Steffen Hurka

Call for abstracts: "Studying legislative design in the European Union and beyond" at the Dreiländertagung of the @dvpw.bsky.social at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen from 17-19 June 2026.

If you'd like to join, please send me your abstracts and four keywords by 7 November!

Auch @steffenhurka.bsky.social sucht noch bis zum 7.11. Beiträge für den Panel-Vorschlag "Studying legislative design in the European Union and beyond" bei der #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 in Friedrichshafen!

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Call for abstracts: "Studying legislative design in the European Union and beyond" at the Dreiländertagung of the @dvpw.bsky.social at Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen from 17-19 June 2026.

If you'd like to join, please send me your abstracts and four keywords by 7 November!

Abstract for the article: How does right-wing terrorism affect electoral support for populist radical right parties (PRRPs)? Recent research has produced contrary answers to this question. We argue that only high-intensity attacks, whose motives and targets mirror PRRPs’ nativist agenda, are likely to generate a media backlash that dampens electoral support for PRRPs. We test this argument by combining high-frequency survey and social media data with a natural and survey experimental design. We find that right-wing terror reduced support for the radical right party Alternative für Deutschland after one of the most intense nativist attacks in recent German history. An analysis of all ninety-eight fatal right-wing attacks in Germany between 1990 and 2020 supports our argument. Our findings contribute to an understanding of how political violence triggers partisan detachment and have important implications for media responsibility in the aftermath of terrorist attacks.

🚨 New article out!

“Right-Wing Terror, Media Backlash, and Voting Preferences for the Far Right” in @bjpols.bsky.social

👉 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

We (Alex De Juan, @juvoss.bsky.social & I) examine how right-wing attacks shape support for the far-right in Germany.

Short summary thread below 👇

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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Parliament pushes for ‘veggie burger’ ban | Euractiv Lawmakers back stricter labelling for meat alternatives

The hypocrisy is mind-numbing. Those who always complain the loudest about excessive EU red tape just voted in favor of banning terms like "Veggie Burger" on menus or food packaging, creating massive compliance costs for restaurants and food producers across Europe. www.euractiv.com/news/parliam...

13th Biennial Conference of the SGEU, Università di Catania, 1 – 3 July 2026 European Consortium for Political Research

Delighted to co-convene the track on EU Elections and Legislative Politics with Lukas Obholzer at @ecprsgeu.bsky.social 2026, next July in Catania! 🇪🇺

Learn more about what we're looking for here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/Event...

Submit your panels and/or papers by 10 December here ▶️ ecpr.eu/Events/341

You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU?

Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇

@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.

Constantin, Roman, and Steffen at the Aarhus University Political Science Department.

@kaplaner.bsky.social and @steffenhurka.bsky.social had the privilege to present and discuss the DEMOLAW project at the University of Aarhus. DEMOLAW thanks @rsenninger.bsky.social and the entire department of political science for the kind invitation, the hospitality, and the great feedback!

🚨🎉 New Publication 🎉🚨 w/ @meredithconroy.bsky.social

Where Do Women Win Primaries? Asymmetric Opportunity Theory in Congressional Nominations

We offer a party-asymmetric theory of incentives for female candidates in nominations across different districts

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

YouTube video by Theories of Regulation & Governance Policy complexity - Measurement, Origins and Consequences, Steffen Hurka,

🤔 What makes a law complex—and why does it matter?
In his talk, Steffen Hurka @steffenhurka.bsky.social (a close friend of SUPA) explains:
📏 how to measure legislative complexity
⚖️ why it varies across laws & policy areas
🏛️ how it shapes institutions & implementation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gclb...

Close friend and biggest fan 😀. Thanks for the shout-out!

Petition unterschreiben Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
Petition (de/en) ⤵️

I started the year with a great personal achievement.

After years in the making, our book manuscript is ready and under contract with Oxford University Press.

So stay tuned for deep insights into the security apparatus of dictatorships.

Small preview 👇

All good down here. Enjoy the celebration and say hi to Yves!

Fantastic! Huge congrats, Jacob!

Wir können alles...außer Lehrerstellen ausschreiben.

🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

A thread (1/n)

The new issue of @worldpolitics.bsky.social also includes a contribution from me 🥳

The article studies the targeted use of foreign influence campaigns. It examines an exchange program of a young Harvard scholar & one of the most influential politicians of the 20th century.

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Administrative overload and policy triage: causal evidence from the introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States Abstract. Recent research suggests that additional public policies can sometimes decrease overall policy effectiveness rather than improve the problem-solv

Administrative overload and policy triage: causal evidence from the introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the United States url: academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Happening today! #EPSA2025

Schrift in Schwarz und Magenta auf weißem Hintergrund. Unten von links nach rechts die Logos der Deutschen Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft (DVPW), der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft (ÖGPW) und der Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Politische Wissenschaft (SVPW/ASSP). Text: Deutsche Vereinigung für Politikwissenschaft: Europas Zukunft – Zukunft Europa. Innere Spannungen und äußere Herausforderungen. Dreiländertagung 2026 von DVPW, ÖGPW und SVPW. 17.-19. Juni 2026, Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen.

‼️ Save the date: Die #Dreiländertagung 2026 von DVPW, @oegpw.bsky.social und SVPW/ASSP findet am 17.-19.06.2026 an der Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen statt!

Thema: Europas Zukunft – Zukunft Europa. Innere Spannungen und äußere Herausforderungen

Details & #CfP folgen Anfang September 2025!

Title and abstract

On Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05) @kaplaner.bsky.social presents "Balancing Versatility and Precision:
A Framework for Capturing Legislative Design Choices in Democratic Systems", the first empirical paper of the @demolaw.bsky.social project. #EPSA2025

DEMOLAW conceptual paper: tinyurl.com/5auvzcbs

This week, we're in Madrid for #EPSA2025 where @kaplaner.bsky.social will present our first empirical research paper "Balancing Versatility and Precision: A Framework for Caputring Legislative Design Choice in Democratic Systems" on Thursday at 17:00 (-1.A.05).

🚨New article now available #openaccess at @jeppjournal.bsky.social

"Treated by the Treaty? How the expansion of co-decision affected the volume and complexity of EU legislation"

#EU #legislation #policy #Commission #complexity

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

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Thank you! I fully agree and I tried to address this a bit in the final paragraph. Complex legislation is not necessarily bad legislation (often quite the contrary). "Quality" is rather meant here as a contrast to "quantity", i.e. the properties of legislative texts in contrast to their number.

Many thanks to my four fast and very good reviewers and to Berthold Rittberger, @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and Yves Steinebach, who provided very useful comments during the preparation of this article. Also thanks to @dfg.de for funding this research (6/6)

Interestingly, subsequent changes to the complexity of the initial proposal are not affected by the introduction of bicameralism -> bicameralism works through anticipation when policy proposals are first formulated! (5/6)

The central finding of the article is that the agenda-setter anticipates the higher preference heterogeneity and the higher uncertainty in the bicameral setup and responds by issuing more complex proposals, while leaving the overall volume of legislation unchanged (4/6)