Podcast Unibâle von @primenewsbasel.bsky.social spreche ich über die Auswirkungen von Hass im Netz auf die politischen Ambitionen von jungen Frauen und Männern.
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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.
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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
From October 2025 - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS Abstract discussing educational attainment, social networks, and political behavior in Germany, the UK, and Switzerland.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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European progressives must tackle housing crisis to beat far right, say researchers
Centre left can win broad support by addressing soaring house prices and rents, according to data analysis
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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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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
"But the SVP is different": I hear this often, especially compared to A/fD. But 2024 data confirm different story: programmatically, the overlaps are strikingly close. The real difference is govt participation, not ideology. And yet, many still label the SVP as a center-right ("bürgerlich") party
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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social
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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭 21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET @alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions. 👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
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PhD Prep Talk: Switzerland
Meet an EUI Researcher and alumnus from your country​!
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Mit WDR 3 Resonanzen habe ich heute über die Aussagen von Friedrich Merz gesprochen, darüber wie sein Kurs die radikale Rechte normalisiert und stärkt und warum er vielleicht mal öfter mit jungen Frauen sprechen sollte. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...
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Konservativer Anti-Migrationskurs befeuert die AfD
Wenn konservative Kräfte die Narrative von Rechtspopulisten übernehmen, hilft das den Rechts-Außen-Parteien statt sie zu schwächen. Das zeigt die EU-weite Forschung des Politologen Tarik Abou-Chadi.
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Daniel Höhmann @dahoehmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🗣️ Our new study in @jwpp.bsky.social shows that online abuse on social media discourages young women from pursuing political offices—before their actual political careers have even begun. With @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and Tomoko Latteier #GenderSky 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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An Early Leak in the Pipeline – Online Abuse as a Barrier for Young Women’s Political Engagement
To what extent does online abuse on social media platforms obstruct an equal representation of women and men in politics? We investigate the frequency, character, and consequences of online abuse a...
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Mehr Sozialstaat und eine "antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" werden häufig als Mittel gegen den AfD-Erfolg genannt. Doch was ist dran an der These & welche Sozialpolitik wünschen sich die AfD-Wähler tatsächlich? Eine Datenanalyse von @schieritz.bsky.social und mir. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
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Sozialpolitik: Wer wenig hat, ist in ihren Augen selbst schuld
Mehr Sozialstaat könnte den Aufstieg der Rechtspopulisten bremsen, heißt es oft. Umfragen zeigen aber: Die Wähler der AfD verstehen unter Gerechtigkeit etwas anderes.
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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
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Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Autoritäre Kräfte schränken Frauenrechte gezielt ein. 👉 Wie wird Antifeminismus als politisches Mittel eingesetzt? 👉 Und warum unterstützen auch Frauen Akteure, die ihre Rechte angreifen? @mabreyer.bsky.social ‪@sarahbuetikofer.bsky.social www.polit-forum-bern.ch/veranstaltun...
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Wie die Demokratie wehrhaft bleibt! - Polit-Forum Bern
Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit sind weltweit bedroht. Immer mehr Menschen leben in Ländern, in denen demokratische Errungenschaften wie Meinungsfreiheit, Gewaltenteilung und Menschenrechte eingesc...
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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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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Another piece on candidate selection of mine is forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social : Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR” (doi.org/10.1086/734244)
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Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 05/06/2025
If you happen to have capacity for an extra first-time attendee do drop me a DM. :)
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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Can government policies moderate political backlash to structural change? Yes, the effect operates through material benefits and social recognition. 🚨New WP by @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @thmskrr.bsky.social and @susanadptavares.bsky.social 🚨 shorturl.at/zFbZE
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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️
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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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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇 shorturl.at/cujwa
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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I cannot recommend this summer school enough!
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Emilie van Haute @emilievh.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
🚨 Call for Expressions of Interest – BrIAS x ULB Solidarity Fellowships 🚨 Are you a researcher at risk working on democratic governance? The new BrIAS program invites expressions of interest from early-career researchers who wish to apply for a ULB postdoctoral Solidarity Fellowship.
