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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 2d

gemäß der gewählten Terminologie müsste es eigentlich Wahlhilfengehilfen heißen...

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Wiebke Drews @wiebkedrews.bsky.social · 2d

📢 New Publication Alert!

Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup
👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues

This paper investigates how spatial party competition shapes topical negative campaigning during Germany's 2021 federal election. We define topical negative campaigning as attacks on opponents that...

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Tobias Dienlin @tobiasdienlin.com · 7d

Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm

Open Media and Communication Research

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 7d

Wonderful 🪧

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Stephan Winter @stephanwinter.bsky.social · 13d

Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

W 2-Professur für Politische Psychologie (m/w/d)

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 14d

Die Arbeitseinheit Politische Kommunikation der RPTU in Landau sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (100% TVL-13) für 3 Jahre.

jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2...

Post bitte gerne teilen!

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)

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Derek Holliday @derekholliday.com · 15d

New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America

@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 15d

▶️ Party Politics

👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social

📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes.

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 15d

Here is the (open access) scientific paper for folks interested in digging deeper:

Evaluating the Performance of Past Climate Model Projections

Evaluation of uninitialized multidecadal climate model future projection performance provides a concrete test of model skill The quasi-linear relationship between model/observed forcings and temper...

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 15d

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · 21d

Do candidates with a „dark“ personality are more likely to attack in televised debates? You bet! New research with @alessandronai.bsky.social !

doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...

Redirecting

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Katjana Gattermann @kgattermann.bsky.social · Sep 1

Excited about the very first EPSS conference in Belfast next year!🤩 @kenbenoit.bsky.social & I co-chair the Political Communication Section and invite submissions on contents & effects of political communication, broadly conceived, and media-politics relations⬇️Please reach out in case of questions

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 1

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 
🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 
📍 ICC Belfast 
📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Sep 5

#tbp welche Gruppen wählten in Deutschland rechtsaußen (ungated)

Elektorat(e) rechter Flügelparteien in Deutschland - kai arzheimer

Wer sind die Wähler rechter Parteien? Meist mittelalte Männer mit mittlerer Bildung, manche aus Mitteldeutschland. Mehr dazu hier.

www.kai-arzheimer.com

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hatte heute eigentlich einen ARD Brennpunk zum Thema erwartet. 😕

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Taberez A. Neyazi @taberez.bsky.social · Sep 5

Happy to share my co-authored piece with Tan Khai Ee, on one of the first empirical studies of Facebook ads in India.

We examine how incumbency, personalization & issue focus shape campaign tone in subnational elections: Bihar (2020), West Bengal (2021) & UP (2022).

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Felix Grünewald @felixgruenewald.bsky.social · May 1

Here we go 🍎 as my first paper got published at WEP this week!
I show that political out-groups are perceived to be more homogeneous and that this is driving negative feelings and (un)willingness to vote for the other group.
It is open access, so you can give it a read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Cover page of the article, titled "Seen one, seen 'em all: political outgroup homogeneity and negative affect", including the abstract:
Outgroup homogeneity, the perception of lower trait variability in the outgroup, is an important psychological mechanism in intergroup relations. This concept is broadly applied to the context of political left-right party camps. A more homogenous perception of the outcamp limits perceived similarities and connections and could thereby foster negative impressions. This study examines whether the outcamp is generally perceived as more homogeneous than the incamp, if this perception is driving negative affect and lastly, whether it reduces the likelihood of voting for the other camp. Support is found for all three assumptions using cross-sectional data from the full Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and causal evidence from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES). Outgroup homogeneity emerges as a crucial aspect of political intergroup relations. It also provides further context to findings on affective polarization by identifying a form of outgroup dislike that is rooted in group identities rather than factual disagreement.

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Felix Grünewald @felixgruenewald.bsky.social · Sep 2

We have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarisation and I will take it as an opportunity to introduce some of the features again.

On ❄️ polarization.wiki you can find descriptions, formulas, data and applications of the most common measurements of political polarization.

Encyclopedia of Polarization

An Encyclopedia of Polarization

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Aug 30

😠@maierjuergen.bsky.social, @alessandronai.bsky.social & Nynke Verhaar: More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections

🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social · Aug 29

Partisan defections & vote switching continued to decline in 2024 as negative partisanship continued
preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-g...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 20

New study with Michaela Maier, Lea Gorski & Felix Schmidt! Using web-tracking and experience sampling data we show that German voters are equally exposed to positive and negative information; however the exact relevance varies across channels and methods of data collection.

doi.org/10.1177/1077...

Beyond a Negativity Bias: Explaining the Consumption of Positive and Negative Political Information Using WebTracking and Experience Sampling Data - Michaela Maier, Jürgen Maier, Lea C. Gorski, Felix ...

Negativity and positivity are crucial in political information, yet research often overlooks positive content consumption. This study examines the degree to whi...

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 20

We have page numbers! Comparing the tone of campaign communication for 150+ parties in 28 countries for the 2019 EP and national elections @alessandronai.bsky.social, Nynke Verhaar and I found that only extreme parties attack more in second- than in first-order elections.

doi.org/10.1080/1350...

More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections

Do parties campaign differently in different circumstances? Research seems to suggest that parties do indeed engage in harsh interparty attacks and fearmongering during ‘second-order’ elections, su...

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Now open access

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mobilizer, demobilizer–or artefact? Measuring the influence of research designs on the direct effect of negative advertising on voter turnout in U.S. election campaigns

The effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout in U.S. elections vary greatly. Some researchers have suspected that differences in research methods are partly responsible for the conflicti...

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Jürgen Maier @maierjuergen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Now open access

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mobilizer, demobilizer–or artefact? Measuring the influence of research designs on the direct effect of negative advertising on voter turnout in U.S. election campaigns

The effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout in U.S. elections vary greatly. Some researchers have suspected that differences in research methods are partly responsible for the conflicti...

www.tandfonline.com

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Aug 18

Walter Lippmann Best Article of the Year Award
✍️ @alessandronai.bsky.social, Chiara Valli, @maierjuergen.bsky.social & Loes Aaldering
“Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context: Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data”

Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context. Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data

On paper, women politicians should be punished more than men when they go negative during election campaigns. Yet, empirical evidence in this sense is surprisingly scarce, and findings offer a mudd...

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