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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · 13d

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU?

Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇

@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 13d

New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social :
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0032...

A short 🧵:

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Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social · Jul 4

Together with @jellekoedam.bsky.social, @tinepaulsen.bsky.social, and @nicolaiberk.bsky.social, we brought together an amazing group of researchers doing exciting work here in Zurich — and it turned into a super fun, engaging workshop. Huge thanks to everyone who joined and made it so special!

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Simon Chauchard @simonchauchard.bsky.social · Jun 13

🚨EPSA 2025 friends, Program Committee co-chair here....

We still have a few great panels missing discussants!!

**Details below: 1/n**

PLEASE RETWEET AND CONSIDER DISCUSSING :)

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

if you are able to assist with any of these roles please email: [email protected] ASAP

Full Conference Overview_EPSA.2025.xlsx

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Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks a lot for the excellent comments, Ruben!

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Filip Kostelka @filipkostelka.bsky.social · May 16

Great tribute to Hanspeter Kriesi's impressive research career now happening at the European University Institute. @eui-sps.bsky.social @eui-eu.bsky.social

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · May 14

Brexit has featured prominently in the Swiss debate about CH-EU relations. Here we provide a more systematic study, using panel data to study changes in attitudes over time.

ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · May 9

DISINTEGRATION publ #8 @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @stefwalter.bsky.social test the “have your cake and eat it, too” argument with voters. Drawing on a panel survey, they show that Brexit had a small but non-negligible impact on Swiss voters’ expectations about EU resolve. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Have your cake and eat it, too? Switzerland and the feasibility of differentiated integration after Brexit

A key Eurosceptic argument is that countries can selectively retain only those aspects of European integration from which they benefit, while opting out of those aspects they dislike. How convincin...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · May 1

🚨 New book alert!

Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social

It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals.

Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

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Thomas Kurer @thmskrr.bsky.social · Apr 30

🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social

❓Political implications of labor market transformation

Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city.

Deadline: May 18, 2025.

tinyurl.com/postdoczurich

#polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo

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Sophia Hunger @sophiahunger.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org

Image of a building of the University of Bremen with the text "Summer School for Women in Political Methodology" and "20 to 26 July at the University of Bremen" writen on it.

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Apr 16

There have been many "new cleavage" articles in the 1990s and 2000s, but I have always found this particular one to be the most insightful and prescient. 👇

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · Mar 31

Every once in a while, we write articles we truly care about.

This is one of them, and I am so happy and proud to see it published at ISQ:

Responding to Unilateral Challenges to International Institutions

Abstracts. How do international institutions respond to unilateral challenges by its member states, such as non-compliance, blocking of reforms, renegotiat

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Dimiter Toshkov @dtoshkov.bsky.social · Mar 14

How do attitudes to 🇪🇺 European integration relate to political ideology and policy preferences?

A major update of my study:
- I added the latest 2023 ESS data for citizens and 2024 CHES data for parties
- I built an app to explore these relationships across datasets, indicators, years & countries

Average support for further European integration of citizens (blue line, based on GAM with cubic regression splines) and positive orientation towards European integration of political parties (black dots and red line, based on a local polynomial regression) as functions of left-right self-placement of the citizens and general left-right party positions as estimated by experts. Originally, party positions on European integration are scored on a 1-to-7 scale, which has been rescaled from 0 to 10 to match the public opinion data. Data: ESS Wave 11 (2023), CHES (2024).

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Kasia Nalewajko @knalewajko.bsky.social · Mar 6

Very happy that my paper has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social!

Do insurgents help or hurt genocide targets? Contrary to common belief, I find that insurgent presence reduced Jewish victimisation during the Holocaust in France.

Here's what I discovered 👇

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Mar 6

Just published on APSR First View: "Allies of the Weak: La Résistance and Jews in the Holocaust" by Kasia Nalewajko. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · Mar 5

News from the DISINTEGRATION project:

In a new working paper, @giorgiomalet.bsky.social, @tommccraehunter.bsky.social, @scherzinger.bsky.social and I find that how people view the EU is influenced by what kind of EU policies the media are focusing on and how this chimes with people‘s preferences.

