We are now looking for a PhD researcher to join the project and our team Survey Data Augmentation @gesis.org. Requires an interest in democratic innovations, ability to field surveys, and German language skills. Details and application: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2709202?... Deadline: 29 July 2026

Researcher in Political Science (SDC-29) | Jobs bei GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS ist eine der weltweit führenden Infrastruktureinrichtungen für die Sozialwissenschaften und steht Forscher*innen mit Expertise und Infrastrukturangeboten auf allen Ebenen ihrer Forschungsprojekt...

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Sebastian Ziaja@sziaja.bsky.social · 4w ago

Do deliberative mini-publics generate positive spill-over effects for the democratic resilience of the wider population? We will investigate this at @gesis.org with three field experiments in collaboration with @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social and @acmay.bsky.social (@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social).

Do deliberative mini-publics generate positive spill-over effects for the democratic resilience of the wider population? We will investigate this at @gesis.org with three field experiments in collaboration with @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social and @acmay.bsky.social (@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social).

VolkswagenStiftung@volkswagenstiftung.de · 4w ago

Demokratien stehen unter Druck. Wir fördern jetzt 11 transdisziplinäre Forschungsprojekte zu Themen wie Cybergewalt, Polarisierung und Gleichstellung, mit rund 14,3 Mio. Euro. Alle Projekte im Detail vorgestellt: www.volkswagenstiftung.de/de/news/aktu...

📃🥳Very excited to see our study published in @ersjournal.com! @acmay.bsky.social and I study how integration policies can foster a sense of belonging among immigrants and their children despite facing discrimination across 20 EU countries. 👉 Check out our findings here: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

How integration policies relate to perceptions of discrimination and feelings of belonging among immigrants and children of immigrants. A multilevel perspective

Identifying with the receiving society is a crucial step in immigrants’ integration. However, this is hampered by perceptions of discrimination. We argue that inclusive integration policies (IPs) c...

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Excited to see our study on political discourses and far-right voting (with @acmay.bsky.social) featured in @elpais.com! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Careless whisper: Political elite discourses activate national identities for far‐right voting preferences

While exclusionary national identities are widespread among Europeans, relatively few people vote for the far right in most countries. Thus, an exclusionary identity in many cases does not lead to vo...

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Victor Lapuente @lapuente.bsky.social · 12mo ago

La xenofobia no se activa en una sociedad espontáneamente, sino por la palabra y obra de sus políticos. Escribo hoy "Opiniones migrantes": elpais.com/opinion/2025...

📢 New publication in Social Science Research: "Beyond Religious Categories" (with @hummlerteresa.bsky.social ) 📊 In a survey experiment, we investigate why Muslims are more likely to accept violent parenting practices than non-Muslims 📚 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline

Public discourse on immigrant integration often refers to cultural differences between immigrants and members of receiving societies, particularly imm…

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…and with that, my fabulous co-author @astroppe.bsky.social brings this year's EPSA to a close. See you in Belfast @epssnet.bsky.social !

Können Bürgerräte die repräsentative Demokratie stärken? Wir diskutieren Ergebnisse aus vier praxisnahen Forschungsprojekten auf einem Roundtable mit @polenz.bsky.social, @kliesenberg.bsky.social, Felix Arndt, Stabstelle Bürgerräte @bundestag.de und @heikekluever.bsky.social 1/4

🚨Publication Alert 🚨 Just in time for the next #BTW25, in my latest article doi.org/10.1111/pops... I show that far-right parties benefit strongly from heightened migration debates, but that left-wing parties can also benefit to some extent by offering pro-immigrant, inclusive positions. #polpsy

Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany

Exploiting the increased prominence of debates on immigration, right-wing parties often frame and campaign against immigrants as a threat to national societies. Research on national identity has show...

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🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

Read this a few weeks ago with my students, who asked an excellent question: why do mainstream parties ignore these and similar findings?

RRResRobot@rrresrobot.bsky.social · 2y ago

A. C. May and C. S. Czymara. “Careless Whisper: Political Elite Discourses Activate National Identities for Far-Right Voting Preferences”. In: Nations and Nationalism 30.1 (2024), pp. 90-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nana.12985.

I have planned a new reading course covering a cross-section of the very recent literature on the #farright vote, which you are most welcome to peruse/use/abuse as you see fit 👓 📚

Far Right voting: a new reading list - kai arzheimer

I'm sharing my syllabus on the radical right vote in Europe.

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In what turned out to be a highly topical post for @ecpr.bsky.social 's The Loop, @acmay.bsky.social and I argue that mainstream parties using nationalist rhetoric unintentionally boost far-right votes by activating exclusionary national identities. theloop.ecpr.eu?p=15826 polsky migsky sociology

Mainstream parties adopting far-right rhetoric simply increases votes for far-right parties

The rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe led some mainstream parties to attempt to regain voters' support by adopting pro-nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. However, new research by Antonia May and Christian Czymara suggests that this strategy unintentionally benefits far-right parties and not the political mainstream

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"Die intergenerationale Transmission von Scheidung im zeitlichen Wandel. Eine Meta-Analyse mit gepoolten Originaldaten." von Sonja Schulz. Jetzt in der neuen Ausgabe der ZfS. Im Open-Access unter: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Press Release alert! 📢 In our article, @christian.czymara.com and I argue that the use of nationalist, anti-immigration rhetoric by all parties is likely to have the unintended consequence of boosting the electoral chances of far-right parties. idw-online.de/de/news823640

🆕PUBLICATION ALERT To what extent and how do terrorist attacks influence public debates? What are the differences between public debates after extreme right and Islamist terrorist attacks? Very happy to see my single-authored paper out @JEPP #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1350... Polisky🧵1/

My team at GESIS is looking for a new PhD student to work on a Horizon Europe project on delivering evidence based policy suggestions based on harmonized survey data. We are cool, and this is interesting: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

🚨New publication @Electoral Studies   Interested in party message perception in multiparty systems? Have a look: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvp2xRaZg...   Main finding: Party effects are more nuanced than a pure in/out-group divide and trust in the medium matters for perceived credibility.   🧵 1/7