Alexander Wuttke

@kunkakom.bsky.social

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Digitalization & Pol Behavior LMU_Muenchen | Democracy and Populist Attitudes | Open Science | 🚵‍♂️🐶

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James Dennison @jamesrdennison.bsky.social · 19h

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
@ispp-pops.bsky.social

Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Damian Trilling, Aleksandra Urman

Johannes B. Gruber @jbgruber.bsky.social · 1d

After a long time in development, {traktok} #rstats is now finally on CRAN!

Whether you have access to the Research API or just want to scrape some pages, traktok has you covered

jbgruber.github.io/traktok/

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Laurent Pech

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5d

Tyler Cowen saying again that there is no threat to democracy marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo... because Trump is facing opposition and is sensitive to public opinion, but this is how competitive authoritarianism works. Please consult @dziblatt.bsky.social or @stevelevitsky.bsky.social!

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

thanks!

Reposted by Will Jennings, Alexander Wuttke, Lucas Leemann , and 5 more Will Jennings, Alexander Wuttke, Lucas Leemann, Robert Huber, Markus Wagner, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Tarik Abou‐Chadi, David Darmofal

Magda Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social · 5d

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Abstract
It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.

Reposted by Brian A. Nosek, Alexander Wuttke

Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 5d

We @opensciencenl.bsky.social proudly present the new work programme for 2026–2027. 13 funding instruments to strengthen #openscience in the Netherlands.
Structured around 5 themes:
🔹infrastructure
🔹capacity
🔹communities
🔹incentives
🔹monitoring

www.openscience.nl/en/news/work...

Work programme 2026-2027: the Netherlands takes the next step towards open science | Open Science NL

With its second work programme, Open Science NL takes another major step towards making open science the norm in the Netherlands. On 14 November, the Steering Board approved the programme for 2026 and 2027. It outlines thirteen funding instruments covering the full spectrum of open science, ranging from citizen science hubs, AI, replication studies, to open science infrastructure.

www.openscience.nl

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks again :)

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

I Really like your pages on academic writing. I typically recommend to Students journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... but your explanation of the TBTW is even more helpful guidance to what they call the C-C-C scheme. Great. I already forwarded it to my People.

Ten simple rules for structuring papers

journals.plos.org

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

I read the book and fit it so helpful.
May I ask what you use 15five for? The Website and YouTube channel was not informative, unfortunately.

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 5d

So helpful!
Thanks that you both your the template and your group's handbook.

Reposted by Elizabeth Stokoe, Alexander Wuttke, Flávio Azevedo , and 1 more Elizabeth Stokoe, Alexander Wuttke, Flávio Azevedo, Martin Lenz

Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 6d

"Multiple men have remained in senior roles at Oxford for months or years after allegations of sexual misconduct emerged against them, Bloomberg found in a nine-month investigation based on interviews with almost 50 people as well as documents and other records."

Oxford University Has Failed Women Over Harassment Concerns, Staff Say

The university has repeatedly been slow to act against male academics accused of sexual misconduct and inappropriate behavior, a Bloomberg investigation found.

www.bloomberg.com

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Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social · 7d

📊 𝗘𝗨𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗫 dataset update!

💻 We updated complexity data to 𝟭,𝟬𝟯𝟮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀, including entirely new data on 𝟴𝟭𝟱 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀. The dataset now includes legislative procedures from 𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟵𝟵𝟯 𝘁𝗼 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱.

📎 The data are now available for download at www.euplex.org/data

Latest dataset - EUPLEX

EUPLEX is a DFG-funded research project at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute for Polittical Science at LMU Munich. The project, led by Dr. Steffen Hurka at LMU Munich, is dedicated to the questions of ...

www.euplex.org

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 7d

I really see a potential threat for studies that recruite samples via social media platforms (but these samples were wacky even before LLMs) or some river sampling. Not for well managed (nonprobability) online panels and certainly not for high-quality probability panels.

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Florian Keusch @floriankeusch.bsky.social · 7d

But how would this work in reality? Say I build multiple bots, then I would need to register for each of that bot in a panel. If a panel follows the ESOMAR guidelines then they do double-opt-in verification and might even require a bank account or at least a unique email.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 7d

we're done

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 7d

not my area of research at all but I really like how the study does not shy away from the important social questions and tries to make them measurable

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Alexander Wuttke, Pepper D. Culpepper

Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 8d

My antitrust attitudes paper with Nick Short and Jacob Brown is out now @poppublicsphere.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

We find:
- voters are skeptical about M&A
- current law marginalizes important public concerns (layoffs, bailout risk, lobbying)
- expert/public cleavage > partisan diffs

What Is Ideological Capture and How Do We Measure It? Using Antitrust Reform to Understand Expert-Public Cleavages
Nicholas Short, Sophie Hill and Jacob Brown
Scholarship on regulatory capture—when businesses lobby regulators to act contrary to the public interest—has thrived since the 1970s. Yet it ignores an important dimension of influence, what we call ideological capture. This occurs when experts design regulatory frameworks that marginalize important public values and produce favorable outcomes for special interests even in the absence of lobbying. We present a theoretical and empirical framework for understanding ideological capture, rooted in expert-public cleavages, and measure its presence in an important policy domain (antitrust review of business mergers) with an original survey of the public and of antitrust lawyers. Our results suggest that the main framework for evaluating anticompetitive conduct, the consumer welfare standard, marginalizes important public concerns but is deeply popular among antitrust lawyers. With prior vork showing the standard arose not from conventional processes but from judicial and bureaucratic activism, we conclude that antitrust policy evidences ideological capture.
Keywords: political economy, bureaucracy, regulatory capture, economic ideas, public opinion

