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Annika Schuster @annikaschuster.bsky.social · 22h

Happy to see our new paper on voter reactions to a breach of the cordon sanitaire out! With @jangoedeking.bsky.social, Julian Erhardt, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social and @kunkakom.bsky.social Check out Alex’ summary below! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23h

The paper is open access, with publi pre-registration and replication files. Annika, Jan, Julian and Robert did the heavy lifting. doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23h

So what we can say is limited. Medium to large short-term shifts are unlikely. Small ones we cannot rule out. And the design cannot speak to normalization that builds over months or years, which the literature considers plausible.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23h

The main caveat is power. Close to the event, the RDD reliably detects only large effects, about 0.64 scale points on trust in Merz among left voters. A wider window brings increases statistical power but makes it more vulnerable to confounding effects.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23h

We found neither with any clarity, and also no clear main effects in the aggregate. Former CDU/CSU and FDP voters did not rate the AfD more favorably or become more likely to vote for it. Former AfD voters did not warm to Merz or his party either.

Fig. 1. Trustworthiness of Merz, Daily mean of trustworthiness of Merz across subgroups (based on recall)

Fig. 2. Favorability score and vote intention of norm-breaking parties (CDU, CSU, and FDP), Daily mean of favorability score and vote intention for norm-breaking parties across subgroups (based on recall)

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23h

We pre-registered two expectations. Former SPD, Green and Left voters would punish Merz and the parties that broke the firewall. And former CDU/CSU and FDP voters would warm to the AfD, since their own party had signaled that its votes are acceptable.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23h

The GLES rolling cross-section was interviewing people every day of the campaign. On 24 January, Merz announced that the CDU/CSU would put its migration proposals to a vote "regardless of who votes for them". We compare respondents interviewed before and after that day.

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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 23h

New paper in Electoral Studies, led by @annikaschuster.bsky.social and @jangoedeking.bsky.social with Julian Erhardt and @robert-a-huber.bsky.social What happened to voters' attitudes when Merz accepted a Bundestag majority with the AfD in January 2025? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 02/10/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Diaspora diplomacy in the making: The Case of Latvian diaspora professionals working in international organisations - cup.org/4Awv0gJ - Inta Mieriņa & Baiba Bela #FirstView

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 02/10/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Do voting advice applications have durable causal effects? Evidence from concurrent survey and field experiments - cup.org/4iNtY9D - Micha Germann, @iuliacioroianu.bsky.social, Fernando Mendez & Constantinos Djouvas #FirstView

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do voting advice applications have durable causal effects? Micha Germann, @iuliacioroianu.bsky.social, Fernando Mendez & Constantinos Djouvas present new evidence to better under the causal effects of VAAs on political knowledge, preferences and behaviour buff.ly/2unu58F

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Do voting advice applications have durable causal effects? Evidence from concurrent survey and field experiments

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 02/10/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - The political class in citizens’ minds: Mapping public perceptions of politicians - cup.org/4yYCAPn - Mads Nørgaard #FirstView

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Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL) @compcommlab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are so proud to congratulate our dear Fabienne Lind on starting her professorship at @unisalzburg.bsky.social today! 🎉 Not saying goodbye just yet 🥲 We will stay in touch and keep collaborating! 🫶 Wishing you a wonderful start, @fabiennelind.bsky.social, and all the best for this new chapter! 💙💚

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Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happening next week! 👀 📆 Be sure to mark your calendars for our first presentation of the programme

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Mapping public perceptions of politicians 🗺️ Mads Nørgaard uses Danish survey data to demonstrate that most citizens view politicians as both internally homogeneous and socially distinct from the general population buff.ly/iwvPSAJ

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Gender in the face of #Terrorist threat 💪 Brian Littmann, Nadia Natasha James Nielsen & Lasse Laustsen compare citizens gender preference before and during the face of terrorist threat to better understand how threat decreases citizens’ relative preferences buff.ly/LYi7Q1Z

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Terrorist threat decreases citizens’ relative preferences for women candidates: Insights from a Danish conjoint experiment | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Terrorist threat decreases citizens’ relative preferences for women candidates: Insights from a Danish conjoint experiment

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Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Our School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring two permanent (!) Assistant Professors in any field of political science, international relations, political theory, or development. Deadline: 9 November Start date: 30 August 2027 my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...

Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2), UCD School of Politics and International Relations, Permanent
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Politics and International Relations (x2) within UCD School of Politics and International Relations.

The UCD School of Politics & International Relations (SPIRe) is a globally ranked, research-active school with teaching and research expertise across the fields of political science, international relations, normative political theory, international development, and other areas. It is committed to the highest standards in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research supervision. The school is home to a number of research centres, and further information can be found at: https://www.ucd.ie/spire/about/

95 Lecturer/Asst Professor Above The Bar (7943) Salary Scale: €66,055 - €104,600 per annum

Appointment will be made on scale and in accordance with the Department of Finance guidelines.

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 9th November 2026.

Applications must be submitted by the closing date and time specified. Any applications which are still in progress at the closing time of 12:00 noon (Local Irish Time) on the specified closing date will be cancelled automatically by the system. UCD are unable to accept late applications.

UCD do not require assistance from Recruitment Agencies. Any CV's submitted by Recruitment Agencies will be returned.

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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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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday 9am: alright, we planned this - I only have the weekend email to check, one quick reference letter to finish, and the almost written up referee report to submit. I will be ready to get to that paper in about 1 hour. Monday 2pm: <opens Overleaf in tears>

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What is changing? Our new #Reproducibility policy outlines the changes we are making across EJPR to strength #ResearchIntegrity within our community, including stronger data availability and code sharing Read our news story here: buff.ly/rKpyo7y

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🔊 Live from our Political Violence and Radicalisation panel at #ecprgc26. 🗣️ EJPR editor @alessandronai.bsky.social chairs the discussion covering questions such as: to what extent are we witnessing a radicalisation of politics across the world, and what are its drivers and pathways?

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

💥From yesterday's #ecprgc26 Panel on #PoliticalViolence & Radicalisation: 💻️ @markuswagner.bsky.social tells the room 'I don't believe political violence is ever legitimate against democratic actors. But political anger is a reasonable reaction to injustice, without which nothing would ever change!'

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Overpromising populists 🤞 @ecprsgpp.bsky.social's Mathias Bukh Vestergaard explores whether the image of 'overpromising populists' is accurate, using a novel dataset to empirically demonstrate that established parties make substantially more promises buff.ly/id9zk49

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Overpromising populists? Why challenger parties make fewer, not more, promises than established parties

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We’ve introduced our new reproducibility guidelines to fuel transparency and strengthen #PoliSci research! 📊 Over the coming weeks, we want to share more about the guidelines, what they mean for authors, and what’s changing 🆕 Why not have a look here first 📰 👉️ buff.ly/W91rjHA

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do emotions affect political trust judgments? 😌 🆚 😔 Camille Landesvatter & @gesis.org's Paul Bauer offer novel empirical evidence to show that in addition to informed and rational reasoning, emotional state plays a role in #Trust evaluations, looking at a U.S. sample buff.ly/Gz5F61w

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🤓 Cool to be cited in this The Economist article that is trying to think through the political consequences of limited economic growth. 🔗 www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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Bernd Schlipphak @bschlipphak.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Co-authored together with @canersimsek.bsky.social and @olivertreib.bsky.social, our new research note is out @epsrjournal.bsky.social! It discusses the linkage between citizens' democracy conceptions, satisfaction with democracy, and political participation (open access!): t1p.de/pwou5

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Research is strongest 💪 when others can understand, evaluate, and build on it 🏗️ That's why our new Reproducibility Guidelines provide clear guidance on transparency, data, code, and research material requirements 🤩 Read the policy here: buff.ly/SdtAPcB

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doriswydra.bsky.social @doriswydra.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

What if EU enlargement could become a catalyst for progress? That’s the question at the heart of AdvancEU, our new Jean Monnet Policy Network bringing together 15 universities across Europe to explore enlargement, reform, resilience and the future of European integration. 🇪🇺 #AdvancEU #EUElargement

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

📢 The Call for Papers for EPSS 2027 is open! After a fantastic first conference in Belfast, we’re heading to Copenhagen 🇩🇰, 24–26 June 2027. ⏰ Deadline: 13 Nov 2026 👉 Call for papers: epssnet.org/2027-copenha... 1/2

