Braucht die Demokratie noch Parteien? Ich freue mich, wieder den wissenschaftlichen "Elfenbeinturm" zu verlassen und mit interessierten Bürger:innen in Zittau ab 19:00 zu diskutieren. Wie immer: "Kontrovers vor Ort" 👥 Sächs. Landeszentrale für polit. Bildung www.hillerschevilla.de/veranstaltun...
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
🍋 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.
videoparl.github.io
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.
Look at this 👀 @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
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions - Volume 18 Issue 3
buff.ly
💡 Exciting new study on ideological differences in people's views of who deserves government support ➡️ @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social Guinaudeau & @theresmatthiess.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social
🍋 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
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions - Volume 18 Issue 3
buff.ly
Interested in a PolSci PostDoc @ Berlin? 4 more days left to apply! 👇
📣 We're hiring! Looking for a PostDoc? Join our team in Berlin! Work with @heikekluever.bsky.social, @macartan.bsky.social and Johannes Giesecke at Humboldt University, @scripts-berlin.eu and @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great project, great city! 🗓️ Deadline: 15 August 2026
We are hiring a postdoc in Comparative Politics at JGU Mainz! Join our friendly and productive team, led by Armin Schäfer (@arminschaefer.bsky.social). • Full-time position • Five-year contract (!) • Start: from 1 October Apply by 22 August: stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/56328 Please share!
Really enjoyed attending the first EPSS conference in Belfast! Many thanks to the organizers for putting together such a great event 🙏🏻 @epssnet.bsky.social See you next year in København! 🇩🇰 #EPSS2026 -> #EPSS2027
It is risky buisness 🎲 @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social & @iguinaudeau.bsky.social address electoral targeting research gaps using a German pre-registered survey to examine how voters respond to targeted policy
Risky appeals: The electoral consequences of group-targeted campaign pledges | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Risky appeals: The electoral consequences of group-targeted campaign pledges
buff.ly
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Risky appeals: The electoral consequences of group-targeted campaign pledges - https://cup.org/4fqMG57 - @iguinaudeau.bsky.social, @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social & @theresmatthiess.bsky.social #FirstView
5/6 🧵In @epsrjournal.bsky.social, @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, Guinaudeau find that ideology shapes how people rate the deservingness of different social groups. Showing that left leaning citizens weigh need; right-leaning citizens weigh merit. doi.org/q9wp
🆕 Who gets what? 🎁 @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @iguinaudeau.bsky.social & @theresmatthiess.bsky.social question what social groups are viewed as deserving of beneficial policy, using French and German survey data, finding that divides create incentive for competition 🥈
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions
buff.ly
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...
Risk It For The Biscuit
ALT: Risk It For The Biscuit
static.klipy.com
💫 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.
#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social - Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions - https://cup.org/43tpQmp - @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social, @iguinaudeau.bsky.social & @theresmatthiess.bsky.social #FirstView
Very happy to see this article on ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions written with @iguinaudeau.bsky.social & @theresmatthiess.bsky.social published first view by the @epsrjournal.bsky.social ✨ 🔗 Read the article here: shorturl.at/XGMk8
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions
cambridge.org
🚨Our article “Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions?” is out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. Joint work with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @iguinaudeau.bsky.social from the 🇫🇷🇩🇪 UNEQUALMAND project. 👉🏻 shorturl.at/qoBDU%F0%9F%... 1/3
🎉🎉🎉 The inaugural EPSS Conference in Belfast is just around the corner! Join us in Belfast from 18th to 20th of June, 2026 🎉🎉 🎉
🚨Our article “Who deserves? Ideological gaps in citizens’ deservingness perceptions?” is out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. Joint work with @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @iguinaudeau.bsky.social from the 🇫🇷🇩🇪 UNEQUALMAND project. 👉🏻 shorturl.at/qoBDU%F0%9F%... 1/3
Bewerbungsfrist endet in einer Woche! Apply, apply, apply! 😊
🚨Stellenausschreibung🚨 Postdoc-Stelle im Bereich „Politisches System Deutschlands und der EU“ (100%, 3 Jahre), Uni Oldenburg Bewerbungsfrist: 9.6.2026 Bei Fragen gerne per E-Mail bei mir melden. Gerne teilen! 🙂 uol.de/job/wissensc...
Reminder 🤗 A little less than 2 weeks left to apply for our final project workshop in Paris 👇
📣 Call for papers! Final UNEQUALMAND workshop on social groups, mandate responsiveness & political (in)equality 📍 Sciences Po, Paris 📅 24–25 Sept 2026 🏫 Lodging 🚅 Travel≤€500 📝 Proposals due 31 May Details: lnkd.in/gjXsmb7y With @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @theresmatthiess.bsky.social
🚄 On my way to @unihannover.bsky.social to present joint work w/ A. Ecker on citizens’ preferences regarding governing with radical right parties & flexible majorities. Join us at 6:00–7:30 pm, Schneiderberg 50, room 015. Thanks to @donyhu.bsky.social & @annakurella.bsky.social for the invitation!
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).
🔊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
Let's meet in Paris to talk about the role of social groups for political representation! 🥖🍷🇨🇵
📣 Call for papers! Final UNEQUALMAND workshop on social groups, mandate responsiveness & political (in)equality 📍 Sciences Po, Paris 📅 24–25 Sept 2026 🏫 Lodging 🚅 Travel≤€500 📝 Proposals due 31 May Details: lnkd.in/gjXsmb7y With @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @theresmatthiess.bsky.social
📣 Call for papers! Final UNEQUALMAND workshop on social groups, mandate responsiveness & political (in)equality 📍 Sciences Po, Paris 📅 24–25 Sept 2026 🏫 Lodging 🚅 Travel≤€500 📝 Proposals due 31 May Details: lnkd.in/gjXsmb7y With @elisadeisshelbig.bsky.social and @theresmatthiess.bsky.social
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
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.
❗️ 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
🎧Im MDR AKTUELL-Podcast spreche ich über den Zustand der Parteien in Deutschland, darüber, wie Minderheitsregierungen unsere Demokratie beleben können, und über das Potenzial von Bürgerräten, um auch Menschen zu erreichen, die sich von Parteien abgewendet haben. www.mdr.de/nachrichten/...
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...
stillinger.aau.dk
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 🕵🏻♀️👩🏻💻
two metal gears are connected to each other on a white surface .
ALT: two metal gears are connected to each other on a white surface .
media.tenor.com
‼️ 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! 👇
🧵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...
Häufigste Antwort bei Menschen unter 50 "keine Partei", dann AfD...
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky