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Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social · Aug 25

🚨 This overview of quantitative political science data and methods for comparative immigration law is intended for students and scholars of other methodological and/or disciplinary backgrounds.

@migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social ‪

Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social · Aug 23

🚨New Peer-Reviewed Working Paper @mpimmg.bsky.social

I introduce quantitative political science data and methods to compare immigration law. A revised version will appear as a Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law.

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Samuel D. Schmid - Quantitative Methods for Comparative Immigration

Abstract Over the past years and decades, numerous large-scale quantitative datasets to measure various attributes of immigration law have been generated an...

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Daniel Sharp @deeesharp.bsky.social · 18h

A series of one-year postdocs?

Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 1d

Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies

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MaxPlanckInstitute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity @mpimmg.bsky.social · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that @steffenmau.bsky.social, one of Germany’s leading sociologists, has been appointed Director at our Institute. He will lead a new Department on Inequality, Transformation & Conflict, addressing pressing societal challenges via cutting-edge social science research.

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Sven Hegewald @svenhegewald.bsky.social · 7d

Just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨
Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised?
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised? Comparative Evidence from Nine European Countries - Sven Hegewald, Dominik Schraff, 2025

Recent studies in the United States and Europe have documented a growing divergence in voting behaviour and political attitudes between cities and the countrysi...

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Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social · 7d

Congrats! This is great news for the future of @mpimmg.bsky.social!!

Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de · 7d

Herzlich willkommen, Steffen Mau! 👏 Der Soziologe wird als Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften in Göttingen und unsere Forschung zu #Ungleichheit und Konflikten ausbauen. @steffenmau.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Ausbau der Forschung zu Ungleichheit und Konflikten

Soziologe Steffen Mau an das Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung multireligiöser und multiethnischer Gesellschaften in Göttingen berufen. Neuausrichtung des Instituts startet

https://mpg.de/25487784/ausba…

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 9d

Every time I read @adamprz.bsky.social reflecting on his life and work, I am in awe. Though I have never met him, and we move(d) in different circles, his reflections speak deeply to me.

One of the last intellectual giants in the field representing an increasingly different discipline.

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social · 13d

🚨A a fantastic new resource for migration and democracy scholars! Congrats to @globalcit.bsky.social @sumpierrez.bsky.social @wegschaider.bsky.social for this massive effort!

cc @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @mpc-eui.bsky.social @ecpr-migration.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 13d

Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐

🌍 165 countries (1960–2020)
📊 488 indicators
🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens
🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level

📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit

Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 13d

Good 🧵 by @jdzankic.bsky.social on the problematic 'gold card' in the US.

Jelena Dzankic @jdzankic.bsky.social · 13d

I’ve been waiting for this since February, and it is quite a bit of an anticlimax. See 🧵 for a few thoughts on the #goldcard, #residence, #US

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The Gold Card

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.

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Democracy Without Borders @democracywithoutborders.org · 14d

According to @internationalidea.bsky.social's recent Global State of Democracy report, 2024 marked the ninth consecutive year of net democratic decline: 54% of countries experienced declines whereas 32% recorded improvements.

Here is our summary:
www.democracywithoutborders.org/37744/

Democracy worldwide faces its ninth year of net decline: IDEA report

International IDEA’s 2025 report finds 2024 extended the global democratic downturn, with 54% of 173 countries deteriorating and 32% improving, as representation hit a 2001 low and press freedom fell.

www.democracywithoutborders.org

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 16d

Looks legit

A brick wall with a large, irregular hole patched with mismatched bricks and wooden supports. Text overlay reads "My article trying to fill the gap in the literature."

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Lorenzo Piccoli @lorenzopiccoli.bsky.social · 18d

This move might negatively impact research and innovation in the U.S.: H1b was a common visa for excellent postdoc scientists to move to the U.S.

www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19d

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Rahel Freiburghaus @rfrbrghs.bsky.social · 19d

🚨📢 I am hiring a PhD candidate /research assistant in Swiss Politics and/or Comparative Politics (100%)!

🚨📢 Je recrute un·e assistant·e diplômé·e en science politique en politique suisse et comparée!

