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Sarah Engler

@saengler.bsky.social
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Professor in Comparative Politics @leuphana, party competition, European politics, CEE, democracy, corruption, radical right, former @IPZ_ch | PhD @IPWunibern #FirstGen

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Felicia Riethmüller @feliciarthm.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Since I first set foot into academia as a student research assistant, Philipp was there. Encouraging, supporting, sharing his brilliant thoughts alongside the funniest memes. He was one of the most genuinely kindhearted people I know, passionate about democracy, enthusiastic in all of his projects.
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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Marius Sältzer, der mit Philipp Köker in Oldenburg zuletzt eng arbeiten durfte, findet genau die richtigen Worte der Wertschätzung und Erinnerung. Danke, dass Du diese Worte und Erinnerungen teilst.
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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Devastating news.... Philipp was one of the first persons I met at a conference as PhD student (he shared so many advices with me about how this conferencing and PhD'ing works) and we shared the enthusiasm about Central and Eastern European Politics.
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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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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For political scientists headed to Liverpool for EPOP this week (and anyone else interested!), @bjpols.bsky.social has made a collection of articles available on elections, public opinion and parties free to read...
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EPOP collection
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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy to see my work with @ivobantel.bsky.social and @lucasleemann.bsky.social published in Party Politics. We look at how affective polarization shapes voters' preferences for technocratic and populist governance in Germany showing that it largely depends on partisanship 1/4
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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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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
There is a really elaborate phishing email going around from someone trying to imitate me with an outlook email address. I do not have an email address with my name and @ outlook. If you received that email please do not respond and report the email.
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Excited to present a new working paper by @victoriahaerter.bsky.social, @dweisstanner.bsky.social, @saengler.bsky.social &myself @unimainz.bsky.social! Public service deprivation influences vote choice,but what about policy choices? Swiss direct democracy provides a unique opportunity to study that
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Belén Fdez. @abelenfg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📚New paper with @jakobschwoerer.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social in @prxjournal.bsky.social📚 We show that moving toward the far right on immigration doesn't benefit mainstream parties. Not even in elections where immigration is salient. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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When everyone talks about migration: how mainstream parties shift to the right and still lose
The rise of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) has prompted mainstream parties (MPs) to adopt more sceptical positions toward immigration. Spatial theory suggests that MPs benefit electorally b...
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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#DemocraticBacksliding: The erosion of US democracy under Trump is steeper than any recent precedent, including Hungary, Venezuela, Turkey, R//ZZ.l'a/nd Source: Financial Times @jburnmurdoch.ft.com www.ft.com/content/b474...
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
🧵with some preliminary thoughts on what this means for US national security, with a side of IR theory.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.
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Florence Faucher @ffaucher.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...
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Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026
Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in Political Science / Politics and Policy in/of Europe and the European Union
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Radical right parties in Europe have not moderated. Their positions and rhetoric have entered the mainstream. They have become normalized and legitimized. Unless we understand this, we have little chance of countering their success.
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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
In line with the 'credibility revolution', we are thinking about research designs that allow us to get closer to causal effects. Those who use surveys have often turned to survey experiments. At the same time, survey response rates have dropped considerably. Below are the figures for the ESS.
This plot shows average response rates of the European Social Survey. Between 2002 and 2023 the have fallen from 61 to 41 per cent.This plot breaks down ESS response rates by country. In almost all countries, the rate has gone down over time - in some cases, like Sweden, quite dramatically so.
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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
‼️ US now advocates for 🇺🇦 EU accession by 2027 as part of „peace plan“. I know many pro EU & pro 🇺🇦 people may support this. But I think it is a terrible idea. A few thoughts 💭 👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Ukraine war briefing: Reports Ukraine would join EU in 2027 met with scepticism
Officials in Brussels dismiss ‘nonsense’ idea Ukraine could join EU by 1 January 2027 in latest US-led peace plan. What we know on day 1,389
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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Though I do like this response on US attacks regarding 'freedom of speech' in Europe.
