🚨 New GERDA update: - Large update of mayoral elections (6 new states) - Landrat elections - Wahlkreis (district)-level results (BW & LW) - Local council seats (Gemeinde/Stadt & Kreis) - 2026 elections: BW state, BY & HE local More info below and here: www.german-elections.com

GERDA: German Election Database

Comprehensive dataset of local, state, federal, European, mayoral, Landrat, and county election results in Germany at the municipality and constituency (Wahlkreis) level, plus subnational public opini...

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Zusammen mit TTRex habe ich einen Beitrag zum Narrativ der "AfD als Partei der jungen Männer“ geschrieben; weswegen Differenzierung hier relevant ist und welche anderen Gruppen und Erklärungsmuster (zu) häufig vernachlässigt werden: thinktank-rechtsextremismus.campact.de/wp-content/u...

🚨We are hiring a two-year postdoctoral researcher (80%) at the University of Zurich within the new Horizon Europe project WELFAIR on the political implications of technological change, demographic ageing and rising inequality. The full job ad is here: tinyurl.com/3b6ddm25 Apply by August 9, 2026.

📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026

Europe’s growing urban-rural divide in voting along the transnational cleavage is not merely a reflection of underlying educational differences, as @theresakuhn.bsky.social, @bramlancee.bsky.social and I show in this new study in @ejprjournal.bsky.social. A short thread 🔽

Why does it feel harder to imagine a shared future? In a new paper, Jens Beckert argues that it's not just a crisis of optimism or storytelling: we've lost some of the social foundations that make collective futures possible in the first place. Open access: s.gwdg.de/TdoXg4

NEW! Combining my two obsessions of cycling and political economy data into a new Substack: Tour de Data. Daily posts for every stage of the Tour de France, digging into what the race tells us about money, place, and power. Not just who's in yellow;) 🚴📊 tourdedata.substack.com

Tour de data | Lauren Leek | Substack

Everyone watches the racing. I'm watching the data on riders, money, towns, and what the Tour is really about. Click to read Tour de data, by Lauren Leek, a Substack publication. Launched 18 hours ago...

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📢 Job Ad: I am looking for one doctoral researcher (75%) in my newly funded DFG project on misperceptions and factual information on immigration from 1.10. or soon after! 📌 Location: MZES, University of Mannheim 💢 Application Deadline: 21st of July

Research by day, networking by night! Great to see many of our PhD Researchers and Alumni presenting their work at the first Annual Conference of the European Political Science Society in Belfast. We are proud of the ideas they shared and the conversations that continued after the panels ended.

One of many highlights of a great conference!

EPSS@epssnet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The first ever #EPSS 2026 football games were a great success! Thanks to @charlottekuberka.bsky.social and @vheddesheimer.bsky.social for organizing.

On my way to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast. I'm very much looking forward to presenting two papers! Paper I on party strategies in contested liberal democracies: 13:30-15:10, 20 June, Lagan B (Hilton)

Super interesting! "Seemingly Anchored Inflation Expectations" by Ulrike M. Malmendier and Stefan Nagel. "Overall, long-run inflation expectations may be less firmly anchored than commonly believed." bpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchic...

Looking forward to presenting ongoing work on how growing up amid rapid deindustrialization shaped support for Brexit at CES in Dublin and #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week: CES: Tuesday, June 16, 9-10:30am, O'Connor Building - L1.20 EPSS: Thursday, June 18, 3:20-5pm, Meeting Room 3b (ICC)

„Trigger Points“ - open access!

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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

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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How can mainstream parties respond to the radical right? Great discussion of the empirical literature by @hannohilbig.bsky.social

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Looking forward to the talk by the terrific Ruth Ditlmann in our Politics Lecture Series at @humboldtuni.bsky.social tomorrow! Come and join us!

'The (forgotten) atomistic fallacy in political science and its implications for how we interpret elections': delighted our new research note with Tim Vlandas is just published in one of my favourite Political Science journals @ejprjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Happy to see my new article out in the Journal of European Public Policy @jeppjournal.bsky.social! As the green transition produces new lines of conflict in Europe, I provide an account of how place shapes discontent with climate policies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧵

This is a super useful overview of academic conferences in the social sciences. Especially useful for early PhDs! sirusdehdari.github.io/conferences....

⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS - EPSS PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP ON PLACE, POLITICS AND EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY ⏰ Submit by Weds 20 May! For all those interested in politics of geographic divides and keen to explore impact potential of their work. More info/submit here: shorturl.at/xS0iS @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social

EPSS pre-conference: “Place, Politics, and Evidence-Based Policy”

In this pre-conference workshop we bring together researchers who study the role of place in politics, and we want to focus particularly on how we (can) make impact on policies and public debates with...

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A reminder that applications for this 3-year fully funded PhD position close at the end of next week (May 17). This is a great opportunity to work on climate politics comparative politics in a vibrant environment, with loads of freedom to develop your own project. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Call for applications for a 3 years doctoral contract

For the ERC GREENLOSS Project - Application deadline: May 17, 2026

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📣My first solo paper is now published Open Access in @electoralstudies.bsky.social ! 🎉 Through a DiD, it studies what happens to expressed immigration concern after a radical right party achieves its first major institutional breakthrough 🧵 Read it here 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Legitimising prejudice? The impact of radical right party presence on anti-immigration attitude expression

Are citizens hiding their true preferences? The entry of nativist and nationalist radical right parties can help normalise certain attitudes considere…

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🚨 Job Alert We are loooking for a 3year Postdoc @excinequality.bsky.social Work with @mbusemeyer.bsky.social, Sebastian Koos, and me Focus: computational social science, analysis of political texts, future-oriented policies and parties 📅Apply by June 5th stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/c...

📣 The Politics Lecture Series is back with a fantastic line-up! Our opening talk by Aksel Sundström from the University of Gothenburg has the promising title "“Thirsting for New Leaders? Droughts and Demand for Women Politicians” Tue, 28 April 2026, 12–1 pm, Room 002 Everyone is welcomed!

I had such a great time at this conference - thanks so much @celiaestruch.bsky.social & @charlottekuberka.bsky.social for putting it together!

Cèlia Estruch@celiaestruch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Last week, @charlottekuberka.bsky.social and I hosted our ECR Conference on the Political Dimensions of Place-Based Inequalities in Urban & Rural Life at the LSE. Thanks to all participants, @neillee.bsky.social, @msands.bsky.social, @lseinequalities.bsky.social & @lsegovernment.bsky.social 🎉

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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📢 Out April 16th: Growth, Democracy, or Climate Action? co-authored with Aidan Regan, Cyril Benoit & Tim Vlandas. As fuel prices rise and governments buckle under competing pressures, the book could not be more timely. www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (1/6)

Growth, Democracy or Climate Action?

Governments are confronted with a tradeoff between growth, liberal democracy and effective climate action. They cannot achieve all three objectives at the same time. The authors consider which one has...

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I am looking for a postdoc to join my team at the University of Bremen. 5-year-contract, top-up to 100% possible for most of the contract period. Apply by 04 May 2026. If you have questions about the position, send me an email! www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

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New paper out in @thejop.bsky.social : "Immigration, Public Housing, and Support for the French National Front." How does expanding public housing affect far-right support? The answer depends heavily on local conditions, and specifically on local immigrant shares. Paper: doi.org/10.1086/736361