Looking forward to kicking off the LSE's brand-new Political Methodology seminar! I will present new work with @tarasenkogeorgy.bsky.social and Andrey Tkachenko on detecting batch-generated responses in survey data delivered by third-party vendors. Get in touch for the Zoom link or the draft.

Mara Weber@marathwe.bsky.social · 3d ago

📅 Political Methodology Seminar Series We meet fortnightly 12:00–13:00, starting Tuesday 13 October in MAR.1.09. 🎤 First up: Konstantin Bogatyrev (LSE) @bogatyrev.bsky.social on "Detecting AI-Generated Responses in Outsourced Survey Data Collection" Autumn term speakers from academia & industry👇

Debates about the EU budget are intensifying. Using @chesdata.bsky.social data, @jlattmann.bsky.social and I examine how countries’ financial contributions to and receipts from the EU budget relate to parties’ positions on European integration journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Party Politics (oa)

Join my @komex.bsky.social course & learn the basics of programming and data analysis in R in just 2 days online at #KOMEX2027, without any prior knowledge! 👩‍💻📊 Link: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...

We're excited that Leah von der Heyde will join us for the next session of the TaDa Fall Speaker Series: “How (Not) to Use LLMs in Survey Research” When? Wednesday, October 14, 17:00 (Berlin time) Sign up for our newsletter at tada.cool for the zoom link!

TaDa — Text-as-Data Speaker Series

Free online talks on text-as-data, NLP and machine learning in the social sciences. Biweekly Wednesdays, 17:00 Berlin time, on Zoom.

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📣 Deadline extended! If you think this could be the right position for you, don’t miss the opportunity to apply. 👇✨

Computational Communication Science Lab (CCL)@compcommlab.bsky.social · last mo.

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

Postdoc position within my group 3 years (100% TVl-13): stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/2... ⏱️ 06.11.2026 If you have questions: get in touch!

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in, salary level E 13 TV-L)

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For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November

First day at the new office! The view is quite nice :) @excinequality.bsky.social

Today, @malojan.bsky.social and I are launching the PartySOME website at partysome.org, an open, interactive platform for exploring how much political parties communicate online and what they talk about 🎤💻📊

📄 New Publication 📄 When AI Talks Politics: How reliable is ChatGPT? Co-authored with Daniela Braun, @giucarny.bsky.social and @rosanavarrete.bsky.social Now available Open Access @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵

Far right parties strategically increase the (descriptive) representation of women assuming it helps them win votes in general and, in particular, from women. Does it work? In this short descriptive piece, I show the answer in the case of Reform UK is a clear ‘no’ doi.org/10.1332/2515...

🇮🇹 Una bella chiacchierata su Varieties of Social Democracy e sui temi della sinistra ieri con @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social sul suo canale YouTube, che potete recuperare qui: www.youtube.com/live/gVDDl4Z...

Perché la sinistra non vince più? E cosa dovrebbe fare per tornare a vincere?

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New with @jacobgunderson.bsky.social , in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social (open access): "Positional Blurring in Context." Europe's populist parties typically blur their economic platforms but stay sharp on cultural issues. Does that hold everywhere? 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Positional Blurring in Context: How Dimensionality and Ideology Constrain Strategy | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Positional Blurring in Context: How Dimensionality and Ideology Constrain Strategy

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🚨New article in Nature Scientific Data: The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures: doi.org/10.1038/s415... with @lukashetzer.eurosky.social @sopro.bsky.social @chrauh.bsky.social @miklossebok.bsky.social 1/6

The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The ParlLawSpeech Parliamentary Text Data Collection > 3 Million Parliamentary Bills, Laws, and Speeches from 8 Legislatures

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Does ideological congruence or perceived competence matter more for vote choice? @dieterstiers.bsky.social & @annkristinkolln.bsky.social argue both matter, but valence consistently outweighs spatial considerations. Read more: buff.ly/J3cy21u @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci

Delighted to have presented my work on how rising house prices are shaping the politics of private renters in the UK in front of UK politics scholars at the #EPOP Conference in Liverpool! @psaepop.bsky.social @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Happy to see our paper with @annevanbavel.bsky.social on the negative consequences of political harassment towards MPs on their staff out in Parliamentary Affairs! Almost all staffers witness harassment towards MPs which discourages them from politics … (1/3) academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

The negative spillover effect of political harassment toward MPs: evidence from MPs personal staff

Abstract. Harassment politicians face has direct consequences on their working reality, yet the indirect spillover effects on those who witness it remain u

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🧵 Just accepted @thejop.bsky.social, with @tswalve.bsky.social "What's in a name? Name recognition, place-based identities, and candidate success" Voters prefer local candidates. But how do they know who's local? Often simply from the name on the ballot👇 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The German Local Manifesto Project (GLMP) is now online! 🇩🇪 GLMP provides a systematically documented & reproducible corpus of local manifestos & related political programmes from municipalities across Germany. Browse & download the data: localmanifestoproject.de @christinajuen.bsky.social

German Local Manifesto Project

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Martin Gross@martingross.bsky.social · last mo.

