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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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Jochem Vanagt @jochemvanagt.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions. Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Mark your calendars: the next Politicologenetmaal will take place on 11-12 June 2026 at Ghent University! 👇

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Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

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Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

🎯 New Paper Alert! 🎯 I’m thrilled to announce that my latest article, “How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?”, has been published in Party Politics. Access the full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 👇👇

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How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns? - Mohamed Nasr, 2025

This paper examines the dynamics of voter information seeking during real-world election campaigns, a crucial yet relatively underexplored area of political beh...

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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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Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

📣 OA Publication alert! 📣 "Says who? The role of party cues in explaning the positive and negative consequences of political moral appeals in Europe" In Party Politics #thread journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

no better way to depart from #ecprgc25 than 👀 my paper just published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social! I find localism in an unlikely place & show that people feel more represented when they live in incumbent MEPs' hometowns, using survey data from 🇷🇴🇭🇺🇮🇹🇧🇪 doi.org/10.1177/1465... #Polisky

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The effect of MEPs' local ties on perceived representation: Evidence from four EU member states - Daniel Kovarek, 2025

Concerned with the electoral and attitudinal effects of localness, a large literature studies how candidates’ and elected deputies’ local ties shape perceived r...

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

My Substack on writing, Respect the Marble is back! 🎉 I’ll be launching several new things this autumn, outlined here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/a-new-seas... A quick preview 👇 🧵

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A New Season for Respect the Marble

Introducing "Etched in Marble: Conversations with Writers" & "Sunday Writer's Digest"

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Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 I’m excited to share a new working paper, co-authored with @bethsimas.bsky.social and @zeynsom.bsky.social : “Candidate Gender and Position Switching” Full paper here 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/... 🧵

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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Yay! Super enthusiastic about this project, and can't wait to work with @pavlosvas1.bsky.social, @annasanders.bsky.social and all contributors to put together this Introduction to Voting Behaviour!

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Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 The Prophet in the Minister's Office: Do Green Parties Tone Down Moral Rhetoric When They Govern? (1/n) 🧵 👇 Full preprint here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Chapel Hill Expert Survey @chesdata.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Here’s a summary thread: 1/

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 04/08/2025

Academia is basically a collection of people who got lucky early on and mistook it for genius. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data 💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne 📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute... #DSA #CSS #DataScience

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years. If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply! shorturl.at/kcTbG

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐 👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

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Joshua Tucker @jatucker.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🧵1/ 🚨 A new kind of political science textbook has arrived—and it might just disrupt the entire textbook industry. It’s called A Political Science Experiment, and here’s why you should care. 👇 🔗 politicsexperiment.com

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Home Page - A Political Science Experiment

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

‘Campaign Communication and Legislative Leadership’ (with Naofumi Fujimura) appeared in the latest issue of Political Science Research and Methods. Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1017/psrm... @psrm.bsky.social Thread below 🧵 1/7

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Do policy priorities that candidates emphasize during election campaigns predict their subsequent legislative activities? We study this question by assembling novel data on legislative leadership posts held by Japanese politicians and using a fine-tuned transformer-based machine learning model to classify policy areas in over 46,900 statements from 1270 candidate manifestos across five elections. We find that a higher emphasis on a policy issue increases the probability of securing a legislative post in the same area. This relationship remains consistent across multiple elections and persists even when accounting for candidates' previous legislative leadership roles. We also discover greater congruence in distributive policy areas. Our findings indicate that campaigns provide meaningful signals of policy priorities.

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Joost van Spanje @joostvanspanje.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

New! The *New Parties Data Set* by Stuart Bramwell and me. 2,434 parties in 22 countries since 1945, their score in 3 elections, and their mode of establishment. Thanks to our 🇪🇺ERC Consolidator Grant project 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇯🇵🇭🇺🇲🇦🇺🇸🇮🇹🇿🇦🇳🇱team in 🇬🇧London @rhulpirp.bsky.social. See dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly. New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social Thread👇

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

For a data collection we want to launch soon, we're looking for a German speaker who could translate our survey instrument to German. This should only take a few hours of work. Of course we are remunerating! Interested? Please reach out to @alexjabbour.bsky.social !

