Gute Fragen & kurze Antworten von mir zu meinem neuen Buch #ZOiS_MeetTheAuthor @zois.bsky.social

Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien (ZOiS)@zois.bsky.social · 11h ago

In ihrem neuen Buch untersucht @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social anhand von Umfragedaten, Interviews und O-Tönen das Russlandbild der Deutschen – und findet dort weniger Wissen als viel mehr eigene Befindlichkeiten. Für #ZOiS_MeetTheAuthor haben wir mit ihr über ihre Motivation und das Buch gesprochen.

Inheritance taxation is unpopular, even amongst people who are unlikely to ever have to pay it. Why? In four different studies - experiment! panels! behaviour! - @cvalebeek.bsky.social and I show political trust is a strong predictor for support for the tax. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Political trust and inheritance taxation: evidence from four studies

Inheritance (estate) taxation is a potentially powerful instrument for reducing inequality and raising state revenues, yet it attracts opposition well beyond the small minority who will ever pay it...

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🚨Job alert! 🚨 Come work with us on the British Election Study! We are looking for a postdoc to join the new BES team: 5 year contract, starting in Jan 2027. Happy to chat if you've got any questions. Applications close 12 Nov, for details see: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: British Election Study Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Full-Time, Fixed-Term for 5 yearsThe Department of Politics, International Relations and Philosophy at Royal Holloway seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work on the British Election St...

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I'm giving two talks in the next few weeks on national health and nationhood discourses under Keir Starmer. First up is the webinar series from Corpus Network Chile, and the second is the Language, Ideology and Power research group at Lancaster. Both talks will be online :)

In this work, we find - in two key ways - that people do not see the Conservatives as the main opposition. Parties' importance in the media and their prominence seems to be far more a function of their polling than their seats in parliament, as the Lib Dems have known for a long time.

Jane Green@profjanegreen.bsky.social · 6d ago

NEW! Mega thread on the Tories... Work from the NPRC team @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social shows two critical electoral evaluations that spell much deeper trouble for the Tories. Follow @justinrobinsonpol.bsky.social and @martamiori.bsky.social as this work builds. Why do the findings matter? …

How did Europeans react to Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs? New registered report (forthcoming, JEPS): a UESD design using a Eurobarometer survey in the field when the tariffs hit. US favorability fell 2.9 pts No change in EU attachment No shift in support for retaliation or rules-based trade

Ever wondered what attributes are relevant in your conjoint experiment? And what assumptions you need to estimate it? Asya and I got you covered. In a new working paper we propose the APNS: the probability that an attribute's level change is necessary and sufficient for the selection of a profile.

Great thread by Vincent on what may help explain the party’s breakthrough last month. Looking across Berlin’s 1,500 precincts, a higher share of households renting was weakly associated with higher support for Die Linke in 2023. By 2026, that relationship had become markedly stronger. (1/3) 🧵

Vincent Heddesheimer@vheddesheimer.bsky.social · 4d ago

Germany's Die Linke won last month's Berlin election on a pledge to socialize ~220k flats owned by large landlords. A thread on why housing expropriation is a successful campaign promise, how Berlin's flats became an asset class, and what expropriation would do. 🧵

Eigentum first, Demokratie second. Diese gegenwärtige Enthemmung der FAZ-Rechten ist wahrscheinlich was die FDP damals mit "offener Feldschlacht" meinte.

Thorsten Faas@wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de · 5d ago

Die Reihenfolge. Pures Gold. Eigentum First.

We are happy to introduce our current Editor’s Choice articles, which are available to download for free until the end of the month. @brisunipress.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social

❗ There's a permanent, research and teaching lectureship over at the University of Surrey in the broad area of behaviour, attitudes, parties, etc. jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Surrey: Lecturer in Politics

The University of Surrey is a global community of ideas and people, dedicated to life-changing education and research. We are ambitious and have a bold vision of what we want to achieve - shaping ours...

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Germany's Die Linke won last month's Berlin election on a pledge to socialize ~220k flats owned by large landlords. A thread on why housing expropriation is a successful campaign promise, how Berlin's flats became an asset class, and what expropriation would do. 🧵

Die Wahl des neuen Landtagspräsidenten und seines Vize in Sachsen-Anhalt zeigt: die „Brandmauer“ ist gefallen. Dass es dazu kommen konnte, liegt an einem Konstruktionsfehler des Konzepts: Es gab nie einen Konsens darüber, was die „Brandmauer“ eigentlich ist. Meine Analyse im @tagesspiegel.de 👇🏻

We're excited that Leah von der Heyde will join us for the next session of the TaDa Fall Speaker Series: “How (Not) to Use LLMs in Survey Research” When? Wednesday, October 14, 17:00 (Berlin time) Sign up for our newsletter at tada.cool for the zoom link!

TaDa — Text-as-Data Speaker Series

Free online talks on text-as-data, NLP and machine learning in the social sciences. Biweekly Wednesdays, 17:00 Berlin time, on Zoom.

