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Maria Thürk

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Assistant Professor (TT) Political Science @ Uppsala University | Minority govs and coalitions | Legislative institutions and behavior | Political parties and corruption perceptions | mariathuerk.com

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 02/10/2026
early-career academics, if you don't have a website, make yourself one. yes it's annoying but just do it it can be plain text on a white background, or google sites, or even a free Wix one with ads. nobody cares we just need to be able to look you up, quickly, bc there's like 100 other apps here
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Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📄 New paper in @electoralstudies.bsky.social: “From the center to the fringes: A comparative test of attitudinal explanations for mainstream-to-challenger defection” 👥 with @krausewe.bsky.social and @aigneranna.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
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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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Camilla Reuterswärd @camreu.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Our paper on conservative women in Latin America's anti-gender mobilizations is out! @isacastillocar.bsky.social and I argue that conservative women organise to defend religious beliefs and agendas as well as their own identities against a perceived threat. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Es gibt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Aber es gibt auch Mecklenburg und Vorpommern. Wie wir heute Abend voraussichtlich wieder sehen werden, unterscheiden sich beide Regionen deutlich in ihrem Wahlverhalten. Woher kommen diese Unterschiede? Ein Thread mit Daten aus dem Kaiserreich bis heute. 🧵
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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In einem Interview mit dem @tagesspiegel.de habe ich über die Sonntagsfrage, ihre Ungenauigkeiten und ihren Einfluss auf Wählende gesprochen. Hierbei ging es auch um meine aktuelle Forschung zum Thema (u.a. mit @christinagahn.bsky.social). www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/die-...
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Die Last-Minute-Macht der Umfragen: „Die Wähler verlassen das sinkende Schiff“
Werner Krause ist Politikwissenschaftler und hat 142 Wahlen in 25 Ländern untersucht. Wie funktionieren Voraussagen – und was beeinflusst ihre Treffsicherheit?
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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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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
If journal editorial is of interest to you - replace me at @jeppjournal.bsky.social as Associate Editor. I've loved working with JEPP. The team, papers, and reviewers have been awesome. Happy to answer questions if you have any. editorresources.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
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Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy
Associate Editor needed for Journal of European Public Policy
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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We are hiring a postdoc in Comparative Politics at JGU Mainz! Join our friendly and productive team, led by Armin Schäfer (@arminschaefer.bsky.social). • Full-time position • Five-year contract (!) • Start: from 1 October Apply by 22 August: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/56328 Please share!
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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I am so sorry to hear about Torbjörn's passing. He was a great scholar & a genuinely generous person. As one of my MA thesis supervisors, he was the first senior academic who made me feel that my opinions on coalition research were worth taking seriously.My thoughts are with his family & loved ones.
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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Really sad to hear that Torbjörn Bergman passed away. I had the pleasure to meet and to work with him as a junior scholar, and will never forget his kindness and his enthusiasm. This came way too early and my thoughts are with Torbjörn's family and close friends.
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Korinna Lindemann @korinlind.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
#Dichtestress? Growing pains of economic success? Growth-related strains? Quite the contrary. In today’s historic referendum in Switzerland, support for the population cap at 10M was *lowest* in the most densely populated Swiss municipalities. Plot (c): @d-qn.github.io / @letemps.ch
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Felix Lehmann @felixlehmann.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I am really happy to share that on 12 June, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation in political science. The defence was a lot of fun. This was in large part because of my great opponent, @henrikseeberg.bsky.social , who initiated a challenging and intellectually engaging discussion.
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Isabelle Guinaudeau @iguinaudeau.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
💫 New paper! @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social & I are happy to see our new paper published in open access with the @ejprjournal.bsky.social Do group-targeted campaign pledges pay off electorally? We test this with a preregistered survey experiment in Germany.
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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Excited to share our new paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @krausewe.bsky.social! Parties polling just below an electoral threshold are far less likely to clear it: a self-fulfilling prophecy that diminishes when polls communicate uncertainty. 🗳️📊 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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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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Theres Matthieß @theresmatthiess.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
🚨 Our article “Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions?” is out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. Joint work with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @iguinaudeau.bsky.social from the 🇫🇷🇩🇪 UNEQUALMAND project. 👉🏻 shorturl.at/qoBDU%F0%9F%... 1/3
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Maik Hamjediers @mhamjediers.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...
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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In a new (oa) contribution to Party Politics, @cklamm.bsky.social, Simone Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein, @sarahwagner.bsky.social and I study which additional topics parties addressed in their press releases when publishing their position on the COVID-19 pandemic: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/2
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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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European Journal of Politics and Gender @ejpgjournal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
We are delighted to present the new editorial team of the @ejpgjournal.bsky.social ! Led by @grahn.bsky.social and @maarja.bsky.social as co-EIC, the six-strong team represents a new generation of gender and politics and LGBTQ+ politics scholars who will take the journal forward from July 2026.
