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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger

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Professor of Political Science @ University of Salzburg 🇦🇹. Comparative politics and 🐈 🇨🇦 expat

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · May 25

Sexism isn't just driving support for the radical right — it shaped vote choice across the board in #btw21 🗳🇩🇪

Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice.

(Spoiler: not just the AfD!)
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Disentangling different types of sexist attitudes and vote choice in Germany

With a woman as head of German government for 16 years, many hoped (or feared) for significant progress in the areas of gender equality. Rather than progress, however, contributors have noticed a r...

www.tandfonline.com

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Mariia Tepliakova @mtplk.bsky.social · 8d

finally posting about this here as well: I have successfully defended my dissertation this Monday 🤓

with a stellar committee @lucykinski.bsky.social & @rheinisch.bsky.social and my lovely supervisors by my side @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social & @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social 🤍

onwards and upwards now!

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Marta Fraile @martafraile.bsky.social · 24d

Os comparto esta pieza que junto con mis compañeras @hildecoffe.bsky.social @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social #amyalexander & #SusanBanducci hemos publicado.
natcen.ac.uk/publications...

BSA 42 | Gender Identity | National Centre for Social Research

This research investigates the complexities of gender identity and its impact on social attitudes and policy preferences in the UK.

natcen.ac.uk

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Jul 30

Brilliant! We need them everywhere!

Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Jun 15

9 candidates for Landratswahl in Landkreis Traunstein in Bavaria — 8 men, and the poster walls make it look like even fewer: the usual Christian, Andreas and Sepp (Heinz and Hans not pictured😆)

Same faces, same vibes.

#Traunstein #Landratswahl2025 #Kommunalpolitik #Posterboys #Männerquote

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Marta Fraile @martafraile.bsky.social · May 27

@ipp-csic.bsky.social Comparto este reportaje sobre los primeros resultados del modulo de la @ess-survey.bsky.social ‬que hemos diseñado con @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social @hildecoffe.bsky.social, Susan Banducci and Amy Alexander
www.elconfidencial.com/espana/2025-...

Apoyo masivo de España a las cuotas por género y a castigar insultos machistas

El 62% de los españoles está a favor de fomentar la paridad de género en el parlamento a través de cuotas y un 79% despediría a quien realice insultos machistas

www.elconfidencial.com

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · May 27

Austria 🇦🇹 is often in the lower quintile when it comes to support for gender equality measures. Only 26% agree that parental support should be equal between men and women. 😐

#GenderEquality
ps. #Germany not much higher.

Source: ESS round 11. % agreeing to question on equal parental leave. with post-stratification weights.

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · May 27

Looking at attitudes about gender equality in Austria ahead of the ESS Topline presentation orf.at/stories/3394...

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Lara Zwittlinger @larazwittlinger.bsky.social · May 23

Had an amazing time presenting my work at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2025 in Prague as part of the workshop on Political Culture!

Thank you for the opportunity and an amazing organization by @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and Maike Rump!

@ecpr.bsky.social @ecprpolculture.bsky.social

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Mariia Tepliakova @mtplk.bsky.social · May 23

That’s a wrap on Joint Sessions 2025 ✨

thanks to Nadine and Maike for having Lara and myself in their workshop on political culture, where I could present our joint work on drivers of hostile sexism in Europe 👀🏡💶

@ecpr.bsky.social

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Elena Frech @frechelena.bsky.social · Mar 28

🧨Interested in the complex struggle for gender equality in EU politics? See our recent article on EUROPP @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social
@politicsgenderj.bsky.social #Eu #EUropeanCareers @ecprsgeu.bsky.social
@eup_journal

t.co/aQcNSRaJxn

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2025/03/25/the-complex-struggle-for-gender-equality-in-eu-politics/

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thanks for the kind words, it was a pleasure working with you! We needed patience to redraft a few times as the political situation changed.

I wish you many more publications 😸

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MethodsNET @methodsnet.bsky.social · Mar 26

Early Bird Registration ends TONIGHT!⏳

Ready to enhance your research with survey-embedded experiments?Join Christopher [email protected] at MethodsNET Summer School at @weareceu.bsky.social(CEU) his course on designing and implementing survey experiments.
Register here: bit.ly/4gLbv9V

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LSE EUROPP Blog @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social · Mar 25

💥 New: The complex struggle for gender equality in EU politics

✍️ @frechelena.bsky.social & @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social present insights from their new special issue @eupthejournal.bsky.social

The complex struggle for gender equality in EU politics

EU gender equality commitments must be translated into sustained action, or future political changes could reverse the progress made so far.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Jakob-Moritz Eberl @jamoeberl.bsky.social · Mar 13

The new @vdeminstitute.bsky.social report is out... and there is little good news in there for Democracy in 2024. Number of countries autocratizing is increasing. Freedom of expression is deteriorating. I fear the next report is going to be even bleaker. Full report here:
v-dem.net/documents/54...

A set of six bar charts comparing the number of countries experiencing democratic and autocratic changes between 2004 and 2024. The charts use blue bars for 2004 and red/pink bars for 2024.