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Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

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European Political Science @epsjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

EPS Roundtable on 'Resisting Illiberalism' is in full swing!🐸🪧 Chaired by EPS Editor @ljramiro.bsky.social & an exceptional group of scholars @dafnoukos.bsky.social, C Rovira Kaltwasser, @lucatomini.bsky.social, A Driscoll, @luanarusso.bsky.social & @simonbornschier.bsky.social. #ecprgc2026

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

NEW - Policy as a Bargaining Outcome: Coalition Leverage and Pledge Fulfillment - cup.org/4ioHWP4 - @markkayser.bsky.social, @jochenrehmert.bsky.social & Petra Schleiter #OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing multiparties and electoral promises, focusing on policy fulfillment in democracies from 1974 to 2011. The analysis examines parties' bargaining leverage and the impact of coalition changes.

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Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

📣 It's update time! The Manifesto Project Dataset 2026a & Manifesto Corpus 2026-1 are here! What's new? 🧵:

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European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🏆️ ⭐️ EPSR Early Careers Prize winner @mattpolacko.bsky.social came to collect his award at #ecprgc26! @epsrjournal.bsky.social 👏 His outstanding contribution, 'Who benefits from the social democratic march to the middle?' won this prestigious prize Read more 👉️ ecpr.eu/News/News/De...

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

💥 Thanks to everyone who attended today's #ecprgc26 Political Violence and Radicalisation panel featuring EJPR editors @alessandronai.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social alongside @audreyvdleene.bsky.social, @tevoelker.bsky.social, @danschindler.bsky.social & Måns Lundstedt.

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

💥 In Wednesday's #ecprgc26 #PoliticalViolence EJPR panel 💻️ @audreyvdleene.bsky.social told us 👩‍💻 'Women running for office don't just face the same violence all candidates encounter, but #sexism too' 🪧 'This forces women candidates to self-censor the political issues they are prepared to discuss'

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🔊 Live from our Political Violence and Radicalisation panel at #ecprgc26. 🗣️ EJPR editor @markuswagner.bsky.social + panellists @tevoelker.bsky.social and @audreyvdleene.bsky.social discuss what political science has to say about the alleged rise in violence – and possible solutions to curb it.

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

If you like cats 🐈‍⬛ and are curious about why far-right politicians like them, too, don’t miss our (furry) presentation (with the great @sabinedvolk.bsky.social & Esmee Bakker) this afternoon @ecpr.bsky.social #ecprgc26 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🏛️ What a timing to discuss the #mainstreaming and #normalisation of the #farright with so many colleagues and friends at the #ecprgc26 in Kraków this week. Happy for the exchange and for the opportunity to present some ongoing work with @leoniedejonge.bsky.social tomorrow at 11:15! 📝

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🏋️‍♀️ Tomorrow (Thursday), my two brilliant PhD candidates are presenting their fascinating research on far-right fitness. 💪Their paper examines how different far-right actors use fitness practices for political purposes. Not to be missed! #ecprgc26 @ecpr.bsky.social ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

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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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Leonhard Schmidt @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Absolutely stoked to have received the Best Paper Prize 2025 from @ecpr-ead.bsky.social at #ecprgc26 🥳 You can read the published paper, co-authored with @bcastanho.bsky.social, in the EJPR: doi.org/10.1017/S147... The pun in the title had to go, unfortunately...

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Leonhard Schmidt @leonhardschmidt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

New article with @bcastanho.bsky.social out now in @ejprjournal.bsky.social ! ✨ We map protest mobilization calls by MPs across Europe to disentangle the role of radicalism and populism in explaining party involvement in protest politics. 🪧 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

After #APSA2026 and #SISP2026 last week, some of our researchers are now at @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference and @finandsoc.bsky.social Conference. Our PhD students and recent graduate at #ecprgc26 ⤵️ Jessica De Rongé, Alberto Polimeni, @mariusperrin.bsky.social & @luissattelmayer.bsky.social

Jessica De Rongé, Alberto Polimeni, Marius Perrin and Luis Sattelmayer

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