Werner Krause

🚨Job News: Postdoc positions in LSE Government Department 🚨

Apply to work with the brilliant and wonderful Carl Muller-Crepon @carlmc.bsky.social on his BORDERS ERC project at LSE @lsegovernment.bsky.social

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

📢📢 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!

Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉

This is definitely something on our to do list (but also quite some work).

Maybe @paulbederke.bsky.social can say more about the future maintenance of partyfacts?

Thanks for the shoutout! If you or your students encounter any issues/errors/problems, we are happy about feedback!

Dataverse Link: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ppeg

📢📢 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!

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👇

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The chapter with @gailmcelroy.bsky.social analyses issue salience and positions.

Housing and health were among the most salient issues for nearly all parties. Interestingly, immigration barely featured in the manifestos.

Chapter: hdl.handle.net/10197/29172
Book: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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...

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published.

Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.

osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

Shoah (1/2) - Die ganze Doku | ARTE Elf Jahre reiste Claude Lanzmann durch Europa und sprach mit Zeitzeugen des Holocaust - Opfern und Tätern. Entstanden ist ein eindringlicher Dokumentarfilm (1985), der bis heute als wichtigste Auseina...

Bis Mai kann man übrigens noch die komplette Doku "Shoah" (ca 9h) von Claude Lanzmann in der ARTE Mediathek ansehen:

www.arte.tv/de/videos/01...

European progressives must tackle housing crisis to beat far right, say researchers Centre left can win broad support by addressing soaring house prices and rents, according to data analysis

For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Next update coming soon! 😉

But for obvious reasons, this project is not always at the top of my to-do list.

🎉 Kicking off the Zweitstimme.org Workshop!

We’re looking forward to two days discussing new work on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behaviour.

Today’s sessions:
👉 Panel I – Elites
👉 Panel II – Participation
👉 Panel III – Party Strategies

Huge thanks to @hertieschool.bsky.social for hosting us!

❗ Reminder ❗
Apply now for our Visiting Fellowships!
📆 Deadline: 28 November!
Please share widely 👇🙂

Excited to present ongoing work from my @dfg.de project "Powerful Polls" @uni-muenster.de on Wednesday (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social).

Say hello if you are in Münster!

Thanks for the invite & the fabulous organization @danbischof.bsky.social, @elenaleuschner.bsky.social & @mwegemann.bsky.social.

BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of anti-immigration sentiment on regional demographic changes and its economic implications, focusing on the German labor market and residential choices in the context of the Global Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) study.

NEW -

Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Sentiment - https://cup.org/3XiB6yD

- @denis-cohen.bsky.social & @sergipardos.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

📄 New WP version out - full overhaul!

The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )

Comments welcome!

🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

(S+) CDU/CSU und SPD im Streit: Zusammenarbeit mit AfD und Le Pen spaltet EU Das EU-Mitte-Bündnis aus Konservativen, Liberalen und Sozialdemokraten scheint an einer Richtlinie zu zerbrechen. Ist die Europäische Union bald nicht mehr handlungsfähig?

@spiegel.de berichtet über den Streit um das Lieferkettengesetz in der EU, bei dem die EVP eine mögliche Abstimmungsmehrheit mit den Rechtsaußen-Fraktionen nicht ausschließt.

U.a. mit einer Einschätzung von mir zu den Gefahren einer fehlenden Einigung im Mitte-Lager.

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Vicente Valentim: "Angela Merkel lag richtig" Haben Menschen früher rechter gedacht, als sie gewählt haben? Der Forscher Vicente Valentim sagt, dass wir eine Ursache für den Erfolg extrem rechter Parteien übersehen.

Haben Menschen früher rechter gedacht, als sie gewählt haben? Der Forscher Vicente Valentim sagt, dass wir eine Ursache für den Erfolg extrem rechter Parteien übersehen.

(S+) CDU/CSU und SPD im Streit: Zusammenarbeit mit AfD und Le Pen spaltet EU Das EU-Mitte-Bündnis aus Konservativen, Liberalen und Sozialdemokraten scheint an einer Richtlinie zu zerbrechen. Ist die Europäische Union bald nicht mehr handlungsfähig?

@spiegel.de berichtet über den Streit um das Lieferkettengesetz in der EU, bei dem die EVP eine mögliche Abstimmungsmehrheit mit den Rechtsaußen-Fraktionen nicht ausschließt.

U.a. mit einer Einschätzung von mir zu den Gefahren einer fehlenden Einigung im Mitte-Lager.

www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

With the official prognosis giving one additional seat to PVV and one to FvD compared to the ext poll, the narrative should really not be that the Netherlands/Jetten has beaten the radical right. The far right bloc remains remarkably stable.

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

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 👇

As a scholar I rarely offer electoral guidance. But today I do:

DO NOT USE AI CHATBOTS AS YOUR VOTE ADVICE APPLICATION AHEAD OF (THE DUTCH) ELECTIONS

Full of errors, bias and lack of transparency.

@ernesto-deleon.com @favstats.eu @theoaraujo.bsky.social and🙋unpack why

algosoc.org/results/1-in...

BJPolS abstract from a research paper discussing a machine learning approach to analyze political discourses on climate change among OECD, European, and South American countries.

NEW -

Policlim: A Dataset of Climate Change Discourse in the Political Manifestos of Forty-Five Countries from 1990 to 2022 - https://cup.org/43zzLHc

- @marysanford.bsky.social, Silvia Pianta, @nicolasschmid.bsky.social & Giorgio Musto

#OpenAccess

Very excited to spend four weeks as an academic visitor @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, @ox.ac.uk, continuing research on political parties, voters, and elections.

Drop me a message if you wanna meet for a coffee!