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Endre Borbáth

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💼 Assistant Prof. for Participation Research @uniheidelberg.bsky.social 🧐 PI, The New Climate Divide (Emmy Noether) 🧳 Guest @wzb.bsky.social 🔬 Parties • Movements • Participation • Climate Politics 📈 Quant Methods 🇪🇺 Western, Central & Eastern EU ⛰️🚴‍♀️🏃

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Nov 10

📢 I’m over the moon to share that my Emmy Noether project, The New Climate Divide will be supported by
@dfgpublic.bsky.social
!✨
It includes a 6-year postdoc position and two 4-year PhD positions, which I’ll be advertising soon. If ClimateDivide sounds intriguing, stay tuned! 👀
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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 11h

It's finally out! All parliamentary committee assignments for 14 countries, 30+ years, harmonized with other MP and parties datasets

Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 12h

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

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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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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 6d

I remember how much I liked his study on the transition in Eastern Europe when I first read it at CEU as an MA student: www.jstor.org/stable/40970... It is one of those texts with ideas that have stayed with me ever since. RIP

Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 7d

I have just seen this Diane, big congratulations, I am very happy to see that it worked out!!!

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 10d

Every time I read @adamprz.bsky.social reflecting on his life and work, I am in awe. Though I have never met him, and we move(d) in different circles, his reflections speak deeply to me.

One of the last intellectual giants in the field representing an increasingly different discipline.

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 16d

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨

I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.

I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

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Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social · 19d

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests.

doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Understanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic did not bring protest politics to a halt. Instead, it sparked diverse and divergent forms of contention. This study compares the development and characteristics of anti-containment pro...

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks Linus! :)

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 19d

Taking a closer look at @mierkezat.bsky.social @swenhutter.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social's paper on cleavage formation and civil society and cannot recommend it highly enough! Really insightful theorizing, e.g. on changes in the form of civil society and its effect on group-party linkages:

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Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social · 21d

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out:

Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape"
with @sophiahunger.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

Journal of European Public Policy

Special Issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape. Guest Editors: Sophia Hunger & Swen Hutter. Volume 32, Issue 8 of Journal of European Public Policy

www.tandfonline.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 21d

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 29d

In many countries, (esp. white, male) workers increasingly vote for radical right parties. Still, a sole focus on right-wing ideology only captures a narrow part of working class consciousness. Most workers, including many right-wing voters, are politically demobilized and distant from all politics.

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Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social · 23d

📢 Call for applications!

I’m looking for a 4-year PhD researcher (100%) in Political Science: focus on public opinion & the far right

You’ll be part of the POLHYBRID project @sciencepoulb.bsky.social, working with me & @caterinafr.bsky.social
Deadline: 9 11 2025

👉 Info & apply: shorturl.at/El2mW

Doctoral Researcher (100%) in Political Science 4 years Focus: Public opinion, Political Conflict, and the Far Right

The Department of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is hiring a doctoral researcher with a specialization in quantitative research (survey and experiments) for the project “...

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 27d

"You can’t write four op-eds a week and expect to produce a book with staying power”

Another great interview by @catherinedevries.bsky.social for her blog "Etched in Marble". @mkblyth.bsky.social is sharp and critical and his insights resonate deeply with me.

Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · 29d

On Saturday, I'll present the paper “Movement Parties and Parliamentary Speech in Chile, Spain, and Mexico”, co-authored with @eborbath.bsky.social and @janschwalbach.bsky.social ; 2pm, East Meeting Level, East 3.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!!!

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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · Sep 2

Another fantastic piece out in our "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" special issue! (co-edited with @davidattewell6.bsky.social )

@mierkezat.bsky.social et al investigate the role of civil society in contemporary cleavage formation.

There are a few more SI contributions still to come!

Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!)

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

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Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interesting new article that fits nicely within "The Building Blocs" research agenda (t.ly/us7kj), which we recently contributed to: t.ly/Dg6zK

We, as scholars of Europe, can learn from scholars of MENA, SE Asia, etc, who have long emphasized the role of civil society for party competition.

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Marianne Dahl @mariannedahl.bsky.social · Aug 29

📊 New dataset and paper alert!
We’re proud to launch the Opposition Movements and Groups (OMG) Dataset, 1789–2019: a global dataset covering 1,452 mass mobilization movements. It was just published in Comparative Political Studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Below follows a 🧵

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Aug 28

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖

We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential.

I very much enjoyed working on this!

Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Aug 14

@deeesharp.bsky.social & I are looking for a collaborator on a project w/ @offenegesellschaft.bsky.social on empathy-based interventions against affective polarization @uni-hamburg.de
j0b.de/veca

75% PhD position, 1st yr project funded & can be converted to a position w/ teaching afterwards
📆31/08

Ausschreibung

www.uni-hamburg.de

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Seán Hanley @drseanhanley.bsky.social · Aug 11

My new Substack on revisiting the pessimistic early “breakdown prophecies“ made about Eastern Europe im early 1990s.

Wrong then, but look more prescient

open.substack.com/pub/drseanha...

What the early pessimists on Eastern Europe got right

After 1989, a few scholars warned Eastern Europe’s new democracies would rapidly fail. They were wrong — but 30 years on, their “breakdown prophecies” look prescient.

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Damla Keşkekci @damlakeskekci.bsky.social · Aug 8

📖 Amazing to see Radicalising the Mainstream in Western Europe is finally out open access: tinyurl.com/2s37s6y2

In our chapter with Liriam Sponholz ✨, we discuss how #far-right actors engage in platformed #mainstreaming, through hyperlink #network analysis based on +120,000 #Facebook page posts. 📊

Platformed Mainstreaming: How and for What Does the Online Far Right Use Hyperlinks?

In this chapter, we explore how the German far right strategically uses hyperlinks on Facebook and what functions they serve. For this purpose, after gathering a sample of public Facebook pages of far...

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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.

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