🎙️Neue Folge des In_equality Podcasts: “Spaltet Sparpolitik die Gesellschaft?“ @mbusemeyer.bsky.social und Gabi (@uni-konstanz.de) sprechen mit Evelyne Hübscher und @sattlersthomas.bsky.social über Sparmaßnahmen und deren Auswirkungen auf Wahlverhalten & politische Polarisierung ➡️ t1p.de/7let1

New paper w/ @hannohilbig.bsky.social: we examine how local exposure to the Great Recession affected politics over the long run. Counties where unemployment rose more in 2007–09 moved toward Democrats, not the populist right. The shift remained visible in 2022.

Great piece on the power of framing (posted by Paul Novosad on X in case you did not see it). I might use it in office hours / class. jasonmfletcher.substack.com/p/how-to-wri...

How to Write a Top 5 Paper: A Case Study

Two teams, nearly the same question, nearly the same data—and a revealing difference in what the papers ask the evidence to do

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NEW - The Equality Positions and Policies of Governments, 1970–2020: How Egalitarian Parties Evoke Equality While Evading Real Redistribution - https://cup.org/3TLOKfb - @alexanderhorn.bsky.social & @leoahrens.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Do young voters care about different issues than old voters? New evidence from a nice pairwise-comparison experiment by @indubioproreto.bsky.social ⏬

Reto Mitteregger@indubioproreto.bsky.social · last wk.

New publication out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social! We know young voters vote for different parties and hold different attitudes than older citizens. What we know less about: whether they also care differently about political issues. Using novel experimental survey data, I show: they do! 👇

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We're hiring a six-year Postdoc @stawi-univie.bsky.social, starting in Oct 2026 (or thereafter). Research: political representation, party competition, institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅 Deadline: 20 Aug 2026 Apply here: tinyurl.com/dyf9bt7h

Zusammen mit TTRex habe ich einen Beitrag zum Narrativ der "AfD als Partei der jungen Männer“ geschrieben; weswegen Differenzierung hier relevant ist und welche anderen Gruppen und Erklärungsmuster (zu) häufig vernachlässigt werden: thinktank-rechtsextremismus.campact.de/wp-content/u...

💡 How do subjective concerns of job loss in the wake of the green transition and digitalization shape citizens' preferences for public spending on both transitions?

Journal of Public Policy@jpublicpolicy.bsky.social · 3w ago

A new blog post by @slstutzmann.bsky.social and Sebastian Koos - tinyurl.com/bdenrhed! The article entitled "Funding the future: understanding public spending preferences on the green transition and digitalization in advanced democracies" is available here: tinyurl.com/bdz9mn99

Great article on methodological pluralism that articulates exactly my thinking about the relevance of different kinds of research in times where so much emphasis is placed on causal inference journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Here's a little something that might interest a number of you in my network, part of a forum in the Journal of Public Policy: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... Many thanks to editor Josh Ryan and the commentators Samuel Bagg, Tara Grillos, Agustin Markarian, and Mary Scudder!

Heute auf Bluesky, am Donnerstag (übermorgen!) an der @uni-goettingen.de : Julius Kölzer! 😉 www.uni-goettingen.de/de/50226.htm...

Julius Kölzer@juliusk.bsky.social · last mo.

Die Linke pulled off a surprise win in Germany’s most recent federal election and has suddenly become one of the most closely watched parties in Europe’s progressive politics. Behind the success lies a continuing structural transformation of its geographic support base. A short thread🧵

Excited to share a bunch of new SciLove features that hopefully makes keeping up with new papers even more fun and effective. Thanks to all who I talked to at conferences this past month @epssnet.bsky.social @ces-europe.bsky.social - it's fantastic to develop this from inside the community, enjoy!

SciLove@scilove.bsky.social · last mo.

