Dominik Schraff
@dschraff.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science, Aalborg University 🇩🇰
EU | Comparative Political Behavior | Inequality | Democratic Trust & Legitimacy
EU-NED
www.dominikschraff.com
EU | Comparative Political Behavior | Inequality | Democratic Trust & Legitimacy
EU-NED
www.dominikschraff.com
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Here is the direct link to this new article on bureaucratic discrimination. We show, based on a large sample of caseworkers, that media reports on social welfare fraud influence decisions on unemployment benefits.
Here is the direct link to this new article on bureaucratic discrimination. We show, based on a large sample of caseworkers, that media reports on social welfare fraud influence decisions on unemployment benefits.
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Here is the direct link to this new article on bureaucratic discrimination. We show, based on a large sample of caseworkers, that media reports on social welfare fraud influence decisions on unemployment benefits.
Here is the direct link to this new article on bureaucratic discrimination. We show, based on a large sample of caseworkers, that media reports on social welfare fraud influence decisions on unemployment benefits.
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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
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
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Although there are certainly some Mercosur specificities to this story, another example of how unpredictable - and to some extend less controllable - the European Parliament is in this legislative period:
EPP Mercosur fast-track bid collapses at plenary: A panic-driven U-turn exposed deep divisions in the Parliament over the deal
EPP Mercosur fast-track bid collapses at plenary
A panic-driven U-turn exposed deep divisions in the Parliament over the deal
dlvr.it
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Although there are certainly some Mercosur specificities to this story, another example of how unpredictable - and to some extend less controllable - the European Parliament is in this legislative period:
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New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
New Publication with @lhaffert.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social!
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
We study the role of generations in the urban-rural divide, which is increasingly shaping the politics of many democracies.
Studying Switzerland, we show: The urban-rural divide is stronger among younger generations. (1/10) 🧵👇
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🚨New VAA Dataset🚨
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
🚨New VAA Dataset🚨
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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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...
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...
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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...
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...
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Housing is a huge problem in Germany. My old chum Alexander Reisenbichler, who studies such things for a living, has some ideas what could be done
Germany’s housing crisis is making Europe’s sick man even sicker
Reframing Germany's housing crisis as an issue of national economic interest could create the political impetus needed to solve it.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Housing is a huge problem in Germany. My old chum Alexander Reisenbichler, who studies such things for a living, has some ideas what could be done
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Hungary’s Orban seemed undefeatable a year ago.
Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.
Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.
Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.
Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Hungary’s Orban seemed undefeatable a year ago.
Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.
Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.
Then Peter Magyar broke through with a powerful anti-corruption platform, rapidly consolidated the fractured opposition, and now leads Fidesz comfortably.
Anti-corruption defeats authoritarianism worldwide. It will work here, too.
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Academic publishing is a lucrative business for a very small number of private academic publishers. For 🇦🇹, this paper estimates: public spending benefits publishing companies with a large amount - 25% of the annual basic funding universities receive from the Ministry of education
November 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Academic publishing is a lucrative business for a very small number of private academic publishers. For 🇦🇹, this paper estimates: public spending benefits publishing companies with a large amount - 25% of the annual basic funding universities receive from the Ministry of education
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🆕 Side income impacts trust in politicians? 💰
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability
Transparency matters: The positive effect of politicians’ side income disclosure on voters’ perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Transparency matters: The positive effect of politicians’ side income disclosure on voters’ perceptions
buff.ly
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🆕 Side income impacts trust in politicians? 💰
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability
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Residential moves temporarily reduce people's participation in local politics and local civic initiatives. It disrupts local attachments, relevant local knowledge, and local social networks. Yet, it leaves national engagement unchanged journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Residential moves temporarily reduce people's participation in local politics and local civic initiatives. It disrupts local attachments, relevant local knowledge, and local social networks. Yet, it leaves national engagement unchanged journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone.
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation | Journal of Public Policy | Cambridge Core
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation
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November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone.
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
Political corruption and voting in Romanian municipal elections: Why perceptions of collective action matter - https://cup.org/4oUhWuS
- Nicholas Charron & Andreas Bågenholm
#FirstView
Political corruption and voting in Romanian municipal elections: Why perceptions of collective action matter - https://cup.org/4oUhWuS
- Nicholas Charron & Andreas Bågenholm
#FirstView
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
Political corruption and voting in Romanian municipal elections: Why perceptions of collective action matter - https://cup.org/4oUhWuS
- Nicholas Charron & Andreas Bågenholm
#FirstView
Political corruption and voting in Romanian municipal elections: Why perceptions of collective action matter - https://cup.org/4oUhWuS
- Nicholas Charron & Andreas Bågenholm
#FirstView
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🚨 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
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1/4 🧵
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 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🚨 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 🧵
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 🧵
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Do architecture and urban planning affect political behavior? Happy to share a paper that @tesaliarizzo.bsky.social and I have coming out at the APSR which uses computer vision to investigate how the built environment shapes inequalities in civic participation in Mexico: osf.io/preprints/so.... 🧵1/5
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Do architecture and urban planning affect political behavior? Happy to share a paper that @tesaliarizzo.bsky.social and I have coming out at the APSR which uses computer vision to investigate how the built environment shapes inequalities in civic participation in Mexico: osf.io/preprints/so.... 🧵1/5
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📄 New WP version out - full overhaul!
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📄 New WP version out - full overhaul!
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
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Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out!
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?
In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.
tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.
tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55
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November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out!
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New publication just out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social: using household panel data from Germany, I show that residential moves are associated with declines in local-level engagement but have no effect on national-level engagement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
New publication just out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social: using household panel data from Germany, I show that residential moves are associated with declines in local-level engagement but have no effect on national-level engagement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📘 The intro to the special issue "Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining" highlights how liberalism destabilises itself through excess, exploitation and exhaustion 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
📘 The intro to the special issue "Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining" highlights how liberalism destabilises itself through excess, exploitation and exhaustion 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Are you already religiously following polls in Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Malta, Monaco, Poland or Türkiye?
Come join our team and support them with data entry!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Come join our team and support them with data entry!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Are you already religiously following polls in Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Malta, Monaco, Poland or Türkiye?
Come join our team and support them with data entry!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Come join our team and support them with data entry!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Good vibes image of the day. I'd also be happy to get such a pyramid :)
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Good vibes image of the day. I'd also be happy to get such a pyramid :)
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Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/
Rechtsextremismus - Warum die radikale Rechte so stark wird
Rechtsradikale Parteien profitieren von nachlassender Stigmatisierung. Forschung zum politischen Verhalten zeigt, dass extreme Positionen offener gelebt werden.
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October 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/
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It’s not easy to break free from deep dependencies. But it can be done. ICC to drop MS for German alternative ⬇️
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International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
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October 31, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It’s not easy to break free from deep dependencies. But it can be done. ICC to drop MS for German alternative ⬇️
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...