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Peter Luca Versteegen

@versteegenluca.bsky.social

Postdoc at the University of Hamburg. Empirical social scientist researching polarization & democracy from a political psych perspective. I do research and I run. https://lucaversteegen.com

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Rachel Porter@rachelporter.bsky.social · 3w ago

Back with a substantially revised version of our Information Limits paper ahead of #PolMeth Huge thanks to everyone whose comments and feedback have already helped improve the paper We’d love to hear what you think: osf.io/preprints/so...

Rachel Porter@rachelporter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Just collect more data” is one of the most common responses to uncertainty in quantitative research. But in a lot of social science, that advice is impossible—or even misleading. Our new working paper asks: when has a study reached its information limit? Check it out here: osf.io/preprints/so...

Isabella Rebasso@isabellareb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Very belatedly sharing this because the last months were busy: The limits of appraisal theory for political emotions is out in Political Psychology! @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I ask whether appraisal theories of emotion work the same way in politics as in everyday life.

The limits of appraisal theory for political emotions: Evidence from two U.S. surveys

Emotions, such as anger and anxiety, play a central role in political behavior and are extensively studied by political scientists. However, political science has largely adopted psychological theori...

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Alexander Wuttke@kunkakom.bsky.social · 4w ago

Genuinely interested in your views: What is the future of teaching statistical programming language for data science in the age of AI? Will we even still teach programming R or Python?

Koichi Osamura@koichiosamura.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...

Bureaucratic appointments and coalition support in presidential systems – An analysis of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies - Koichi Osamura, 2026

How does the provision of political appointments influence coalition support in multiparty presidential systems? While the importance of cabinet portfolios for ...

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Peter Luca Versteegen@versteegenluca.bsky.social · last mo.

Deadline in 2 days. If you need more reasons to apply: given current developments, I’d like to highlight that Hamburg is among the least hot and dry places in increasingly hothothot + drydrydry Europe. ☀️☝🏽

Peter Luca Versteegen@versteegenluca.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨🚨 Job: Please share 🙌 - what? PhD position in my DFG-funded project on how citizens understand their role in democracy. - when? Application deadline Jul 1, job start Sept 1 or soon thereafter - how? www.uni-hamburg.de/en/stellenan...

Erik Angner@erikangner.com · last mo.

Swedish 🇸🇪 Gov't Minister brings infant son to EU meeting to showcase "generous parental-leave policies" and "having a partner that's not a dinosaur": www.reuters.com/world/swedis...

Swedish minister brings baby to EU meeting, a first for the bloc

EU governments' ministers gathered for a long day's discussion of ​climate change policies on Thursday were surprised by a fresh-faced participant at their negotiating ‌table: a three-month-old baby.

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Tobias Widmann@twidmann.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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𝙅𝙖𝙘🍩𝙗 𝙉𝙮𝙧𝙪𝙥@jacobnyrup.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This is a great project with a great PI with the opportunity to get great colleagues in a great city which has great frozen pizzas and great brown cheese and has great weather all year around

Tore Wig@torewig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We're hiring 2 postdocs at @uio.no on my ERC-Cog project on how authoritarian regimes shape scientific knowledge. 3–4 years, U. of Oslo. Deadline: 10 Sept 2026. Great dept., terms, well funded, bustling & green Scandi capital. Apply! 👉 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/303060/postdoctoral-fello

European Journal of Political Research@ejprjournal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🆕 How does that make you feel? 📝 @katharinalawall.bsky.social, @versteegenluca.bsky.social & @mtsakiris.bsky.social ask how #AffectivePolarization feels, using cross sectional data from 5 European countries, to see what emotions corrleate with #AffectivePolarization scores 💯

How does affective polarization feel? A comparative description | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How does affective polarization feel? A comparative description

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Omar Wasow@owasow.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/

Text as Behavior Text as Behavior published in Political Analysis by Omar Wasow Abstract Text analysis typically focuses on content—such as sentiment or topic—but expression is also a form of effortful action. Building on this insight, I propose using simple features of open-ended tasks to study text as behavior. This approach treats expression, such as writing, as cognitively, emotionally and temporally “costly” for subjects but inexpensive for researchers. I show basic statistics like the number of characters can approximate effort and significantly improve estimation of quantities of interest, including candidate choice, the probability of turning out to vote and psychological states about which a subject may not be fully aware. Further, these methods can convert nonresponse into informative data; validate survey instruments; serve as mechanism checks; be hard for a subject to “game”; work across different languages and analogize well to real-world situations. In sum, text as behavior can help address a range of issues related to quantifying attitudes and actions.
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte@turnbulldugarte.com · 3mo ago

Does far-right legislative representation change the descriptive make-up of candidate lists among mainstream parties? Using a RDD with registry data from Sweden, this paper led by @grahn.bsky.social provides an answer doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Does far-right legislative entry affect minority candidate diversity? | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core

Does far-right legislative entry affect minority candidate diversity?

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Peter Luca Versteegen@versteegenluca.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dear English experts: how do you call errors like typos, missing punctuation etc.? I.e., I search for the transalation to what German calls “Flüchtigkeitsfehler.” My dictionaries say “careless mistakes” but that sounds much more dramatic and morally judging than what it is. thx 🙏