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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Jun 5

Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · Jun 2

Auguri Francesco!

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · May 20

The database is work in progress. If you have any suggestions, comments, or issues, please feel free to email us or to file an issue in our Github repository (github.com/awiedem/awie...).

Issues · awiedem/awiedem.github.io

Contribute to awiedem/awiedem.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · May 20

🔍 Key feature: for the 2025 election, we've created our own crosswalks to handle municipality mergers and splits over time.

📈 This update allows for consistent longitudinal analysis of voting patterns, accounting for administrative boundary changes over the past 35 years.

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · May 20

3️⃣ Harmonized data: Two versions available:

- 2021 borders: All elections (1990-2025) mapped to 2021 municipality boundaries

- 2025 borders: All elections (1990-2025) mapped to 2025 municipality boundaries

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · May 20

1️⃣ Raw data: Original election results at municipality level from 1980-2025, including all parties, voter counts, and mail-in voting information.

2️⃣ Unharmonized data: Cleaned and standardized raw data with consistent variable names and formats, ready for analysis. (1980-2025)

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · May 20

📊 Exciting update to our German Election Database! Our federal election panels now include the 2025 German federal election.

Download the data here: german-elections.com/election-data/

A thread about what is new:

german-elections.com

This domain name has been registered with Gandi.net. It is currently parked by the owner.

german-elections.com

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · May 6

Glückwunsch Jacob!

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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · May 6

New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨

High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Apr 26

Preprint with @vheddesheimer.bsky.social

Economic Insecurity Increases Affective #Polarization and Outgroup-Aversion

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You may remember I'm on team "precarity" not team "social media." Causal / diff on diff evidence from Dutch panel study LISS en.centerdata.nl/liss-panel

OSF

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Andreas Wiedemann @awiedemann.bsky.social · Apr 14

Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GERDA: The German Election Database - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - GERDA: The German Election Database

www.nature.com

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · Apr 14

Our paper "GERDA: The German Election Database" is out in Nature: Scientific Data!

We collected and harmonized election results for federal, state, and local elections for 1990-2021.

Updates for more recent elections, pre-1990 elections, and county elections soon!

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Apr 8

Like this paper? Here's another that will be right up your alley.

Here, the authors merge voter files & online resumes to create a dataset of 34.5M people.

They show that Dems & Reps choose distinctive career paths and employers. This leads to a lot of partisan segregation at the workplace.

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Cornelius Erfort @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social · Apr 3

How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩

Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social!

📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Apr 2

With correct link: Just published on APSR First View: "Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base" by Sean Kates, Eric Manning, Tali Mendelberg, and Omar Wasow. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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NBER @nber.org · Mar 16

Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558

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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · Mar 12

"Sorting for K Street: Postemployment Regulations and Strategic Wage Setting in Congress" by Elisa Maria Wirsching. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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American Political Science Review @apsrjournal.bsky.social · Mar 11

Just published on APSR First View: "Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks" by Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine De Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · Feb 28

The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.

The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings

And what it means for American Democracy

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Vincent Heddesheimer @vheddesheimer.bsky.social · Mar 1

Yes, it bothers me so much! The experts commenting during the games are fine (although Steffen Freund is cancelled in Germany) but the halftime „expert“ duo is very incompetent…

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Violeta Haas @haasvioleta.bsky.social · Feb 27

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...

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Hans Lueders @hanslueders.bsky.social · Feb 25

About 214,000* Germans living abroad had registered to vote** in yesterday's election. Because this was a snap election with a compressed timeline, many voters didn't receive their absentee ballots in time.*** I'm one of them: mine arrived today. The day after the election.

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Fabio Votta📊🐧 @favstats.eu · Feb 5

Immer spannend zu sehen wen die AfD so auf Facebook und Instagram versucht zu erreichen 😅

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Roberto Valli @robertovalli.bsky.social · Jan 28

🚨 Pub alert 🚨

I am incredibly excited that my first publication with the amazing Yannick Pengl, @carlmc.bsky.social, Lars-Erik Cederman and
Luc Girardin has been finally accepted
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
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We study the consequences of increased state reach in multiethnic states.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Jan 13

New article now out in @thejop.bsky.social. We provide a new framework for the costs and benefits of parties' anti-elite strategies and use a novel measure based on parties' twitter messaging to analyze when they become more anti-elitist.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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