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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · 15d

Happy to share that I’ve started as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute @eui-eu.bsky.social this month!

The people are amazing, the architecture is stunning, and the food is delicious 🥐🍝🍕

If you’re at the EUI or in Florence and up for un caffè or uno spritz, let me know! ☕🍷

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Isabel Maria Habicht @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 New preprint out with @evazschirnt.bsky.social & @jessdaik.bsky.social

We tackle a simple but major question: Are parents discriminated against in hiring?

Check out our meta-analysis results ⬇️
👉 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...

Or join the discussion tomorrow at the #ECSR2025 poster session!

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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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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Tomorrow 10:45: I'll be presenting a working paper with @lennartschuermann.bsky.social which shows that effective state action against the far right increases public support for democracy. This is part of the great panel by @larboe.bsky.social , @javidibad.bsky.social & @sldelange.bsky.social

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter.

In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Sebastian Stier @sebstier.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚀 New postdoc position for Platform Data & Computational Social Science
Join us to drive @gesis.org' efforts around the Digital Services Act (DSA) and conduct research with online platform data
💼 TV-L EG 14 | Location: Cologne
📌 Apply now: www.gesis.org/en/institute...
#DSA #CSS #DataScience

Details

GESIS Leibniz Institut für Sozialwissenschaften

www.gesis.org

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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter
Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany
📔 Social Movement Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474...
In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis.
Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

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Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thinking about using #CSS methods to study #racism, #stereotypes or #hate speech in text? 📐

👉 Check out my first dissertation paper co-authored by @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @hajoboo.bsky.social just published in Annals of the ICA! @icahdq.bsky.social 🥳

🔗 doi.org/10.1093/annc...

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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · Jul 17

4/ Our study sheds light on:
🧠 Protest (non-)mobilization
✊ Party-movement dynamics
⚖️ Political realignment in two-dimensional issue space

And 🙏 to Priska Daphi, @jacobgunderson.bsky.social ‬, @sophiahunger.bsky.social, @dasalgon.bsky.social, @kanol.bsky.social and @tevoelker.bsky.social

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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · Jul 17

3/ ❓Why the failure?
Protest sympathizers held economically left + culturally nationalist views.
But no major party or union spoke to both.
Except... one 👀

➡️ Enter: Sahra Wagenknecht (not yet BSW)
🧩 Her left-nationalist policy package matched the protest potential —
📢 And actually mobilized it.

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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · Jul 17

2/ We combine protest event data 🪧 + a survey experiment 📊
What we find:
➡️ Huge sympathy for protest goals
➡️ Very little actual participation
➡️ Traditional actors (existing parties and labor unions) failed to mobilize

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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter
Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany
📔 Social Movement Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474...
In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis.
Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Jul 13

🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter!

We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity.

📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

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Isabel Maria Habicht @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social · Jun 10

I recently presented at INAS2025 in NYC:
“Why women leave academia? A longitudinal study of the leaky pipeline in German sociology”

Thanks to @womensforuminas.bsky.social and the INAS attendees for the inspiring exchange, and @europeatharvard.bsky.social for their support!

📝 Preprint👇

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Hans Jonas Gunzelmann @hajogu.bsky.social · Jun 7

🤩I'm extremely excited to have @laiabalcells.bsky.social at the WZB to discuss secessionism, protest, and affective polarization in Catalonia on June 20 - including findings from her research and my very own book. 📖

The event will be hybrid at the WZB and on Zoom - more info how to register below!👇

Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · Jun 6

📣 "Contentious Politics in Catalonia"

Join us June 20, 2pm @wzb.bsky.social

Book launch "Organizing for Independence" by @hajogu.bsky.social (WZB)

Discussion: @laiabalcells.bsky.social (Georgetown) on aff. polariz. & nat. conflicts

Info & registration (on site/Zoom) www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...

Program of the Lecture Series "Civil Society and Political Conflict" at the WZB, 2025.

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Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social · Jun 5

My favorite paper from my dissertation, co-authored w @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social, is now available as a preprint! 🤗 If you work on emotions in politics or if you‘re curious about what we can (not) infer from people‘s emotions, check it out! We‘d love to hear what you think!

Gijs Schumacher @gijsschumacher.bsky.social · Jun 5

Are we good at describing our feelings about politics? In our new preprint @mrooduijn.bsky.social @isabellareb.bsky.social we show this is not the case: osf.io/preprints/os... [1/6]

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · May 19

Fascinating substack post by @laurenleek.eu on the problem of declining humans and increasing AI agents in survey responses. This is going to become a huge issue in survey research!
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

The quiet collapse of surveys: fewer humans (and more AI agents) are answering survey questions

I show data on two trends undermining surveys: the collapse of human response rates and the increase of AI agents. I'll also discuss downstream implications and propose some possible solutions.

open.substack.com

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · May 19

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋

New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social

We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸
doi.org/10.1086/736698

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Sven-Oliver Proksch @sopro.bsky.social · May 12

📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5

Book cover of the second edition of Foundations of European Politics A Comparative Approach

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Katarzyna Wojnicka @katarzynawojnicka.bsky.social · May 2

Come and join me (online) next week!

Queer Politics Webinar @queerseminar.bsky.social · May 2

🏳️‍🌈 Our Spring programme continues next Thursday with @katarzynawojnicka.bsky.social!

😯 Katarzyna will present her groundbreaking research on European queer monuments from an intersectional approach.

📆 Mark your calendars and be sure to join us on May 8th!

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Alberto López Ortega @bertous.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you are in Boston area next Monday, join me next Monday in a very special conversation with former Irish PM Leo Varadkar -- one of the first openly gay heads of government in the world.

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies @europeatharvard.bsky.social · Apr 22

Join former Irish PM Leo Varadkar to discuss the future of liberal #democracy in Europe amidst rising #populism, democratic backsliding, and geopolitical uncertainty. @harvard-carr-ryan.bsky.social @bertous.bsky.social

🗓️ April 28, 4:00-5:30pm
🔗 ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...
📥 RSVP by 4/25

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Isabel Maria Habicht @isabelmhabicht.bsky.social · Apr 12

That’s a wrap on my poster at #PAA2025 — thank you to everyone who stopped by and shared thoughts on justice perceptions in parental leave decisions! ⚖️👶

Couldn’t make it? You can still check out the preprint here: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS) @ccds-aup.bsky.social · Apr 12

How Far-Right Actors and Ideas Shape Public Debates? @tevoelker.bsky.social (@wzb.bsky.social) will discuss “Mainstreaming the Far Right” on Friday, April 18. Discussant: Friederike Windel (AUP).
Register here: tinyurl.com/CCDSVolker

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

NEW -

Studying Multi-Level Systems with Cross-Level Data: Introducing Three Integrated Datasets - cup.org/4b8LzTi

- Leonce Röth, @dasalgon.bsky.social, @dielea.bsky.social & André Kaiser

BJPolS abstract describing a political study that includes electoral, institutional, and government data across 21 countries from 1941 to 2019, stored in the Harvard Dataverse repository. The text mentions methodological localization and the availability of data at multiple governmental levels.

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