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Felix Lehmann
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PhD candidate in political science @ University of Gothenburg | party competition | intra-party politics | European integration | immigration | radical right
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Felix Lehmann @felixlehmann.bsky.social · Aug 1
Why do parties do what they do? Excited to share my 2nd dissertation paper, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
In the paper, I argue that parties seek internal unity and try to keep the team together: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

1/11 🧵
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gefjonoff.bsky.social
New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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jonathanpolk.bsky.social
The 2024 EU @chesdata.bsky.social has been added to both the trend file (1999-2024) and the Shiny app. Please take both for a spin!
www.chesdata.eu/ches-europe
chesdata.shinyapps.io/Shiny-CHES/
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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dtoshkov.bsky.social
How do attitudes to 🇪🇺 European integration relate to political ideology and policy preferences?

A major update of my study:
- I added the latest 2023 ESS data for citizens and 2024 CHES data for parties
- I built an app to explore these relationships across datasets, indicators, years & countries
Average support for further European integration of citizens (blue line, based on GAM with cubic regression splines) and positive orientation towards European integration of political parties (black dots and red line, based on a local polynomial regression) as functions of left-right self-placement of the citizens and general left-right party positions as estimated by experts. Originally, party positions on European integration are scored on a 1-to-7 scale, which has been rescaled from 0 to 10 to match the public opinion data. Data: ESS Wave 11 (2023), CHES (2024).
March 14, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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denis-cohen.bsky.social
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
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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zeynsom.bsky.social
Lesbian and gay party leaders receive lower leadership evaluations than straight leaders in the UK, and the effects are consistent across genders. Interesting yet discouraging findings in our BJPS paper. @josephfcozza.bsky.social @gdilandro.bsky.social Andrea Aldrich @utgovernment.bsky.social
bjpols.bsky.social British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 20d
NEW -

A Rainbow Ceiling? Sexual Orientation and Party Leader Evaluations - https://cup.org/47G8q7r

- Joseph Francesco Cozza, @gdilandro.bsky.social, Andrea Aldrich & @zeynsom.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
BJPolS abstract focused on how citizens evaluate lesbian and gay leaders, particularly in political contexts, and its impact on leadership evaluations compared to straight counterparts.
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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luissattelmayer.bsky.social
Excited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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zeit.de
Haben Menschen früher rechter gedacht, als sie gewählt haben? Der Forscher Vicente Valentim sagt, dass wir eine Ursache für den Erfolg extrem rechter Parteien übersehen.
Vicente Valentim: "Angela Merkel lag richtig"
Haben Menschen früher rechter gedacht, als sie gewählt haben? Der Forscher Vicente Valentim sagt, dass wir eine Ursache für den Erfolg extrem rechter Parteien übersehen.
www.zeit.de
November 5, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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javiermcanto.bsky.social
New article out in Regional and Federal Studies with @julitudo.bsky.social. We analyze the rise of Aliança Catalana, comparing its manifesto and voters with those of Vox.

🇪🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 “Aliança Catalana and Vox in Catalonia: united in nativism, divided by the nation”
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1359...
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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denis-cohen.bsky.social
Ich habe mit @zeit.de über die Reaktionen etablierter Parteien auf den Erfolg der radikalen Rechten gesprochen – warum Anpassung und Einbindung riskant sind und wo Chancen jenseits reaktiver Strategien liegen.
October 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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jacobgunderson.bsky.social
Really pleased to this out as part of special issues on "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies". Huge thanks to the SI editors, @dpzollinger.bsky.social and @davidattewell6.bsky.social for putting the special together and all of their support during the process.
wepsocial.bsky.social WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Oct 25
💥OUT NOW!

"Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social

Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Abstract of the article "Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by Jacob R. Gunderson. Published online first in West European Politics. Figure 2, displaying the Loess curves showing trajectory of bloc-weighted cleavage salience index (WCS) over time for transnational (lower curve) and traditional (upper curve) cleavage types from 1951 to 2023 for 14 west european countries. Figure 3, displaying the Loess curves of WCS pooled across 15 West European countries from 1951 to 2023. Figure 4, displaying the effective number of bloc parties for the left and right camps in 15 west european countries from 1951 to 2023.
October 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
felixlehmann.bsky.social
Attention European Studies scholars and those interested in interdisciplinary research 🚨🚨🚨
In a new book chapter, @monikadesilva.bsky.social and I explore interdisciplinarity in European Studies. You can find the chapter here: doi.org/10.1515/9783...
1/6🧵
3 European Studies as an interdisciplinary research field? A comprehensive empirical analysis of interdisciplinarity in European Studies
3 European Studies as an interdisciplinary research field? A comprehensive empirical analysis of interdisciplinarity in European Studies was published in Towards Non-Unidisciplinary Research in Europe...
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Tariffs might be the word of 2025.

Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?

@grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no
@jeppjournal.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1350...
A game of tariffs: is there demand for tariffs in Europe?
In April 2025, the United States introduced sweeping tariffs on imports from the European Union and the United Kingdom, raising transatlantic tensions and prompting debate over Europe’s response. T...
doi.org
October 13, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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jeppjournal.bsky.social
🎯 @felixlehmann.bsky.social "Why accommodate? How niche pressure and intra-party divisions shape mainstream party strategies" 🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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davidattewell6.bsky.social
@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

🧵⬇️
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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tevoelker.bsky.social
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🧵
Abstract
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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robpannico.bsky.social
From the research group @dec-gr.bsky.social, we are glad to share our new Scientific Data article presenting the release of the first 12 waves of the Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (POLAT).

rdcu.be/eIkms
The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)
Scientific Data - The Spanish Political Attitudes Panel (12 waves)
rdcu.be
September 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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qoginstitute.bsky.social
1 year before Sweden’s 2026 election, our colleagues Ann-Kristin Kölln & Jana Schwenk urge stronger transparency & oversight of party financing to safeguard trust in democracy.
www.dn.se/debatt/valjarna-maste-fa-veta-vem-som-betalar-partinotan/
DN Debatt. ”Väljarna måste få veta vem som betalar partinotan”
DN Debatt. Statsvetarna Ann-Kristin Kölln, Jana Schwenk: Ett år till valet 2026 – hur oberoende är egentligen partierna? Vi saknar insyn i finansiering.
www.dn.se
September 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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joachimbaumann.bsky.social
🚨 New paper alert 🚨 Using LLMs as data annotators, you can produce any scientific result you want. We call this **LLM Hacking**.

Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08825
We present our new preprint titled "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". We quantify LLM hacking risk through systematic replication of 37 diverse computational social science annotation tasks. For these tasks, we use a combined set of 2,361 realistic hypotheses that researchers might test using these annotations. Then, we collect 13 million LLM annotations across plausible LLM configurations. These annotations feed into 1.4 million regressions testing the hypotheses. For a hypothesis with no true effect (ground truth $p > 0.05$), different LLM configurations yield conflicting conclusions. Checkmarks indicate correct statistical conclusions matching ground truth; crosses indicate LLM hacking -- incorrect conclusions due to annotation errors. Across all experiments, LLM hacking occurs in 31-50\% of cases even with highly capable models. Since minor configuration changes can flip scientific conclusions, from correct to incorrect, LLM hacking can be exploited to present anything as statistically significant.
September 12, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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joschbrl.bsky.social
Excited that my first PhD paper is published in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties!🎉

🧵 @wurthmann.bsky.social & I examine: Do They Know What They Represent? Parliamentary Candidates’ Perceptions of Their Own Party’s Positions

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...
September 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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tarekjaziri.bsky.social
Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized?

In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇
September 8, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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sebstier.bsky.social
🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience
Details
GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften
www.gesis.org
July 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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turnbulldugarte.com
Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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markuskollberg.bsky.social
Returning from vacation and looking for a late summer read? @ivobantel.bsky.social and I got you covered!

In our new @wepsocial.bsky.social paper, we assess how mainstream parties rhetorically create an affect-based "common front" against the radical right.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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marionamec.bsky.social
Sabies que sense la Relativitat no tindries GPS?
🎙️Estrenem un pòdcast ple ciència “inútil” que ha canviat el món!
👉Estigueu atents al setembre
“La utilitat del coneixement inútil”
Amb el suport d’un Ajut FCRI 2025
@fcri.bsky.social
@soctastaolletes.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/w9ViR...
La utilitat del coneixement inútil #ciència #ciènciaencatalà
YouTube video by La Dimoni de Maxwell
youtube.com
August 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
felixlehmann.bsky.social
Had a great time presenting new work on party responsiveness at the @ecprpovb.bsky.social in Thessaloniki #ecprgc25
andreadis.bsky.social Ioannis Andreadis @andreadis.bsky.social · Aug 27
How electoral relevance drives party responsiveness across policy issues by @felixlehmann.bsky.social at @ecpr.bsky.social 2025 conference in Thessaloniki in a panel supported by @ecprpovb.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM