Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasJulius Diener @dienerjulius.bsky.social · 11/05/2026What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread) 57131
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasPublic Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Does partisanship affect justifications of political violence? Berntzen et al. find that both Democrats and Republicans are more likely to justify identical acts of political violence when the victims are from the opposing party. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/... 1177
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasBJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 31/03/2026📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'What makes ethnic majorities support the radical right? A combination of relative deprivation and social dominance approaches' by @unddom.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/8Zqha2Z @polstudiesassoc.bsky.socialbuff.lySage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 041
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasDomantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 22112
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasKai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/03/2026'Hey, look at #Denmark! Social Democrats can stay relevant and marginalise the #farright by becoming - get this! - a bit like the far right!' Parrotted by every medium, contemplated by every SD party, ridiculed by every political scientist. 912555
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasChristian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support. 10721228
Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 24/03/2026📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 22112
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasSven Ehmes @svenehmes.bsky.social · 09/03/2026🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016doi.orgThe paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracyAbstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat 611653
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasJohannes Lattmann @jlattmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2026🚨 Happy to see this article with the wonderful David Schweizer out online first at European Union Politics! We examine who is aware of European funding and how citizens prefer these funds to be allocated. The article is available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 1206
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasNaman Rawat @namanrawat.bsky.social · 03/03/2026📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197... 1229
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasTim Allinger @timallinger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Very glad that our first DEMNORM paper found such a great home at @thejop.bsky.social. If you’re interested in the role of social desirability in online surveys, check out the thread and paper below ⬇️ 1247
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasStuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 11/02/2026New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816doi.orgRallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja 23820
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasKlara Müller @klaramueller.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Excited to kick off the @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social Spring series 🙌 I’ll talk about different threats to causal inference in quasi-experimental designs and share hands-on tools to tackle common biases. Hybrid event, so happy to see non-Mannheim folks joining on Zoom as well! 🗓️ Feb 25th, 1.45pm CET 0134
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/02/2026New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u... 1017352
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasHannah Rajski @hannahrajski.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Join us for this year‘s Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Applications are open until March 1. 093
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasLukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 28/01/2026partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR") 09820
Reposted by Domantas Undzėnasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/01/2026stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you. 144176573561
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasGraduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · 17/11/2025📣 Apply Now: Be part of the GESS 📣 🎓 #ApplyNow to our fully funded doctoral programs beginning Fall 2026! 📊 #Business 📊 #Economics 📊 #SocialSciences Application Deadlines: 📬 Early: 15 Jan 2026 📬 Final: 31 March 2026 🔗 Don’t miss your chance to apply via our Online Application Portal:gess-application.uni-mannheim.deOnline Application: Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences 155
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasDenis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Just 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/3XiB6yDcup.orgRegional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge CoreRegional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment - Volume 55 18938
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasChristopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 10/11/2025🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵 17679
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasGraduate School of Economic and Social Sciences - GESS @gessunimannheim.bsky.social · 04/11/2025📣 New Social Data Science doctoral track launching in 2026 at our Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS)! Applications open mid-November 2025. ℹ️ www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/apply/admission-requirements/for-cdss/ #PhD #DoctoralStudies #DataScience #SocialStudiesuni-mannheim.deGESS expands doctoral programme: New track in social data science to start in 2026 | 063
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasValentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps... @the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social 03910
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasSheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 26/10/2025BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name 653126750
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasPavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 24/10/2025New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷 We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comImmigrants’ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization?After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ... 0188
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms? 559421673
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasKlaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020) 📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661 📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... 💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...hdl.handle.netMER Migrant Electoral Rights datasetSuffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat... 16329
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasKonstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2025For postdocs around, I can't recommend this enough! In just four weeks in Mannheim, I connected to lots of amazing young scholars, presented my research, finished writing up my dissertation and applied for my current job at LSE. MZES organized my stay so smoothly that I couldn't wish for more. 0185
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasDomantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025 🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵: 1104
Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 16/09/2025 🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵: 1104
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasJay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025New research finds that people “with both high psychopathy and low cognitive ability are the most actively involved in online political engagement” This is something I’ve observed in many political arguments online and it’s why I try to avoid online debates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comDark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsHumanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation 617566
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 14668252
Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 01/07/2025In our new publication to @nature.com Humanities & Social Sciences Communications @muhx2.bsky.social and I explore if the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine increased support for European integration among Europeans. The answer is yes! A short 🧵: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comEntangled fates—the rally effect around Europe due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine - Humanities and Social Sciences CommunicationsHumanities and Social Sciences Communications - Entangled fates—the rally effect around Europe due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine 1128
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasKlara Müller @klaramueller.bsky.social · 23/06/2025🚨 Excited to see my first solo-authored paper now published in IJPOR! 🚨 Do election outcomes affect participation in post-election surveys? And specifically, do election winners respond more than losers? The short answer: not really. The slightly longer answer: 🧵👇 academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...academic.oup.comSurvey Nonresponse After Elections: Investigating the Role of Winner-Loser Effects in Panel AttritionAbstract. When and for whom do election outcomes drive survey nonresponse? This paper investigates whether belonging to the winners or losers of an electio 48021
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasStuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 28/05/2025New preprint w/ @grahn.bsky.social & @joenoonan.se What happens when the world's most powerful democracy rolls back core liberal values? 🇺🇸 In this paper, we show how US liberal retrenchment, especially on women’s rights & LGBTQ+ equality, damages US global standing. 📄 doi.org/10.31219/osf... 611939
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasStuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 19/05/2025A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698 9283120
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025#RDDers: check it out. rd2d: Causal Inference in Boundary Discontinuity Designs "This article introduces the R package rd2d, which implements and extends the...results developed in Cattaneo et al. (2025) for boundary discontinuity designs [like geographic RDDs]" arxiv.org/abs/2505.07989 17118
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasLukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 08/05/2025The first paper of my dissertation has been published in West European Politics! @wepsocial.bsky.social See the thread below: 86916
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasMZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 15/04/2025❗ Reminder: Apply now for a fellowship at the MZES, University of Mannheim! 📅 Deadline: 26 April ❗ Please note the updated link 😊👇🏻 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta... 01212
Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Last week I had the pleasure to present at the University of Kent Social Psychology Seminar on the Rwanda scheme and racial hierarchies among Britons. It was also my first time presenting at a pub, great atmosphere and drinks. Thanks again to @sengupta.bsky.social for inviting me! 050
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasMarc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · 28/03/2025In a contribution to @respol.bsky.social, we show that Germans with a Russian or a Turkish migrant background are less in favour of sanctions against Russia. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... @himmelrath.bsky.social @dienerjulius.bsky.social @pluggedchris.bsky.social @dezim-institut.de 25616
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasJoe Phillips @polpsychjoe.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Out now and open access at @polbehavior.bsky.social! Which factors do Americans use to evaluate episodes of political violence? link.springer.com/article/10.1... (with Kal Munis, @nicolehufman.bsky.social, Arif Memovic, and Jacob Ford) 🧵link.springer.comWhen Push Comes to Shove: How Americans Excuse and Condemn Political Violence - Political BehaviorWhat factors do Americans find most important when evaluating acts of political violence? Normatively, details regarding the violent act (e.g., the target and violence severity) should determine the p... 55723
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasJoris Frese @fresejoris.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Published Today in PSRM: Based on a novel “Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design” (MUESD), I contextualize previous findings suggesting that Europeans become more empathetic toward migrants when exposed to migrant suffering. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... A Summary Thread: 1/15 710340
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 14/03/2025No opposition in the legislatures No opposition in the market No opposition in the media No opposition in the streets “The world’s oldest democracy” 🤷♂️ 123877
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasElizabeth Simon @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Do we systematically prefer educated candidates? Or do educational groups select in ways that reward their own? This article by @turnbulldugarte.com and I suggests the answers are yes, and yes - but only for the graduate group. Huge thanks to all who shared their data with us! 05430
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasVicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3 10454199
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasVioleta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · 27/02/2025New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread 315560
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Labour seems set on making the same mistakes as other parties dealing with the far right. Such strategies will only normalize and empower the far right. It also ignores the consequences that this will have on progressives. All of this is well-documented. 1/ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comGroup of Labour MPs urge No 10 to be tougher on migration to fend off ReformExclusive: Pressure group set up by MPs from seats where Reform came second amid concern about party’s rise 614449
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasTarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Like many other European social democratic parties, Labour is moving right on immigration, certainly driven by the recent success of Reform. We have researched this question for years now. There is an abundance of evidence of why this isn't a good strategy. A thread summarizing some of our research 20659326
Reposted by Domantas UndzėnasJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 26/01/2024Important new paper on the effect of Citizens United on democratic institutions in the US. tl;dr Citizens United meaningfully contributed to voter suppression & gerrymandering. design: diff-in-diff & synthetic control gated: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... 4270106