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From April 2025 - Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment - cup.org/42vfiTR - @megapeng.bsky.social & Patrick Emmenegger "we argue that regions with high shares of non-citizen residents benefit from population-based apportionment" #OpenAccess

🚀 New dataset & working paper out! I’m thrilled to share “The Extended Ethnographic Atlas” --> an open, massively expanded version of Murdock’s classic Ethnographic Atlas (EA). What’s new?

This looks great!! If you are interested in linking it to other data on ethnic groups (in Africa), you may find it helpful to add your groups to our ethnic data linkage project: github.com/carl-mc/LEDA

GitHub - carl-mc/LEDA: Linking Ethnic Data from Africa

Linking Ethnic Data from Africa. Contribute to carl-mc/LEDA development by creating an account on GitHub.

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🚀 New dataset & working paper out! I’m thrilled to share “The Extended Ethnographic Atlas” --> an open, massively expanded version of Murdock’s classic Ethnographic Atlas (EA). What’s new?

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

📣The new Selects cumulative file 1971-2023 is out! Free download here: doi.org/10.48573/2w7... #Polisky #ElectionStudies #Selects

Swiss Election Study (Selects), cumulative dataset 1971-2023

Due to anonymity reasons, the variables sg5 (postal zip code) and sg6 (community number BfS) are not included in the downloadable dataset. A version of the cumulative dataset including these two varia...

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The cumulative Selects dataset (1971–2023) is now available! Explore over 50 years of Swiss election surveys in one place. Download: doi.org/10.48573/2w7...

The cumulative Selects dataset (1971–2023) is now available! Explore over 50 years of Swiss election surveys in one place. Download: doi.org/10.48573/2w7...

Nach gestern fragt man sich noch einmal mehr: Wohin schlingert die Merz-Union? Andreas Püttmann schreibt über den Richtungsstreit in der CDU, der sich am Umgang mit der AfD festmacht, aber auch die Frage betrifft, wie christlich die Union eigentlich noch ist: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2025...

Zwischen Christdemokratie und Rechtspopulismus

Wohin schlingert die Merz-Union? Andreas Püttmann beschreibt das Ringen der christdemokratischen Partei um die Bedeutung des »C« in ihrem Namen.

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Wer zählt? Wie Wahlsysteme und Immigration politische Repräsentation prägen – @megapeng.bsky.social Patrick Emmenegger Der Artikel zeigt, wie die Zählweise der Bevölkerung – Wahlberechtigte oder Gesamtbevölkerung – die Verteilung von Parlamentssitzen beeinflusst. www.defacto.expert/2025/05/05/w...

Our article on Swiss municipality-level vote results has just been published in the @spsr.bsky.social! We compiled results from 1866 to 1944 by visiting numerous archives and filled some gaps of the dataset for the period 1944-2025 from the Swiss Federal Statistical Office.

Reflecting the current authoritarian Zeitgeist, Nations in Transit research project by @freedomhouse.bsky.social, evaluating the state of democracy in former post-communist countries, has been discontinued after twenty years due to a lack of funding. This is what civilizational decline looks like.

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

Vox populi: Unterstützung des Volkes für die Volksinitiative - @lucasleemann.bsky.social, Patrick Emmenegger, André Walter Warum unterstützen Wähler:innen die Einführung neuer direktdemokratischer Instrumente? Dieser Frage geht eine aktuelle Studie nach: www.defacto.expert/2025/04/08/v...

NEW - Who Counts? Non-Citizen Residents, Spatial Sorting, and Malapportionment - cup.org/42vfiTR - @megapeng.bsky.social & Patrick Emmenegger "we argue that regions with high shares of non-citizen residents benefit from population-based apportionment" #OpenAccess

“When people told him that the supervisor had a second side, he didn’t give it too much thought.” Thanks Deutche Welle for this very important documentary. Supervisors, we are looking at you. (1/2)

How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary

YouTube video by DW Documentary

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Come work with us! In my research group, we have two four-year PhD positions available in comparative politics. Happy to answer questions per email. Please share the ad. You can find the ad here: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/d...

