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Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social · 9d

Pro Tag sterben ca. 20 Kinder im Gazastreifen
Die Schweiz will nun ingesamt 20 Kinder aufnehmen

Prof. Laurent Goetschel hofft, dass dies erst der Anfang ist – und erwartet vom Bundesrat weitere Schritte zur Linderung des Leids in Gaza

Schau den den Beitrag, unter 👇👇
www.srf.ch/play/tv/-/vi...

Die Schweiz plant die Aufnahme verletzter Kinder aus Gaza - 10 vor 10 - Play SRF

Der Bundesrat plant bis zu 20 Kinder in Begleitung von Angehörigen aus Gaza in die Schweiz zu holen, um sie hier medizinisch zu versorgen. Symbolpolitik oder echte Hilfe?

www.srf.ch

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Stefanie Bailer @stefaniebailer.bsky.social · 16d

Our new study in
@jwpp.bsky.social
shows that online abuse on social media discourages young women from pursuing political offices—before their actual political careers have even begun.

with @dahoehmann.bsky.social and Tomoko Latteier

www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

An Early Leak in the Pipeline – Online Abuse as a Barrier for Young Women’s Political Engagement

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 4

🌅📙64.3

Does #Gender affect candidate selection? 🤔

Using a two-part experiment with Austrian 🇦🇹 party leaders @cerpintaxt.bsky.social
& @jochenrehmert.bsky.social look at how women benefit in rankings & what happens during the candidate selection process 🧑🏻🏫

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Selecting and ranking female candidates under PR: Evidence from a two-stage conjoint experiment with party elites

MICHAEL JANKOWSKI, JOCHEN REHMERT

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thanks! I hope your students will find it interesting!

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

But why are de facto closed-list PR MPs punished for a lack of local representation? Local party branches like incumbents providing a direct pipeline into parliament for local issues, they coalesce with other branches to support MPs in return for local representation. For more, check out the paper!

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

Neglecting local representation is punished by the selectorate. More so for men, than for women, as women benefit from the gender quota in the Green party and face less intra-party competition.

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

Observationally, I code deselection and nomination failure using (historical) nomination protocols of the Green party & link it to the geographic focus of Parliamentary Questions.

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

In this study I explore the relevance of geographic representation for PR-elected Green MPs in Germany using elite survey experiments & archival protocol data. In the survey, I show that actual party delegates prefer MPs engaged in local representation - even if they are ideologically distant.

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another piece on candidate selection of mine is forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social : Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR” (doi.org/10.1086/734244)

Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

doi.org

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

Yet, same-sex preferences exist for placing candidates on the top list position: men prefer male list-leader, women female list-leader. Given Austria’s small districts & a majority of male party leaders, this finding helps to understand women’s continued underrepresentation in the Nationalrat.

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

Michael and I conducted elite survey experiments w party leaders in Austria. Their task: nominate 6 out of 9 potential candidates & rank these 6 on a hypothetical party list.
Overall, bonus for female candidates, the more so, the less women were in the pool of potential candidates.

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

Now out with volume number!
“Selecting and Ranking Female Candidates under PR” (with Michael Jankowski @cerpintaxt.bsky.social) in European Journal of Political Research (doi.org/10.1111/1475...)

Selecting and ranking female candidates under PR: Evidence from a two‐stage conjoint experiment with party elites

Does gender affect candidate selection and list placement under proportional representation (PR)? Existing research argues that PR systems have a positive effect on women's representation due to a mo...

doi.org

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Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social · Jun 10

⚖️🗳️ Fehlendes Verfassungsgericht, intransparente Lobbystrukturen im Parlament und ein wachsender Einfluss von finanzstarken Akteuren – die Analyse der @republik.ch zeigt: Auch unser direktdemokratisches System steht unter erheblichem Reformdruck. 🇨🇭🔧

Lesenswerter Artikel unter 👇👇
tinyurl.com/3b7d9buy

Serie «Demokratie unter Druck»: Die Schweizer Drei-Viertel-Demokratie

Das politische System scheint in der Schweiz stabil. Einverstanden?

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Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social · Jun 2

🎉 We are so thrilled to share that our amazing postdoc Magdalena Breyer has won the 3rd prize of the 2025 SAGW Early Career Award! 👏

Congratulations, Magdalena 💐🎉
We are very proud and inspired by your work!

@mabreyer.bsky.social
@unibas.ch
@dgw.philhist.unibas.ch

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Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Universität Basel @polisciunibas.bsky.social · May 27

Our team just returned from the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions in Prague, where we hosted the workshop "Inequality and the Politics of Class in the 21st Century", organized by our amazing Magdalena Breyer @mabreyer.bsky.social and Peter Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social University of Oslo 😀

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Apr 8

Congratulations Cornelius! This is great!

Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jan 30

Congrats Reto!

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Dec 2

Congrats! This is fantastic!

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Dec 1

Congratulations!

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Nov 30

Also: @megapeng.bsky.social @janaschwenk.bsky.social @mariathurk.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Nov 30

A snowy Zurich today created a cozy atmosphere for our workshop on representation at @ipz.bsky.social
Fascinating & innovate studies on governments, representation, voters, parties & candidates! @reidingerve.bsky.social @lenamariahuber.bsky.social @donyhu.bsky.social @anacweeks.bsky.social & more!

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Oct 6

The Japanese Komeito sets an age limit of 69 for its incumbents and tends to enforce it too -- though with exceptions. The Dutch SGP introduced a limit of 65 in 1978. And, I think the Austrian SPÖ too had/has age limits for new candidates and incumbents. There might be more out there.

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Robert A. Huber @robert-a-huber.bsky.social · Oct 6

We're hiring!
5-year Postdoc/university assistant position in Methods focusing on comparative politics, University of Salzburg.
Application deadline: 1.11.

More details: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zf0il...

Please share!
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Karsten Donnay @karstendonnay.bsky.social · Oct 4

🚨 I have an opening for a PhD position (4-year) in my team in the Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, starting Jan 1, 2024. Join our vibrant research environment and come to beautiful Zurich, Switzerland! Focus of the position is on studying the #digitaltransformation of politics.

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Jelle Koedam @jellekoedam.bsky.social · Oct 3

Excited to share on 🟦 as well: My project on Multidimensional Polarization received a 4-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation 🎉

🚨 Please help me share the ad for the PhD position on the project!

jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

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