Figure 4
The Public Is Skeptical that Large Mergers Deliver Some Economic Benefits
Bar charts
Note: A plurality of the public disagrees that large mergers lower prices (their main purported benefit) or make it easier to start a new business but agrees that large mergers increase innovation. Respondents were less certain about the effect of large mergers on product quality.

Figure 5
The Public Agrees that Large Mergers Have Significant Social Risks

Note: A majority of the public agree that large mergers weaken the ties between companies and local communities, create companies that are too big to fail, have too much power to infringe on individual liberties, and have too much influence in politics.

Figure 3
Expertise Outweighs Partisanship in Shaping Support for Replacing the CWS

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German Internet Panel (GIP) @gip.uni-mannheim.de · 8d

For those who didn’t catch it:🚨 We’ve released 3 additional panel waves via @GESIS, bringing the total to 71 waves of survey data. Spanning Sep 2012–May 2024, the GIP dataset is fully accessible for researchers studying trends, attitudes, and social changes over more than a decade.

Reposted by Robbert Sanderman, Mikael Ehn, Seema Jayachandran , and 12 more Robbert Sanderman, Mikael Ehn, Seema Jayachandran, Alexander Wuttke, Marno Verbeek, Cathy N. Davidson, Jennifer Clark, Ingo Rohlfing, Paolo Crosetto, Bessma Momani, David J. Berri, Dolly Jørgensen, Larry W. Hunter, Kathleen Kennedy, Giulio Mattioli

Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 8d

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Ondřej Mottl

Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 8d

Has anyone tried the trackdown package for collaborative quarto editing? Love writing papers on Quarto, but switching back to Word for co-author edits is still an awkward missing link claudiozandonella.github.io/trackdown/

Collaborative Editing of Rmd (or Quarto / Rnw) Documents in Google Drive

Collaborative writing and editing of R Markdown (or Quarto / Sweave) documents. The local .Rmd (or Quarto / .Rnw) is uploaded as a plain-text file to Google Drive. By taking advantage of the easily re...

claudiozandonella.github.io

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Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · 9d

I’m amazed by the quality of the feedback we’ve received from the reviewers of our book with @bertous.bsky.social. I don’t think we talk about this enough in academia, but we should recognize and celebrate those who genuinely engage with the work (it takes time, energy and ability). 💜

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Anna O. Law, Brendan Nyhan , and 7 more Diane Coyle, Anna O. Law, Brendan Nyhan, Johannes Haushofer, Alexander Wuttke, Aaron Sojourner, Ann Bartow, Manisha Sinha, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Peter Bergman

Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 9d

Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)

The grad is from China

Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"

Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package

bit.ly/3LHpin8

As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson

When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...

bit.ly

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 11d

I agree. It’s still rare, but it happens. See also point 4 in this article: www.politico.eu/article/epp-...

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Raphael Merz @raphaelmerz.bsky.social · 11d

Very useful table of insufficient examples vs. best-practices for statistical reporting!

Will definitely point some of my colleagues to it! 📈

Table with insufficient examples vs. best-practice for things like reporting hypotheses, null results, or the software you used.

See https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00356-w for the full table.

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Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 11d

Der @juergenklatzer.bsky.social hat mich zu unserer (@manuelwagner.bsky.social) jüngsten Studie über Politiker:innen aus der Arbeiterklasse befragt:

www.falter.at/maily/202511...

Interview: "Politik ist zu einem Mittel- und Oberschichtgewerbe geworden"

Woher rekrutieren Parteien ihr politisches Personal? Eine neue Studie hat sich die Biografien von 2000 Regierungsmitgliedern angeschaut und liefert spannende Ergebnisse.

www.falter.at

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Michael V. Reiss @mvreiss.bsky.social · 11d

Super important and dear to my heart! Also a good opportunity to remind people of the super helpful systematic list of open science/access media and communication research journals by Moritz Büchi and @tobiasdienlin.com here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Reposted by Nate Breznau

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 12d

The billions of research funds channeled into the pockets of Elsevier and other commercial publisher in return for very little actual value is one of academia's big inefficiencies that will eventually be replaced by more attractive Community-run alternatives

Reposted by Alexander Wuttke, Jonathan Hopkin, James Connelly , and 1 more Alexander Wuttke, Jonathan Hopkin, James Connelly, Pedro Gullón

Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 12d

Yesterday will mark a major turning point – the collapse of the European Parliament's decades-old centrist governing majority.

It's the end of an era, and the beginning of another.

The EU Parliament now has a right-wing majority

President von der Leyen's centre-right EPP yesterday broke the centrist coalition, joining with the far right in order to pass the climate deregulation demanded by Trump.

davekeating.substack.com

Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · 15d

interesting

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