🚨 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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The euro banknotes seem to get a new look, and the @ecb.europa.eu has hosted a survey, asking which desing is the preferred one. I really like the stork on the 50€ banknote. surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/banknote...

📢 Now online in AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social)! With Katie Clayton, Aaron Kaufman, @kinggary.bsky.social , and @mayyakomis.bsky.social, we offer a unified framework for conjoint analysis—and argue for analyzing data at the CHOICE level. 📊 📄 doi.org/10.1111/ajps... 🛠️ yhoriuchi.github.io/projoint/

📣 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

🚨New paper out in JEPP @jeppjournal.bsky.social 🎉 Women are underrepresented in local politics, and the problem isn't only their election but retention. In a survey experiment with 500+ English councillors, we find that family-friendly council policies increase women's static ambition. 🧵

sure, June Ball parties are wild & graduations are moving, but for me it's always been the CEE pol behavior conf organized by @filipkostelka.bsky.social that marks the end of EUI spring term when familiar & new faces, grad school friends & emeriti show there's great research east of the Oder/Leitha

From our FirstView: Vetting for Virtue: Democracy’s Challenge in Excluding Criminals from Office by SIGURD S. ARNTZEN, @fiva.no and RUNE J. SØRENSEN. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

📢 Open call for two additional contributions to our Special Issue "Methodological Advances for the Study of German Politics" @pvs-journal.bsky.social. 📄 Submit by July 12: www.sosci.uni-hamburg.de/pvs/ ℹ️ www.dvpw.de/gliederung/s... @gessler.bsky.social @lukrudolph.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

My department at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social is advertising 3 Tenure-Track AP positions in Political Science and 2 Teaching positions. The department is nice, non-toxic, and in good financial shape (which is not a given these days, in the UK or elsewhere): warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

New paper in @EJPR: Why doesn’t regional inequality always spark backlash? It also depends on relative regional gains, not just absolute regional income. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Come work with me! 12 days left to apply! 👇 And if you are at #EPSS, go see the presentations by @clint0475.bsky.social to get a taste of what we do.

Lucy Kinski@lucykinski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 Postdoc position in #EU politics & governance (100%, 3 years initially) @uni-freiburg.de w/ competence in computational methods ⏰Deadline: 30 June 2026 ⭐Start: 1 October 2026 👉Full job ad & application portal: uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005... #EUsky #academicposition #jobs #hiring #polisci #CSS

if you're still in Dublin @ces-europe.bsky.social #CES2026 join our panel on Thursday morning at 9AM 🌅🥱 with @vanghel.bsky.social @alexmoise.bsky.social @nenaoana.bsky.social @ztruchlewski.bsky.social featuring experiments on the EU 🇪🇺

looking forward to present our co-authored paper w/ @dasilvapp.bsky.social featuring brand-new experimental data on financial nationalism in Hungary @ces-europe.bsky.social #CES2026 in Dublin on Wednesday in this great panel w/ @duarteamaro.bsky.social @bcaihuelas.bsky.social @tedperl.bsky.social 🍀

excited to present some work in progress on sham opposition parties in competitive authoritarian regimes tmr @eui-eu.bsky.social in this panel! many thanks to @angelovpanaro.bsky.social @anvaccaro.bsky.social Tiziana Corda & Valerio Vignoli for organizing this great workshop!

1/ Happy to share that "Factorial Difference-in-Differences" (FDID), with Anqi Zhao and @pengding00 , is out in JASA - ACS. doi.org/10.1080/0162... It has been a truly thrilling experience working with Anqi and Peng.

Factorial Difference-in-Differences

We formulate factorial difference-in-differences (FDID), a research design that extends canonical difference-in-differences (DID) to settings in which an event affects all units. In many panel data...

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New paper with @martingross.bsky.social in Political Studies 🗣️ "Feeling overlooked and underrepresented? Citizens’ preferences for dialect-speaking representatives" Do dialects matter for political representation? Short answer: yes.