Number of countries democratizing:
2004: 26 countries
2024: 19 countries (decrease)

Number of countries autocratizing:
2004: 12 countries
2024: 45 countries (increase)

Freedom of expression deteriorating:
2004: 7 countries
2024: 44 countries (increase)

Freedom of expression improving:
2004: 29 countries
2024: 8 countries (decrease)

Quality of elections deteriorating:
2004: 10 countries
2024: 25 countries (increase)

Quality of elections improving:
2004: 30 countries
2024: 10 countries (decrease)

The data suggests a significant decline in democracy-related indicators over the two decades, with more countries experiencing autocratization and fewer seeing improvements in democratic freedoms and election quality.

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Mar 12

Great open access resource on the 2024 EP elections in French and English!

Get the big picture on Germany’s EP election—read our breakdown here with @stefanhee.bsky.social

shs.cairn.info/journal-poli...

#EPElections2024

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Stefan Wallaschek @swallaschek.bsky.social · Mar 11

This week, my seminar on "Women & Politics: Actors, Discourses, Practices" starts. We look at actors such as female MPs and feminist movements, debates on abortion or focus on gendered interactions in parliament and on social media. Looking forward to interesting sessions 1/
#academicsky #gendersky

a little girl is laughing with her fist in the air while wearing a vest and tie .

ALT: a little girl is laughing with her fist in the air while wearing a vest and tie .

media.tenor.com

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Reinhard Heinisch @rheinisch.bsky.social · Feb 26

A commentary by me in today's Der Standard on Trump's approach to Europe, and why the EU is likely to be seen by the American radical right as the ultimate deep state.

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Europa wird zur Zielscheibe Donald Trumps – dafür gibt es einen Grund

Die EU ist für den US-Präsidenten der Inbegriff eines Feindbilds. Er wird versuchen, die Union zu spalten, indem er mit Einzelstaaten Deals abschließt. Die Techno-Rechte hilft allzu gerne mit

www.derstandard.at

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Feb 25

Women's representation has been stagnating around 30% for the past 30 years, after peaking at an all-time high of 36.4% in 2013—only to decline since.

32.4% after the 2025 Bundestag election. This is not progress.

#GenderEquality #Politics #Bundestagswahl #Bundestagswahl2025

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Feb 23

Highest turnout since 1990 in German federal elections

#Bundestagswahl2025 #btw25

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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · Feb 12

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

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Andreas Dür @andduer.bsky.social · Feb 5

Reminder: deadline for this 5-year position in IR in one week 👇

Andreas Dür @andduer.bsky.social · Jan 23

We are hiring! 5-year postdoc position in International Relations at the Department of Political Science of @unisalzburg.bsky.social.

Deadline for applications: 12 February 2025.

Full information: tinyurl.com/postdocIP

#Polisky #AcademicJobs

Dropbox

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · Jan 29

"Wagenknecht, says its lawmakers will reject motions on migration by the CDU/CSU (...) It could be that the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance alliance saves the "firewall.""

In other words: back to the roots – #BSW justifies its founding by saying it will make the AfD redundant.
www.dw.com/en/germany-b...

Germany: Bundestag debates stricter migration policies – DW – 01/29/2025

The German parliament is debating motions to tighten migration rules after a deadly attack by a rejected asylum seeker. CDU leader Friedrich Merz says he will not shun the help of the far-right AfD to...

www.dw.com

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Hussein Kassim @husseinkassim.bsky.social · Jan 3

A start to 2025 for us with the publication in European Union Politics of ‘Still struggling to reach the top? Women officeholders and gendered career pathways in the European Commission’, co-authored article with Pierre Alayrac, Sara Connolly, and Miriam Hartlapp, doi.org/10.1177/1465...

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Dec 20

👀 feeling less and less like trying this www.wa.de/verbraucher/...

„Nicht für den menschlichen Verzehr geeignet“: Warnung vor Dubai-Schokolade

Dubai Schokolade ist gerade in aller Munde. Aber gehört sie da wirklich rein? Eine Behörde warnt nun vor dem Trend. Erste Untersuchungen waren bedenklich.

www.wa.de

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Dec 19

Farewell to Jeremy Richardson who retires tomorrow as Editor of @jeppjournal.bsky.social after 31 volumes, 251 issues and 2,231 articles. A good innings! As both an author and reviewer I've always enjoyed and valued Jeremy's wisdom. He'll be much missed. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Farewell from Jeremy: enfin!

Published in Journal of European Public Policy (Ahead of Print, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Dec 17

Me! Not sorry! There is no fancier “reason” than something along the lines of the below…

Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Dec 11

Hard to tell.

I have more followers on X than LinkedIn + Bluesky. I posted the same article, out of curiousity Monday.

280 views on X
1750 on LinkedIn
No views data on Bluesky, but + likes/reposts

Might be an isolated case -and my stuff is not particularly interesting- but these are large diffs

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Dec 11

I fear our scholarly posts get considerably less views on X than they used to. We are presented with much more junk on X (Elon's ego posts + weird InfoWars-type-stuff) before we finally get to a relevant post.

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Dec 11

Crazy. Meanwhile my flagging extreme-right accounts calling for all sorts of racist violence do not violate any community standards on X anymore, apparently.

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Jessica Fortin-Rittberger @jessfortin-ritt.bsky.social · Dec 9

What have we learned in 40 years of research on women's careers in the #EU ? 🇪🇺

My latest in @EUP_TheJournal takes stock of what is special about women in EU institutions.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🌟Spoiler alert: part of a Special Issue coming soon. More to follow!

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