How do school visits by politicians effect students' attitudes towards politicians and democracy? 🏫 A recent pre-post survey finds significant improvements in their image of politicians, internal/external efficacy, as well as knowledge and interest. 📈 Read the study recap:

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Many people perceive politicians as an elite outgroup that is untrustworthy and extremely different from the ordinary citizen. To some extent, this even resembles a social group identity. Research has...

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I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Bureaucratic appointments and coalition support in presidential systems – An analysis of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies - Koichi Osamura, 2026

How does the provision of political appointments influence coalition support in multiparty presidential systems? While the importance of cabinet portfolios for ...

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Excited to share our new paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @krausewe.bsky.social! Parties polling just below an electoral threshold are far less likely to clear it: a self-fulfilling prophecy that diminishes when polls communicate uncertainty. 🗳️📊 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Werner Krause@krausewe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social) Do opinion polls shape election results? Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🎯 New paper alert! It includes the main theoretical & empirical contribution of my dissertation: disentangling targeting and tailoring in political social media advertising. Really happy @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social and I found such a great home for it 🏠 Open Access 👉 doi.org/10.1080/1369... 1/4

Targeting and/or tailoring?! A theoretical framework and its application to political social media advertising

Despite the widespread use of data-driven campaigning (DDC), there is limited conceptual clarity and empirical understanding of how political parties employ the advertising strategies of targeting ...

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My first paper is out! Co-authored with @falkscheidig.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pa/g...

🚨 New Article in Politics and Governance When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction By @schnizzl.bsky.social and S. Kritzinger 🔗 Open access: doi.org/10.17645/pag... 🧵 1/6 #Polisky

When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post‐Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction | Article | Politics and Governance

Julia Partheymüller, Sylvia Kritzinger

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Friendly reminder! We already have a lot of participants (thanks to everyone who did!) but every single one strengthens our findings, so if you haven't participated yet please consider 😊

Jule Kegel@julekgl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!

I’d especially like to encourage women to apply. We’re a fantastic department with excellent scholars, in beautiful Vienna. Data shows that women are less likely to apply for positions than equally qualified men (Muriel Niederle & Lise Vesterlund 2011), so if you’re considering it, please go for it!

Reto Bürgisser@retobuergisser.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 We have an opening for a 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 @stawi-univie.bsky.social starting Aug/Sep 2026! Focus: political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy, political behavior, or related fields 📅Apply by 29 April 2026 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

New blog post ✒️ Who gets emotional about politics and what impact do knowledge, interest, and confidence-in-knowledge have? Find out more about the sophistication-emotion link in our latest blogpost:

BLOG: Who gets emotional about politics?

Fear of migrants, national pride, and anger at elites are just some examples of the ways in which emotions play an important part in today’s political culture. It is a long standing assumption that em...

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Are you a policymaker, teacher, practitioner, academic in political science, psychology, education or related field? We’re inviting experts to complete a short survey on youth political participation: tinyurl.com/ywnseae3 For every completion, we’ll donate €1.20 to UNICEF. Please share!

Im Rahmen eines repräsentativen Surveys im Vorfeld der Wahl in Baden-Württemberg haben wir u.a. danach gefragt, ob die Partei mit den meisten Wählerstimmen den Ministerpräsidenten stellen sollte. Dieser Aussage stimmten rund drei Viertel der CDU-Wählerinnen und -Wähler „voll“ oder „eher“ zu /1

🚨 Job Alert! We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”. Start: March 1, 2026 Application deadline: February 2, 2026 Find out more👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

Just political science things: Trying to write an opening paragraph for a paper that says "authoritarian populism is on the rise and this can be very harmful for democracy" in a way that it hasn't already been phrased in one of the other gazillion opening paragraphs on this topic 🥲

How do adolescents form their political views, and are they really so different from adults? Next Friday (Nov 7), the IP-PAD Doctoral Network and @hotpoliticslab.bsky.social host a conference in Amsterdam on adolescents and politics (attached program). DM or email j.kasper@uva.nl to join.

