How well are young people represented along the recruitment ladder? The pipeline problem for the Danish youth is within parties, since they are eager to stand for election and well represented at the parliamentary level. New article out in @ecpr.bsky.social's EPS. Open access: rdcu.be/eIiM1.

Call for the 17th Düsseldorf Graduate Conference on Party Research #GraPa2026. Application deadline: 17.11.25

@hhu.de @ecprsgpp.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social
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I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

🧵 New article out in @govandopp.bsky.social ! Why do opposition parties sometimes support government legislation? Should they not be, well... opposing? I analysed 75 years of parliamentary votes in 4 parliamentary democracies. Here is what I found👇🔗 cup.org/3JeLkw4

2024 was a turbulent year in German politics: four elections, a surging far right, and the coalition's collapse. Our new Political Data Yearbook piece (with @lucykinski.bsky.social) traces the events leading to the 2025 snap elections.

@hhu.de @sceus.bsky.social

Danke für den Ohrwurm.

Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.

🧵 New research on what citizens expect from opposition parties in democracy published in @wepsocial.bsky.social. @elinazorina.bsky.social and I surveyed people in Canada, Denmark, Netherlands & UK to understand their views on opposition roles. doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals.

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doi.org/10.1177/1354...

5/ We thank the anonymous reviewers and Camila Montero for their excellent feedback and Paul Sax for his great help with the manuscript.
#ComparativePolitics #PoliticalParties #IntraPartyDemocracy #PPDB #PoliticalScience #polsky

4/ 📍 Access the article here:
doi.org/10.1177/1354...

📊 Access the data here:
doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

3/ This new release enables:
• Comparative analysis across political systems
• To study changes of intra-party democracy
• Research into democratization, party competition, and organizational dynamics

2/ The dataset builds on the second round of the Political Party Database Project (PPDB) and covers 274 parties across 51 countries, including new regions in Africa, Latin America, and Central & Eastern Europe.

🧵 New comparative data on intra-party democracy is now available. Thomas Poguntke and I present our recent research note ow two indices—assembly-based and plebiscitary IPD—applied globally for the first time. A resource for research on political parties, democracy, and representation. @hhu.de

⭐I am looking for 2 PhD candidates w/ focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!

On the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

Applications due: 2 May 2025

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#EUsky #poliscijobs #qualitativemethods

📢I am looking for a student research assistant in my ERC project INCONEX to join the team as soon as possible!

⭐More information below and here: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

@sceus.bsky.social

⭐I am looking for a Postdoc in Computational Social Science in my ERC project INCONEX at University of Salzburg!
More on the project: sites.google.com/view/inconex...

Applications due by 8 January 2025.

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#EUsky #poliscijobs #computationalsocialscience

Happy to have contributed with an article on populist party responsiveness & populist party voter satisfaction with democracy in Europe with @simonbrause.bsky.social

Thanks to our colleagues @hhu.bsky.social @sceus.bsky.social , the editors, reviewers for helpful comments. Thanks to @koljaknodel.bsky.social & Paul Sax for the support with the data collection. Thanks to ULB Düsseldorf for the open access funding (5/5)

This article is part of the issue “Challenging Democracy: How Do Ideas of Populists and Disenchanted Citizens Align?” edited by Reinhard Heinisch & Oscar Mazzoleni, #openaccess doi.org/10.17645/pag... (4/5)

We find that populist parties in Europe are NOT generally more responsive to populist party voters than mainstream parties. Populist parties’ agenda‐responsiveness boosts voters’ SWD, yet being in government does not enhance this positive effect (3/5)

We investigate (1) how well populist parties represent populist party voters (issue-based responsiveness) & (2) link this responsiveness to their voters’ satisfaction with democracy (SWD) in 21 countries for the 2019 EP elections (2/5)

Pleased to share our recent article with @lucykinski.bsky.social in Politics and Governance on Populist Party Responsiveness and Populist Party Voter Satisfaction With Democracy in Europe #populism #responsiveness #democracy #EU doi.org/10.17645/pag... (1/5)