Matthias Dilling
@matthiasdilling.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Pol Scie @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social & co-convenor PSA German Politics | prev. Oxford, Swansea, PhD Oxford (Nuffield College) | Studying how and why political parties change & what this means for democracy | Book: https://t.co/1vvjasFYfD
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Are you working on extremism (defined broadly) and/or democratic resilience in CEE?
If so, @joncollins.bsky.social and I are organising a section at ECPR's General Conference in Krakow and we'd love to receive your submission. Deadline is 5 January 📝
Don't hesitate to contact us w any questions!
If so, @joncollins.bsky.social and I are organising a section at ECPR's General Conference in Krakow and we'd love to receive your submission. Deadline is 5 January 📝
Don't hesitate to contact us w any questions!
November 27, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Are you working on extremism (defined broadly) and/or democratic resilience in CEE?
If so, @joncollins.bsky.social and I are organising a section at ECPR's General Conference in Krakow and we'd love to receive your submission. Deadline is 5 January 📝
Don't hesitate to contact us w any questions!
If so, @joncollins.bsky.social and I are organising a section at ECPR's General Conference in Krakow and we'd love to receive your submission. Deadline is 5 January 📝
Don't hesitate to contact us w any questions!
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📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD
Key findings:
Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅
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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?
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
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?
doi.org/10.1017/S147...
We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?
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Quite different from my work today substantively + methodologically - but thrilled to share this article based on my undergrad thesis, now out at German Politics & Society 43(3) @berghahnbooks.bsky.social. I analyse how 🇬🇧🇩🇪 state visits portray historical memory + joint future action.
In a new article based on his undergraduate thesis, our PhD candidate @lucasiepmann.bsky.social investigates whether post-Brexit British-German relations can be understood as “international friendship,” employing a novel framework in international relations theory👇
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
www.lse.ac.uk/european-ins...
“Freundship”? The deepening of British-German relations from pre- to post-Brexit
Our PhD candidate Luca Siepmann has published a new article in German Politics & Society based on his undergraduate dissertation, which investigates whether post-Brexit British-German relations can…
www.lse.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Quite different from my work today substantively + methodologically - but thrilled to share this article based on my undergrad thesis, now out at German Politics & Society 43(3) @berghahnbooks.bsky.social. I analyse how 🇬🇧🇩🇪 state visits portray historical memory + joint future action.
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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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🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
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We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
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November 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
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Really happy to see this article out with Joes de Natris and Marijn Nagtzaam. We present the Netherlands Local Manifesto Project, our collection of local manifestos and illustrate its utility by studying the relationship between municipality and manifesto size journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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November 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Really happy to see this article out with Joes de Natris and Marijn Nagtzaam. We present the Netherlands Local Manifesto Project, our collection of local manifestos and illustrate its utility by studying the relationship between municipality and manifesto size journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Right-Wing Attack on Wikipedia
The free internet encyclopedia is widely used to train AI. That’s why conservatives are trying to dethrone it.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
New from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Who shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:
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📌 The new issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social has been published #openaccess. Check it out here 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keep reading, keep citing!
On the Cover: Photo by Sanja Zlatanović and Juraj Marušiak
polisky / nationalisky
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Keep reading, keep citing!
On the Cover: Photo by Sanja Zlatanović and Juraj Marušiak
polisky / nationalisky
November 19, 2025 at 8:09 PM
📌 The new issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social has been published #openaccess. Check it out here 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keep reading, keep citing!
On the Cover: Photo by Sanja Zlatanović and Juraj Marušiak
polisky / nationalisky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Keep reading, keep citing!
On the Cover: Photo by Sanja Zlatanović and Juraj Marušiak
polisky / nationalisky
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Research on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Research on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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⏰ ⏰ Final call! Submit your abstract for PolMeth - Europe 2026 by Nov 15th here: polmeth.eu.
Don’t miss the chance to share your research and connect with other world-class scholars ☺️
Don’t miss the chance to share your research and connect with other world-class scholars ☺️
November 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
⏰ ⏰ Final call! Submit your abstract for PolMeth - Europe 2026 by Nov 15th here: polmeth.eu.