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

From our May Issue: Institutional Recognition: Activating Representation to Build Police Responsiveness to Women by @gabikw.bsky.social, @amangla.bsky.social and @sandipz.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

How should we conceptualize political interest? In POQ, Laffineur et al. demonstrate that political interest and disinterest are distinct social identities through a newly developed methodological approach. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

reminder for myself: next time I teach stats, I shall mention the Hungarian Two-Tailed Dog Party

Sean Mackinnon@seanpmackinnon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I had a student ask me what the "tail" of a distribution is. She kinda looked at me incredulously when I told her it was just the tapered ends of the distribution because it, naturally, looks almost entirely unlike an animal tail and animals don't usually have 2 tails. Honestly, fair critique.

📣 New paper with @jschultecloos.bsky.social in European Union Politics. Who rallied hardest around the EU flag after Russia's 2022 invasion? Not convinced Europeans. The EU's traditional skeptics. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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What is the analogue of class guilt you feel witnessing the scenes in Ankara and Istanbul just weeks after my home country ousted its own autocrat with a landslide? Thinking of my Turkish friends tonight, stay safe!

Turkish police storm opposition offices after leaders ousted

Officers forced their way into the building days after the party vowed to defy a court ruling removing its leaders.

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For my Horizon Project EDGE I am looking for a senior researcher from October 1st. This is a 3-year position on inequalities and democracy support. All information on the job and application process is here: gesis.jobs.personio.de/job/2639403?...

Post Doctoral Researcher (SDC-28) | Jobs at GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

GESIS is one of the world's leading social science infrastructure facilities, supporting researchers at all levels of their research projects with expertise and infrastructure services. We help ensure...

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65.2 🫐 Politicising public service institutions 🧑‍🏫 E. van Elsas, @takesipma.bsky.social & @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social use survey data collected across 5 European countries to work out how citizens perceive ideological bias in public service institutions

Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Citizen perceptions of ideological bias in public service institutions: A cross-institutional analysis in five countries - Volume 65 Issue 2

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Introduction to R course with Daniel Kovarek is moving to a Virtual Format. Whether you are joining us from across the globe or utilizing our on-site workspace at the CEU campus in Vienna, you'll receive the same rigorous methodological training. methodsnet.org/course/d07-i... #MethodsNET #RStats

take my ONLINE Introduction to R 📊 course @methodsnet.bsky.social on the week of 29 June! Reduced pricing, dedicated classroom if you're in #Vienna & a gentle intro into programming for those w/o previous experience! 💻 Register here: methodsnet.org/course/d07-i...

looking forward to be part of this excellent panel next Monday @eui-schuman.bsky.social w/ @nenaoana.bsky.social at the annual @eui-egpp.bsky.social @yougov.co.uk Solidarity in Europe (SiE) conference! join us if you're around in Florence! www.eui.eu/events?id=57...

#Fidesz Propaganda Caesar donates his entire comms empire to the state now that his accounts are frozen. @forbes.com ranks him #34 on #Hungary rich list thx to a near-monopoly on Fidesz's fear-mongering billboard contracts. A one-sided plea deal, livestreamed on YouTube: what a time to be alive! 🍿

🚨 Coming soon: “The Political Economy of Public Bureaucracy” 🚨 My book is forthcoming in 2026 with @universitypress.cambridge.org. A preview of the cover art is below. Thanks to D. Carpenter, @sean-gailmard.bsky.social, and J. Gingrich for their endorsements! 🙏 More detailed info in the future. 😊

The Hertie School Data Science Lab is hiring a postdoc. This is an appealing position with fairly low teaching/admin responsibilities and a lot of freedom to develop your research agenda. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more! hertie-school.dvinci-easy.com/en/p/en/jobs...

Postdoctoral Researcher – Data Science for Public Policy (gn) full-time (40 hours/week)

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