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📢 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 🧵:

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Kai 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.

Results from the Danish general election 2026

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Danish 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.

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Key takeaway: perceived economic deprivation is a key driver of radical right support - both directly and indirectly through increased support for social hierarchies.

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As radical right parties in Western Europe emphasise the preservation of existing social hierarchies (based on ethnicity, gender, class, etc.), preferences for hierarchy are closely linked to support for these parties.

Ethnic majority individuals who feel economically deprived compared to minorities are more likely to support hierarchical social structures, placing minoritised groups lower in the social order.

Political Science literature often emphasises economic, cultural, and place-based explanations for radical right support. I contribute by identifying a mechanism that combines two psychological approaches: relative deprivation and social dominance theories.

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Sven 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/mwag016

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The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy

Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

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Johannes 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....

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Naman 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...

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Domantas Undzėnas @unddom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Welcome to the team! We are happy to have you!

Tim Allinger @timallinger.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

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Very 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 ⬇️

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 11/02/2026

New 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/10.1086/740816

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Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Klara Müller @klaramueller.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Excited 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

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/02/2026

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

What’s a multiverse good for anyway?

Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and Andrew Gelman

Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.

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Hannah Rajski @hannahrajski.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Join us for this year‘s Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Applications are open until March 1.

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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

partycoloR 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")

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

stop 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.

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Graduate 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:

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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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Christopher 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 🧵

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Graduate 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 #SocialStudies

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GESS expands doctoral programme: New track in social data science to start in 2026 |

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Valentin Lang @valentinlang.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Happy 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

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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Highlighted quotation: “As an economist, Low searched for a more precise term to describe how she and other working moms often find themselves stretched for time and energy. She came up with “the squeeze”, and it’s backed by data that shows how women often get burnt out trying to manage competing demands at home and work, especially when they are parenting young children.”

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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

New 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....

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Immigrants’ 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 ...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

To 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?

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Migrant 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...

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MER Migrant Electoral Rights dataset

Suffrage 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...

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Konstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

For 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.

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🚨 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 🧵:

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As this is a working paper, comments and any feedback are always welcome.

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Wishing to maintain hierarchies through law as well as violently is significantly increased by the ruling. Additionally, anti-immigrant parties (Conservatives UKIP and Reform) indirectly receive an increase of voting intentions by around 6 percentage points.

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I find that Britons surveyed after the ruling become significantly more socially dominant compared to the ones surveyed before the ruling. The effect is primarily driven by White Britons.

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It is the Supreme Court decision on the Rwanda scheme that I use as my quasi-experimental treatment. I use an unexpected event during survey design to test how the ruling influenced people's hierarchical values measured as social dominance orientation (SDO).

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I argue in the paper that the Supreme Court ruling should threaten the British public due to the Supreme Court defending the rights of a group that is perceived to be threatening.

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The Rwanda Scheme was the controversial treaty between Rwanda and the UK that allowed Britain to send its asylum seekers to Rwanda to have their asylum request processed there. The UK Supreme Court decided on November 15, 2023 that this scheme is unconstitutional due to human rights concerns.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

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New 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...

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Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

New 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...

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The main takeaway from our article is: a rally 'round the European flag occured after the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is best explained by Europeans seeing the security benefits of a united Europe rather than emotional attachment to the European project.

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As with many UESD applications, the effect is short-lived, lasting for around 3 weeks after the start of the full-scale invasion. However, we find that the support for a united EU jumps up again after the Ukrainian victory in the battle of Kyiv, reflecting EU reliability as an ally to Ukraine.

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In academic terms: this provides support for a functionalist understanding of EU integration as opposed to a post-functionalist understanding. That is to say, considerations about the benefits of Europe, rather than emotional attachment, drive this rally 'round the flag effect.

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Additionally, we find that the effect of the Russian invasion on EU integration attitudes is stronger for those who have higher political interest, but not for those who are emotionally attached to Europe.

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Using @ess-survey.bsky.social data and an unexpected event during survey design we find causal evidence that the Russian invasion increased European support for EU integration. The effect is present for individuals from EU and non-EU countries alike.