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Sabrina J. Mayer @sabrinajmayer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Are you interested in political partipation among youth and immigrants? @ aleininger.bsky.social and I edited a special issue for Politics and Governance (@cogitatiopag.bsky.social) - here are 13 new articles! doi.org/10.17645/pag...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Exceptionally long, but familiarly pompous and uniformed, puff piece on the “good” nativism of Mette Frederiksen in Denmark. Completely ignores most basic data and, of course, any academic research. Some quick points 🧵
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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Linking public service deprivation to immigration rather than to cuts & administrative burdens is a POLITICAL CHOICE My research shows that “immigrants cutting the cue" framing was key part of far right’s rise in Europe 👇🏽 🇬🇧: ap.lc/jwBBV 🇮🇹: ap.lc/WRePJ Yet another form of far right normalization
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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
💥Postdoc call 💥 Join my @erc.europa.eu project #YOPOW at Aarhus University 🎇 3-y position (possibility of 1-y extension) ❓How societal norms give rise to biased beliefs about political power in youth 🤖 Computational social science (large-scale text & image data) Deadline May 15: bit.ly/4hIpSeD
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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and Michael Pinggera. We map the welfare preferences of voters at the poles of the second, GALTAN dimension of political conflict. 🧵
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Tobias Singelnstein @singelnstein.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Wann nehmen die Parteien diese robusten Befunde aus der politikwissenschaftlichen Forschung zur Kenntnis? www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/am-e...
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„Am Ende wählen die Leute das Original“: Wie der Migrationswahlkampf die AfD gestärkt hat
Keine Partei hat bei der Bundestagswahl so viel dazugewonnen wie die AfD. Ein Experte erklärt, warum vor allem die Rechtspopulisten vom Top-Thema Migration profitieren konnten – und was man dagegen tu...
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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
@sophsuda.bsky.social und ich durften heute für den SRF Fragen der Leser*innen zur deutschen Bundestagswahl beantworten. Dabei waren viele interessante Fragen aus der schweizerischen Perspektive: www.srf.ch/news/srf-new... @unibas.ch
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Antworten zu den Wahlen in Deutschland 2025
Eine Fachrunde hat von 11 bis 13 Uhr Ihre Fragen zu den Wahlen in Deutschland beantwortet.
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Mathilde M. van Ditmars @mathildevanditmars.eu · 11/02/2025
🚨 Got page #s! 🔎 When do political differences by social class emerge? During youth or on the job? 📊 @macarenaares.bsky.social & I find they appear early in life & consolidate during employment (🇨🇭+🇬🇧panels) 📖 tinyurl.com/2tv5v698
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Sophia Stutzmann @slstutzmann.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Extremely happy that my first single-authored paper is now published (open access) at @EJPRjournal: “Asymmetric backlash against structural economic change: the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany” Here's a summary thread... 1/n
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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
📢 Excited to share our new @wzb.bsky.social Working Paper together with the brilliant @meretstephan.bsky.social! ❗️Key finding: Anti-racist protests can change voting behavior, pushing society toward greater inclusivity. 📄 Link: bibliothek.wzb.eu/pdf/2025/zz2... 🔍 For a quick summary, see thread 👇
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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Today is a really(!) good day to make sure all your friends know there's no need to keep holding onto the old place 🐦 Are they worried about losing @altmetric.com impact? They've got you covered now. Not only that, Bluesky is notably better! buff.ly/4hhUS61
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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
1/ Happy to announce a new paper at @PolBehavior with Andreas Jozwiak & Eroll Kuhn. Recent work links ⬆️immigration flows to backlash, esp⬆️far right voting. We ask if it's a general feature of migration politics by testing effects of *co-ethnic* immigration. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Backlash or Inclusion? The Political Effects of Co-Ethnic Immigration - Political Behavior
Immigration often causes backlash, to the benefit of anti-immigrant parties. Most studies that identify the effect of immigration on native attitudes and behaviors leverage variation in inflows of new...
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
My paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com) is now out on: ❓How do people derive social class of representatives and the public? The headline is that working-class parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as such (compared to otherwise identical lay public) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A class of their own: parliamentarians are less likely to be perceived as working class
In order to understand the relevance of class politics and the changing composition of our politicians, we must first understand how the public derive their views of social class and, importantly, ...
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Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Apply to be our colleague in Basel! Assistant Professorship in Political Science (without Tenure Track) with a focus on Environment and Development. Deadline 20 January: buff.ly/3VLujgD
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Universität Basel: Professorship in Political Science with a focus on Environment and Development
The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel seeks to fill a Professorship in Political Science with a focus on Environment and Development beginning on August 1, 2025, or ...
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