Today, @malojan.bsky.social and I are launching the PartySOME website at partysome.org, an open, interactive platform for exploring how much political parties communicate online and what they talk about 🎤💻📊

The Encyclopedia of Polarization has just received its latest update! We (@aleininger.bsky.social, @felixgruenewald.bsky.social and our RA Tom Anderer) have expanded our collection on polarization research. You can find the newest entries on polarization.wiki and some of them listed below:

We are delighted (and soooooo happy) that the DFG will fund the first four years of our Research Unit “𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗿𝗮𝘇𝘆: 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗳𝘀”. We will seek 8 Ph.D. candidates and a postdoctoral coordinator to start in Spring 2027.

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📣 Call for papers now open! The next Annual Conference of the European Political Science Society will take place in Copenhagen, 24–26 June 2027. Submission deadline: 13 November 2026 (23:59 CET) Looking forward to it! #EPSS2027 @epssnet.bsky.social

The German Local Manifesto Project (GLMP) is now online! 🇩🇪 GLMP provides a systematically documented & reproducible corpus of local manifestos & related political programmes from municipalities across Germany. Browse & download the data: localmanifestoproject.de @christinajuen.bsky.social

German Local Manifesto Project

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Martin Gross@martingross.bsky.social · 4w ago

@christinajuen.bsky.social & I are very happy to see our first publication of our @dfg.de project published in Party Politics. GLMP provides a new dataset for studying local party politics in 🇩🇪: 2,307 manifestos from 306 political actors in 248 municipalities (1989-2024) doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Easy. It's availiable free of charge @gesis-dataservices.bsky.social @glen-study.bsky.social collects survey data on social responses to climate change and the environment, up to four times a year. #climatecrisis #climatechange

Crystal Lewis@cghlewis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Klicks für Konflikte: Digitale Kommunikation bringt unsere politische Kultur ins Wanken – oder? 📱 Antwort darauf geben der Medienpsychologe Stephan Winter und der Experte für politische #Kommunikation Christian von Sikorski im #Forschungsmagazin der RPTU. rptu.de/s/uohweb

Wahlbeteiligung (OHNE Briefwahl) Sachsen-Anhalt um 16 Uhr Bereits höher als die endgültige Wahlbeteiligung bei allen Landtagswahlen im Bundesland außer 1998. Stichprobe der Landeswahlleiterin Quelle: @wahlrecht.de

Today, SCOPE is excited to join the SOUNDS kick-off meeting at @uni-saarland.de! SOUNDS brings together researchers from various disciplines to better understand societal transformations through novel digital data sources. SCOPE is looking forward to new interdisciplinary exchanges and synergies!

New publication by our SCOPE member @zinnatullin.bsky.social. "What drives affective polarization? A systematic literature review", published in European Political Science. doi.org/10.1017/S168...

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What drives affective polarization? A systematic literature review

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Is the ‘directional’ measure of negative campaigning really unreliable? @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maierjuergen.bsky.social & Michaela Maier examine evidence from nine studies, arguing the measure is reliable & robust. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/19BZgGn @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci

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🚨🚨 New publication: 🚨🚨 Does affective polarization (AP) change citizens’ willingness to support democratic norms or participate? 🧵1/10 Full paper here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Cool Citizens? How Affectively Unpolarized Citizens View and Participate in Democracy - Political Behavior

Does affective polarization change how citizens view and participate in democracy? We posit that the answer to this crucial question depends on how affectively unpolarized citizens view and participat...

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What makes citizens engage with politicians on social media? Our new study shows that negativity, particularly personal attacks and incivility, gets attention, but not necessarily approval. Citizens comment and share more on such posts, but they don’t necessarily like them. ➡️ doi.org/10.1057/s412...

Engaging citizens? The role of negativity and incivility on politicians’ social media - Acta Politica

Studies show that negative social media posts by politicians generate higher levels of citizen engagement, yet not all forms of negativity have the same effects, nor do they operate uniformly across c...

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When politicians mock and insult each other, is this communication strategic OR is it simply reflective of who they are as people? Our new study shows that such communication is predominantly strategic, but how much politicians use it depends on their individual traits. ➡️ doi.org/10.1177/1940...

Incivility Among Politicians: Driven by Rational Minds or Personal Drives? - Željko Poljak, Bart Maes, 2026

There is growing concern about politicians engaging in incivility by mocking and insulting each other. While prior research often explains such discourse throug...