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NEW! Mega thread on the Tories... Work from the NPRC team @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social shows two critical electoral evaluations that spell much deeper trouble for the Tories. Follow @justinrobinsonpol.bsky.social and @martamiori.bsky.social as this work builds. Why do the findings matter? …

After a year (already?!) at @politikuhh.bsky.social I'll give my Antrittsvorlesung 21/10🎉 I'm shy about my current research as I had a baby just weeks after joining UHH and the year has been exhausting with both start-up- & new-parent-tasks. But, that's just all the more reason to celebrate! 1/

How do voters deal with the uncertainty which coalition government the party they vote for might ultimately join? Excited to see our paper on this question typeset in @thejop.bsky.social We show that voters are risk-averse and value less uncertain government prospects.

🚨New Paper in @polbehavior.bsky.social! Julia Leschke and I ask: What works against populist rhetoric? We find: Advocating for pluralist ideals can mitigate the negative effects of populist rhetoric. link.springer.com/article/10.1... More details below ⏬

In Frankreich protestieren seit Tagen Schüler*innen. Immer wieder kommt es zu Gewalt. Ein 🇫🇷 zur Ergänzung der in Deutschland bisher recht begrenzten Berichterstattung:

Schulproteste in Frankreich: Sorge vor weiterer Gewalteskalation bei Schülerprotesten in Frankreich

In Frankreich haben erneut Tausende Schüler für bessere Lernbedingungen protestiert. In Lens wurde ein Jugendlicher durch eine Polizeigranate schwer verletzt.

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In meiner Abteilung werden bald 2 PostDoc-Stellen frei, eine im Projekt INFRADEM zu Macht, Demokratie + digitalen Infrastrukturen, die andere im Feld Critical Data/ Platform Studies/ Ethics and Digital Cultural Studies. Deadline: 24.10.; Details + English version below – freue mich über Bewerbungen!

Why do green parties struggle electorally despite widespread support for climate action? My new (first 😱) paper explores why green parties remain uniquely challenged in economic crisis & that the mechanism is not only about sociotropic concerns, but also voters’ pocketbooks 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Pocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Pocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties

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Excited to share our new working paper with @benyoel.bsky.social: we analyse public opinion dynamics around the consequential election in Hungary last April and specifically look at (anti-)democratic attitudes in the aftermath of Orbán's defeat. Available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Ben Yoel@benyoel.bsky.social · 2w ago

How do elections in backsliding settings shape attitudes toward democracy? @gabrielagreilinger.com and I fielded two surveys: 1 pre/post & 1 after Hungary's election. In short, elections appear to increase satisfaction among winners, even months after. Working paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Swiss People’s Party SVP is one of the oldest and electorally strongest radical-right parties in the world. But: electoral popularity ≠ policy popularity Voters keep supporting the SVP in elections, but only 2 out of 12 popular initiatives launched by the SVP have passed Data: Swissvotes

Reto Mitteregger@indubioproreto.bsky.social · 2w ago

A lot of European countries have seen the far-right winning in recent elections. Yet, the Swiss far-right SVP has just suffered its third consecutive direct democratic loss today: Its "neutrality-initiative" got massively rejected with only 29% yes votes.

📄 New paper in @electoralstudies.bsky.social: “From the center to the fringes: A comparative test of attitudinal explanations for mainstream-to-challenger defection” 👥 with @krausewe.bsky.social and @aigneranna.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.el...

We are hiring at LMU Munich: two PhD positions and one postdoc on democracy, political psychology and computational social science. Start: January 2027 or as soon as possible. We review applications on a rolling basis until October 20. Details below. Reposts very welcome! 1/7

Der Wahlerfolg der Berliner Linken wird mit Zohran Mamdanis Kampagne in New York verglichen: Fokus auf junge, migrantische Wählergruppen und hohe Wohnkosten. Unsere Datenanalyse im @tagesspiegel.de deutet darauf hin, dass das funktioniert haben könnte. 🧵 interaktiv.tagesspiegel.de/lab/der-berl...

We're hiring a postdoc to work on the intersection of class, inequality and the green transition. It's a two year position based at Copenhagen Business School in collaboration with Oxfam Denmark. Spread the word! @oxfamdanmark.bsky.social @ioa-cbs.bsky.social @oxfaminternational.bsky.social

Having a job in a workplace with a considerable proportion of university-educated coworkers is associated with an increase in culturally liberal attitudes www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Ideas at Work: Educated Colleagues Shape Political Attitudes - Volume 56

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Our colleague and friend Philipp Köker has left us and i can't begin to order my thoughts. I hope I can express to his family the feeling of loss we can't beginn to understand, but attempt to share. rundblick-niedersachsen.de/politikwisse...

Politikwissenschaftler stirbt überraschend mit 40 Jahren

Philipp Köker, habilitierter Politikwissenschaftler und Experte für die Erforschung politischer Institutionen, ist im Alter von 40 Jahren überraschend gestorben. Die Nachricht hat in Kreisen der Unive...

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Shades of #Climate skepticism 🕶️ 🌳 @asheinze.bsky.social & @akueppers.bsky.social examine diverse climate attitudes of local political elites to develop an analytical framework, assessing the varying degrees of climate skepticisms in two eastern German states buff.ly/Ris4NIw

Many shades of climate skepticism: Exploring climate change attitudes among local political elites in Germany | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Many shades of climate skepticism: Exploring climate change attitudes among local political elites in Germany

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