🏛️ Does women's representation shape perceived fairness of decisions? ➡️ @reidingerve.bsky.social @lucasleemann.bsky.social & @jbslapin.bsky.social show effects vary by policy type, sometimes reducing fairness perceptions when women are overrepresented www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - How descriptive over- and under-representation impacts citizens’ evaluations of decision-making across policy domains - https://cup.org/4tjEneL - @reidingerve.bsky.social, @lucasleemann.bsky.social & Jonathan Slapin #FirstView

Last week, @charlottekuberka.bsky.social and I hosted our ECR Conference on the Political Dimensions of Place-Based Inequalities in Urban & Rural Life at the LSE. Thanks to all participants, @neillee.bsky.social, @msands.bsky.social, @lseinequalities.bsky.social & @lsegovernment.bsky.social 🎉

I am really happy to share this year's prize for the best dissertation at the @ipz.bsky.social with @reidingerve.bsky.social! This is an exciting end to an intense but also joyful dissertation journey.

Stefanie Walter@stefwalter.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Very proud of our @ipz.bsky.social students who celebrated their graduation tonight. Congratulations to all, especially our prize winners! The prizes for best dissertation go to @reidingerve.bsky.social and @indubioproreto.bsky.social - Congrats! 🎉🥂🍾

Very proud of our @ipz.bsky.social students who celebrated their graduation tonight. Congratulations to all, especially our prize winners! The prizes for best dissertation go to @reidingerve.bsky.social and @indubioproreto.bsky.social - Congrats! 🎉🥂🍾

📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

The political consequences of the mental load

Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic

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@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de j0b.de/veca 75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards 📆31/08

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Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 
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Equal representation does not affect men’s expectations regarding policy output. However, if men are under-represented, most men across various sub-groups believe institutions are less likely to cater to their interests journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

How Men React to Shifts in Gender Representation: Ignored Interests? Good for Society? - Verena Reidinger, 2025

Women’s representation has significantly increased in recent decades. Women even dominate some decision-making bodies. How do these changes influence men’s atti...

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Together with @jellekoedam.bsky.social, @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, and @nicolaiberk.bsky.social, we brought together an amazing group of researchers doing exciting work here in Zurich — and it turned into a super fun, engaging workshop. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and made it so special!

🚨The updated companion site for the 2nd edition of our textbook #foundationsofeuropeanpolitics is now live! Discover all data exercise updates and additions at www.foundationsofeuropeanpolitics.com @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social 🚀🧵1/4

Sven-Oliver Proksch@sopro.bsky.social · last yr.

📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Online first & open access: "Social democracy transformed? Party change and union ties" by Mario T. Taschwer @laurenzennser.bsky.social @reidingerve.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... #Polisky

sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New publication out in Electoral Studies! In this study, I analyze generational voting differences in Western European multiparty systems - focusing on generational realignment *within* political blocs and using individual survey data spanning over 70 years.

Socialized with "old cleavages" or "new dimensions": An Age-Period-Cohort analysis on electoral supp...

Across Western Europe, the electoral base of formerly dominating parties on the left and the right has been eroding in the past decades. In contrast, …

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How do voters react to different women's representation trajectories, and what does this tell us about progressive mobilization and backlash dynamics? I tackle this question in a paper that was part of my PhD and is now out in CPS: doi.org/10.1177/0010... 1/7

Ich habe für @defactoexpert.bsky.social die Hauptergebnisse meiner Dissertation @ipz.bsky.social zusammengefasst: Es geht dabei um soziokulturelle Komponenten von Status, wie diese sich verändern und ob es einen Backlash gibt. www.defacto.expert/2023/12/13/w...

A snowy Zurich today created a cozy atmosphere for our workshop on representation at @ipz.bsky.social Fascinating & innovate studies on governments, representation, voters, parties & candidates! @reidingerve.bsky.social @lenamariahuber.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @anacweeks.bsky.social & more!

Apologies, it must have gotten cut. It is "The insecurity of doing research and the ‘so what question’ in political science: how to develop more compelling research problems by facing anxiety" by Gustafssnn and Hagstrom link.springer.com/article/10.1...