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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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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
In Switzerland, around 16k people with disabilities who are under full guardianship remain disenfranchised nation-wide, a clear violation of the UN Convention. At the cantonal level, Geneva’s voters approved re-enfranchising these citizens in 2020. Today, voters in Vaud went firmly the other way
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Theres Matthieß @theresmatthiess.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Good morning, social and political science community! We could use your expertise: Have you conducted online surveys targeting low-income populations? If so, we’d love to hear about your experiences.
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Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
„Ein europäischer Bürger wird auf europäischem Boden von US-Sanktionen getroffen, weil er seinen Job bei einer Institution macht, die von der EU maßgeblich finanziert und unterstützt wird.“
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Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?
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Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Steffen Mau @steffenmau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
@heikekluever.bsky.social in der heutigen SZ zur Brandmauer. Die Empirie spricht eine klare Sprache: Wenn die extreme Rechte mitregiert, wird sie größer und entzaubert sich nicht. Alles andere ist Wunschdenken und gefährliche politische Folklore.
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Kim Lane Scheppele @kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The Guardian gets it. The real importance of Orban's visit to see Trump was getting financial backing for Orban's tough upcoming election campaign. And all indications are he got it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on special Trump treatment for Hungary: roll on the next election | Editorial
Editorial: As polls suggest that Viktor Orbán’s authoritarian rule is under threat, Brussels can only wait and hope
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Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
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Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment - Volume 55
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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out! If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
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Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55
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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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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
NEW - Anti-Immigrant Bias in the Choice Between Punitive and Rehabilitative Justice - cup.org/49vUfVa - @riazsascha.bsky.social & @mhamjediers.bsky.social #OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract of a study on bias in judicial decisions affecting juvenile criminal offenders, emphasizing the impact on immigrant offenders and suggesting reforms for a more equitable justice system.
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Laura Jacobs @lcjacobs89.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Seems like today is a good day to re-share in light of the Dutch elections
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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🗳️ First exit polls from the Netherlands: Wilders’ PVV appears to shrink from 37 to 25 seats. Make no mistake — the far right remains strong. Support hasn’t disappeared; it’s shifted across parties. The Dutch political landscape is more fragmented than ever — and the far right is no exception. 🇳🇱
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Netherlands, 9:00 PM Ipsos-I&O exit poll: Seat projection national parliament D66-RE: 27 (+18) PVV-PfE: 25 (-12) VVD-RE: 23 (-1) GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5) CDA-EPP: 19 (+14) JA21~ECR: 9 (+8) FvD-ESN: 6 (+3) BBB-EPP: 4 (-3) ... +/- vs. Last election result ➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands
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Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350... @manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Latest @thehousemag.bsky.social column, on the politics of pints. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...
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The Professor Will See You Now: Having A Pint
Lessons in political science. This week: having a pint
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Eto Buziashvili @buziashvili.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
A year ago today, when I arrived from Washington DC, Russia’s proxy government in Tbilisi raided me. They seized all my devices and froze my personal accounts, which remain inaccessible to this day. I received extraordinary solidarity from friends, colleagues, & complete strangers who 1/11
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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions. www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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Violet Miller @vimiller.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”
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ICE agents point gun at state Rep. Hoan Huynh in Albany Park
Hoan Huynh was alerting the community on the Northwest Side to the presence of federal agents when they blocked his vehicle on a residential street and an agent pointed a gun at him and others in the ...
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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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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right” How much more research do journalisten, politicians, pundits and strategists need before they finally change course?
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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
'“At some point it becomes embarrassing, in a craven way, to make a deal for yourself and abandon those institutions that are standing up for academic freedom,” said Corey Brettschneider, a political science professor at Brown.'
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Universities Are Standing Up to Trump
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Briitta van Staalduinen @briittavs.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
1st article from my dissertation is out in Perspectives today!! two takeaways: a) knowledge economy 'winners' may not be subject to status loss but they sure care about status preservation & b) this is consequential for their attitudes re: immigration & diversity. Thnx 2 all along this journey!!
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7
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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🎯 @felixlehmann.bsky.social "Why accommodate? How niche pressure and intra-party divisions shape mainstream party strategies" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 09/10/2025
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality? Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):
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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Great reporting on the contagion risks of the Trump presidency, drawing in parts on insights from the @disintegrationerc.bsky.social project.
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Is America contagious?
Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.
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