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Lea Stallbaum @stallbaum.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Last week, we (@clandwehr.bsky.social, my colleague Leonard and I) had the joy of welcoming some great colleagues working on the topic of democracy to Mainz, for the concluding workshop of our project "Conceptions of Democracy among Citizens and Political Elites". Thank you for three wonderful days!

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jasfitzpatrick.bsky.social @jasfitzpatrick.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

🗓Am 22. März 2026 ist in #Rheinland-Pfalz #Landtagswahl. Wir in der Abteilung Innenpolitik/Politische Soziologie des @powimz.bsky.social haben im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Profile für alle zur #Wahl stehenden #Parteien verfasst. ⬇️ www.bpb.de/themen/parte...

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Landtagswahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2026 | bpb.de

Zur Landtagswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz 2026 am 22. März 2026 treten 12 Parteien an. Hier finden Sie zu jeder ein Kurz-Profil.

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Government and Opposition @govandopp.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

New #OpenAccess - "People-centred or Elite-centred Democrats? Legislators’ Process Preferences in the United States and Germany" - cup.org/4tGsbpP by @crowdermeyer.bsky.social, Leonard Häfner, @clandwehr.bsky.social & @stallbaum.bsky.social

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Lea Stallbaum @stallbaum.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

In our new paper in G&O, we show that US legislators have more people-centred process preferences, while German legislators are more balanced between people-centred and elite-centred preferences overall - but party affiliation matters. Link to the paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz @unimainz.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

🎧 JETZT REINHÖREN: #Forschungspodcast #MindsOfMainz – #DerGutenbergTalk | Folge 28: Demokratie im Fokus: Warum Politische Theorie heute die Gesellschaft bewegt | mit Prof. Claudia Landwehr 👉 www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of-main… #Demokratie #Politikwissenschaft #PolitischeTheorie

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided.
Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all.
The study warns that when writing is
delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”

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Lea Stallbaum @stallbaum.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Now with page numbers, and a follow-up paper already in the works! 🤫 Instead of looking at singular preferences for how a democracy can be organized, @clandwehr.bsky.social, Christopher Ojeda and I use a survey experiment to study which democratic designs US and German citizens actually prefer:

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Autonome Geschichte @radicalpast.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Vor 34 Jahren begannen die rassistischen Pogrome in Hoyerswerda. Umfangreiche Webdoku dazu unter hoyerswerda-1991.de

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WZB Democracy @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

The WZB Transformations of Democracy unit hosted a great workshop on how ideas of Democracy evolve over time . A great group & lots of scholarly progress.

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten. Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

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Opinion | No One Has Ever Defeated Autocracy From the Sidelines

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

How do institutional parameters affect citizens’ evaluations of a political system as democratic? @clandwehr.bsky.social, C Ojeda & @stallbaum.bsky.social compare citizens’ design preferences in #Germany & #US. Read more: buff.ly/3Wx9YMl @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social

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Claudia Landwehr @clandwehr.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Very happy to start 2025 with a new paper just out in @polstudies.bsky.social 🎉 Christopher Ojeda, @stallbaum.bsky.social and I use a factorial survey to explore citizens' institutional design preferences. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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