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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 1d

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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MZES Uni Mannheim @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social · Jun 23

❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences

PDF | Large Language Models (LLMs) bring both risk and opportunity to scholarly communication, yet their effects on expert‐level research remain... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

www.researchgate.net

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Lukas Warode @lwarode.bsky.social · May 12

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right

Political ideology is a fundamental aspect of politics and a well-researched area of political science, but difficult to measure. By examining the sentiment of political elites’ associations with ‘...

www.tandfonline.com

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Apr 17

I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!

German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf

Please share

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Apr 4

Exciting news: as I’ve started a new chapter as an assistant professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover, my postdoc position at MZES is now open!

It’s a fantastic opportunity for recent PhDs: wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure, and plenty of time to develop your own ideas.

Fellowship for a Social Scientist at the MZES | Mannheimer Zentrum für Europäische Sozialforschung

The Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES) of the University of Mannheim offers

www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de

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Claudia Landwehr @clandwehr.bsky.social · Mar 28

Call for papers! The annual meeting of the @dvpw.bsky.social working group on Analytical Political Theory will take place on Oct 9-10, 2025 in Mainz. This year, we are particularly interested in papers on democratic process preferences!

theorie.politik.uni-mainz.de/files/2025/0...

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WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Mar 7

@arminschaefer.bsky.social & @nilssteiner.bsky.social:
👉Educational gaps have widened across cohorts
👉Concerning the greens, especially among women
👉Cleavage crystallizes with generational replacement
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"
#PoliSky #AcademicSky

Abstract of the paper "How education, generation and gender jointly structure green and radical right voting" by Armin Schäfer and Nils D. Steiner. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying the voting for a green party by cohort and education.

Figure 2, displaying predicted probabilities and marginal effects of voting for a green party.

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WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Feb 26

@annakurella.bsky.social & @milenarapp.bsky.social show that public opinion on new cultural policy issues is not strongly aligned with preferences on traditional economic & moral policies.

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Part of forthc. SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"

Abstract of the article "Unfolding GAL-TAN: the multi-dimensional nature of public opinion in Western Europe" by Anna-Sophie Kurella and Milena Rapp. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying the average structuring strength of latent conflicts across regions (north, central west, south).

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Feb 23

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).

"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.

#BTW25 #GermanElection

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Nils Steiner @nilssteiner.bsky.social · Feb 23

This has been true for the entire existence of the AfD, but it is worth emphasizing again and again: Among German voters, the AfD is the most unpopular party.

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Feb 19

Ich habe mit ntv über die Positionen der Parteien im aktuellen Wahlkampf gesprochen – von der Rolle von Wirtschaft, Immigration und Klimapolitik bis zum GAL-TAN-Cleavage. Und zum Schluss gab es noch einen Exkurs zum Chaos-Theorem!
www.n-tv.de/politik/Grue...

"Grüne und AfD sind die neuen Pol-Parteien"

Selbst im Wahlkampf ist es nicht immer leicht, die Unterschiede zwischen den Parteien zu erkennen. Doch es gibt sie. Vor allem bei Themen wie Migration und Klima nimmt die Polarisierung zu, sagt die P...

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Christian Stecker @pluggedchris.bsky.social · Feb 14

131 Politikwissenschaftler haben im Open Expert Survey 2025 die Positionen der Parteien zu wichtigen Themen eingeschätzt. Im Vergleich zum OES21 ist vor allem die Wichtigkeit von Migrationspolitik gestiegen.
Einen ausführlicheren Blick & die Pre-Release-Daten gibt es hier: oes25.de/OES25prerele...

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Dr. Sarah Wagner @sarahwagner.bsky.social · Feb 3

Why would the CDU accommodate AfD policies, despite a plethora of research telling them not to?
My brilliant friend @philswatton.bsky.social wrote a fantastic, easy to understand piece on measurement: dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com/p/measuremen...

Measurement Makes Communicating Political Science Hard

Imagine you are a political practitioner for a social democratic party.

dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com

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Dr. Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social · Feb 1

Zur Bundestagswahl 2025 habe ich mit @pluggedchris.bsky.social, @annakurella.bsky.social
und @jocmuel.bsky.social das Tool #PartyCheck auf Basis der OES 2025 Parteipositionen entwickelt. Nach 15 Fragen bekommt ihr einen Match. Schaut doch mal rein! party-check.org

Party-Check

Wie stark stimmen Sie mit den Parteien vor der Bundestagswahl überein? Finden Sie es mit Party-Check heraus!

party-check.org

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Jan 30

This supports Riker’s idea of heresthetics and issue entrepreneurship theory, but at the same time demonstrates that there is stability in real-world political competition.

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Jan 30

Thus, I developed a model in which parties compete by taking position in a two-dimensional space and by simultaneously allocating their issue emphasis optimally. The results demonstrate that equilibria exist, and that they tend to be unique.

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Jan 30

With this paper I seek to address a persistent gap in the formal literature on political competition: We know a lot about parties’ equilibrium policy positions, but not much about equilibrium salience levels.

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Jan 30

New Article, open access!

doi.org/10.1177/0951...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Jan 15

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍

🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations

📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p...

Thanks for sharing! 🤝

uni-heidelberg.de

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Dec 12

Thanks Roi!

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Dec 12

Our formal and empirical results show that increasing issue salience only leads to vote gains if the party holds a competitive advantage: being moderately positioned on the economic left-right dimension, while taking a unique but not too extreme position on its core issue.

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Dec 12

Super happy to finally find this paper with @milenarapp.bsky.social on @thejop.bsky.social website! We analyze under what conditions far right parties benefit electorally from increasing importance of immigration issues/ green parties benefit from increasing importance of environmental issues.

The role of issue salience and competitive advantages in spatial models of political competition | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Denis Cohen @denis-cohen.bsky.social · Nov 20

🚨 CfA: MZES-DVPW Conference "Methods of Political Science"

🗓️ Mannheim, Mar 27-28, 2025

⏰ Deadline: Dec 16, 2024

🔗Apply via sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me...

@gessler.bsky.social, @aleininger.bsky.social, @hannahrajski.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann & I look forward to your submissions!

A screenshot of the call for applications.

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Milena Rapp @milenarapp.bsky.social · Jul 2

Very happy to see my first solo-authored paper published! I show that pro-European voters are increasingly considering European issues in their voting decisions. However, they still do so to a much lesser extent than Eurosceptic voters. Open access available: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How Important is European Integration for Pro-European Voters in Times of Politicization? - Politische Vierteljahresschrift

The increasing success of Eurosceptic parties and multiple European crises have fostered the politicization of European integration. However, we know little about how pro-European voters behave in thi...

link.springer.com

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Anna Kurella @annakurella.bsky.social · Dec 22

Use this link for free access authors.elsevier.com/a/1iIWfxRaZg...

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