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Simon Brause
@simonbrause.bsky.social
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PhD candidate in political science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany @hhu_de | focus on opposition parties, party competition and representation
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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 1d
Das war unsere diesjährige #AKPF Tagung in der Landesvertretung #RheinlandPfalz in #Berlin - mit einem Rekord von 6 Panels, 18 Vorträgen & einem Gespräch mit SPD-Generalsekretär Tim Klüssendorf. 💡 Danke an alle Teilnehmenden & bis zum 8./9.10.2026 in Berlin! @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social
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Karina Kosiara-Pedersen @karinakosped.bsky.social · 14d
How well are young people represented along the recruitment ladder? The pipeline problem for the Danish youth is within parties, since they are eager to stand for election and well represented at the parliamentary level. New article out in @ecpr.bsky.social's EPS. Open access: rdcu.be/eIiM1.
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Gregor Zons @gerek.bsky.social · Aug 15
Call for the 17th Düsseldorf Graduate Conference on Party Research #GraPa2026. Application deadline: 17.11.25

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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · Aug 7
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
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Rick van Well @rickvanwell.bsky.social · Aug 4
🧵 New article out in @govandopp.bsky.social ! Why do opposition parties sometimes support government legislation? Should they not be, well... opposing? I analysed 75 years of parliamentary votes in 4 parliamentary democracies. Here is what I found👇🔗 cup.org/3JeLkw4
To Oppose or Not to Oppose? Strategies of Opposition Parties’ Parliamentary Support for Government Legislation | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
To Oppose or Not to Oppose? Strategies of Opposition Parties’ Parliamentary Support for Government Legislation
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Aug 4
2024 was a turbulent year in German politics: four elections, a surging far right, and the coalition's collapse. Our new Political Data Yearbook piece (with @lucykinski.bsky.social) traces the events leading to the 2025 snap elections.

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Political Data Yearbook @pdyearbook.bsky.social · Jul 30
🆕 #Germany 2024 #PoliticalData
🗳️ @lucykinski.bsky.social & Simon D Brause report on a year of political upheaval with 4 major elections, as #AfD + #BSW gained support, the economic crisis deepened + snap elections were called for 2025 after the coalition collapsed. #OlafScholz
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Jun 19
Danke für den Ohrwurm.
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Stijn van Kessel @stijntvankessel.bsky.social · Jun 17
Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.
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Tom Louwerse @tomlouwerse.nl · Jun 9
🧵 New research on what citizens expect from opposition parties in democracy published in @wepsocial.bsky.social. @elinazorina.bsky.social and I surveyed people in Canada, Denmark, Netherlands & UK to understand their views on opposition roles. doi.org/10.1080/0140...
What kind of opposition do citizens want? Abstract Opposition parties play a crucial role in democracies. While scholars have extensively studied opposition behaviour and institutional powers, little is known about what citizens expect from opposition parties and how they evaluate these expectations being met. This study addresses this gap by examining citizens’ views on three key opposition roles - oversight, cooperation, and offering alternatives - and their perceived fulfilment across four countries: Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. Based on a citizen survey, this study assesses how individual characteristics (democratic satisfaction, political interest, education) and institutional context are related to these views. Citizens across all four countries value cooperation. Preferences for the ‘alternative’ role vary between institutional settings. On the individual level, conflict-oriented and dissatisfied citizens value cooperation less, while those with higher education and political interest find oversight and cooperation more important.
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Felicia Riethmüller @feliciarthm.bsky.social · May 13
Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals.

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Abstract Social group appeals are a crucial but often overlooked aspect of party competition. Challenger parties differ from dominant parties not only in their issue entrepreneurship and anti-establishment rhetoric, but also in how they approach social groups. Whereas dominant parties can and must use their policy record when appealing to groups rhetorically, challenger parties compensate for their lack of policy influence and long-lasting group ties by using more symbolic groupbased appeals, creating affective affiliations with voters while avoiding accountability or dividing their potential base. Similarly, they are more inclined to use negative group-based appeals. Using a most-similar-systems design and a new dataset of 15,460 tweets from German subnational parties, our main finding is that dominant parties, particularly those having held the prime minister’s office, favour policy-based group appeals, while challengers rely more on symbolic appeals. However, differences in appeal strategies diminish during campaign times. Our findings underline the importance of groupbased appeals for mainstream-challenger competition.
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Apr 16
5/ We thank the anonymous reviewers and Camila Montero for their excellent feedback and Paul Sax for his great help with the manuscript.
#ComparativePolitics #PoliticalParties #IntraPartyDemocracy #PPDB #PoliticalScience #polsky
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Apr 16
4/ 📍 Access the article here:
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

📊 Access the data here:
doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Apr 16
3/ This new release enables:
• Comparative analysis across political systems
• To study changes of intra-party democracy
• Research into democratization, party competition, and organizational dynamics
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Apr 16
2/ The dataset builds on the second round of the Political Party Database Project (PPDB) and covers 274 parties across 51 countries, including new regions in Africa, Latin America, and Central & Eastern Europe.
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Apr 16
🧵 New comparative data on intra-party democracy is now available. Thomas Poguntke and I present our recent research note ow two indices—assembly-based and plebiscitary IPD—applied globally for the first time. A resource for research on political parties, democracy, and representation. @hhu.de
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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · Apr 7
⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!

On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

Applications due: 2 May 2025

Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods
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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · Feb 7
📢I am looking for a student research assistant in my ERC project INCONEX to join the team as soon as possible!

⭐More information below and here: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · Nov 28
⭐I am looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!
More on the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

Applications due by 8 January 2025.

Full ad: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

#EUsky #poliscijobs #computationalsocialscience
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Lucy Kinski @lucykinski.bsky.social · Nov 4
Happy to have contributed with an article on populist party responsiveness & populist party voter satisfaction with democracy in Europe with @simonbrause.bsky.social
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Rodrigo Silva @carreganocaju.bsky.social · Nov 4
Politics and Governance's new issue explores citizens' preferences for stealth democracy, expert rule, direct democracy, and populists' views on referendums. www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

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Challenging Democracy: How Do Ideas of Populists and Disenchanted Citizens Align?
Thematic Issue, Vol 12 (2024)
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Sep 9
Thanks to our colleagues @hhu.bsky.social @sceus.bsky.social , the editors, reviewers for helpful comments. Thanks to @koljaknodel.bsky.social & Paul Sax for the support with the data collection. Thanks to ULB Düsseldorf for the open access funding (5/5)
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Sep 9
This article is part of the issue “Challenging Democracy: How Do Ideas of Populists and Disenchanted Citizens Align?” edited by Reinhard Heinisch & Oscar Mazzoleni, #openaccess doi.org/10.17645/pag... (4/5)
Challenging Democracy: How Do Ideas of Populists and Disenchanted Citizens Align?
Thematic Issue, Vol 12 (2024)
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Sep 9
We find that populist parties in Europe are NOT generally more responsive to populist party voters than mainstream parties. Populist parties’ agenda‐responsiveness boosts voters’ SWD, yet being in government does not enhance this positive effect (3/5)
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Sep 9
We investigate (1) how well populist parties represent populist party voters (issue-based responsiveness) & (2) link this responsiveness to their voters’ satisfaction with democracy (SWD) in 21 countries for the 2019 EP elections (2/5)
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Simon Brause @simonbrause.bsky.social · Sep 9
Pleased to share our recent article with @lucykinski.bsky.social in Politics and Governance on Populist Party Responsiveness and Populist Party Voter Satisfaction With Democracy in Europe #populism #responsiveness #democracy #EU doi.org/10.17645/pag... (1/5)
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