Please join me @unil.bsky.social, Switzerland!

Thanks for sharing! polisky @sspunil.bsky.social

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 19d

Short and to the point 👇🏼

Brian Klaas: “The United States is now a competitive authoritarian system” - EUROPP

Is the United States still a democracy? It is either a democracy in crisis, or one that has tipped over the edge into competitive authoritarianism.

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 20d

Ein kluger, nachdenklicher und sehr persönlicher Essay über politische Gewalt: «Würde das Alltägliche so viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommen wie das Spektakel, wären wir an einem anderen Punkt. Wie hat Walter Benjamin gesagt? Dass es so weitergeht, ist die Katastrophe.»

Lukas Hermsmeier @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social · 20d

Über Charlie Kirk, politische Gewalt und Fragen, von denen ich nie dachte, dass ich sie mir mal stellen würde.

Neuer Text @woz.ch:

Essay: Das Alltägliche und das Spektakel

Zur Debatte über politische Gewalt nach dem Mord an Charlie Kirk.

www.woz.ch

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Vincenzo Emanuele @vincenzoemanuele.bsky.social · 19d

🎯New publication out in @wepsocial.bsky.social
'Lipset and Rokkan meet data': a 🧵on our study (with Bruno Marino) on the electoral structuring of traditional cleavages (1870–1967) across 17 Western European countries 👇

Read the full article (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

www.tandfonline.com

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22d

Solidarität mit @dunjahayali.de ✊

Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 22d

Nach ZDF-Moderator und Washintong-Büroleiter Elmar Theveßen trifft es nun auch @dunjahayali.de.

Sie selbst zieht sich jetzt für einige Tage aus dem öffentlichen Leben zurück, nachdem sie Morddrohungen und viele weitere Hassnachrichten erhielt.

Wofür? Seht selbst.

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Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social · 22d

This is a great development! But what about the 25% of adult long-term non-citizen residents that Switzerland excludes? Reform is much needed ▶️ @demokratie-vi.bsky.social
cc @zdaarau.bsky.social @migcitizenapsa.bsky.social @migcitpol.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social · 22d

🚨The Swiss parliament has decided to let mentally disabled persons vote! Yet, suffrage in democracies remains persistently non-universal (see 2015 ELECLAW data below, Switzerland marked yellow). For more, check out the @globalcit.bsky.social electoral rights database: globalcit.eu/conditions-f...

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Eva Krejcova @evakrejcova.bsky.social · 25d

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 26d

Great to see @globalcit.bsky.social’s Rainer Bauböck at the launch of the @internationalidea.bsky.social Global State of Democracy Report 2025. Emphasising the important implications of out-of-country voting in times of democratic recession both in migrant origin countries and destination countries.

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · 27d

Are you planning to attend IMISCOE 2026 in Girona and working on immigrant naturalization?

@ninaca.bsky.social and I are inviting abstracts to put together a panel. Sends us your paper abstract if you are interested to join!

@migcitpol.bsky.social #MigCitSky

www.linkedin.com/posts/nina-c...

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 27d

Absolutely shameful hagiographies of Charlie Kirk by “liberals” like Ezra Klein and Gavin Newson. It’s like Fortuyn all over again.

It is perfectly possible to oppose the killing of people you vehemently and wholeheartedly disagree with.

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 27d

I recently read a BA thesis on the prevalence of "anti-gender" ideology in #farright party manifestos. It was quite good overall, but when it came to choosing a graph style and colour palette, the student did the funniest thing👇

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Nils Witte @niwitte.bsky.social · 28d

Are you from a high income country? Do you live abroad? Ever thought about taking up a new citizenship?

Then, check out my new paper with Floris Peters (Utrecht)

doi.org/10.1002/psp....

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@populationeu.bsky.social

Citizenship by Choice, Not Necessity: Political and Emotional Drivers of Naturalisation Intentions Among Migrants From High Income Countries

In the growing body of research on immigrant naturalisation, migrants from high income countries have received scant attention in their own right because of their relatively low baseline citizenship ....

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