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IE Political Science Department @iepolisci.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Next Thursday (15th, 11h45), we are excited to have @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social (KCL) in our Seminar Series. She will present a paper entitled "Participating in globalisation: How local trade integration affects second-dimension preferences".

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/10/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Pocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties - cup.org/4yfOQul - @frederikthieme.bsky.social #FirstView

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ECPR SG Extremism & Democracy @ecpr-ead.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🥁 The Call for Papers for the 2nd @ecpr.bsky.social Extremism & Democracy conference is now live! 📆 20-21 May 2027. 📍Erasmus University, Rotterdam ⏱️ Deadline for panesl & papers is 18 December. ecpr.eu/Events/372

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Conference of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, 20 – 21 May 2027

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We are so excited to launch the call for papers for our second @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference in Rotterdam next year. Please consider submitting a proposal! Big thanks for Ofra Klein and her team at @essb-erasmusuni010.bsky.social for making this possible 👏

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After a year (already?!) at @politikuhh.bsky.social I'll give my Antrittsvorlesung 21/10🎉 I'm shy about my current research as I had a baby just weeks after joining UHH and the year has been exhausting with both start-up- & new-parent-tasks. But, that's just all the more reason to celebrate! 1/

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baby body with slogan 'In my feminist rage era'

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/10/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - The making of strange bedfellows: spatial diffusion in unorthodox coalition building - cup.org/4hoINhO - Gissur Ó Erlingsson, Emanuel Wittberg, @hannaeback.bsky.social & Assar Wixe #FirstView

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Markus Tepe @markustepe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

New in Electoral Studies w/ Eric Linhart & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social: How do voters weigh proportional representation against clear majorities? Our survey experiment in DE, NL & UK finds that voters favor proportionality, esp. when trade-offs are explicit. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

📢 We’ve officially moved! The Chair for Politics and Governance in the European Union has officially started at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. 🎉 Very excited for this new chapter in Freiburg! Seminar für Wissenschaftliche Politik | Universität Freiburg @lucykinski.bsky.social

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pocketbook politics and climate action 👛 🌳 @frederikthieme.bsky.social uses German panel data to ask why green parties continue to struggling electorally despite overwhelming public support for climate action, and shows what impact economic strain has buff.ly/oAUgCbo

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Pocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Pocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/10/2026

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Online privacy protection: How the varieties of democracy matter - cup.org/4jxH377 - Ahmed Maati & Stefan Wurster #FirstView

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Online privacy protection 🫆 🦹‍♂️ @digitalaut-ecpr.bsky.social's Ahmed Maati & Stefan Wurster ask whether the quality of democracy affect how well citizens’ online privacy is protected, using data from the varieties of democracy to capture variation buff.ly/tQr8eoA

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Online privacy protection: How the varieties of democracy matter | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Online privacy protection: How the varieties of democracy matter

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Shaping the left wing 🪽 @ecprpovb.bsky.social's D.Angelucci & @ecpr-migration.bsky.social's E.Flumeri analyse 19 Western European countries to suggest that the gender gap is stronger when left-wing parties have progressive policies on both economic and social/cultural issues buff.ly/XCIARvT

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How left-wing parties shape the voting gender gap across Western Europe | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How left-wing parties shape the voting gender gap across Western Europe

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Diaspora diplomacy in the making 🏗️ 🌊 Inta Mieriņa & Baiba Bela study the important role that individual people living abroad can play in international diplomacy looking at a case of Latvian professionals in international organisations buff.ly/LtTxCJO

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Diaspora diplomacy in the making: The Case of Latvian diaspora professionals working in international organisations | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Diaspora diplomacy in the making: The Case of Latvian diaspora professionals working in international organisations

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Jan Goedeking @jangoedeking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Happy to see our new article out, that analyzes voters’ reactions towards Friedrich Merz’s decision to allow common majorities with the AfD in the run-up to the 2025 German federal elections. With @annikaschuster.bsky.social, Julian Erhardt, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social and @kunkakom.bsky.social

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Annika Schuster @annikaschuster.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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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The political class in citizens’ minds: Mapping public perceptions of politicians

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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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Do emotions affect political trust judgments?

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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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Research transparency

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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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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