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

“Gender and Discipline Shape Length, Content and Tone of Grant Peer Review Reports” Peer review affects funding, but how do gender and disciplinary differences shape how reviewers write their reports? We analysed 39,280 reviews submitted to the @snsf.ch. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2507.00103 1/12

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Peer review by experts is central to the evaluation of grant proposals, but little is known about how gender and disciplinary differences shape the content and tone of grant peer review reports. We analyzed 39,280 review reports submitted to the Swiss National Science Foundation between 2016 and 2023, covering 11,385 proposals for project funding across 21 disciplines from the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), Life Sciences (LS), and Mathematics, Informatics, Natural Sciences, and Technology (MINT). Using supervised machine learning, we classified over 1.3 million sentences by evaluation criteria and sentiment. Reviews in SSH were significantly longer and more critical, with less focus on the applicant’s track record, while those in MINT were more concise and positive, with a higher focus on the track record, as compared to those in LS. Compared to male reviewers, female reviewers write longer reviews that more closely align with the evaluation criteria and express more positive sentiments. Female applicants tend to receive reviews with slightly more positive sentiment than male applicants. Gender and disciplinary culture influence how grant proposals are reviewed–shaping the tone, length, and focus of peer review reports. These differences have important implications for fairness and consistency in research funding.

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

In every writing process, there’s a time when nothing works. When everything looks like a mess: No argument, no structure, no nothing. If that’s where you’re, congratulations! You’re doing it right. 👉 My latest Respect the Marble post: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/your-first... 🧵

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Your First Draft Is Supposed to Be Bad. Congratulations!

Letting Go of Perfection So the Real Work Can Begin

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Filip Kostelka @filipkostelka.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Does democratic satisfaction drive voter turnout, or does voting increase dem. satisfaction? Using 7 election panels, Lukas Linek, @jrovny.bsky.social, @skvrnami.bsky.social, and I find that—unlike in the West—both mechanisms may operate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). 1/n @eui-sps.bsky.social

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

‼️ There are a few more days left to apply for the PhD positions in my group at KU Leuven. Make sure to send in applications by July 4! 👇

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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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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025. In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:

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Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

🧵 Hiring 2 PhDs in political science! Join my ERC project DEMO-LIES @uantwerpen.be 🇧🇪 We study how politicians accuse each other of lying/disinfo — and how citizens react: Does it erode trust? Polarize? Mobilize? 🧠🗳️ 💥 4-yr fully funded 📅 Start: Oct/Nov 2025 🗓️ Deadline: 21 Aug Details + apply 👇

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Most literature reviews miss the point.  Not because they’re sloppy.  But because they treat the literature like a box to tick. In my latest Respect the Marble Post, I carve out a 6-step process to writing a meaningful lit review: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/most-liter... 🧵

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Most Literature Reviews Miss the Point. Don’t Let Yours

Critically Engaging Past Work to Confidently Shape Your Own

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Great advice (as always) by @catherinedevries.bsky.social here on the THE! Make sure to give it a read!

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Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🚨 New publication 🚨 : Happy to share that my paper, "Losing Touch: The Rhetorical Cost of Governing" is now forthcoming at @cpsjournal.bsky.social. Short 🧵 about the paper here 👇 1/10

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Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Happy to see this paper finally out at @polcommjournal.bsky.social! We map party rhetoric on EU solidarity in the past decade using automated text analysis based on a new cross-country collection of party press releases. doi.org/10.1080/1058...

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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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Verena Kunz @verenakunz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

The #TaDa Speaker Series is back for the spring 🎉 We're looking forward to an exciting line-up of talks by @prashantgarg.bsky.social, @miriamschirmer.bsky.social, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @taniseceron.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, and Catarina Pereira! More infos at tada.cool & on Slack ⬇️

The flyer shows the overview of the programme for the Text-as-Data Spring Term Speaker Series 2025, which usually takes place on Wednesdays at 5pm Berlin time.

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Marc Berthold @marcberthold.eurosky.social · 04/03/2025

What future chancellor of #Germany Friedrich #Merz announced tonight regarding the #debt brake and new #spending is basically what current vice chancellor Robert #Habeck and the #Greens wanted and what Merz blocked and campaigned against just until 10 days ago.

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Jeremy Cliffe @jeremycliffe.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

CDU/CSU &SPD have just proposed a sea change in German fiscal policy: - defence spending above 1% of GDP exempt from debt brake - 10-year €500bn special fund for infrastructure - looser debt rules for states - further debt-brake reform in new Bundestag

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Jonathan Polk @jonathanpolk.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

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Postdoctoral fellow in political science: party competition in Europe

Are you our next postdoc with a focus on using expert surveys to examine political party competition around cleavage politics? The Department of Political Science invites applications for a 2-year pos

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉 The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩 Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹 Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️

Sankey diagram illustrating the patterns of vote switching across the parliamentary elections 2013, 2017, 2019, and 2024.

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · 06/12/2024

🚨Publication Alert🚨 An update to the ManifestoVault repository is now available! Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2024 Irish and UK general elections. Full details in Release Note. @rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

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Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

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