@christinajuen.bsky.social & I are very happy to see our first publication of our @dfg.de project published in Party Politics. GLMP provides a new dataset for studying local party politics in 🇩🇪: 2,307 manifestos from 306 political actors in 248 municipalities (1989-2024) doi.org/10.1177/1354...

I am very happy to share our new article, published in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social co-authored with Prof Andrea Ceron! This work looks at how parties use the rhetoric of responsibility in their electoral manifestos. #PoliticalScience #PartyPolitics #PoliticalCommunication #Manifestos #LLMs #NLP

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · last mo.

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - The rhetoric of responsibility in party manifestos (1980–2021) - https://cup.org/4ddcfod - Andrea Ceron & @scopelliti.bsky.social #FirstView

📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Communication Science at the University of Vienna! 🔎 Text/image analysis, platform data & political communication 📍 Vienna ⏳ 6 years, full-time ⏰ Apply by 3 Oct jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi... Find out more about our team here: compcommlab.univie.ac.at

@christinajuen.bsky.social & I are very happy to see our first publication of our @dfg.de project published in Party Politics. GLMP provides a new dataset for studying local party politics in 🇩🇪: 2,307 manifestos from 306 political actors in 248 municipalities (1989-2024) doi.org/10.1177/1354...

The German Local Manifesto Project (GLMP): A new data source for studying local party politics - Martin Gross, Christina-Marie Juen, 2026

Local politics remains comparatively understudied in political science, partly due to limited data on party competition at the municipal level. This research no...

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How do refugee crises end? In Dec. 2024, Syrian dictator Assad fled to Russia, ending a regime that displaced millions Would Syrians go back now the regime fell? Our paper tests this with original panel data (2019-2026), ~3k Syrian refugees, spanning fall of Assad osf.io/preprints/so... 🧵 1/8

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨 I am extremely excited that the First View of my new article "Strongmen, Populism, and Soccer: Comparing Silvio Berlusconi, Viktor Orbán, and Donald Trump" is now available. It was quite an ordeal to get it past reviewer 2, but I made it with help of special issue editors.

Saxony-Anhalt went to the polls, with the AfD falling just short of a majority. Here are some takeaways based on the preliminary results across all 218 municipalities and local socioeconomic characteristics. A thread 🧵(1 /n) Full analysis + write-up: juliuskoelzer.de/saxony-anhal...

Thrilled to share that I have received an ERC Starting Grant for my project HIDDENPOL: The Hidden Politics of Everyday Media. 🎈 @erc.europa.eu

European Research Council (ERC)@erc.europa.eu · last mo.

📣 Good news! 📣 Results of the ERC 2026 Starting Grant call are out! Funding worth a total of €705 million will go to 421 early-career researchers across Europe. Discover who, what and where 👉 link.europa.eu/9M3MmN 🧪 #ERCStG #FrontierResearch #HorizonEurope 🇪🇺 @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu

📄New preprint with @steffenhurka.bsky.social , @steffiru.bsky.social, and @kaplaner.bsky.social. (@demolaw.bsky.social) Divided We Legislate: How Party Conflict Shapes Legislative Design. doi.org/10.33774/aps...

Divided We Legislate: How Party Conflict Shapes Legislative Design

Though research on elite party conflict has long emphasized its effect on legislative productivity and outcomes, little attention has been paid to how these dynamics shape the design of legislation it...

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Whose fault is it really? 👉️ 👈️ Andrea Ceron of @ecprsgpp.bsky.social and @scopelliti.bsky.social analyse responsibility rhetoric to suggest that it is used by parties moderating their policy positions to explain shifts from tradition buff.ly/wd9dZCs

The rhetoric of responsibility in party manifestos (1980–2021) | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

The rhetoric of responsibility in party manifestos (1980–2021)

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What makes citizens engage with politicians on social media? Our new study shows that negativity, particularly personal attacks and incivility, gets attention, but not necessarily approval. Citizens comment and share more on such posts, but they don’t necessarily like them. ➡️ doi.org/10.1057/s412...

Engaging citizens? The role of negativity and incivility on politicians’ social media - Acta Politica

Studies show that negative social media posts by politicians generate higher levels of citizen engagement, yet not all forms of negativity have the same effects, nor do they operate uniformly across c...

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Bocconi University is hiring an open-rank Comparative Politics position! Scholars at all levels with strong research agendas welcome; rigorous quantitative analysis (empirical or theoretical) highly preferred. Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. Apply: unibocconi.eu/jobmarket

Job Market - Bocconi University

Recruiting, Faculty, Post-doc Grant, Collaboration Contracts

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