I'm reading a lot of hot takes about the German election. I agree that a lot of today's voting behavior in East Germany has to do with its historical legacy. But I'm surprised that no one has connected the dots between the huge flows of outmigration over the last 30 years and the electoral results.

This is resistance.

Former NFL Kicker Arrested At City Council Meeting After Slamming 'Nazi' MAGA Movement

Now that's resistance.

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New working paper: I show that LLMs can generate valid ideology scores for Heads of Governments across the world and over time. The measures display high correlations with existing indicators (e.g. V-DEM) and replicate established hypotheses (taxation, welfare state development, electoral systems).

Just published on APSR First View: "Vox Populi: Popular Support for the Popular Initiative" by Lucas Leemann (@LucasLeemann), Patrick Emmenegger, and André Walter. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cantonal Governments' Partisan Composition Dataset Extended to 2024 📊. Available on GitHub (github.com/AndreWal/can...) and the accompanying paper published in the Swiss Political Science Review (doi.org/10.1111/spsr...). #Polisky

The Partisan Composition of Cantonal Governments in Switzerland, 1848‐2017. A New Data Set

Scholars increasingly use Swiss cantons to examine the effect of democratic processes and institutions on political, economic and social outcomes. However, the availability of political indicators at...

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#OpenAccess from our latest issue - Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension - cup.org/3VBtsjh "...landholding inequality also influences the political preferences of ordinary citizens..." - Patrick Emmenegger, Andreina Thoma and @megapeng.bsky.social

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Landholding Inequality, Social Control, and Mass Opposition to Suffrage Extension - cup.org/49fvoBc - Patrick Emmenegger, Andreina Thoma and @megapeng.bsky.social

Software bibliographies are easy! The 'softbib' package will automatically scan your project directory, detect which R packages you use, and create software bibliographies in Word, Markdown, BibTeX, and PDF formats. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

"Auf die Massendemonstrationen gegen Rechtsextremismus reagiert die AfD mit Panik, sagt Soziologe Matthias Quent. Einen Teil der AfD-Anhängerschaft könnte die Zivilgesellschaft mit ihrem Protest noch erreichen."

Interview zu den Massenprotesten: "Die AfD zeigt sich hoch verunsichert"

Auf die Massendemonstrationen gegen Rechtsextremismus reagiert die AfD mit Panik, sagt Soziologe Matthias Quent. Einen Teil der AfD-Anhängerschaft könnte die Zivilgesellschaft mit ihrem Protest noch...

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"Vertreibung aus Deutschland: Was AfD & Co. wirklich vorhaben" WDR Monitor @georgrestle.bsky.social

Vertreibung aus Deutschland: Was AfD & Co. wirklich vorhaben

Hunderttausende Menschen demonstrieren derzeit gegen Rechtsextremismus und Pläne der AfD und Gleichgesinnter, Millionen Menschen mit Migrationsgeschichte aus Deutschland zu vertreiben. Dabei enthüll...

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Hinweise zur Berichterstattung über rechtsextreme Deportationspläne: ⬇️ 1. "Remigration" ist ein rechtsextremer Kampfbegriff und Euphemismus für rassistische Massen-Deportationspläne. Es geht bei den rechtsextremen Plänen nicht um "Migration" oder "Rückführung", ... 1/7

Angriff gegen die Verfassung der Bundesrepublik: Bei einem geheimen Treffen haben einflussreiche AfD-Politiker mit bekannten Rechtsextremisten und Unternehmern einen Plan. Sie wollen Millionen von Menschen aus Deutschland vertreiben. Was die Anwesenden nicht wussten: CORRECTIV war vor Ort...

Geheimplan gegen Deutschland

Hochrangige AfD-Politiker, Neonazis und finanzstarke Unternehmer planten die Vertreibung von Millionen von Menschen aus Deutschland.

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