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Antonia May

@acmay.bsky.social

Postdoctoral Researcher & @MZES University of Mannheim National Identity Research | Political Behaviour | Data Harmonisation She/her

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Excited to see our study on political discourses and far-right voting (with @acmay.bsky.social) featured in @elpais.com!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

21.08.2025 08:20 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beyond religious categories: Understanding differences between Muslims and non-Muslims in accepting parenting styles involving physical discipline Public discourse on immigrant integration often refers to cultural differences between immigrants and members of receiving societies, particularly imm…

πŸ“’ New publication in Social Science Research: "Beyond Religious Categories" (with @hummlerteresa.bsky.social )

πŸ“Š In a survey experiment, we investigate why Muslims are more likely to accept violent parenting practices than non-Muslims

πŸ“š Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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01.07.2025 11:56 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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…and with that, my fabulous co-author @astroppe.bsky.social brings this year's EPSA to a close.
See you in Belfast @epssnet.bsky.social !

28.06.2025 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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KΓΆnnen BΓΌrgerrΓ€te die reprΓ€sentative Demokratie stΓ€rken?
Wir diskutieren Ergebnisse aus vier praxisnahen Forschungsprojekten auf einem Roundtable mit
@polenz.bsky.social,
@kliesenberg.bsky.social,
Felix Arndt, Stabstelle BΓΌrgerrΓ€te @bundestag.de
und @heikekluever.bsky.social
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11.06.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
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The salience of immigration issues has an activating effect on national identities, and the effect is particularly strong for those with exclusionary conceptions who vote for the far right. 4/

18.02.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Both parties on the left and on the right benefit from the increased importance of national identities through migration debates, if they offer policies that fit in with the voters’ ideas of nationhood. 3/

18.02.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

National identities that are usually not politically salient can be activated for political behaviour: far-right parties gain among voters with exclusionary notions of the national in-group, with increased media presence of immigration activating these voters to switch to the far-right AfD. 2/

18.02.2025 12:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ready or not. National identity, vote choice, and mass media: Evidence from Germany Exploiting the increased prominence of debates on immigration, right-wing parties often frame and campaign against immigrants as a threat to national societies. Research on national identity has show...

🚨Publication Alert 🚨 Just in time for the next #BTW25, in my latest article doi.org/10.1111/pops... I show that far-right parties benefit strongly from heightened migration debates, but that left-wing parties can also benefit to some extent by offering pro-immigrant, inclusive positions. #polpsy

18.02.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 25    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

🚨 #Data alert πŸ“£ We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧡 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

13.02.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 9

Read this a few weeks ago with my students, who asked an excellent question: why do mainstream parties ignore these and similar findings?

27.12.2024 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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Far Right voting: a new reading list - kai arzheimer I'm sharing my syllabus on the radical right vote in Europe.

I have planned a new reading course covering a cross-section of the very recent literature on the #farright vote, which you are most welcome to peruse/use/abuse as you see fit πŸ‘“ πŸ“š

10.11.2024 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Mainstream parties adopting far-right rhetoric simply increases votes for far-right parties The rise of right-wing populist parties in Europe led some mainstream parties to attempt to regain voters' support by adopting pro-nationalist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. However, new research by Antonia May and Christian Czymara suggests that this strategy unintentionally benefits far-right parties and not the political mainstream

In what turned out to be a highly topical post for @ecpr.bsky.social 's The Loop, @acmay.bsky.social and I argue that mainstream parties using nationalist rhetoric unintentionally boost far-right votes by activating exclusionary national identities.

theloop.ecpr.eu?p=15826

polsky migsky sociology

08.02.2024 13:31 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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"Die intergenerationale Transmission von Scheidung im zeitlichen Wandel. Eine Meta-Analyse mit gepoolten Originaldaten." von Sonja Schulz. Jetzt in der neuen Ausgabe der ZfS. Im Open-Access unter: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

13.11.2023 07:54 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Press Release alert! πŸ“’
In our article, @christian.czymara.com and I argue that the use of nationalist, anti-immigration rhetoric by all parties is likely to have the unintended consequence of boosting the electoral chances of far-right parties.

idw-online.de/de/news823640

09.11.2023 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ†•PUBLICATION ALERT
To what extent and how do terrorist attacks influence public debates? What are the differences between public debates after extreme right and Islamist terrorist attacks? Very happy to see my single-authored paper out
@JEPP #openaccess doi.org/10.1080/1350... Polisky🧡1/

19.10.2023 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 47    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 6

My team at GESIS is looking for a new PhD student to work on a Horizon Europe project on delivering evidence based policy suggestions based on harmonized survey data. We are cool, and this is interesting: www.hidden-professionals.de/HPv3.Jobs/ge...

16.10.2023 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

🚨New publication @Electoral Studies
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Interested in party message perception in multiparty systems? Have a look: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvp2xRaZg...
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Main finding: Party effects are more nuanced than a pure in/out-group divide and trust in the medium matters for perceived credibility.
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14.10.2023 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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