@suthank.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Political Science, Aarhus University. https://Suthan.dk/
🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social
We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.
Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
I am hiring! 1-2 post-docs to join my project on political violence in democracies at @uupeace.bsky.social!
19.08.2025 07:19 — 👍 32 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 0EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.
😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.
👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.
A short 🧵
📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc
14.07.2025 07:16 — 👍 92 🔁 68 💬 5 📌 7Reminder: Great job opportunities at Aarhus University!
Please help spread the word before everyone disappears for summer break! 🏖️
Big moments lately: became a dad and defended my PhD. Huge thanks to @andrewroberts.bsky.social and committee members @noamgidron.bsky.social, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, and @ylelkes.bsky.social for their thoughtful feedback. Looking forward to the next chapter at Aarhus with @suthank.bsky.social!
16.06.2025 10:08 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0Min bog - Dansk demokrati i perspektiv - skrevet med David Andersen og udarbejdet i forbindelse med Magtudredningen 2.0 er netop udgivet! Gratis E-bog og gratis lydbog er tilgængelige her:
unipress.dk/udgiv.../d/d...
CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @ucph.bsky.social
Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas
Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...
#PolTheory #demoinno
📣 Jobs, jobs, jobs!
Aarhus University’s Department of Political Science is hiring:
🔹 Assistant Professor
🗓 Deadline: 25 August
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
🔹 Associate Professor
🗓 Deadline: 8 September
🔗 international.au.dk/about/profil...
🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."
Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?
We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)
Two weeks left to apply for a post-doctoral position in my project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe.
Thanks for helping me alert interested researchers!
Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...
08.04.2025 09:42 — 👍 36 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0
Cover of the book “The Psychology of Attack Politics Perceptions, Evaluations and Effects” by Alessandro Nai, Lukas P. Otto, Chiara Vargiu, out in July 2025 (Routledge). The cover features a detail from a medieval painting showing people happily stabbing at each other (from the Codex Manesse, 1304-1340)
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New book out this July with @lukotto.bsky.social & @cvargiu.bsky.social
We present a novel approach to study #NegativeCampaigning & #Incivility 🥊 ⚔️ - focusing on public perceptions and evaluations 😱😆🤢😡
Bonus: low price (~£35) & the cover is 🤘
Pre-orders from July 5: tinyurl.com/7raa9fpf
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
27.03.2025 19:57 — 👍 48918 🔁 12411 💬 2325 📌 2822
Meta ad spending in Greenland 🗳️
Winning party outspending competition, in fact more than other parties combined.
Data from @whotargets.me, always a great resource on online political ad spending 🙏🏻
A lot has happened in those 20 years.
10.03.2025 09:00 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
The most striking result from yesterday’s German election #btw2025 🇩🇪:
🔹 35 years after reunification: The GDR is redrawn on this map.
🔹 The AfD won 45 out of 48 electoral districts in the East.
🔹 In some parts of Saxony, they came close to 50%!
Why is this happening? Here’s my take 👇
Our research on Need for Chaos was focused on how some voters wanted to watch the world burn: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
With DOGE it now seems to be official government strategy from Trump & Musk
But the goal seems the same: Burning down existing structures for selfish status gain
Instruktøren for kryolit-dokumentaren tager til genmæle i P1 Orientering - men svarene er langt fra overbevisende: www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/p1-or...
For mig at se er dokumentaren et eksempel på misinformation, som det oftest praksiseres i politik og på sociale medier.
🧵 (1/4)
🚨 Only 3 weeks left to apply! 🚨
Postdoc position in Advertising Democracy. An excellent opportunity to join a dynamic team and do impactful research.
Donald Trump Jr. spend 4 hours in Greenland and has, on this basis, widely reported on what Greenlanders feel about racism, Denmark and US.
What do know from actual research? 🧵 (1/8)
We are hiring at the PolSci department at @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social. Tenure, open to all subfields, can apply for professor promotion immediately (on merits). Top international department, green and buzzing capital city of Oslo, high quality of life, great for families! www.finn.no/job/fulltime...
07.12.2024 10:27 — 👍 73 🔁 62 💬 1 📌 1
Join our team! 🚨
We are hiring 2 postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University.
We are looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies.
Feel free to share!👇🏾
bss.au.dk/en/about-aar...
Check out our new work in @ajpseditor.bsky.social on the (lack of) persuasive effects of audit studies on broader anti-discrimination attitudes bsky.app/profile/msch...
02.12.2024 19:40 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Turns out, using simple language in politics helps people understand issues better and even shapes how they see politicians - but it doesn't directly sway votes.
Excited to share that our study (w/ @danbischof.bsky.social) is conditionally accepted at JOP!
Link: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
The simplest equations for predicting the winner of the election were these:
If Harris won more support among women than she lost among men, she would become President.
If Trump won more support among men than he lost among women, he would become President.
Trump’s equation became a reality.
Here is the swing state of Wisconsin.
Obama won both urban and rural districts.
Biden lost rural areas but held on to urban strongholds like Madison and Milwaukee.
Harris, however, was crushed in rural areas and couldn’t make up the difference in the cities.
A remarkable shift in just 12 years.
Rural America is solidly red.
No candidate in history has matched Donald Trump’s performance in rural districts.
Democrats often claim that every vote lost in rural America is offset by gaining two in suburbs and cities.
But the numbers simply don’t add up.
The Democrats have lost the white working class.
In 1992, Bill Clinton won two-thirds of all white working-class voters.
Today, the numbers have reversed. Trump won two-thirds, leaving just one-third for Harris.
Meanwhile, Harris is far from winning highly educated voters to the same extent.
The Democrats' most loyal voting group, Black voters, are slowly drifting away from the party.
Obama secured an impressive 95%, Clinton and Biden around 90%, but Harris only managed about 85%.
Trump’s 13–14% among Black voters marks the best Republican performance since Nixon in 1960!
