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Jürgen Maier
@maierjuergen.bsky.social
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Political scientist working on the content, processing, and impact of political/campaign communication. https://ksw.rptu.de/abt/politikwissenschaft/abteilung/politische-kommunikation/team/prof-dr-juergen-maier

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maierjuergen.bsky.social
Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 3d
gemäß der gewählten Terminologie müsste es eigentlich Wahlhilfengehilfen heißen...
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wiebkedrews.bsky.social
Wiebke Drews @wiebkedrews.bsky.social · 3d
📢 New Publication Alert!

Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup
👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
This paper investigates how spatial party competition shapes topical negative campaigning during Germany's 2021 federal election. We define topical negative campaigning as attacks on opponents that...
doi.org
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 8d
Wonderful 🪧
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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 8d
Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm
Open Media and Communication Research
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stephanwinter.bsky.social
Stephan Winter @stephanwinter.bsky.social · 14d
Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
W 2-Professur für Politische Psychologie (m/w/d)
jobs.rptu.de
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 15d
Die Arbeitseinheit Politische Kommunikation der RPTU in Landau sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (100% TVL-13) für 3 Jahre.

jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2...

Post bitte gerne teilen!
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)
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hausfath.bsky.social
Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 16d
Here is the (open access) scientific paper for folks interested in digging deeper:
Evaluating the Performance of Past Climate Model Projections
Evaluation of uninitialized multidecadal climate model future projection performance provides a concrete test of model skill The quasi-linear relationship between model/observed forcings and temper...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Reposted by Michael Wagner, Johannes Quaas, Jamie Hannaford , and 8 more

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 16d
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
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Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Dominik Wiedenhofer, David Darmofal

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 16d
New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
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Reposted by Simon Hix, Jürgen Maier, Silja Häusermann

epssnet.bsky.social
EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 16d
▶️ Party Politics

👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social

📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes.

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 22d
Do candidates with a „dark“ personality are more likely to attack in televised debates? You bet! New research with @alessandronai.bsky.social !

doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
Redirecting
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Sep 5
#tbp welche Gruppen wählten in Deutschland rechtsaußen (ungated)
Elektorat(e) rechter Flügelparteien in Deutschland - kai arzheimer
Wer sind die Wähler rechter Parteien? Meist mittelalte Männer mit mittlerer Bildung, manche aus Mitteldeutschland. Mehr dazu hier.
www.kai-arzheimer.com
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Sep 5
Hatte heute eigentlich einen ARD Brennpunk zum Thema erwartet. 😕
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Taberez A. Neyazi @taberez.bsky.social · Sep 5
Happy to share my co-authored piece with Tan Khai Ee, on one of the first empirical studies of Facebook ads in India.

We examine how incumbency, personalization & issue focus shape campaign tone in subnational elections: Bihar (2020), West Bengal (2021) & UP (2022).
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Felix Grünewald @felixgruenewald.bsky.social · Sep 2
We have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarisation and I will take it as an opportunity to introduce some of the features again.

On ❄️ polarization.wiki you can find descriptions, formulas, data and applications of the most common measurements of political polarization.
Encyclopedia of Polarization
An Encyclopedia of Polarization
polarization.wiki
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jeppjournal.bsky.social
JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Aug 30
😠@maierjuergen.bsky.social, @alessandronai.bsky.social & Nynke Verhaar: More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections

🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Ryan Enos

mattgrossmann.bsky.social
Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · Aug 29
Partisan defections & vote switching continued to decline in 2024 as negative partisanship continued
preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-g...
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Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Brady T. West, Jürgen Maier , and 7 more

lakens.bsky.social
Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 25
If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 20
New study with Michaela Maier, Lea Gorski & Felix Schmidt! Using web-tracking and experience sampling data we show that German voters are equally exposed to positive and negative information; however the exact relevance varies across channels and methods of data collection.

doi.org/10.1177/1077...
Beyond a Negativity Bias: Explaining the Consumption of Positive and Negative Political Information Using WebTracking and Experience Sampling Data - Michaela Maier, Jürgen Maier, Lea C. Gorski, Felix ...
Negativity and positivity are crucial in political information, yet research often overlooks positive content consumption. This study examines the degree to whi...
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 20
We have page numbers! Comparing the tone of campaign communication for 150+ parties in 28 countries for the 2019 EP and national elections @alessandronai.bsky.social, Nynke Verhaar and I found that only extreme parties attack more in second- than in first-order elections.

doi.org/10.1080/1350...
More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections
Do parties campaign differently in different circumstances? Research seems to suggest that parties do indeed engage in harsh interparty attacks and fearmongering during ‘second-order’ elections, su...
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 19
Now open access

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mobilizer, demobilizer–or artefact? Measuring the influence of research designs on the direct effect of negative advertising on voter turnout in U.S. election campaigns
The effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout in U.S. elections vary greatly. Some researchers have suspected that differences in research methods are partly responsible for the conflicti...
www.tandfonline.com
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 19
Now open access

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Mobilizer, demobilizer–or artefact? Measuring the influence of research designs on the direct effect of negative advertising on voter turnout in U.S. election campaigns
The effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout in U.S. elections vary greatly. Some researchers have suspected that differences in research methods are partly responsible for the conflicti...
www.tandfonline.com

Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Alessandro Nai

polcomm.bsky.social
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Aug 18
Walter Lippmann Best Article of the Year Award
✍️ @alessandronai.bsky.social, Chiara Valli, @maierjuergen.bsky.social & Loes Aaldering
“Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context: Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data”
Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context. Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data
On paper, women politicians should be punished more than men when they go negative during election campaigns. Yet, empirical evidence in this sense is surprisingly scarce, and findings offer a mudd...
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Reposted by Tim Bale, Jürgen Maier, Alexander Wuttke , and 4 more

ejprjournal.bsky.social
European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 15
🌅📙 64.3

Are poor people poorly heard?👂

These authors (🧵⬇️) use citizen surveys in 🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦 & 🇩🇪 to claim that politicians hold biased views of what citizens want & shows that politicians perceptions parallel the rich for the most pressing economic issues.

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Are poor people poorly heard?
JULIE SEVENANS, AWENIG MARIÉ, CHRISTIAN BREUNIG, STEFAAN WALGRAVE, KAROLIN SOONTJENS, RENS VLIEGENTHART
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 14
Genau mein Thema
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Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Chris Hanretty, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

chesdata.bsky.social
Chapel Hill Expert Survey @chesdata.bsky.social · Aug 14
The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Here’s a summary thread:
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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 14
Power game between to dark personalities at the end of the week at the end of the world. However, one of them is cool and conscientious, while the other is erratic. Source: global.oup.com/academic/pro... by @alessandronai.bsky.social and me
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Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Robert Huber, Thomas M. Meyer

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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...
doi.org
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Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Kai Arzheimer, Chris Hanretty , and 2 more

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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · Aug 13
How does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election?

I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social.

Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Reposted by Axel Bruns, Jürgen Maier

alessandronai.bsky.social
Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · Aug 11
This bad boy is finally out - and it is a beaut!

Fantastic collab with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social

Quick thread about some key findings in the book. Link to buy the book with 20% discount at the end of the thread
Book cover for “The Psychology of Attack Politics"
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