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 27/04/2026
Does far-right legislative representation change the descriptive make-up of candidate lists among mainstream parties? Using a RDD with registry data from Sweden, this paper led by @grahn.bsky.social provides an answer doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
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Does far-right legislative entry affect minority candidate diversity? | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Does far-right legislative entry affect minority candidate diversity?
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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We're hiring! Are you a social scientist with experience working with genetic data? Join us as a postdoc and work on gene-environment interplay - with amazing data - in a collaborative project between Uppsala, Oslo and Amsterdam!
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Postdoctoral Position, Political Science - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral Position, Political Science , Department of Government, Uppsala University
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
🌀 💡 Are parties wasting time negotiating coalition deals? 🤝 @mebergman.bsky.social, @hannaeback.bsky.social & Wolfgang C Müller looks at whether prolonged coalition talks actually deliver better outcomes — or if they just cost parties (and voters) precious time.
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Are parties wasting time negotiating coalition deals?
Recent elections in several countries have produced inconclusive outcomes. This has resulted in extended periods of bargaining between parties to determine the next government. Matthew E Bergman,…
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Representative Democracy Data Archive @repdem-org.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🎉 New Data Release! We’re excited to share a new release of the REPDEM dataset, with updated data on political parties, parliaments, and governments across 33 parliamentary democracies from 1945 (or democratic transition) to 31 December 2025. 📥 Access the dataset here: repdem.org/index.php/cu...
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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
⭐ Powerful, Rigorous, Timely ⭐ 🎉Congratulations to @valentimvicente.bsky.social on winning the 2025 Stein Rokkan Prize for his book on 'The Normalization of the Radical Right' (Oxford University Press, 2024) 🏆Presented with @sciencecouncil.bsky.social @sampol.bsky.social #ECPRPrizes
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The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand
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Rafael Ahlskog @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
New paper out! Working with geospatial data is cool.
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 11/02/2026
New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816
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Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🚨 So excited about our new paper in @BJPS: h7.cl/1iliZ! We (Corinna, Lena, Camila, Sarah) analyze how gender shapes the extent to which ministers are scrutinized by parliament.
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Gender Bias in Legislative Oversight: Do Parliamentarians Control Women Ministers More Tightly than Men Ministers? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Gender Bias in Legislative Oversight: Do Parliamentarians Control Women Ministers More Tightly than Men Ministers? - Volume 56
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Felix Haass @felixhaass.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:
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Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of “contentious politics/political violence/autocratic politics” - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social 3+3 years Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour) DL 🗓️ 05/01 stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...
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Research Associate (Postdoc) Political Science § 28 Subsection 2 HmbHG
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Sona Golder @sonagolder.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Current Japanese politics highlight the importance of distinguishing ‘formal’ vs. ‘substantive’ minority cabinets. Our East Asia Forum article links to very useful work by @mariathurk.bsky.social and @svenjakrauss.bsky.social on this point. (Thürk LSQ 2022; Krauss & Thürk WEP 2022)
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Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
⚠️⚠️ Prof. Stefanie Bailer and Prof. Nathalie Giger are collecting grants left and right - They are now looking for one Postdoc and two PhD students in Basel and Geneva! 🎓 👇 Check out the full job ads here: tinyurl.com/postdocUNIGE tinyurl.com/phdUNIGE tinyurl.com/phdUNIBAS
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Post-doctoral position at the Department of Political Science and International Relations
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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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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨 We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social Any questions, please reach out to me 📣 Please share! 📣 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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Florence So @floriso.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science PAR 2025/838
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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Just learned that Holger Döring retired from ParlGov in October. If I'm not misreading his message, then this great resource will not be updated anymore 🖤 parlgov.org/2024/10/01/r...
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Retiring from ParlGov - ParlGov project
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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1
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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A fun way to start the wknd: We have received the reviews of ”Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout." […] I am delighted to conditionally accept your article for publication in The Journal of Politics. @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social @turnbulldugarte.com
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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
So happy to have received a new, generous grant (500k EUR) from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social to continue exploring the causes and consequences of voluntary segregation among lesbians, gays and bisexuals in Sweden. This time with a dream team of @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @turnbulldugarte.com
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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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Sandra Håkansson @sandrahkansson.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Our project received funding from the Swedish Research Council! "How violent actors distort the path to political power: Evidence from Colombia" with Juan Diego Duque Salazar & @hannefjelde.bsky.social
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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
New from @erc.europa.eu project #MINORITYRULE with @sopro.bsky.social: We study voters’ knowledge about and perceptions of minority governments in 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪 and 🇸🇪. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147... When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️
Screenshot of the start of the paper. Title (Political knowledge and perceptions of minority governments in Europe), authors (Jens Wäckerle and Sven-Oliver Proksch) and journal (European Journal of Political Research)
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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 13/10/2025
Tariffs might be the word of 2025. Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? @grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...
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A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?
In April 2025, the United States introduced sweeping tariffs on imports from the European Union and the United Kingdom, raising transatlantic tensions and prompting debate over Europe’s response. T...
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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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