ERC project DISINTEGRATION @disintegrationerc.bsky.social · Mar 5

***GRAPH OF THE MONTH***
Does media-reported EU policy focus shape legitimacy perceptions? Our new study finds that ideological leanings matter: left-wing voters reward EU focus on regulation & climate, while right-wing voters prefer immigration policies.

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Feb 28

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social .

We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric.

Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric.

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Abstract: How does anti-immigrant rhetoric by mainstream politicians affect norms of tolerance? How does this compare to similar statements made by radical-right politicians? Drawing on experimental evidence, we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians. Subsample analyses suggests that this is because statements by mainstream-right politicians erode norm perceptions of right-wing individuals, while those by radical-right politicians induce backlash among left-wing individuals, who hold closer to the norm in place. The latter effect (backlash by the left) disappears when similar statements are made by mainstream right politicians. We argue that this difference occurs because mainstream politicians represent the views of a larger part of the population or have a higher status. Our results highlight the pivotal role of mainstream politicians in enforcing or eroding democratic norms, and that similar political statements can have different effects depending on their sender.

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Jelle Koedam @jellekoedam.bsky.social · Feb 26

How should we study party polarization in Europe?

Happy to share that our paper on *multidimensional* polarization is now out @bjpols.bsky.social! (more 👇)

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Feb 19

NEW -

Multidimensional Party Polarization in Europe: Cross-Cutting Divides and Effective Dimensionality - cup.org/4gLJspU

- @jellekoedam.bsky.social, Garret Binding & @mrsteenbergen.bsky.social

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of ideological polarization on democratic functions, proposing a new measurement model to address diversity polarization, focusing on multiclass classification of partisan positions.

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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · Feb 20

we talk about borders all the time, but how do citizens think about them?

pretty cool article by my (former) @ethzurich.bsky.social colleagues @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social, @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and Jana Lipps based on survey research

academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Understanding Preferences over Borders

Abstract. The governance of international borders has evolved into a contentious issue of political competition along the cosmopolitan-nationalistic divide

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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · Feb 12

With the amazing Jana Lipps and @giorgiomalet.bsky.social we have a new publication in ISQ! We explore and theorize citizens’ preferences for border securing policies using open-ended survey responses and a conjoint experiment academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

Understanding Preferences over Borders

Abstract. The governance of international borders has evolved into a contentious issue of political competition along the cosmopolitan-nationalistic divide

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Diane Bolet @dianebolet.bsky.social · Jan 27

Very excited to present my latest work tmr with @giorgiomalet.bsky.social on the political behaviour of farmers in times of growing environmental regulations

Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Jan 27

📣 Excited to welcome the fabulous @dianebolet.bsky.social at the Politics Lecture Series @humboldtuni.bsky.social and @dynamics.bsky.social tomorrow! Come & join us!

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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · Jan 21

‼️ Hiring ‼️

Two (!) positions in my group at @ipz.bsky.social in Zurich

📣 1 postdoc position (3+3 years)
📣 1 PhD position (3,5 years)

Application deadline in early March.

Job ads & details:
tinyurl.com/3p6yhptk

We are an international and friendly department with excellent working conditions

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Jan 20

New paper 🚨with Natasha Wunsch in EJPR
A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization

We theorize & empirically explore how democratic backsliding may shape an affective divide between government & opposition supporters
doi.org/10.1111/1475...

A new regime divide? Democratic backsliding, attitudes towards democracy and affective polarization

Partisan-based affective polarization has been posited as a key explanation for citizens' tolerance towards democratic backsliding, with voters more likely to overlook democratic violations conducted....

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Guillem Vidal @guillemvidal.me · Jan 8

Can a public wealth transfer to young people reduce inequality?

New article out in the Journal of European Social Policy with Andreas Thiemann, Leire Salazar and @josenoguerauab.bsky.social!

🧵 Thread 👇

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · Jan 6

What a nice way to start work in the new year:

Tom Hunter’s and my article introducing a new dataset on how IOs are discussed in parliaments just came out in RIO, as part of a special issue on domestic politics and IOs edited by @reneebowen.bsky.social, Lawrence Broz & @cjschneider.bsky.social

International organizations in national parliamentary debates - The Review of International Organizations

This data article introduces IOParlspeech, an original dataset of over 600,000 statements on international organizations (IOs) in parliamentary debates in six countries between 1990 and 2018. We expla...

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