Open Letter by scientists to the Council: "Climate Neutrality Is Europe’s Greatest Economic Opportunity”. Ahead of the European Council meeting on 23.10.2025, 2,178 scientists urge EU Heads of States & Governments to take ambitious decisions for the 2040 targets. zenodo.org/records/1739...

I wrote a short article this summer while working with the brilliant people at Public First in London, who kindly allowed me to ask some questions in their UK omnibus survey. 🧵 pfdatablog.com/blog/lsd7usd...

Better politics starts with conversations only few are having — Public First - Data

When asked about their views on politicians, the British public does not hold back. Eight in ten Britons agree that the gap between ordinary people and politicians is wider than the differences among ...

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🔍How does young people's anxiety about the future relate to their political attitudes? Find out in my first PhD paper, just published in the special issue "The Psychology of Pushback" at advances.in/psychology/1...

Facing a dark future: Young people’s future anxiety and political attitudes in the UK and Greece

Study finds future anxiety linked to more conservative views among young men, but not young women, in the UK and Greece.

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I spent the past few months in London on secondment at a non-academic company as part of my MSCA doctoral training, which was a wonderful and eye-opening experience. Here is a blog post reflecting on one of the main things I learned: www.ippad.eu/post/jule-ke...

Jule Kegel on her secondment experience at Public First

Finding common ground: Scientific standards across sectorsMy name is Jule Kegel, and I am currently an IP-PAD doctoral candidate at the University of Vienna. Over the past three months, I was the seco...

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Jule Kegel@julekgl.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Ah yes, my finest work "PaperTitle"

Awards, awards, awards! 🏆✨ At the 11th Annual @oegpw.bsky.social Conference, three members of the Department of Government @univie.ac.at were among the awardees: 🎓 Best PhD – @christinagahn.bsky.social 📘 Best MA – Benjamin Riesch 📗 Best BA – Luca Conte 👏 Huge congrats to all! 🎉 #PoliSky 🧪

Ah yes, my finest work "PaperTitle"

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

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Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

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Since I have made this post I have gathered a bunch of observational studies with null results since then. Here is a quick thread:

Joe Noonan@joenoonan.se · 2y ago

What are some good examples of political science papers using observational data published with null results?

We are happy to announce that PhD student Belén Abdala successfully defended her thesis "From Voting to Candidacy: An Analysis of Individuals’ Motivations to Participate in Politics" on 12th of March! Congratulations, Belén! Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors! #PhDone

Wir haben ein neues Sharepic :-) @friedrichbohn.bsky.social macht aber sicherlich auch noch gerne Sharepics für 10.000, ... 🙂 www.bayceer.uni-bayreuth.de/s4f/de/top/o...

Btw it never made it. I’m trying to channel my inner Downs and telling myself my vote doesn’t matter anyway. Not sure it’s working very well

Jule Kegel@julekgl.bsky.social · last yr.

Just Auslandsdeutsche things: explicitly sent my ballot back with a tracking option just to see that it hasn’t moved at all in 4 days

Just Auslandsdeutsche things: explicitly sent my ballot back with a tracking option just to see that it hasn’t moved at all in 4 days

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Reminder that these protests work: - Evidence from Greece: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... - Evidence from Italy: academic.oup.com/poq/article-... - Evidence from France: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

Aviel Roshwald@avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2y ago

250,000 demonstrators in Berlin protesting center-right CDU’s cooperation with neo-fascist AfD in passing anti-immigration legislation.

Der Forschungsstand ist klar: Wenn demokratische Parteien rechtspopulistische Erzählungen/Politik übernehmen/nachzuahmen versuchen, hilft das nur rechtspopulistischen Parteien. Expert*innen warnen deswegen seit JAHREN. Niemand kann sagen, man hätte es ja nicht gewusst.