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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 Reposting to avoid any confusion between EPSS & EPSA 🚨

If you want to support non-for-profit, member-led political science association, EPSS is the place to be!

More here 👇🏽

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 7

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions.

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1. Who formed EPSS?

EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members.

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Hanna Schwander @hannaschwander.bsky.social · Jun 23

Neu im @pwportal:
Wir starten die PPRnet Brief Serie zur politischen Machbarkeit von Klimapolitik mit der Einleitung: „Klimapolitik – aber machbar“.

Warum Klimapolitik nur wirkt, wenn sie tragfähig ist

#Klima #Polisky #PPRnet
Mit @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich

pw-portal @pw-portal.bsky.social · Jun 23

Wie kann wirksame Klimapolitik mehrheitsfähig werden? Zu dieser Frage veröffentlichen wir diese Woche Policy-Briefs, die den Stand der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zusammenfassen. Zur Einführung von @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @hannaschwander.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich. #pprn #polisky #klima

Portal für Politikwissenschaft – Klimapolitik, aber machbar? Sozialwissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse

www.pw-portal.de

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Jun 13

📢Come and join the Politics Lecture Series @humboldtuni.bsky.social
Berlin next week:

Kris-Stella Trump, JHU (@kstrump.bsky.social‬)
"Perceptions of Income vs Wealth Inequality: A distinction without a difference?"

When? Tuesday, June 17, 12pm
Where? ISW #002

All welcome!

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · May 13

Today's speaker at the Politics Lecture Series is @na-wehl.bsky.social!

Join us at noon @humboldtuni.bsky.social to learn about what the kids are up to these days: "Perceptions of Unfairness and Political Engagement among Adolescents"

Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Apr 24

📣 We are very excited to announce the next iteration of the Politics Lecture Series @humboldtuni.bsky.social for the summer term 2025 🥳 Come and join us for many exciting talks!

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · May 13

What's the future of historical political economy in Europe? To find out, we (w/ @cathrinmohr.bsky.social @lhaffert.bsky.social) conducted a survey and workshop. Here are our main take-aways. Special thanks to all who participated!

Broadstreet Blog @broadstreetblog.bsky.social · May 12

New Broadstreet post!

By Lukas Haffert, Cathrin Mohr, and Bastian Becker

www.broadstreet.blog/p/the-future...

The Future of Historical Political Economy in Europe

By Bastian Becker (Humboldt-University of Berlin), Lukas Haffert (University of Geneva), Cathrin Mohr (University of Bonn)

www.broadstreet.blog

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Apr 18

Super excited about our forthcoming paper @europeansocieties.bsky.social on how the origins of wealth shape demands for redistribution 👇 (full thread to follow soon)

European Societies @europeansocieties.bsky.social · Apr 17

Forthcoming in European Societies and already at OSF Preprints: @beckerbastian.bsky.social and @norawaitkus.bsky.social's "Undeserving Heirs: How the Origins of Wealth Shape Attitudes Towards Redistribution"

Link: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

What would be your explanation for the effect of such a failure? The real one of course only occurred on Friday with the second vote, but there's not much to see there

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

will look into it

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

We political scientists? ;) There's undoubtedly some anticipation but I would think that most people only learned about it from the heavy media coverage following the vote

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

You mean differences in PTV? Which would you want to see?

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

Yes, seems to be a short-term effect indeed

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

We wondered about that too. Covariates are well-balanced, including vote choice in the previous election!

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

Yes, same result for related outcomes but not for unrelated ones. AfD incurs losses, other parties are by and large stable.

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Feb 14

🚨 please share!

We will be running our annual workshop on the political economy of development in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social in June.

This is a really fun workshop doing deep reads of a small number of new papers.

Call for papers / participants below! ⬇️

www.wzb.eu/en/events/mo...

MoPED Workshop

Berlin Meeting on the Political Economy of Development (MoPED) -- The MoPED workshop offers an opportunity for scholars who focus on the political economy of development, broadly defined, to build...

www.wzb.eu

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

Thanks for your interest, but we haven't, yet

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

We also suspected that, but moving the cutoff through the field period suggests the effect is specific to the time of the vote

Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

I appreciate the concern and share the skepticism, but the data strongly suggests there's more than noise here: bsky.app/profile/beck...

Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

To be clear the dots just represent binned averages (~3h), we have over 1,000 respondents within 24h of the vote. This is the estimate of the effect. As mentioned, this holds for related outcomes, suggesting a consistent pattern.

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

Hi Lukas, the covariates are well-balanced (F-test), with only minor differences. We use rdrobust to estimate the local polynomial RD effect and this holds if we use a linear term. bsky.app/profile/beck...

Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

To be clear the dots just represent binned averages (~3h), we have over 1,000 respondents within 24h of the vote. This is the estimate of the effect. As mentioned, this holds for related outcomes, suggesting a consistent pattern.

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

To be clear the dots just represent binned averages (~3h), we have over 1,000 respondents within 24h of the vote. This is the estimate of the effect. As mentioned, this holds for related outcomes, suggesting a consistent pattern.

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 14

Yes, significant and robust.

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 13

Mobilization of existing supporters is probably part of the story, though we also find that the effect goes in the same direction for those who voted for a left party in 2021. We'll have to see how much we can disentangle both mechanisms with our data

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 13

More on what happened two weeks ago in the Germany parliament can be read here 5/5

www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Germany’s Merz sparks firestorm by breaking postwar taboo

Germany’s likely next chancellor wants tougher migration measures even with far-right support, triggering a backlash ahead of a national election.

www.politico.eu

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Bastian Becker @beckerbastian.bsky.social · Feb 13

Important to note, the mid/long-term consequences of the taboo-breaking are highly uncertain. The election outcome in 2 weeks will depend on how parties can use the incident in their favor. Furthermore, the taboo-breaking might have been a test case for future collaborations with the far right. 4/5

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