New SciLove features just dropped: ✨ AI summaries — Glimpse at the main finding before you dive in 🔍 Better discovery — Add keywords for better results and see what's trending 📚 Library, upgraded — Stay on top with article tags, and add articles using extended search www.scilove.app

„Working class support for X is up by Y%“. What does this information do to polarization between groups? In a new paper w/ Geoffrey Evans: Perceived working-class alignment with pro/anti camps on immigration & environment shifts identification and sympathy doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Perceived class positions and opinion-based polarisation: experimental evidence from the UK

Class divisions over emerging policy issues are well-documented, yet the mechanisms driving these divisions remain underexplored. This article argues that perceptions of how the working class posit...

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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

New paper with @philiprathgeb.bsky.social in Journal of European Social Policy: #SocialInsurance is blamed for entrenching insider-outsider divides & weakening redistribution. Drawing on #Austria, we show it can be more solidaristic and resilient than means-tested benefits. doi.org/10.1177/0958...

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Assistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Our project "Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-trust Welfare State" is looking for a PhD fellow. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (3-4 years) (303073) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellowship in Political Science (3-4 years) (303073), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, September 1, 2026

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The first ever #EPSS 2026 football games were a great success! Thanks to @charlottekuberka.bsky.social and @vheddesheimer.bsky.social for organizing.

Join us in discussing some great papers at 10.50 at Hilton Lagan b @epssnet.bsky.social #epss

Arrived @epssnet.bsky.social and I can immediately feel my demand for redistribution growing (significantly*) @beckerbastian.bsky.social (;

@ces-europe.bsky.social, we have a Mini Symposium on parties' use of group appeals with these two great panels 👇 join us wednesday at 2pm and/or 4pm if you are in Dublin 📆

Come and work with us @iepolisci.bsky.social & don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Please share!

IE Political Science Department@iepolisci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.

New paper, with Patrick Fournier & @zeynsom.bsky.social, out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social! 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... a brief 🧵

Do Citizens Perceive an empty Left-Authoritarian Quadrant? Citizen Perceptions of Parties’ Positions in a Multi-Dimensional Space - Ruth Dassonneville, Patrick Fournier, Zeynep Somer-Topcu, 2026

Given that there are few parties in the left-authoritarian quadrant of a two-dimensional ideological space, citizens that combine economically left and sociocul...

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Very excited for a full conference week! Tomorrow at CES in Dublin & Thursday at EPSS in Belfast, I’ll present joint work with @charlottekuberka.bsky.social on whether local investments in public services can reduce political discontent, studying train service reactivations in rural Germany. 1/2

@ces-europe.bsky.social, we have a Mini Symposium on parties' use of group appeals with these two great panels 👇 join us wednesday at 2pm and/or 4pm if you are in Dublin 📆

Our book Trigger Points is now out in open access. Huge thanks to Mike Savage for a terrific foreword and to Michèle Lamont, Silja Häusermann and Daniel Ziblatt for their kind words. Link below: @mikesavagelse.bsky.social @mlamont.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social @dziblatt.bsky.social

One week left to apply to the two doctoral researcher positions below! ⏳ Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Endre Borbáth@eborbath.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’m hiring 2 doctoral researchers in Politics of Climate Change at Heidelberg University 🌍 📊 Survey Research & Political Participation 🗣️ Qualitative Research & Group Formation Part of “The New Climate Divide” Deadline: 21 June 2026 Calls: www.ipw.uni-heidelberg.de/en/about-us/... Please share!

⚽📚 The Ultimate World Cup Research Thread I've set up a little automated thread: every day of the 2026 World Cup (11 Jun–19 Jul) it shares one study on what football does to society: politics, economics, migration, health, crime & more. One paper a day. Kickoff below 👇

📢 PhD position in Political Science Join the ERC-funded #DEMOLAW project, studying the design, creation and survival of democratic laws across the US, UK and EU using computational methods. 📍 Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen 📅 Apply by 12 July 2026 #PhD #PoliticalScience #AcademicJobs