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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · 6d

In-depth workshop with a wonderful group of people at a beautiful location 🇳🇴
Salma and I got to present the current iteration of our historical paper on how the German occupation impacted membership in the Danish Nazi party.
Thanks to the organizing team and for the super productive feedback!

Mikael Persson @professormpersson.bsky.social · 6d

The 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop in Trondheim! @lchristensen.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social et al!

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Aug 15

I love Colchester as much as the next person (👀), but if you are still thinking about where to get new input next year, also consider checking out the course schedule for the 30th anniversary at USI 🤝

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Aug 15

On top of getting an intense and informative introduction to machine learning by Marco Steenbergen, the whole package of the @usi.ch Summer School in Lugano was pretty memorable 🦦⛰
From what I've heard around, this week's quant courses were excellent and there is more on the program next week 🧑‍💻

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Aug 15

I love Colchester as much as the next person (👀), but if you are still thinking about where to get new input next year, also consider checking out the course schedule for the 30th anniversary at USI 🤝

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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.

A short 🧵

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Fabio Ellger @fabioellger.bsky.social · Aug 7

Excited to host the 4th iteration of the Transformations of Democracy Junior Scholars Workshop at WZB Berlin together with Hanno Hilbig!
Amazing talks & exchanges with colleagues from Princeton, Harvard, UC Davis, Toulouse School of Economics, Copenhagen, Humboldt, Chemnitz, EUI, and beyond..

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António Valentim @antvalentim.bsky.social · Jul 25

1/ New paper out in Electoral Studies with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social
We show that nuclear power plants reduce electoral support for Green parties in Germany.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread on the paper:

How nuclear power hurts the Greens: Evidence from German nuclear power plants

What are the electoral consequences of nuclear energy for Green parties? Despite the centrality of nuclear opposition to Green party platforms, and th…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Humboldt GovLab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social · Jul 16

📣 It’s official – we launched the Humboldt Governance Lab! 📣

We use innovative methods to deliver evidence-based insights for policy-makers, public admin, and civil society – tackling the key challenges facing democracy today.

🌐 hu-govlab.de
@humboldtuni.bsky.social

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Jul 9

Apart from the great work going on 🤓 you can join an awesome community of peers and I would go as far as saying we are quite fun to be around ✨
Reach out should you have any questions beyond hard facts!

Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Jul 9

📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Jul 8

🚀 Launching the Humboldt Governance Lab @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social!

We deliver evidence-based insights and policy advice on today’s key challenges to democracy.

🌐 hu-govlab.de
Follow us for research, updates & collaborations.

#GovLab #Democracy #PolicyResearch

HUMBOLDT-GOV.LAB | aktuelle Spitzenforschung

Das Humboldt Governance Lab (Humboldt GovLab) ist ein Forschungslabor an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

hu-govlab.de

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Jun 27

Can traditional campaign tools still mobilize young voters in the digital age? 📬

With @heikekluever.bsky.social, I present evidence from a field experiment ahead of the 2024 European elections targeting first-voters. Join us after sleeping in on Saturday 🙌 #epsa2025

⏰: Sat, 11:20
📍: -1.A.06

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Jun 27

If you're still looking for a panel at lunchtime, join @zethis.bsky.social, @bdellasala.bsky.social, @hannohilbig.bsky.social and me, it's BYOF 🥡 #epsa2025

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Franziska Veit @franziskaveit.bsky.social · Jun 27

Excited to present work on the impact of local unemployment in formative years on anti-immigration attitudes in adulthood tomorrow at #epsa2025

Saturday 11.20am-1pm
Room 1A.08

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Cornelius Erfort @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social · Jun 26

I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸

@epsanet.bsky.social‬

A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Jun 26

Are tailored ads in political campaigns as persuasive as conventional wisdom holds? 📢

In joint work w/ @heikekluever.bsky.social we present evidence from a field experiment with the German Greens ahead of the 2024 European Elections calling this into question 🤔
#epsa2025

⏰: Friday, 16:50
📍: 0A.10

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Jun 26

Who ideologically collaborates with the occupier under military occupation? 🪖

At #epsa2025 I'll be presenting joint work w/ Salma Mahamed on how the German occupation in WW2 impacted membership in the Danish Nazi party, using now digitized individual-level membership data

⏰: Friday, 13:10
📍: 0A.05

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Annina Hermes @anninahermes.bsky.social · Jun 26

Very excited to present my paper with @heikekluever.bsky.social on the consequences of far-right parties in government at #EPSA2025 on Friday!
🗓️ Friday 4:50-6:30
📍 Room 0A.06 | Panel P10-S253

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Elias Koch @eliaskoch.bsky.social · Apr 8

Really glad to see this published! It was a true pleasure to collaborate with the wonderful @ankuepfer.bsky.social throughout every stage of this project 🙏 🎉

Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚀 Our paper (with @eliaskoch.bsky.social) on ‘The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament’ is finally out as EarlyView at the EJPR!

The politics of seeking and avoiding discourse in parliament / When do politicians debate each other in parliament, and when do they prefer to avoid discourse? While existing research has shown MPs to unilaterally leverage the dialogical nature of legislative debates to their advantage, the circumstances facilitating actual discursive interaction have so far received less attention. We introduce a new framework to study the emergence of discourse in political debates. Applying this framework, we expect ideological differences and government–opposition dynamics to shape politicians' choices about seeking or avoiding discourse. To test these hypotheses, we draw on an original dataset of all 14,595 attempted and successful interventions (Zwischenfragen) – extraordinary, voluntary discursive exchanges between speakers and MPs in the audience – in the German Bundestag (1990–2020), extracted using an annotation pipeline developed specifically for this study. We find that MPs separated by diverging preferences seek discourse with one another more often than their ideologically aligned counterparts. At the same time, these exact attempts do less frequently result in discursive interactions. When considering government–opposition dynamics in this process, we observe very similar patterns: Attempts to initiate discourse are particularly common among opposition MPs facing government speakers, and we find tentative evidence suggesting that government actors are most likely to avoid these invitations to discursive interaction. Our findings have important implications for our understanding of elite behaviour in public environments.

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Đorđe Milosav @djordjemilosav.bsky.social · Mar 24

🚨 New paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social. We show a growing youth gender gap in far-right support, driven by young men.

3 key findings in 🧵⬇️

w/ @zachdickson.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @theresakuhn.bsky.social @tonirodon.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Mar 3

Congratulations to Dr. @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social who succesfully defended his PhD thesis on Voter Targeting and Campaign Communication Strategies @humboldtuni.bsky.social @dynamics.bsky.social today 👨‍🎓🥳🍾

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Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Nov 20

⏰ Please share widely!

We have an opening in our group at @wzb.bsky.social Berlin for a PhD student wanting to work on political violence (pol economy of development / pol ineq)
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/345... Apps from global south especially encouraged. Fun group, great city, lots to do!

Predoctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 303)

The WZB Berlin Social Science Center is a publicly financed research institution that conducts leading edge theory-based and problem-oriented social ...

wzb.hr4you.org

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Dec 15

This is a great opportunity to join a wonderful team in a beautiful city! 🙌 You'd become part of a talented chair team, from student RAs to fellow post-docs, and a group of brilliant colleagues across the whole institute.

Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Dec 15

CfA for a 4 year PostDoc Position at our Research Group
at Humboldt University in Berlin. Great people, great job, great city! Come and join us!

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DYNAMICS_PhD @dynamics.bsky.social · Dec 11

📢Job Alert: We´re recruiting 10 Doctoral Researchers
@dynamics.bsky.social Program studying #DemographicChange, #DemocraticProcesses and #PublicPolicy @hertieschool.bsky.social and Humboldt-University Berlin.
Great Job, great city, vibrant research community! Come and join our team in Berlin!

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Oct 11

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · Oct 4

Anyway, I am looking forward to working with a great group of researchers including @heikekluever.bsky.social and others I unfortunately cannot tag yet :(