Manès Weisskircher

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

It's time for PQ Wrapped - our top 10 most-read journal articles of 2025!

At 10, we have 'A Normal(ised) Far-Right Party? A Long-Term Perspective on the FP's Electoral Strength in Austria' by @manesweisskircher.bsky.social.

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

Free to read for one month.

Heute vor 4 Jahren ist der große #Politikwissenschaft ler Klaus von #Beyme gestorben.
Wir gedenken seiner wieder mit einer Vorlesung an der @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, diesmal am 15. Januar, 18 Uhr in der Aula. Sprecherin: Prof. @andrearoemmele.bsky.social von der @hertieschool.bsky.social.

New evidence from over 6,000 college students finds that digital devices are bad for academic performance and even effect peers in negative ways!

Mobile app use reduces grades, increases stress & lowers class attendance, job applications, and wages coming out of school.
www.nber.org/system/files...

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The #RadicalRight in Austria and Switzerland: A. J. McGann and H. Kitschelt. “The Radical Right in The Alps. Evolution of Support for the Swiss SVP and Austrian FPO”. In: Party Politics 11 (2005), pp. 147-171. dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354068805049734.

Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?

Rural vs. working class? A new study shows they’re not as different as we think. 🌾🏭

Both feel cities get too much, both want more support for working people, and both back redistribution. 🤝

There’s real political potential in this shared outlook according to Marta R. Eidheim 🗳️

3 research associates in social science (m/w/d)

📣 Job alert! 📣

For my Emmy Noether group on local digital public spheres, I'm hiring 3 predoc research associates who are interested in doing qualitative/mixed-methods research on local communication environments. Apply until 02 Jan 2026!

www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/news/deta...

Highly recommend the below article by Omran Shroufi on the key narratives behind Geert Wilders' pro-Israelism.

It was a pleasure to interview Omran for the @reacpolrn.bsky.social blog, if you'd like a quicker read: reacpol.net/wilders-proi...

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database!

The data now covers

- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets

across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).

All info: ppeg.wzb.eu

We hope that data is helpful to the community!

Wie toll, dass ihr eine 100%-Promotionsstelle anbietet. So soll's sein!

Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇

When and why protests reinforce institutional politics on the far right? "Protests of the Far Right" ed. with @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it is under contract @oxfordunipress.bsky.social with a terrific lineup of contributors who helped us covering & comparing 14 countries.

Big city life! 💫 I'm glad to spend this week at the Center for Civil Society Research @wzb.bsky.social.

Many thanks to @swenhutter.bsky.social for the invite & @tevoelker.bsky.social for providing me with a desk to distract her from work 🧑‍💻 Looking forward to the exchange with friendly colleagues!

Weiß eigentlich irgendwer, ob es diese Studie in den Akt der WKSTA geschafft hat? - nur weil gerade wieder viel über den Fall diskutiert wird.

Wir suchen Verstärkung auf einer Qualifikationsstelle am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der TU Chemnitz. Schwerpunkt: #Parteienforschung. Lehre: zwei SWS im Bachelor Politikwissenschaft. Beginn: Anfang Januar 2026

www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...

@sabinedvolk.bsky.social analysiert die von Antifeminismus geprägte Politik der AfD seit 2014 mit Blick auf Unterschiede zwischen Ost & West; dabei stellt sie vor allem Unterschiede im Stellenwert des Themas und weniger unterschiedliche Verständnisse fest:
doi.org/10.1080/0964... (OA)

Zwischen realer Gefahr und moralischer Panik: Ein differenzierender Blick auf die Forschung zu Desinformation Was ist Desinformation, wie verbreitet sie sich, wann überzeugt sie? Dieser Beitrag bietet einen interdisziplinären Überblick zu Forschungsbefunden – und fragt, was das für den Umgang mit Desinformati...

Neuer Blogbeitrag: Was ist Desinfo, wie verbreitet sie sich, wann überzeugt sie? Miriam Milzner (@weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social | FU Berlin) & Josephine B. Schmitt (@cais-research.bsky.social) bieten einen Überblick zu Forschungsbefunden – und fragen, was das für den Umgang mit Desino bedeutet. 1|2

Housing and electoral behaviour: The changing face of class voting in advanced democracies Scholarship on the relationship between social structure and electoral behaviour has traditionally operationalised voters’ economic or class situation…

New from my phd student @joshgoddard98.bsky.social: he shows, using many election and panel studies across the advanced democracies, that housing status has replaced occupational class as a key predictor of voting. Class voting is now about assets, not income www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome?
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

💥 Dieses Wochenende soll in Gießen die neue #Jugendorganisation der #AfD gegründet werden. Dabei geht es vielmehr um organisatorische Professionalisierung als um Mäßigung. Wie es zur Neugründung kam und was sich von der neuen JO erwarten lässt, habe ich für den @verfassungsblog.de analysiert. 👇

I am very happy that this article is part of a cutting-edge SI on the far right and eastern Germany - thanks to the guest editors @asheinze.bsky.social and @manesweisskircher.bsky.social for their comments and suggestions on earlier versions of this text!

📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964...

It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD

Key findings:

Antifeminism ✅
Radicalization ✅

Split over Russia trip exposes rifts at top of Germany’s AfD Party has been accused by established politicians of spying on behalf of hostile nations

I recommend this insightful @financialtimes.com article on the AfD's internal divide over its relations with Russia - featuring some comments of mine.

www.ft.com/content/cf64...

More in the article, which is also part of an excellent special issue edited by the great @asheinze.bsky.social @manesweisskircher.bsky.social @gertpickel.bsky.social and Steffen Kailitz!

The Alternative for Germany Foreign Policy: A Love Affair with Russia and Israel? The heterogeneity in the far-right parties’ foreign policy positions becomes especially visible when they face a dilemma of which side(s) to take in highly salient military conflicts that currently...

🚨 New Publication! 🚨
In this piece, I examine both the extreme and the more “moderate” factions within the AfD 🇩🇪 and compare their positions on 🇺🇦/🇷🇺 with their stances on 🇮🇱/🇵🇸. Key insights and findings👇🏻

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

🚨New VAA Dataset🚨
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n

Do Americans judge acts of partisan political violence impartially? No. We show that Democrats and Republicans exhibit clear partisan bias: both see the same violent act as more justified when it targets the other party than when it targets their own side.

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#polisky

This article is also part of a #SpecialIssue that I'm editing together with @manesweisskircher.bsky.social, Steffen Kailitz, and @gertpickel.bsky.social - so keep your eyes open for more work on the AfD in eastern Germany! 🔎

🎉 New publication 🎉 Why do #youngpeople vote for the #AfD? This question has kept our research project busy for quite some time, so I'm beyond excited that our first article - co-authored with @timonscheuer.bsky.social - is now out in #GermanPolitics! 🤩 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Der Schwarm als Faktenchecker: Community Notes zwischen kollektiver Intelligenz und politischem Lagerkampf Diese Fokus-Analyse nimmt Community Notes im deutschsprachigen Raum in den Blick. Die Untersuchung zeigt ein faktenorientiertes, aber zögerliches System: Nur wenige Anmerkungen werden veröffentlicht; ...

Die neuen Essentials sind raus! Das ist unser Policy Brief, in dem die Fokus-Studie einer jeden Ausgabe komprimiert aufbereitet wird. Also diesmal die Analyse zu Community Notes: machine-vs-rage.net/ausgabe-8/de... Dazu das Wichtigste auch hier nochmal zusammengefasst. 1|11