Lea Stallbaum

@stallbaum.bsky.social

Doctoral Researcher in Political Science @ JGU Mainz

Thank you @rikkidean.bsky.social @crowdermeyer.bsky.social @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social @danbischof.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social @peterenns.bsky.social @kstrump.bsky.social @christopherojeda.bsky.social @nilssteiner.bsky.social @arminschaefer.bsky.social @elinesevers.bsky.social and Hannah Werner!!

Lea Stallbaum@stallbaum.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last week, we (@clandwehr.bsky.social, my colleague Leonard and I) had the joy of welcoming some great colleagues working on the topic of democracy to Mainz, for the concluding workshop of our project "Conceptions of Democracy among Citizens and Political Elites". Thank you for three wonderful days!

Last week, we (@clandwehr.bsky.social, my colleague Leonard and I) had the joy of welcoming some great colleagues working on the topic of democracy to Mainz, for the concluding workshop of our project "Conceptions of Democracy among Citizens and Political Elites". Thank you for three wonderful days!

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🗓Am 22. März 2026 ist in #Rheinland-Pfalz #Landtagswahl. Wir in der Abteilung Innenpolitik/Politische Soziologie des @powimz.bsky.social haben im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Profile für alle zur #Wahl stehenden #Parteien verfasst. ⬇️ www.bpb.de/themen/parte...

Landtagswahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2026 | bpb.de

Zur Landtagswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz 2026 am 22. März 2026 treten 12 Parteien an. Hier finden Sie zu jeder ein Kurz-Profil.

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In our new paper in G&O, we show that US legislators have more people-centred process preferences, while German legislators are more balanced between people-centred and elite-centred preferences overall - but party affiliation matters. Link to the paper: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 6mo ago

NEW from @govandopp.bsky.social - People-centred or Elite-centred Democrats? Legislators’ Process Preferences in the United States and Germany - https://cup.org/4tGsbpP - @crowdermeyer.bsky.social, Leonard Häfner, @clandwehr.bsky.social & @stallbaum.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Red and black cover of "Government & Opposition" with the hashtag #OpenAccess.

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪

“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47 percent drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, and critical reasoning. Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage. Eighty-three percent of heavy Al users couldn't recall key points from what they'd "written, compared to only 10 percent of those who composed unaided.
Neutral reviewers described the Al-assisted writing as "soulless, empty, lacking individuality." Most alarmingly, after four months of reliance on Chat GPT, participants wrote worse once it was removed than those who had never used it at all.
The study warns that when writing is
delegated to Al, the way people learn fundamentally changes.”
David Hull 胡大衛@hushuo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too. "We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice." www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇

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Now with page numbers, and a follow-up paper already in the works! 🤫 Instead of looking at singular preferences for how a democracy can be organized, @clandwehr.bsky.social, Christopher Ojeda and I use a survey experiment to study which democratic designs US and German citizens actually prefer:

Political Studies@polstudies.bsky.social · 9mo ago

IN NEW ISSUE: How do institutional parameters affect citizens’ evaluations of a political system as democratic? @clandwehr.bsky.social, C Ojeda & @stallbaum.bsky.social compare citizens’ design preferences in #Germany & #US: buff.ly/3Wx9YMl @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social