Bei der "Langen Nacht der Demokratie" ✋🎇🎈in Baden-Württemberg durfte ich bei einem tollen von Jugendlichen organisiertem Event der Stadt Fellbach, neben Beiträgen einer Poetry-Slammerin, einem Sportler und tollen zivilgesellschaftlichen Initiativen eine Keynote zu Zukünften der Demokratie halten 😍

The 🇪🇺 has been trialing participatory democracy - but do those who support supranational institutions want that? In this article, I show that they do not, instead preferring representation and technocracy. But: moral and cultural cosmopolitans 💜participation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ich freue mich riesig auf die Junge Nacht der Demokratie im Rahmen der Langen Nacht der Demokratie Baden-Württemberg. Ich gebe einen (hoffentlich) hoffnungsvollen Impuls zur Zukunft der Demokratie!🪐

Had a fantastic time in beautiful Krakow for #ECPR spent 🌎presenting on global democracy & 🪐democracy on Mars & ✋democratic preferences 🤗catching up with wonderful colleagues

How does the latte-drinking-liberals idea play out in the Swedish multi-party context? Find out in our article recently published in Journal of CSS: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Created together with brilliant @felixlennert.bsky.social, Elida Izani Ibrahim & @mhbodell.bsky.social!

Partisan tastes or ideological divides? Everyday interests and political identities in a multi-party system - Journal of Computational Social Science

Everyday interests expressed in leisure, media consumption, or cultural practices, increasingly intersect with political orientations, making them strong signals of individuals’ political identities. ...

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⚽📚 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 👇

Based on @howtheyvote.eu, the @szde.bsky.social has done a data analysis on all the times far-right groups were decisive in this European Parliament - with unsurprisingly mostly the EPP, a bit of Renew plus the Greens and the Left on the Mercosur vote:

"Left behind" and an undemocratic mind? Happy to see that my article on the link between perceived marginalization and democratic orientations is now out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social 🧵👇 Read the article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Defending democracy is different than defending the status quo [..] we defend democracy best by trying to improve it and not simply by calling any critic an enemy.[..] In my view, unhappy are the lands that need an enemy to know who they are. Europe is not simply the anti-Russia and should not be.”

IWM Vienna@iwm.at · 6mo ago

In today's ceremonial address at the Austrian Federal Chancellery, Ivan Krastev reflects on what it means for Europeans today to consider themselves the children of May 8th, 1945 – an appeal to remain hopeful. Read the full address: www.iwm.at/news/all-eur...

So krass.

the biggest disconnect between most people and government is that they don’t feel like government is doing anything useful for them bridging this divide is as difficult as it’s ever been in the age of fractured social media, but I genuinely do not think anyone is doing it better than Zohran

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 7mo ago

New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins. Pick your fix and vote here: nyc.gov/madness

Das Wunschdenken über die AfD-Wählerschaft:

Die AfD ist nur unwesentlich stärker als bei Landtagswahlen 2016 - da war sie ebenfalls drittstärkste Partei. Der Vergleich zu 2021 überschätzt massiv den angeblichen Wahlerfolg heute. Abstände zu Grüne & CDU nahezu gleich groß wie 2016. ARD & ZDF wollen aber lieber die andere Story. 🤷‍♂️ #ltwbw

An Özdemir win would matter in another sense too. 7 decades after the first "guest workers" came to the federal republic, he would be the first minister-president of a German state to have Turkish roots. It wasn't a big factor in the campaign - people just like him (⬇️) - but is a moment nonetheless.

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Voters are not substantially better represented than nonvoters. However, people active in different types of nonelectoral political behavior, such as demonstrating, are better represented than the non-active link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are the Politically Active Better Represented? - Political Behavior

Political participation is considered an important path for people to influence politics. However, whether those who participate actually see more of their preferred policies implemented remains an op...

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🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

🫶 Wishing everyone restful holidays and a happy start into the new year! We look back on many inspiring moments in 2025, and forward to many more interesting discussions and projects in 2026 ✨🎄

🚀 How do citizens imagine their future democracy – on Mars and on Earth? Using large survey experiments in the US and Germany, we explore how people envision democratic governance with and without path dependencies 🪐 Read the preprint here ➡️ osf.io/preprints/so...

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Is ChatGPT conservative or liberal? A novel approach to assess ideological stances and biases in generative LLMs - https://cup.org/48Oh8Co - Christina P. Walker & @joantimoneda.bsky.social #FirstView #ChatGPT

🌍The latest cleavage: the universalist divide @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social , @dpzollinger.bsky.social , @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @simonbornschier.bsky.social, and @lhaffert.bsky.social provide evidence from the 2024 European Election Study 👇 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We were happy to welcome @lalamur.bsky.social who gave a brilliant talk on the impact of political talk about feminism when dating 💘 Future research projects and collaborations were also discussed 🤝 - stay tuned! 🤩

Thank you, Stuttgart, for such a wonderful time! Special thanks to DDME team @demolabs.bsky.social with @franziskamaier.bsky.social @seraphinearnold.bsky.social & André Bächtiger! 💜

Yesterday, the DDME Team held a workshop as part of the Freedom Week in Berlin, where participants got to design democracy on Mars! 🚀 💡 It was an inspiring experience to turn survey research into practice and watch participants discuss the pros and cons of involving different actors in the process.

Descriptive representation has comparatively limited appeal for citizens, but is more important for historically marginalised groups. Citizens do not only focus on local politicians, but also seek representation from politicians in other districts www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

“Because of the tremendous wealth of key figures…major corporations have enabled, collaborated with, and turned a blind eye to efforts to suppress, torture, falsely imprison, terrorise and murder dissenters … around the world.” Twitter [gave] the Saudi government a reach well beyond its borders.

Joanna Bryson, blathering@j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · last yr.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/09/twitter-saudi-arabia-deep-ties-elon-musk-prince-mohammed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

NEW - Deepening, Bridging, and Moving Minds in Stressful Times - https://cup.org/4pG5tfo "In highly polarized situations, however, open communication is the only way to communicatively reach out to people." - Simon Stocker, André Bächtiger, Bernhard Kittel & Marco Steenbergen #OpenAccess

Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes...

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🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

I can't wait for our Workshop on "Democracy on Mars" during the Berlin Freedom Week, with my favourite colleagues AND hosted in my favourite place, the Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa 🚀 🫰 Sign up if you are in Berlin on November 15th! berlin-freedom-week.com/event/wie-so...