Don’t miss the chance to share your research and connect with other world-class scholars ☺️
Don’t miss the chance to share your research and connect with other world-class scholars ☺️
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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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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
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
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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...
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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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Call for Abstracts: Together with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, I'm editing a @cogitatiopag.bsky.social Issue on #YouthWings in #Europe! 🤓 We especially invite contributions focusing on countries in Central, Eastern & Southern Europe. Feel free to get in touch! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Call for Abstracts: Together with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, I'm editing a @cogitatiopag.bsky.social Issue on #YouthWings in #Europe! 🤓 We especially invite contributions focusing on countries in Central, Eastern & Southern Europe. Feel free to get in touch! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
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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
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/...
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We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
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On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
On the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer:
2021: 28
2023: 41
2025: 42 👈
And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
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Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.
October 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Visualized here. Hot tip for journalists: the real question isn’t why Wilders lost, but why the far right has consolidated — despite Wilders's ineffectiveness in government.
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Prof Raj Chari's research has been selected as a global impact case study for Trinity's Civic Engagement Societal Impact initiative.🥳
Read the full impact case study here: tinyurl.com/2w5cuw9s
@trisstcd.bsky.social
@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
@trinityresearch.bsky.social
Read the full impact case study here: tinyurl.com/2w5cuw9s
@trisstcd.bsky.social
@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
@trinityresearch.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Prof Raj Chari's research has been selected as a global impact case study for Trinity's Civic Engagement Societal Impact initiative.🥳
Read the full impact case study here: tinyurl.com/2w5cuw9s
@trisstcd.bsky.social
@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
@trinityresearch.bsky.social
Read the full impact case study here: tinyurl.com/2w5cuw9s
@trisstcd.bsky.social
@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
@tcddublin.bsky.social
@trinityresearch.bsky.social
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❗️Please share widely:
TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Deadline: 10 Dec 2025
TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Deadline: 10 Dec 2025
Tenure-Track Professorship in Migration, Citizenship, Identity
Tenure-Track Professorship in Migration, Citizenship, Identity
jobs.univie.ac.at
October 30, 2025 at 11:34 AM
❗️Please share widely:
TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Deadline: 10 Dec 2025
TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Deadline: 10 Dec 2025
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Last chance 🚨
Post doc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social, U Amsterdam.
The lab is vibrant, collegial, inspiring and fun. And there are great research opportunities
DL November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Post doc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social, U Amsterdam.
The lab is vibrant, collegial, inspiring and fun. And there are great research opportunities
DL November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab
Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.
werkenbij.uva.nl
October 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Last chance 🚨
Post doc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social, U Amsterdam.
The lab is vibrant, collegial, inspiring and fun. And there are great research opportunities
DL November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Post doc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social, U Amsterdam.
The lab is vibrant, collegial, inspiring and fun. And there are great research opportunities
DL November 1
werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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One observation re. the Dutch election is the enduring strength of the far right (I am not fully subscribing to the 'shift back to the centre' narrative). I should be on ABC Australia News channel at around 11 CET to talk about this and to show my plants (again). www.youtube.com/live/vOTiJkg...
October 30, 2025 at 9:45 AM
One observation re. the Dutch election is the enduring strength of the far right (I am not fully subscribing to the 'shift back to the centre' narrative). I should be on ABC Australia News channel at around 11 CET to talk about this and to show my plants (again). www.youtube.com/live/vOTiJkg...
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In etwa einem Monat möchte sich die neue #Jugendorganisation der #AfD gründen. Mit @szde.bsky.social habe ich darüber gesprochen, dass es wohl vielmehr um organisatorische #Professionalisierung als inhaltliche Mäßigung gehen wird. Mehr zum strategischen Wandel 👉 www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/afd-...
October 30, 2025 at 9:52 AM
In etwa einem Monat möchte sich die neue #Jugendorganisation der #AfD gründen. Mit @szde.bsky.social habe ich darüber gesprochen, dass es wohl vielmehr um organisatorische #Professionalisierung als inhaltliche Mäßigung gehen wird. Mehr zum strategischen Wandel 👉 www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/afd-...