Really looking forward to presenting new work coauthored with @alonadolinsky.com in Mainz this week!

PoWiMZ@powimz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Am kommenden Mittwoch, 24.06.2026, begrüßen wir in unserer #Forschungswerkstatt! Lena Maria Huber vom Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung (MZES) an der Universität Mannheim. Sie spricht zum Thema "Claim and Response: How Group Appeals Shape Voters' Perceptions of Representation". Al

📣 New paper out in BJPolS 📣

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW - Who Do Parties Speak To? Introducing the PSoGA: A New Comprehensive Database of Parties’ Social Group Appeals https://cup.org/43fmXFj - @alonadolinsky.com, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & @rwillh11.bsky.social #FirstView

What about them? 💭 Rune Stubager, @chdausgaard.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social & Michael Lewis-Beck use survey data from Austria, Denmark & the U.S. to find out whether group sympathies matter as much as social identity when influencing #VoterBehaviour

Reference groups and electoral behavior | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Reference groups and electoral behavior

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💬 How can we measure inter party communication? ➡️ Using a transformer based approach, @annather-nerd.bsky.social et al. classify how parties talk about rivals (positive-negative), studying coalition signals in Germany and campaigning in Austria www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Another day, another publication: Our new paper introduces a transformer-based approach to measure how parties talk about each other, capturing who talks about whom and with what stance, with applications to coalition signals in Germany and negative campaigning in Austria. Out now, open access!

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 5mo ago

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Measuring inter-party communication: a transformer-based approach - https://cup.org/4aK4Zy7 - @annather-nerd.bsky.social, @okuspokus.bsky.social, Thomas Gschwend, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Ines Rehbein & Lukas F. Stoetzer #FirstView

Very happy to see our new article “Reference groups and electoral behavior” (coauthored with Rune Stubager, Christoffer Hentzer Dausgaard & Michael Lewis-Beck) published! Using ANES, DNES and AUTNES data, we show that liking or disliking social groups shapes vote choice.

I had a really great time in Ghent! Thank you @jasmienluypaert.bsky.social for the invitation!

GASPAR UGent@gasparugent.bsky.social · 9mo ago

How and why do parties target specific social groups? 🎯On Friday 28th November, Dr. @lenamariahuber.bsky.social (University of Mannheim) will discuss the importance of social group appeals during the next edition of the Gaspar Lecture Series. ➡️Registration link: event.ugent.be/registration...

Packed panel kicked off by @lenamariahuber.bsky.social on group identities in political competition. 🙌 #EPSA2025 @epsanet.bsky.social

@haukelicht.bsky.social and I have exciting news! Our joint project „Group Appeals in Parliamentary and Electoral Debates“ has been approved for funding by the DFG and the FWF! The project will start on Feb 1, 2026 and we’ll be hiring: 📍Pre-doc (Mannheim) 📍Post-doc (Innsbruck) Stay tuned for calls!

🚨Publication Alert🚨 New update to the ManifestoVault repository is available! Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2025 German general election. Full coverage: Ireland, UK, Germany 1970-2025 @rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

Alona O. Dolinsky@alonadolinsky.com · 2y ago

🚨Publication Alert🚨 An update to the ManifestoVault repository is now available! Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2024 Irish and UK general elections. Full details in Release Note. @rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

My latest article “Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals“ (coauthored with Martin Haselmayer) is now available open access! Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... #PoliSky

Promising links: how parties combine policy issues with group appeals

Despite growing interest in how parties use social group appeals to reach out to different groups within society, the combination of policy issues and social groups in parties’ campaign strategies ...

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Had a great time in Konstanz yesterday, presenting new work on group sympathy and party choice in the CPPE colloquium! Thank you @na-wehl.bsky.social @tobiastober.bsky.social and @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social for the invitation!

🚨Publication Alert🚨 An update to the ManifestoVault repository is now available! Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2024 Irish and UK general elections. Full details in Release Note. @rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

🎄🌟 Exciting news! 📊🎉 The AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017–2024 is here! 🎁🤩 Explore 23 survey waves to uncover the dynamics of voting behavior and public opinion in Austria. 🗳️🇦🇹 Access the data via #AUSSDA ➡️ doi.org/10.11587/HNU... #AUTNES #ElectionStudies #Polisky #DataRelease #WeLoveData ❤️