Lukas Haffert

@lhaffert.bsky.social

I teach comparative politics at the University of Bremen, Alumnus @jungeakademie.bsky.social, Autor: "Stadt, Land, Frust. Eine politische Vermessung"

We're hiring across Political Science at the department of political science @uni-muenster.de : 3 postdocs, a doctoral position and a research associate position, spanning methods, democracy and sustainability. Details and deadlines below. Please share widely; questions welcome!

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Interested in political legacies and political behavior in post-communist Europe? My review is now out in PRX. It draws on 200+ articles and discusses many conceptual and empirical problems in legacy research, along with ideas for addressing them and where the field could go next.

Political behavior and historical legacies in post-communist Europe

Thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, political behaviour in post-communist Europe continues to diverge from patterns in Western Europe, contributing to a research paradigm centred on ex...

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Überall in Europa brechen die alten Volksparteien zusammen oder sind es schon, aber auf der Titelseite von ZEIT Online denkt man immer noch, in Deutschland liege das an "handwerklichen Fehlern" der Regierungsparteien...

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Viel bekanntes: CDU dominiert im katholischen Emsland, AfD hier klar schwächer. Dafür deutlich stärker im Südosten um Wolfsburg/Gifhorn/Salzgitter. Auch die SPD performt hier traditionell besser, wie im protestantischen Friesland. Hochburgen von Linken und Grünen in den Uni- und Großstädten.

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Julius Kölzer@juliusk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

As the German state of Lower Saxony holds local elections today, it’s time to bring back this classic: Last time, in 2021, the AfD performed markedly worse in the state’s Catholic west, where the CDU remains dominant.

🔥 Trending on SciLove today 🔥 🔬 Rising rents – rising dissatisfaction? On the influence of rental prices on satisfaction with local public administration in German cities 👤 Hummler, 2026 📖 European Political Science Review 🔗 https://www.scilove.app/article/10.1017/s1755773926100538 #PoliSci

🔥 Trending today: Rising rents – rising dissatisfaction? On the influence of rental prices… (Hummler, 2026) - 11/08/26

High rental prices reduce renters' satisfaction with local government, even when housing availability and public services are adequate. 🏘️📉😠

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🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy (HPE)? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE), we discuss state-of-the-art research in the field on a regular basis. ‼️We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Please see the link below if you’d like to join.

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Taktisches Wählen soll eine Regierung der AfD in Sachsen-Anhalt verhindern. Für @zeit.de schreibe ich, warum die Strategie der politischen Mitte in Ostdeutschland kurzfristig helfen mag, aber langfristig nicht ihre strukturellen Probleme löst – und mache einen Vorschlag. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Landtagswahlen: Der Preis des taktischen Wählens

Je mehr Parteien es über die Fünf-Prozent-Hürde schaffen, desto geringer sind die Chancen der AfD auf eine Mehrheit. Über die Chancen und Schwächen der Strategie

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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! 👇

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old

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