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Sebastian Haunss @sehaunss.bsky.social · 2d

Finally out: Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP (DOI: 10.3262/ZFD2402218, www.researchgate.net/publication/...): How far can we replicate manual discourse annotation with NLP tools?

(PDF) Revisiting the Exit from Nuclear Energy in Germany with NLP

PDF | Die Annotation politischer Diskurse ist traditionell zeit- und personalintensiv. Die jüngsten Entwicklungen im Bereich NLP versprechen allerdings... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

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Marvin Stein @marvinstein.bsky.social · 6d

Happy to share first insights from our project ‘20 years of protest survey data’ at this year’s @protestinstitut.bsky.social conference in Bremen. We processed 30+ datasets with @gesis.org , covering protests on peace, climate, trade, migration, equality & more. Releasing soon via GESIS.

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Datendealerin 🌷☕ @datendealerin.bsky.social · 16d

DP-REX | @dprex.bsky.social is now also on BlueSky! The data portal for data on right-wing #extremism, #racism, #antisemitism, and all forms of group-focused hostility and #radicalization.

🔗 datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de

If you do research in these areas, it is worth checking out!

DP-REX – Das Datenportal für Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung

Das Datenportal für Rassismus- und Rechtsextremismusforschung

datenportal-rechtsextremismus.de

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Sep 5

Most work out there argues that it doesn't pay off for center-right parties to move closer to the far-right.

Using some of the best evidence yet, this paper shows that the same is true for center *left* parties.

Crucial finding as these parties increasingly move in a nativist direction.

Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · Sep 5

Radical right accommodation really does not work.

New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Politics Journal @politicsjournal.bsky.social · Sep 1

1/4. We're excited to announce the publication of: "How populist are ethnic minorities? Populist attitudes and voting for populist parties in the Netherlands", by Niels Spierings & Kristof Jacobs.
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
@sagepub.com

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · Aug 25

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right.

Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements.

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Aug 11

NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Do party alliances shift voter views? 🤝

A study in 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇬🇧 finds that when mainstream voters see their party cooperating with radical right parties, they’re more likely to adopt nativist views. Alliances may normalize exclusionary ideas.

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From collaboration to convergence: Nativist attitudes among non-radical right supporters

LIE PHILIP SANTOSO

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Jul 19

I gave a lecture on “The Far Right in the Trump Era” at @renner-institut.at in Vienna this Summer. You can watch it here. 👇

Cas Mudde: The Far Right in the Trump Era

YouTube video by Karl-Renner-Institut

www.youtube.com

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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften @gesis.org · Aug 27

Surveying emigrants worldwide–using Facebook and Instagram to recruit respondents in cross-national (e)migration research by Pötzschke & Weiß: doi.org/10.1186/s408...
Social Networking Sites provide an opportunity for the recruitment of certain hard-to-reach populations in almost all countries.

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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · Aug 26

Currently in FirstView: “Mapping (A)Ideology: A Taxonomy of European Parties Using Generative LLMs as Zero-Shot Learners.” Riccardo Di Leo, @zengchen.bsky.social, @eliasdinas.bsky.social‬, and @redatamtam.bsky.social see if ML can obtain measures of party ideology that match the validity of experts.

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Tova (Invite Code Era) @toivoa.bsky.social · Aug 12

Druckt das aus, hängt das auf, in Büros, Kantinen, U-Bahn-Schächten, Hauseingängen, Redaktionen, Lehrer*innenzimmern, Konzertsälen, Geschäften, Bushaltestellen, lasst es in Uni-Treppenhäusern und im Bundestag von den obersten Bereichen flattern!

www.pressenza.com/de/2017/10/1...

14 Merkmale des Ur-Faschismus nach Umberto Eco

Woran erkennt man ein faschistisches System? Heutzutage werden viele diktatorische Regime und politische Parteien als faschistisch bezeichnet. "Faschismus

www.pressenza.com

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Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · Aug 11

Apropos Einsatz der Nationalgarde um vermeintliche criminals zu „crushen“: „Cops must be unleashed and allowed to administer instand punishment“ ist die 4. Übergangsforderung aus Murray Rothbards „Right Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement“. (1992)

Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · Jul 25

Und damit hat die Trump Administration in der Tat alle acht Planken der Programmplattform aus Murray Rothbards "Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement" (1992) abgedeckt.

Nils C. Kumkar @nilskumkar.bsky.social · Jul 25

Übergangsforderung Nr. 5 aus Murray Rothbards "Right-Wing Populism: A Strategy for the Paleo Movement" (1992).

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Aug 10

Great article by @gabrielagreilinger.bsky.social on Orbán's successful efforts to bring far right and "mainstream right" elites together.

What is important about these recent event though, is that the "mainstream right" and far right now meet on far-right events and, thus, on their terms.

MCC Feszt – Normalising the Normalisation of the Far Right

MCC’s annual festival is merely a propaganda tool for the far right that the mainstream willingly participates in - writes Gabriela Greilinger

hungarianobserver.substack.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · Aug 9

Research supports “rabbit hole” model of conspiratorial thinking www.psypost.org/new-research... @psypost.bsky.social

"...believing in one conspiracy theory can slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others..."

