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Julius Kölzer
@juliusk.bsky.social
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Doctoral Researcher in Political Science @dynamics.bsky.social & Research Associate @hertieschool.bsky.social | Sometimes working at Zeit Online | Interested in political geography, inequality and elections.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · Apr 22
What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 7h
bitte hör auf dich über dieses ernsthafte Problem lustig zu machen 😮‍💨
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 7h
Krass auch, dass in diesem First past the Bird System 55% der Wähler:innen nicht repräsentiert sind...
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 8h
Hoffe dass alle die für Amsel und Waldohreule abgestimmt haben jetzt nicht an Zufriedenheit mit der Demokratie verlieren 🙏🙏
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 8h
Wer dachte die Bundestagswahl sei eine Schicksalswahl gewesen hat sich hiermit nicht beschäftigt
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 14h
"We show how an immigration-unconcerned but deprived "loser of modernization" still only has half the likelihood to support the AfD than an entirely non-deprived "winner of modernization" who is concerned about immigration"

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 1d
NEW -

The Gendered Persistence of Authoritarian Indoctrination - https://cup.org/3WCwC5v

"decades after the fall of the GDR, the attitudinal effects of authoritarian socialization persist"

- Nourhan A. Elsayed, @hannohilbig.bsky.social, @riazsascha.bsky.social & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract about a study on the effects of authoritarianism in the former German Democratic Republic, focusing on gender disparities in education and authoritarian values post-reunification. The text emphasizes methodological approach and historical analysis.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 1d
Of course, this is nothing groundbreaking, as the geographical age structure of many European metropolises is similar (see London, for example). Nevertheless, interesting to note that the former age differences between East and West Berlin have diminished considerably.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 1d
Ja, das sind einige wenige Outlier in Pankow, Spandau und Treptow-Köpenick. Aber Wahlbezirksebene ist auch sehr granular und ein Wahlbezirk umfasst in der Regel auch nur 1000 bis 2000 Einwohner.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 1d
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 1d
The scatter plot highlights these center–periphery differences using spatial distance to Berlin’s city center. The share of young adults aged 25–35 varies most strongly with distance. Older age groups over 60 show a distinct dip in the center before growing in size slowly toward the outskirts. (2/2)
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 1d
Berlin’s Geography of Age. Children and adolescents are more evenly distributed across the city. Young adults (25–35) clearly cluster near the city center, becoming less frequent in peripheral areas. By contrast, the share of older age groups rises toward the city’s outer boroughs and suburbs. (1/2)
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 2d
Es ist eigentlich ziemlich eindeutig dass es im Paper um die Verschiebung von Parteipositionen bezüglich Migrationsthemen geht. Wird mehrmals klar gesagt und steht auch im Abstract.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 8d
35 years ago, on October 3, 1990, Germany was reunified. Just two months later, voters in the former GDR went to the polls in the first free federal election since the Weimar era. Despite decades of socialist dictatorship, East German voting behavior displayed marked regional differences. Thread🧵
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Dominik Flügel @fluegeldo.bsky.social · 8d
Warum wird eigentlich überall Austerität durchgesetzt, wenn sie politisch und ökonomisch umstritten ist? In meinem Rezensionsessay vergleiche ich die Antworten von Clara Mattei und Fritz Bartel – im aktuellen @redaktionmerkur.bsky.social und hier kostenlos: www.merkur-zeitschrift.de/artikel/wozu...
Text auf weißem Hintergrund: Dominik Flügel Wozu Austerität? »Ob über den Staatshaushalt, die Zentralbankpolitik oder andere Regulierungen - Austeritätspolitik, breit verstanden, basiert auf der Annahme, dass die Bevölkerung zu viel konsumiert und zu wenig produziert.«
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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 4d
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 4d
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 5d
thinking about releasing a diss track against whoever drew the state borders of the German Reich
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Christian Stecker @pluggedchris.bsky.social · 5d
Wir suchen Wahlhilfenhelfer zur #Kommunalwahl in #Hessen 2026.
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Søren Torbjørn Svendsen @sorentsvendsen.bsky.social · 7d
En anden læseværdig 🧵 om samme emne

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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 8d
35 years ago, on October 3, 1990, Germany was reunified. Just two months later, voters in the former GDR went to the polls in the first free federal election since the Weimar era. Despite decades of socialist dictatorship, East German voting behavior displayed marked regional differences. Thread🧵
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Clemens Villinger @clemensvillinger.bsky.social · 7d
Other explanations for the voting patterns: Even before 1989, the 'block parties' were a limited form of political pluralism. Due to the accessibility of Western media, East Germans were familiar with West German parties before 1989. They had also experienced the Volkskammer election in March 1990.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 8d
It is striking how a society that lived for decades under a dictatorship imposing state ideology and restricting political and personal freedoms nonetheless exhibited such diverse voting patterns when democratic elections and greater political freedoms were introduced.
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Thomas J Wood @thomasjwood.bsky.social · 9d
The last time I posted the income relationship to presidential vote among White respondents to the @electionstudies.bsky.social ANES, people asked for additional estimates among all voters.

Updated estimates here:
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 6d
I am sorry
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 6d
What is a political scientist doing at IKEA? Investigating accommodation
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 7d
For yesterday’s 35th anniversary of German reunification, I dug into the data from the first free Bundestag election in the former GDR — and mapped out a few visuals 👇 The political heterogeneity that emerged is striking given the past four decades of socialist regime and one-party rule.
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 8d
35 years ago, on October 3, 1990, Germany was reunified. Just two months later, voters in the former GDR went to the polls in the first free federal election since the Weimar era. Despite decades of socialist dictatorship, East German voting behavior displayed marked regional differences. Thread🧵
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Julius Kölzer @juliusk.bsky.social · 7d
Such a timely and important paper! (especially for the German audience on this platform)
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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 24d
🚨New article🔥

▶️The Impact of Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies and Politicians' Framings on Political Attitudes in Germany, at @nationsnationalism.bsky.social with Julian M. Hoerner.

We show how political framings of Holocaust memory shape attitudes today onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵
The Impact of Holocaust Survivors' Testimonies and Politicians' Framings on Political Attitudes in Germany
How do politicians' framings of the need to remember the past shape contemporary political attitudes? This research note addresses this question by focusing on the case of the memory of the Holocaust...
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