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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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Jeyhun Alizade @jeyalizade.bsky.social · 11d

Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties.

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Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes...

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 16d

New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social :
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
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Sabrina J. Mayer @sabrinajmayer.bsky.social · 19d

Published in Pers.Indiv.Differ. with my formidable former colleague Almuth 🎆 @dezim-institut.de on the general mechanisms of PRRP support. We show: low tolerance for ambiguity connects personality traits to right-wing authoritarianism, populist att & anti-immigrant sentiment -> higher AfD support.

Navigating uncertainty: The role of tolerance for ambiguity in linking personality traits to ideological variables and radical right voting

Previous studies suggest that personality traits (e.g., the Big Five) influence voting behavior for radical right parties (RRPs) indirectly via ideolo…

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 24d

💥 Update! 💥

This paper is now officially published in Volume 30, Issue 4 of The International Journal of Press/Politics! 🗳️

Experimental evidence that voters prefer moderately tailored messages - highly tailored ones can backfire & targeting can be too much: doi.org/10.1177/1940... #IJPP

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Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · 29d

New article on parliamentary reactions 👏 (with @jocmuel.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social) online first at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · 29d

💥Online first:

"The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments"

by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social

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Abstract of the research article "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by Andreas Küpfer, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying the occurences of different types of reactions in the German Bundestag between 1976 and 2020.

Figure 3, displaying the heatmap of predicted applause per 1000 words based on a Poission regression model.

Figure 5, displaying expected applause for interaction terms government and opposition.

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Joscha F. Bäuerle @joschbrl.bsky.social · Sep 11

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...

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Sep 9

On my way to Vancouver 🇨🇦 for my first @apsa.bsky.social ! 🥳 Starting off with the @polcomm.bsky.social Preconfoerence tomorrow presenting a new project with @klingelt.bsky.social on „The Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from Campaign Poster Locations in Central Berlin“

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 Still time to register for the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference!
⏳ Almost full. Sign up today! It is ✨free✨!

📌 10 Sept 2025 | Simon Fraser Univ, Vancouver

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Dr. Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social · Aug 28

New Publication 📖 with @aikowagner.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social
"Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany"
Full paper (open access)👉
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What did we find? 🧵

Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!)

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Aug 25

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.

Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Aug 11

NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

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Hanna Schwander @hannaschwander.bsky.social · Aug 21

check out the new publication by @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social and @k8em0.bsky.social on how useful the concept of cordong sanitaire still is for studying the far right

Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Aug 21

New article out!

@luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social,
@k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics

Read the full article, open access, here

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The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence

Much has been written about how mainstream parties respond to far-right challengers in liberal democracies. Whereas some mainstream parties have become more open to forming coalitions with far-righ...

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Dominika Tronina @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thrilled to receive the 2024 Best Paper Prize ✨! Sad I can’t attend the celebration in person, but thankful for the recognition and this community.

ECPR SG Extremism & Democracy @ecpr-ead.bsky.social · Aug 20

🗓️ Business Meeting @ecpr.bsky.social General Conference
Join us on Wed, 27 Aug, 17:45–18:45 (local time) in the Law Building, 3rd Floor, Room 6.
We’ll discuss ongoing projects, future plans, and celebrate our 2024 Best Paper Prize winner: @dom-of-tronina.bsky.social! 🎉 Everyone’s welcome!

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
"From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝

📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me

From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election

The 2024 Austrian parliament election reflects both continuity and transformation within the political landscape of the country. Following a turbulent inter-election period marked by multiple crise...

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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · Aug 5

In Voters Under Pressure @rdassonneville.bsky.social explains the rising volatility in advanced democracies with voters being increasingly socially cross-pressured. In my reading, this implies that the electorate is not structured anymore in the way that the mandate interpretation assumes.

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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · Aug 5

Larry M. Bartels's Democracy Erodes from the Top reevaluates Europe's various recent crises. He describes how “mandates” can effectively be ignored with politicians changing course after the election and voters forgoing punishment for value infringements as long as their immediate lives improve.

Democracy Erodes from the Top

Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe’s crisis of democracy

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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · Aug 5

Authoritarianism and the Evolution by Erik R. Tillman explains the rise of authoritarianism and Euroscepticism with a “worldview evolution” rooted in the activation of authoritarian predispositions by political elites. I read this as suggesting that “mandates” do not exogenously emerge from voters.

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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · Aug 5

The mandate interpretation of elections holds that the parties that attain power through elections implement what they promised beforehand, i.e., the policy platform that they have campaigned on and “for which” they have been elected.

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Tristan Klingelhöfer @klingelt.bsky.social · Aug 5

I learned so much from @rdassonneville.bsky.social's Voters Under Pressure, Tillman's Authoritarianism and the Evolution and Bartels's Democracy Erodes from the Top. In @comppol.bsky.social, I review each book on its own terms and draw out implications for the view that elections confer mandates. 🧵

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Elias Koch @eliaskoch.bsky.social · Aug 1

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social!

🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result.

Read full 🧵 below:

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · Jul 21

Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties.

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The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - Volume 55

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · Jul 14

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

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Werner Krause @krausewe.bsky.social · May 23

New publication @wepsocial.bsky.social w/ Timothy Hellwig and Lawrence Ezrow!

We argue and show that non-centrist/extreme governments prioritize their core supporters over the median voter when making policy.

However, this strategy is likely to backfire at the next election.

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Matthias Dilling @matthiasdilling.bsky.social · May 9

Excited to see my book "Parties under Pressure" reviewed in Party Politics. Sincere thanks to @klingelt.bsky.social for the very thorough review! You can find it here: doi.org/10.1177/1354.... (1/)

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Daniel Schlozman @daschloz.bsky.social · May 2

Lovely if gloomy retirement conference for my colleague Dick Katz today. @klingelt.bsky.social offered a prescient quote from Giovanni Sartori, who had lived through fascism, on the perils of demolatry.

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