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Anita Gohdes @argohdes.bsky.social · 11d

And if you want to learn more about how people make a career in dictatorship, pre-order the authors' (Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social) new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship":

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Benjamin Höhne @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social · 25d

Wir suchen Verstärkung auf einer halben Qualifikationsstelle am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der TU Chemnitz. Schwerpunkt: #Parteienforschung. Lehre: 2 SWS. Beginn: Mitte Oktober zum neuen Wintersemester.

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · 26d

Great thread on our new paper 👇
@ankuepfer.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I show how applause (and other reactions) in parliamentary debates can provide a new perspective on party competition - signaling unity, disagreement, and exclusion. 👏

Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · 27d

👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@[email protected]), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)

Cover page of the article:
"The sound of party competition: how applausereflects unity, disagreement, and the electoralcycle in parliamentsAndreas Küpfera , Jochen Müllerb and Christian Steckeraatechnical university of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; buniversität Greifswald, Greifswald,GermanyABSTRACTThis article studies how applause reflects the dynamics of party competitionduring parliamentary debates. While legislative scholars often emphasise theselection of speakers and content of debates, spontaneous reactions from fel-low MPs remain understudied. Analysing 750,000 instances of applause in thedebates of the German Bundestag (1976–2020), it was found that applausepatterns, although largely spontaneous and immediate by nature, systemati-cally reflect incentives from party competition such as signalling party andcoalition unity, ideological (dis)agreement, and ostracising specific parties.Applause also indicates issue emphasis, especially near elections. The findingssuggest that applause can serve as a nuanced and abundant indicator in thestudy of party competition, complementing more static measures derived frommanifestos and expert judgements. By analysing applause patterns over fourdecades, this study opens new avenues to explore nonverbal reactions asmarkers of party competition in other parliaments."

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Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · 28d

New article on parliamentary reactions 👏 (with @jocmuel.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social) online first at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · 28d

💥Online first:

"The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments"

by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Abstract of the research article "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by Andreas Küpfer, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying the occurences of different types of reactions in the German Bundestag between 1976 and 2020.

Figure 3, displaying the heatmap of predicted applause per 1000 words based on a Poission regression model.

Figure 5, displaying expected applause for interaction terms government and opposition.

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Jochen Müller @jocmuel.bsky.social · Sep 1

Alter weißer Mann.
... das geht dann auch nicht mehr vorbei.

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Hanno Hilbig @hannohilbig.bsky.social · Aug 30

UC Davis Political Science is hiring an assistant professor in comparative politics. For more information, please see the description here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07299

The deadline is September 15.

Department of Political Science - Comparative Politics

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Elias Koch @eliaskoch.bsky.social · Aug 1

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social!

🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result.

Read full 🧵 below:

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Sarah Engler @saengler.bsky.social · Jul 28

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

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PSA German Politics Specialist Group @psagermanpol.bsky.social · Jul 18

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To mark the 75th anniversary of the UK’s Political Studies Association, the German Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) has created a one-off essay prize for undergraduate and masters students to celeb…

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Elias Koch @eliaskoch.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happy to see @ankuepfer.bsky.social's & my study on when politicians engage in discourse — and when they prefer to avoid it — featured at @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social!

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

When do politicians engage in discourse – and when do they avoid it?

Ideological polarisation shapes who debates whom in the German Bundestag, but substantive discourse may become less common in the years ahead.

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