Theres Matthieß

@theresmatthiess.bsky.social

Political scientist, Assistant Professor at the University of Göttingen, working on political representation, party competition, voting & social groups

Back-to-office surprise: Our piece on ideological divides in citizens’ deservingness perceptions now comes with page numbers! 📃✨ @theresmatthiess.bsky.social @iguinaudeau.bsky.social

European Political Science Review@epsrjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

🍋 18.3 Who gets what? 🎁 @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @iguinaudeau.bsky.social & @theresmatthiess.bsky.social question which social groups are viewed as deserving of beneficial policy, using French and German survey data, to find that divides create incentive for competition 🥈 buff.ly/wpDYJE3

We've built a website for our DFG project: we collect, process, and study 30,000+ hours of video recordings of legislative debate in all German State Parliaments and the German Bundestag! ⤵️ videoparl.github.io

VideoParl — Analysis of Parliamentary Debates Using Multimodal Data

VideoParl is a DFG-funded research project analyzing text, audio and video from German parliamentary debates.

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Chris Arnold@chrisguarnold.bsky.social · last mo.

VideoParl is live: videoparl.github.io — our #DFG project with @ankuepfer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social on #multimodal analysis of parliamentary debate. 30,000+ hours of video, all 16 Länder plus the Bundestag, 2005–2023. Pitch, face, gesture and text at the speech level.

Risky group appeals? 😱 Our paper on how citizens react to electoral promises targeted at different social groups is published in @ejprjournal.bsky.social With @iguinaudeau.bsky.social & @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social 🚀 🔓 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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Isabelle Guinaudeau@iguinaudeau.bsky.social · 3mo ago

💫 New paper! @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social & I are happy to see our new paper published in open access with the @ejprjournal.bsky.social Do group-targeted campaign pledges pay off electorally? We test this with a preregistered survey experiment in Germany.

🎉🎉🎉 The inaugural EPSS Conference in Belfast is just around the corner! Join us in Belfast from 18th to 20th of June, 2026 🎉🎉 🎉

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Skimming the intro, what struck me besides the actual findings were the good reminders about how they likely have downstream effects: through sharing know-how (mentoring), greater visibility (role modelling), and making more room at the table (access to networks).

Kasey Buckles@kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🔊Important paper: Using a natural experiment design, these authors show that narrowly missing tenure sets back women's careers more than men's. But when a woman earns tenure, it increases the number of women faculty and students in her department in the future. docs.iza.org/dp18477.pdf @iza.org

Many thanks to the @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social for the invitation to present our new experiment with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @theresmatthiess.bsky.social next Tuesday! I really look forward to the discussion 👀 Please let me know if you are in Mannheim and would like to meet.

MZES Uni Mannheim@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 5mo ago

❗️ Tue, May 5, 12:15-13:30 CET 📍 A 231 and ZOOM MZES Speaker Series with @iguinaudeau.bsky.social "Wallets, Redistribution, and Vote Choice: Experimental Evidence from Germany" 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/even... 1/2

I'm hiring two three-year postdocs and an RA for my project on how police presence affects perceived safety. I'm looking for candidates who can contribute to the theoretical development and who have strong expertise in causal inference. Deadline: March 1. www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

Two three-year postdocs in quasi- or survey-experimental social science.

The Department of Society and Politics at Aalborg University (Faculty of Social Sciences) is recruiting two full-time postdoctoral researchers to work on the...

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Hi pol/soc science community! Next semester, I teach a course on how to write a term paper in (empirical) political science. I love Powner's book "Empirical Research & Writing". Do you have any further recommendations (in English or German)? Looking forward to the wisdom of the crowd 🕵🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍💻

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‼️ New paper out in @polbehavior.bsky.social ! We ask whether the politically active (in terms of electoral or other forms of participation) are better represented? See Jesper's detailed 🧵 below for more info on the paper! 👇

Jesper Lindqvist@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell. link.springer.com/article/10.1...