🚨New paper Like most things in democracies, achieving climate action in the form of sustainable policy needs a significant amount of political mobilization. We investigate when & where this is more likely to happen across places on the climate frontline: the Global South🧵 📌 osf.io/preprints/so...

One of my empirical-work econ takes is that I think academia should be *more* open to publishing work based on best-we-can-do weak data, as long as there's really no other way to address the question and that work is very clear about what it can and can't actually say.

🚨 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

Turkey keeps creating fascinating party names. The Good Party (İYİ Parti) was already a great example. The new CHP splinter takes newness "as a winning formula" to another level: it's literally called the New Party. Check out our recent paper on party names and branding 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I am proud to have presented my work with @eborbath.bsky.social on automating core sentence coding yesterday evening at @epssnet.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone there for a great panel and especially to @laiacastro.bsky.social for discussing our paper!

Off to a conference marathon: first @ces-europe.bsky.social in Dublin, then @epssnet.bsky.social in Belfast. At CES, @dnwildi.bsky.social and I present papers on the climate divide and LLM claims analysis. In Belfast, @dasalgon.bsky.social presents our Chile/Spain movement parties paper. ☕/🍻? DM me!

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!

Why do our societies seem so deeply divided when most citizens actually occupy a broad political middle ground? @steffenmau.bsky.social, @thomaslux.bsky.social & @lwestheuser.bsky.social unpack this paradox in Trigger Points, pub. today @brisunipress.bsky.social, Foreward @mikesavagelse.bsky.social

Trigger Points

Trigger Points - Inequality and Political Polarization in Contemporary Society; Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Is society really polarized? This book explores key conflicts...

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A fully funded 2-year postdoc for my ERC project on climate politics, comparative politics and political economy. Deadline: 29 July 2026, 10am CET Starting date: Jan 2027 (flexible) Feel free to reach out next week at EPSS if you’d like to discuss the position www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Position GREENLOSS Project

2 Years - Postdoctoral Position Starting January 2027

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Stunned to hear about the loss of Raul Pacheco-Vega. A hugely passionate scholar who built large and wide communities around him. His absence will certainly be felt in many places.

I am very much looking forward to presenting the first results from our ClimateDivide project at this superb conference next week! 🌳⚡🌳Hope to see some familiar faces too. PS: 🔎 We have two PhD positions in the project, spread the news and don't hesitate to reach out. climatedivide.eu

The New Climate Divide

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Raul Pacheco-Vega@raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This conference in honor of Dr. Donatella Della Porta looks like a Who Is Who in social movements studies: www.sns.it/it/evento/so... (no, I wasn't invited nor am I presenting, but I can recognize great work when I see it, and Dr. Della Porta has been a bastion of solid scholarship in SocMov).

Free for a limited period from the latest issue of @poppublicsphere.bsky.social - APSA Presidential Address: Epistemic Institutions and the Populism Dilemma: Reimagining Political Science as a Vocation amid Democratic Breakdown - cup.org/4sMuEhv - Taeku Lee

The recording of my lecture “The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy?” is now on YouTube. It opened Heidelberg University’s Ruperto Carola lecture series on “Wehrhafte Demokratie”. Watch here: youtu.be/jshrUXaqv7s?... Looking forward to the rest of the series!

The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy

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Looking forward to presenting some work in progress with @dasalgon.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social at @powimz.bsky.social today!

PoWiMZ@powimz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Heute in unserer #Forschungswerkstatt: Jan Schwalbach (GESIS Köln) spricht zum Thema "Movement Parties and Legislative Speech – Analyzing Party Behavior with Text Data" Beginn (wie immer): 16 Uhr, im P4 (Philosophicum) Alle sind herzlich Willkommen!

We are hiring 2 PhD candidates at Heidelberg University to research individual-level participation, group formation, and identities around the emerging divide in climate politics! For more infos see below or contact me - apply until 21. June!

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!

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!

