What drives legislators' emotional engagement with climate issues? I explore the role of their age and party affiliation and over-time developments in a new research note in European Journal of Political Research. (a thread)

Does partisanship affect justifications of political violence? Berntzen et al. find that both Democrats and Republicans are more likely to justify identical acts of political violence when the victims are from the opposing party. Read now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

📣 New #openaccess #BJPIR article out now! 'What makes ethnic majorities support the radical right? A combination of relative deprivation and social dominance approaches' by @unddom.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/8Zqha2Z @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

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📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:

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'Hey, look at #Denmark! Social Democrats can stay relevant and marginalise the #farright by becoming - get this! - a bit like the far right!' Parrotted by every medium, contemplated by every SD party, ridiculed by every political scientist.

Danish Social Democrats adopted hardline, nativist anti-immigration policies and look to have recorded their worst election result in over 100 years. So, the lesson for the European left from the “Danish model” is that copying and normalizing the far-right leads to gutting your own support.

Ben Rosamond@benrosamond1.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Exit poll in Denmark. The Social Democrats drop below 20 per cent. They are likely to lead the next government, but the balance of power seems to lie with the centre-right Moderates.

📢 My first dissertation paper is out in the BJPIR! 📢 Why do ethnic majorities support the radical right? I show that feeling deprived compared to ethnic minorities increases support for hierarchical societies - which in turn fuels radical right support. doi.org/10.1177/1369... A short 🧵:

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🔍 How does economic inequality impact beliefs in meritocracy? Using comprehensive survey data from 39 advanced capitalist democracies over more than three decades, Markus Gangl & I examine how rising economic inequality has been shaping citizens' belief in meritocracy. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwag016

The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy

Abstract. This study examines how rising income inequality has been impacting individuals’ belief in merit-based success, using three decades of survey dat

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🚨 Happy to see this article with the wonderful David Schweizer out online first at European Union Politics! We examine who is aware of European funding and how citizens prefer these funds to be allocated. The article is available open access here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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📢 New in IMR. We often ask whether #refugees “integrate.” But what happens when the host society becomes hostile? I develop the concept of social marginalization and show that refugees in more #violent German counties report stronger feelings of exclusion and discrimination. doi.org/10.1177/0197...

Very glad that our first DEMNORM paper found such a great home at @thejop.bsky.social. If you’re interested in the role of social desirability in online surveys, check out the thread and paper below ⬇️

Danbischof@danbischof.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨📄 New paper (conditional accepted at @thejop.bsky.social): We test whether social desirability bias actually distorts answers in online surveys. Short version: It mostly doesn’t. w. @timallinger.bsky.social @kristianvsf.bsky.social @morganlcj.bsky.social URL: osf.io/preprints/os...

New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social with @rafaelahlskog.bsky.social & @grahn.bsky.social Your neighbours shape your politics — but can living near people like *cause* higher turnout? We studied 20,000+ queer individuals across the entire Swedish population to find out doi.org/10.1086/740816

Rallied by thy neighbor: how minority spatial concentration increases voter turnout | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Excited to kick off the @mzes-ssdl.bsky.social Spring series 🙌 I’ll talk about different threats to causal inference in quasi-experimental designs and share hands-on tools to tackle common biases. Hybrid event, so happy to see non-Mannheim folks joining on Zoom as well! 🗓️ Feb 25th, 1.45pm CET

MZES Social Science Data Lab@mzes-ssdl.bsky.social · 6mo ago

▶️ Social Science Data Lab: Spring 2026 Events Four input talks by great researchers (see below ⤵️)! 🗓️ Details & Zoom: socialsciencedatalab.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/page/events/ 👥 Organizers: @rubac.bsky.social, @denis-cohen.bsky.social and Alexander Wenz

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

Join us for this year‘s Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social. Applications are open until March 1.

Melanie Sauter@melinscribe.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 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

partycoloR is now on CRAN! Started as a simple idea 6 years ago, now it's a full-featured package. Extract party colors and logos from Wikipedia with one line of code. It's already powering ParlGov Dashboard. install.packages("partycoloR")

stop using AI to do your research. it hallucinates too often. if you want an answer to something, post something arrogant on the appropriate subreddit. something like: "this item performs 10% better than everything else. only idiots deny this." this will bait nerds into doing your research for you.

📣 Apply Now: Be part of the GESS 📣 🎓 #ApplyNow to our fully funded doctoral programs beginning Fall 2026! 📊 #Business 📊 #Economics 📊 #SocialSciences Application Deadlines: 📬 Early: 15 Jan 2026 📬 Final: 31 March 2026 🔗 Don’t miss your chance to apply via our Online Application Portal:

Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD

British Journal of Political Science@bjpols.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW - Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment - https://cup.org/3XiB6yD - @denis-cohen.bsky.social & @sergipardos.bsky.social #OpenAccess

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna! ⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025 wratil.eu/files/MULTIR... 1/4 🧵

📣 New Social Data Science doctoral track launching in 2026 at our Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS)! Applications open mid-November 2025. ℹ️ www.uni-mannheim.de/gess/apply/admission-requirements/for-cdss/ #PhD #DoctoralStudies #DataScience #SocialStudies

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Happy to share that our paper on the ideological biases of international organizations is now out in the current issue of the AJPS (@ajpseditor.bsky.social): dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps... @the-peio.bsky.social @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social @akentikelenis.bsky.social

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

New publication on immigrant attitudes toward immigration in 🇫🇷 We find that European origin immigrants attitudes converge with natives over time, while African and other non-European minorities -who are more discriminated against- stay pro-immigration. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Immigrants’ attitudes towards immigration: convergence towards majority views or ethnoracial polarization?

After decades of research on attitudes towards immigration among the ethnic majority, scholarly interest has recently shifted to investigate these attitudes among immigrants themselves. Drawing on ...

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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020) 📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661 📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c... 💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...

For postdocs around, I can't recommend this enough! In just four weeks in Mannheim, I connected to lots of amazing young scholars, presented my research, finished writing up my dissertation and applied for my current job at LSE. MZES organized my stay so smoothly that I couldn't wish for more.

MZES Uni Mannheim@mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣 Attention, postdoctoral researchers! ❗ Apply now for our MZES Visiting Fellowships 😊 💡 Spend 2-4 weeks at the MZES to share ideas 💰 Funding for accommodation, travel, daily allowance 📆 Deadline: 28 November Full information: 👉 www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/en/news/deta...

🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵:

🚨 New working paper alert! 🚨 I analyse how the UK Supreme Court declaring the Rwanda Scheme unconstitutional changed individuals' political values. I find that Britons become more supportive of racial and ethnic hierarchies after the ruling. doi.org/10.31235/osf... A 🧵:

New research finds that people “with both high psychopathy and low cognitive ability are the most actively involved in online political engagement” This is something I’ve observed in many political arguments online and it’s why I try to avoid online debates. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Dark personalities in the digital arena: how psychopathy and narcissism shape online political participation

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