Some news: Based on work out of the @wzb.bsky.social earlier this year Nourhan Elsayed, Hanno Hilbig, Sascha Riaz, & I published this on how communist era schooling in Germany affects attitudes today in the "British Journal of Political Science." A quick summary www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Vincent Heddesheimer@vheddesheimer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Just shipped a major update to GERDA, the German Election Database. - State elections update: new years + mail-in - 3 new election types: Mayoral, County, European - Municipal elections: 1984-2025 - Meinungsbild public opinion - New website & features german-elections.com

1000 times this. Thanks Cyrus I’d put it almost more sharply: not always, but too often, researchers using survey experiments seem to think they’re making causal inferences when they are measuring quantities. confusion over the inquiry is v far from the spirit of the cred revolution

Cyrus Samii@cdsamii.bsky.social · 8mo ago

A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

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Our paper "GERDA: The German Election Database" is out in Nature: Scientific Data! We collected and harmonized election results for federal, state, and local elections for 1990-2021. Updates for more recent elections, pre-1990 elections, and county elections soon!

GERDA: The German Election Database - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - GERDA: The German Election Database

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Andreas Wiedemann@awiedemann.bsky.social · last yr.

Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Urban–rural cleavages are seen as a defining political divide. But does this polarization hold worldwide? My new working paper tests this question using an original dataset of granular, geocoded election returns from 106 countries (polling station-level in 70). (1/8)