I’m happy to open Heidelberg’s Ruperto Carola lecture series on “Wehrhafte Demokratie” with: “The Populist Radical Right – A Threat to Democracy?” I'll discuss why these parties rise, how they mobilize, and when they represent a threat to democracy. ⏰Mon 11 May, 18:15 📍Aula der Alten Universität

Universität Heidelberg@uniheidelberg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ruperto Carola Ringvorlesung: Wehrhafte Demokratie – Resilienz, Sicherheit, Verteidigung – Öffentliche Vortragsreihe an der Universität Heidelberg befasst sich mit den ... www.uni-heidelberg.de/de/newsroom/... #universität #heidelberg #uniheidelberg #ringvorlesung #populismus #demokratie

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

German SPD, Greens, and Linke will stop posting on X. An important step and signal. X and its owner have long become a megaphone for the far right, a venue that is actively used to encourage abuse and violence. It‘s simply shameful how many in politics, media, and academia still actively post there.

Knife crime! Pronouns! Meat bans! Some political issues lead to "hotter", more emotional and polarizing debates than others. We show how these "trigger points" reveal a contested structure of moral expectations and how they get weaponized by polarization entrepreneurs. OA @bjsociology.bsky.social 🧵

Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”

Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordi...

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This is a really interesting article. All of it has lessons, but the part that really struck me is the way populist culture war issues weren't tackled head on, but were instead effectively dismissed as far less relevant or important to people than issues of corruption and public service decline.

Endre Borbáth@eborbath.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Much of the coverage of the Hungarian election has focused on Orbán. We know less about the strategy behind Péter Magyar’s and Tisza’s breakthrough. I’ve written a short piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on why this challenge succeeded.

Do protests change elections? Prior research: "yes, and dramatically so." But is that always true? What about protests in the last few years? Our latest working paper challenges prevailing logic. Our finding: most recent protests have failed to do anything to influence elections.

Much of the coverage of the Hungarian election has focused on Orbán. We know less about the strategy behind Péter Magyar’s and Tisza’s breakthrough. I’ve written a short piece for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social on why this challenge succeeded.

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔮 #FutureOfPopulism No.106 🗳️ @eborbath.bsky.social argues that #Tisza’s breakthrough in #Hungary wasn't just about anti-incumbent anger or Péter #Magyar’s personal appeal. It rested on a combination of cross-cutting grievances, participatory organisation + intensive campaigning. 👉️ bit.ly/3QeKq6v

🚨 New paper in the @apsrjournal.bsky.social: Nils-Christian Bormann and I propose to model the electoral effects of ethnic and other cleavages with a new *Covoting Regression Model*. A short on the method and our results on ethnic voting in Sub-Saharan Africa. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

It's weird that all these accounts I follow for other reasons (US politics, international politics, UK, etc.) are posting about Hungary. You gotta give it to Orban, he made HU "interesting" -- in a bad way. I am looking forward to HU going back being an obscure, boring, normal country.

Reuters says Tisza has at least 135 seats: 133 is the constitutional supermajority! Live by highly disproportional electoral systems (which Orbán made even more disproportional with the extra compensation votes awarded to winners), die by highly disproportional electoral systems.

randy r. potts@thephatic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

now we have to hope Magyar gets that 2/3 majority 🤞

Orbán congratulated Magyar. It's really a historic moment.

Periodic reminder: this isn’t just an election. It’s either a popular uprising against Orbán or an authoritarian mobilization to keep him in power. (And it can absolutely be both.)

Zselyke Csaky@zecsaky.bsky.social · 4mo ago

At 5pm it's officially a record -- at 74% it's the highest turnout in the history of modern elections in Hungary. And there is still two more hours to go.

In the last year and a half, pollsters in Hungary have developed parallel realities. On the eve of the elections the chasm between Fidesz-affiliated pollsters and the others has widened more than ever. Via Gabor Toka: xcancel.com/PopuliIn/sta...

This article is the best summary I’ve seen so far of the institutional hurdles Tisza would face, even if it wins on Sunday. tvpworld.com/92544224/hun...