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cues like driving a Prius or eating at Chick-fil-A help voters infer candidates' partisanship, but only when they don't have direct political & policy issue information academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Nonpolitical Identity Signals as Information Shortcuts: Evidence from Three Experiments

Abstract. A rich literature has documented how voters navigate the complex information landscape by using heuristics, or “information shortcuts,” to help t

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Feeling very happy that the new book "Mainstream news media trust. Antecedents, consequences, and remedies", edited together with @naylafawzi.bsky.social and @yarivtsfati.bsky.social, has now been published! The book is Open Access and can be downloaded at www.routledge.com/Mainstream-N...

Mainstream News Media Trust: Antecedents, Consequences, and Remedies

Bringing together some of the foremost scholars in the field, this book offers a critical introduction to mainstream news media (dis)trust and its social and political conditions and consequences. Dra...

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What do we know about news media trust today and what might a research agenda to advance our understanding in the future look like? Terrific new edited book by @naylafawzi.bsky.social, @jesperstromback.bsky.social & @yarivtsfati.bsky.social in open access here www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Mainstream News Media Trust | Antecedents, Consequences, and Remedies

Bringing together some of the foremost scholars in the field, this book offers a critical introduction to mainstream news media (dis)trust and its social and

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Unsere Prognosen für die drei Landtagswahlen im September sind ab sofort online. In Sachsen-Anhalt liegt die AfD in Umfragen bei über 40 Prozent — aber reicht es für eine absolute Mehrheit der Sitze? Die klassische Sonntagsfrage kann diese Frage nicht beantworten.

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Tobias Widmann@twidmann.bsky.social · 4mo ago

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

Our new book (Element) "Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality" is out! Free for a time: tinyurl.com/mgdpi26 Handy video trailer: vimeo.com/1203556992 + summary thread 👇 So fun to collab w/ Emilija Gagrčin & @yqpan.bsky.social - Big thxs to @snsoroka.bsky.social & team! @polcomm.bsky.social

Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality

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Es ist endlich da! 😍 Unser (@cerpintaxt.bsky.social & @donyhu.bsky.social) Buch "Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung: Eine Einführung" (@springer.springernature.com) 💡Eine empirisch-vergleichende, politikwissenschaftliche Einführung in die Kommunalpolitik 🔗 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung

Dieses Lehrbuch bietet Lehrenden und Studierenden eine kompakte Einführung in die empirische Kommunalpolitikforschung.

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🚨 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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A new publication of possible interest with @snsoroka.bsky.social on the relationship between negativity bias in media coverage and misinformation: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Negativity and Misinformation

There are large and growing bodies of research highlighting inaccuracies in news coverage. In this paper, we suggest that negativity biases account for a substantial portion of longstanding inaccur...

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“News accuracy is important. Without it, we may misperceive the world.” Across 20 years of US TV news, Soroka & Wlezien find that all six networks showed negativity bias – but not equally. Stronger negativity bias was linked to less accurate unemployment coverage. 🆕 ➡️ doi.org/10.1080/1058...

An der @unigreifswald.bsky.social sind zwei unbefristete Vollzeitstellen ausgeschrieben: eine für Politikwissenschaftler:innen, eine für Soziolog:innen. Bewerbungsfrist: 31. August 2026. Teilen ausdrücklich erwünscht. Die Ausschreibungen folgen im nächsten Post. Fragen gerne per DM.

Is the ‘directional’ measure of negative campaigning really unreliable? @alessandronai.bsky.social, @maierjuergen.bsky.social & Michaela Maier examine evidence from nine studies, arguing the measure is reliable & robust. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/19BZgGn @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social #polsky #polsci

Pretty classy message by the Norwegian Embassy. #WorldCup

„Forschung ist kein Selbstzweck. Forschung muss zu Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland und in Europa führen“, so der @bundeskanzler. Die Wissenschaftsfreiheit, wie sie Art. 5 Abs. 3 GG und das Bundesverfassungsgericht verstehen, setzt einen anderen Maßstab. 🧵 1/n

Do people watch the news they do not trust? We tried to bring nuance to this question in a new paper (w Frank Mangold, Michaela Maier). Like others before us, we argue that “media distrust” comes in two flavors: skepticism and cynicism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

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