"...people may develop interconnected systems of conspiratorial thinking..."

New research supports the "rabbit hole" model of conspiratorial thinking

A new study suggests that believing in one conspiracy theory may slightly increase the likelihood of believing in others. The research offers rare causal evidence in support of the long-debated “rabbi...

www.psypost.org

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Thomas Lux @thomaslux.bsky.social · Aug 6

In der neuen Ausgabe der Internationalen Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie (Paragrana) schreibe ich zusammen mit @martinmettin.bsky.social über die Negative Anthropologie der Leistungsgesellschaft...

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Sumita Pahwa @sumitapahwa.bsky.social · Aug 6

I'd like every current PhD student in political science to chew on this, please.

Starry-eyed fascination with numbers doesn't get you very far if you haven't tried to understand what the things you are measuring mean to actual people.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ganz killing it here, combining a critical methodological perspective on how polling is done with fundamental political theory about what politics is & what it involves:

Should we castigate the public for a lack of imagination or common sense? No, the blame lies with lazy politicians and their craven advisers. The approach of issue polling and then building a campaign around it completely ignores the human faculties of judgement and imagination. It assumes that when people hear a question and answer it, they all mean the same thing and that thing reflects a shared empirical reality. They don’t, and it doesn’t. Everyone has very different images in their mind. The key is to put the right images in their mind, hopefully, good, inspiring, grand, and virtuous ones. Politicians need to go back to basics, to the oldest political skill: rhetoric, that is the art of combining reason with imagery that moves the emotions.

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infas @infas.de · Aug 6

Die Zufriedenheit mit dem eigenen Lebensstandard hat bei jungen Menschen in den vergangenen Jahren abgenommen, in anderen Altersgruppen jedoch nicht. Das zeigen Daten von infas (tel. Befragung, Zufallsstichprobe, Dual-Frame, n = 2.881, ab 18 Jahre, 1. Quartal 2025).

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Sebastian Haunss @sehaunss.bsky.social · Jul 29

The conference program for the @protestinstitut.bsky.social ipb conference @unibremen.bsky.social is out: protestinstitut.eu/ipb-conferen...
Come to Bremen on 1 & 2 October for an exiting program with more than 80 presentations.

Program ipb Conference 2025 – ipb – Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung

protestinstitut.eu

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Jun 3

The combination of #artificialintelligence and #socialmedia poses a threat to democracy.

Our new paper explains how AI swarms can fabricate grassroots consensus, fragment shared reality, engage in mass harassment, interfer with elections, and erode institutional trust: osf.io/preprints/os...

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Jonas R. Kunst @kunstjonas.bsky.social · Jul 28

Thrilled to share that The Cambridge Handbook of the Psychology of Violent Extremism is now available. Milan Obaidi's and my goal was to create the book we missed as students—a complete overview over every major perspective in the field.

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Population Europe @populationeu.bsky.social · Jul 21

Despite popular perception, there is no clear evidence of a broad rightward shift among young men.

New study by @nennstielr.bsky.social & @hudde.bsky.social explores political divides btw young men and women - looking back as far as 1990 and using data from 32 EU countries.

tinyurl.com/389b8mmx

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Jul 18

Right-wing surge sparks debate about partisanship's effect. My #OpenAccess study shows AfD support lowers trust in the FCC. #Democracy #AfD #PoliticalScience 🌐

journals.sagepub.com

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Forschungsinstitut Gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt @fgz-risc.bsky.social · Jul 18

Frankreichs Rechte als Kämpfer gegen Antisemitismus?
Bardella & Maréchal geben sich in Jerusalem als Israel-Freunde – und stempeln Linke & Muslime zur neuen Gefahr.
Therese Mager analysiert, wie die RN das Thema instrumentalisiert.
📖 fgzrisc.hypotheses.org/6159
#RN #Antisemitismus #FarRight

Mobilizing the Narrative of Civilizational Clash: The French Far Right and the Fight Against Antisemitism

How did the Rassemblement National (RN) transform from one of Europe’s most notoriously antisemitic parties into an apparent ally of Israel? The recent participation of Jordan Bardella and Marion Maré...

fgzrisc.hypotheses.org

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Else-Frenkel-Brunswik-Institut @efbisachsen.bsky.social · Jul 9

(1/5) Der neue EFBI-Digital Report in Kooperation mit der @amadeuantonio.bsky.social widmet sich Tiktok, der Rolle der Social-Media-Plattform während des Bundestagswahlkampfs 2025 und der Mobilisierung junger extrem rechter Gruppen. Zum Report 👉 efbi.de/details/tikt...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 6

Have you considered using LLMs to code open-ended survey responses?

This looks like a must read for you!

"An Empirical Investigation into the Utility of Large Language Models in Open-Ended Survey Data Categorization"

osf.io/preprints/so...

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