Me & my very able former colleague and now doctoral candidate Lisa Walter (not on Bluesky yet) just published a new article in @ersjournal.com
We examine how discrimination shapes immigrants and their descendants’ trust in the police in Germany.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Published in Pers.Indiv.Differ. with my formidable former colleague Almuth 🎆 @dezim-institut.de on the general mechanisms of PRRP support. We show: low tolerance for ambiguity connects personality traits to right-wing authoritarianism, populist att & anti-immigrant sentiment -> higher AfD support.

Excited that my first PhD paper is published in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties!🎉

🧵 @wurthmann.bsky.social & I examine: Do They Know What They Represent? Parliamentary Candidates’ Perceptions of Their Own Party’s Positions

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...

📢 Very happy to share our newest article! Thanks to all my co-authors for the amazing work 😍: Catherine Chen (cathchen.com), @lwhitmarsh.bsky.social, Caezilia Loibl (u.osu.edu/loibl.3/) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Immigrant-origin voters & native behave the same, but have different experiences across the political life cycle.

New research @wepsocial.bsky.social by @emppolitikwiss.bsky.social Jonas Elis & @sabrinajmayer.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Ok, it as 13.10. Coming already from the heat😅

Being at @epsanet.bsky.social presenting joint work together with @joschbrl.bsky.social about populist attitudes of immigrant-origin individuals. Friday at 1.30. Come and join!

Being in Madrid for EPSA 2025 and because you don't speak spanish you just order something 😅 it tastes good but has some interesting ingedtients. Looking forward to EPSA and meeting people

❕📣 My first paper is now published!

“They don’t have the time for that, participating in politics” - How local politicians interpret political integration in the USA.

It is available as open access in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.

doi.org/10.1007/s121...

🗳️ How do voters with and without a migration background engage with political media?
New data from the IGES II (Duisburg) offers first-time insights into media use during election campaigns.
📄 Paper by Jonas Elis in PVS. 👇
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11615-025-00618-6

Our newest piece on BSW is now published. We show that when attitudes toward Wagenknecht come into the game, policies are no longer that meaningful in predicting behaviour. Personalisation in a personalised party! What a surprise! 😀
@sarahwagner.bsky.social

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

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

Once again, I ask what anyone has seen, at this point, to make them really believe that the 2026/28 elections are going to be free, fair, & competitive. Who is going to stop Trump from simply declaring the results of blue states invalid for "pro-terrorist conduct" or some other invented reason?

In this new article, we study voting for the BSW from a policy space perspective with @gles.bsky.social data.

Findings:
-BSW voters tend to be left-nationalist
-Depending on prior party support, either nationalist or economically left-wing positions predict switching to BSW

doi.org/10.1080/0964...

Ich glaube, die SPD begeht mit ihrer Zustimmung zum Koalitionsvertrag einen schweren strategischen Fehler. Vermutung: die Positionen, die in den Vertrag hineinverhandelt wurden, können die ganz grundsätzlichen, strategischen Probleme und die personelle Not der Sozialdemokratie nicht aufwiegen. 1/

Das Springer VS essentials "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht - Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit (BSW). Eine politikwissenschaftliche Einordnung" von @sarahwagner.bsky.social & mir ist nun open access erschienen. Möge es als Einstiegslektüre für interessant befunden werden. #BSW
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A short article of mine on civil-military relations and democratic backsliding had been accepted for publication in the journal "Connections".

Then I received an email that the editors can't publish the paper unless I "remove the case study/examples of the United States" (1/x)
#CivMilSky

@philipphoffmann.bsky.social & @vreben.bsky.social focus on conventional & unconventional political participation of young adults. Their findings show that moderating relationships of discrimination and national ID with the civic voluntarism model vary. DOI: doi.org/10.17645/pag...

Are young people and immigrants heard in politics?

Our new open access issue summarizes research on how they participate, showing where they are left out and what affects their involvement.

@wurthmann.bsky.social
@martingross.bsky.social
@kirareneekurz.bsky.social

Ein Sieg, den die Wissenschaft Trump nicht gönnen darf

US-Forschungsförderer verschicken übergriffige Fragebögen an Forschende in aller Welt. Wie die Hochschulen in Deutschland jetzt reagieren sollten. Ein Kommentar.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/2025/04/01/e...

Many thanks to @pvs-journal.bsky.social, the editors and the reviewers for their helpful feedback!

However, the causal mechanism behind this remains unclear and there is still a lot to unpack. As the BSW narrowly missed to enter the Bundestag in the recent German elections, it remains to be seen how the BSW and its electorate evolve (especially if Wagenknecht steps down as the face of the party).

▶️But: No association with (dis)satisfaction democracy and political distrust.
▶️However, this seems to be largely overshadowed
by a strong impact of the favorability toward Sahra Wagenknecht. 👇

Results:
▶️ Left-authoritarian attitudes and sympathy for Russia are positively associated with BSW-support.
▶️Dissatisfaction with the government (the previous traffic light coalition) and populist attitudes also drive support for the BSW. 👇