Ohne Abo: In „Zeit“, FAS und SZ plädieren Autoren dafür, positiver über Care-Arbeit zu berichten, um jungen Menschen nicht die Lust auf Familie zu nehmen – Kinder haben ist schließlich was Schönes. Aber die vielen Negativberichte über Familienalltag sind nicht das Problem. uebermedien.de/118956/

„Historisch wenige Babys“: Sind die vielen Artikel über gestresste Familien mit schuld? | Meinung

Medienberichte über stressige Care-Arbeit sind nicht der Grund, dass Männer keine Lust mehr auf Kinder haben. Das Problem liegt woanders.

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🚨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.

In June, Switzerland will vote on what is so far the most radical far-right popular initiative launched by the Swiss People‘s Party SVP: capping the population at 10M (currently ≈9.1M). In this thread, I’ll break down what it’s about and how it fits into broader findings on Swiss direct democracy

Es wird gerade viel diagnostiziert, dass die Arbeiter jetzt die AfD wählen. Problem ist, dass das fast ausschließlich über subj. Einschätzung als Arbeiter passiert. Verwendet man objektive Daten über Berufe ist die AfD keineswegs bei Arbeitern am stärksten. Hier mit Parteinähe und Daten des ESS.

🆕 Mainstream or normalised? 🤷‍♀️ @asheinze.bsky.social & @gefjonoff.bsky.social look at the meaning of mainstreaming and normalisation in existing literature on the #FarRight and discuss an expanded framework for future research

Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Mainstreaming vs. normalisation: Towards more conceptual clarity on how mainstream parties legitimise the far right

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Angriffe auf Gesundheitseinrichtungen in bewaffneten Konflikten nehmen weltweit zu – trotz völkerrechtlichem Schutz. Mario Behrens (Politikwissenschaftler, Uni Basel / swisspeace) ordnet die Entwicklung im VSAO Journal ein. 👉 www.vsao-journal.ch/de/artikel/a... @mbehrens.bsky.social @unibas.ch

Angriffe auf Gesundheitseinrichtungen haben massiv zugenommen

In bewaffneten Konflikten weltweit werden Angriffe auf Gesundheitseinrichtungen und Gesundheitspersonal zunehmend als strategisches Mittel eingesetzt. Auch staatliche Akteure missachten vermehrt das h...

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Im Podcast Unibâle von @primenewsbasel.bsky.social spreche ich über die Auswirkungen von Hass im Netz auf die politischen Ambitionen von jungen Frauen und Männern.

Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel@polisciunibas.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Neues Jahr, neuer Podcast! 💁‍♀️🎧 Dr. Daniel Höhmann spricht mit PrimeNews über Hass im Netz, Sexismus und warum junge Frauen aus der Politik gedrängt werden. Ein wirklich cooles Interview, schnapp Dir Deine Kopfhörer und die letzten Weihnachtskekse 🎅🍪 und hör rein!😁 primenews.ch/articles/202...

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

From October 2025 - Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - cup.org/47ifc4B "we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks" - @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social #OpenAccess

For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

European progressives must tackle housing crisis to beat far right, say researchers

Centre left can win broad support by addressing soaring house prices and rents, according to data analysis

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🔔Job Alert 🔔 Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?” We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

"But the SVP is different": I hear this often, especially compared to A/fD. But 2024 data confirm different story: programmatically, the overlaps are strikingly close. The real difference is govt participation, not ideology. And yet, many still label the SVP as a center-right ("bürgerlich") party

Rahel Freiburghaus@rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 2y ago

#POLITKOLUMNE: Another focus on US hyperpolarization, but what may be lesser known: Once-consociational Switzerland has the most polarized party system in Western Europe. Switzerland’s governing coalition includes four parties that are the furthest apart ideologically www.derbund.ch/parteiensyst...

Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social

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Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭 21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET @alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions. 👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

Mit WDR 3 Resonanzen habe ich heute über die Aussagen von Friedrich Merz gesprochen, darüber wie sein Kurs die radikale Rechte normalisiert und stärkt und warum er vielleicht mal öfter mit jungen Frauen sprechen sollte. www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...

Konservativer Anti-Migrationskurs befeuert die AfD

Wenn konservative Kräfte die Narrative von Rechtspopulisten übernehmen, hilft das den Rechts-Außen-Parteien statt sie zu schwächen. Das zeigt die EU-weite Forschung des Politologen Tarik Abou-Chadi.

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🗣️ Our new study in @jwpp.bsky.social shows that online abuse on social media discourages young women from pursuing political offices—before their actual political careers have even begun. With @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and Tomoko Latteier #GenderSky 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

An Early Leak in the Pipeline – Online Abuse as a Barrier for Young Women’s Political Engagement

To what extent does online abuse on social media platforms obstruct an equal representation of women and men in politics? We investigate the frequency, character, and consequences of online abuse a...

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Mehr Sozialstaat und eine "antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" werden häufig als Mittel gegen den AfD-Erfolg genannt. Doch was ist dran an der These & welche Sozialpolitik wünschen sich die AfD-Wähler tatsächlich? Eine Datenanalyse von @schieritz.bsky.social und mir. www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Sozialpolitik: Wer wenig hat, ist in ihren Augen selbst schuld

Mehr Sozialstaat könnte den Aufstieg der Rechtspopulisten bremsen, heißt es oft. Umfragen zeigen aber: Die Wähler der AfD verstehen unter Gerechtigkeit etwas anderes.

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Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

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NEW - Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ - @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Autoritäre Kräfte schränken Frauenrechte gezielt ein. 👉 Wie wird Antifeminismus als politisches Mittel eingesetzt? 👉 Und warum unterstützen auch Frauen Akteure, die ihre Rechte angreifen? @mabreyer.bsky.social ‪@sarahbuetikofer.bsky.social www.polit-forum-bern.ch/veranstaltun...

NEW - The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW - @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Another piece on candidate selection of mine is forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social : Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR” (doi.org/10.1086/734244)

Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

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Can government policies moderate political backlash to structural change? Yes, the effect operates through material benefits and social recognition. 🚨New WP by @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @thmskrr.bsky.social and @susanadptavares.bsky.social 🚨 shorturl.at/zFbZE

Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️

Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals. 🔓: doi.org/10.1177/1354...

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social ❓Political implications of labor market transformation Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city. Deadline: May 18, 2025. tinyurl.com/postdoczurich #polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo