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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

And many thanks to our incredible research assistants Leonhard Schmidt, Carina Siebler, Mika Bauer, Timon Imig & @wzb.bsky.social for the open access support

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

A special thanks to @leoniedejonge.bsky.social, @eborbath.bsky.social, @robert-a-huber.bsky.social, @dielea.bsky.social, @mlorimer.bsky.social, Simon Franzmann, Daniel Meierrieks&Michael Zeller for their valuable feedback.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

Key take-away: Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right. When mainstream parties adopt far-right issues, they help to disseminate far-right ideas and legitimise them.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

Cultural issues, in particular debates on the policy-oriented issues of migration and integration, shape the communication of mainstream parties.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

Far-right agenda-setting has increased over time. The issue emphasis of far-right actors increasingly drives the issue emphasis of mainstream parties. While far-right agenda-setting effects can be seen across different party ideologies, it is stronger for opposition than for government parties.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

The automated text analysis of 520,408 articles in 6 newspapers shows that mainstream parties have contributed to the discursive mainstreaming of the far right. We use novel data of semi-automatically collected lists of far-right actors and parties and employ topic models and time series analysis.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

How and under what conditions do far-right actors influence the communication of mainstream parties? We take a discourse perspective on far-right mainstreaming and present a large-scale empirical assessment of far-right agenda setting in public debates since the 1990s in Germany.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 1d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 16d

Some professional news as I took my oath of office today:
On September 1st, I joined the University of Hamburg as a full professor of democratic political decision making👋

I'm very excited about this job & the chance to continue researching democracy, party competition and digitalization here
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Emiliano Grossman @egrossman.bsky.social · Nov 28

Some papers are a long time in the making. This one, written with the excellent @iguinaudeau.bsky.social, took long and I am incredibly grad to see it published. 1/8 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 21d

Many congrats again, Sarah!🎉 So well deserved!! And fantastic news for Leiden University!

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · 27d

Thrilled to announce our 1st Interdisciplinary conference on "The Future of Democracy"— Oct 8–10 @ WZB Berlin @wzb.bsky.social for researchers (and practitioners), co-hosted w/ Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln & Michael Zürn.
🔗 Program: www.wzb.eu/en/events/1s...
📝 Register: events.wzb.eu/dialogue81025/

1st Annual Interdisciplinary WZB Conference

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www.wzb.eu

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Giovanni Capoccia @gcapoccia.bsky.social · 29d

Macron has just appointed Sebastian Lecornu, from the centrist ranks, as new PM. Short 🧵/1
www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...

En direct, Sébastien Lecornu nommé premier ministre : Emmanuel Macron « prend le risque de la colère sociale », dénonce le PS

La passation de pouvoir entre François Bayrou, qui a présenté sa démission à Emmanuel Macron ce mardi, et son successeur à Matignon est prévue mercredi à midi. L’ex-ministre des armées proposera un go...

www.lemonde.fr

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · 29d

Very excited to be at APSA in Vancouver this week! I am looking forward to the conference and to many interesting presentations. #apsa2025

Let me know if you would like to grab a coffee and discuss any of the topics that I'll be talking about ⬇️

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · 29d

Tomorrow, during the PolComm PreConference workshop, I'll talk about “Political Violence and Partisan Reactions on Polarised Debates”, which is co-authored work with @tevoelker.bsky.social ; Wed., 9.15 am at Simon Fraser University -- lnkd.in/eGFvd6tF

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DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · Sep 4

Präzise, beharrlich, konzentriert: Mit »Das Deutsche Volk« gelingt dem Regisseur Marcin Wierzchowski ein eindringlicher Dokumentarfilm über den Anschlag von Hanau im Februar 2020. Dabei geht es um die Frage: Wer gehört zu Deutschland?

Kino: Dokumentarfilm-Highlight »Das Deutsche Volk«

Präzise, beharrlich, konzentriert: Mit »Das Deutsche Volk« gelingt dem Regisseur Marcin Wierzchowski ein eindringlicher Dokumentarfilm über den Anschlag von Hanau im Februar 2020. Dabei geht es um die Frage: Wer gehört zu Deutschland?

www.spiegel.de

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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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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations Diane!

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · Sep 4

Fantastische Neuigkeiten- herzlichen Glückwunsch!!

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Dominik Schraff @dschraff.bsky.social · Aug 30

New study out today—“Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised?“ finds a substantial political cleavage between urban and rural populations in multiple European countries. Place-based affective polarization is associated with voting along liberal vs nationalist divide #PoliticalScience

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Léonie de Jonge @leoniedejonge.bsky.social · Aug 27

💡Two super useful resources for when academics (or journalists!) are being targeted - and for institutions to be prepared. (We are underprepared…)
1) expertvoicestogether.org/researcher
2) researchersupport.org

#ECPRgc25 @ecpr.bsky.social

Expert Voices Together

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expertvoicestogether.org

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Aug 21

New article out!

@luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social,
@k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics

Read the full article, open access, here

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

The pretence of the cordon sanitaire: non-collaboration as a distraction from discursive congruence

Much has been written about how mainstream parties respond to far-right challengers in liberal democracies. Whereas some mainstream parties have become more open to forming coalitions with far-righ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!)

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

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · Aug 22

This is followed by my personal highlight, which will be a plenary roundtable I will moderate on academic freedom and harrassment and intimidation of scholars. Delighted to have experts Iris Seegers, @isaliba.bsky.social Peter Maassen and @rebekahtromble.bsky.social on the roundtable.

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · Aug 25

On Thursday at 8:30: I'll be presenting joint work with @dasalgon.bsky.social on how parties react to political violence and contribute to political polarisation. @kanol.bsky.social , Gary LaFree and I organised a panel with excellent cotributions by @britdavidson.bsky.social and Leoni Heyn

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