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About one week left to submit proposals for our #AKWahlen conference in Mainz.

No fee, open topic, nice people & city!

More here: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...

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‼️ Mit Blick auf die erwartete Programmentscheidung der @epssnet.bsky.social hat der Programmbeirat die Anmeldefrist für Chairs, Discussants & Vortragende bis zum 8. Februar 2026 verlängert!

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#3LT #Dreiländertagung #DACH #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #Europa #Zukunft #Bodensee

Logo for the European Journal of Political Research displaying the text "EJPR European Journal of Political Research" in cream letters on a blue background, accompanied by the hashtag "#OpenAccess".

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Voices of the party base: How supporters want established parties to respond to new parties - https://cup.org/4q1M0ET

- Dominik Duell, @dielea.bsky.social, @sopro.bsky.social, Jonathan B. Slapin & @chriswratil.bsky.social

#FirstView

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How can you link and track research outputs & activities to save time and elevate impact?
ORCID iDs and DataCite DOIs work together to make this possible! Find out how on 10 February at our webinar in honor of Love Data Week.
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@orcid.org #LoveData26

"Wenn man die Lage Polens auf dem Globus anschaut, sind die vom Deutschen Reich gestellten Fragen übrigens nachvollziehbar."

Was für ein wahnsinnig gefährlicher Trottel!

We are happy to announce the call for papers for the third WhoGov Mini-Conference on Political Elites!

It will be held on August 20-21st, 2026 in Oslo. We welcome research on political elites broadly understood and not just papers using WhoGov.

You can find the call here: bit.ly/whogovminico...

*Computational Text Analysis with R* by @dielea.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social

🗓️ 13 – 15 April 2026
🏢 Online
🌐 t1p.de/TextAnalysisR

Last day 📢📢📢

Die nächsten PRÜF-Demos sind am 10.01. in Hamburg, München und Düsseldorf, jeweils um 14 Uhr!
Mehr Infos gibts bei @pruef-hh.bsky.social @pruef-by.bsky.social und @pruef-nrw.bsky.social #pruef

Menschenmenge hinter dem Front-Banner auf einer PRÜF-Demo in Hamburg Text: “Demo für die Prüfung rechtsextremer Parteien 10.01. 14 Uhr, Hamburger Innenstadt” Oben rechts das Logo “PRÜF HEUTE, SCHÜTZ MORGEN”

Save the date schonmal vor den Feiertagen: Am 10.01. gehen wir wieder gemeinsam auf die Straße!

📅 10.01.2026 (Samstag)
⏰ 14 Uhr
📍 Hamburger Innenstadt (genauer Ort folgt)

#pruef

Long ago, in a study of the democratic attitudes in Germany, Dalton raised the possibility of “Fragebogendemokraten” (questionnaire democrats): people who hesitate to express their sincere dislike for “democracy” in surveys, providing instead the “socially desirable” response (1)

🗃️ New data is in it, too!
As part of the DANGER project, we collected new data on the position of 387 parliamentary parties and 30 electoral alliances competing in 130 elections of 25 interwar European democracies. This data is published along with the AIEEDA dataset: lnkd.in/eAwbbQqC
(4/4)

3️⃣ Measures of polarization that integrate multiple policy dimensions outperform unidimensional measures of polarization.
4️⃣ While separately measuring polarization and fragmentation, we can analyze their distinct effects, which was not possible with most common polarization indices.
(3/4)

Our key findings are:
1️⃣ Too high levels of polarization were counterproductive for the survival of democracies in interwar Europe, but so were too low levels of polarization.
2️⃣ Low levels of fragmentation aggravated the negative effects of too little and too much polarization.
(2/4)

📄 🚨 New Research on Polarization, Fragmentation, and Democracy in @democratization.bsky.social

Nils-Christian Bormann and I explore the impact of ideological polarization and fragmentation on the democratic systems of interwar Europe: lnkd.in/erjJr9qF
#polarization #democracy #data #history (1/4)

Some thoughts on the strategic rationale behind the "Brandmauer” – the cordon sanitaire vis-à-vis the AfD – and the challenges associated with maintaining it. Seems pertinent, given that senior CDU/CSU figures regularly float the idea of ditching it and exploring avenues for closer cooperation.

My sabbatical leave allowed me to reflect on my professional life.

As I’ve stepped into more senior roles in academia (plus gotten a bit older), I often get asked:

“How do you keep writing academic articles, policy work, opinion pieces, while juggling everything else?”

My answer: skillpower

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Introducing the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data & Assemblies (AIEEDA) Scientific Data - Introducing the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data & Assemblies (AIEEDA)

We finally published the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA)! 🗳️💽🤓 Find out more about party positions, cabinet formation, and parliamentary elections in 25 European democracies between 1919 and 1939! We also collected geo-referenced data for 6 countries! 🗺️📍
rdcu.be/ehRgD

MEDem has applied for ESFRI Roadmap 2026: Shaping the Future of European Democracy Research - Monitoring Electoral Democracy MEDem has applied for inclusion on the ESFRI Roadmap 2026: Shaping the Future of European Democracy Research On April 8, 2025, MEDem (Monitoring Electoral Democracy) took a major next step toward shap...

🎉 Big step for #MEDem! We’ve officially applied for the #ESFRIroadmap2026— backed by 15 governments, 1,000+ researchers & 100+ institutions/associations.
One more milestone toward building Europe’s infrastructure for comparative #DemocracyResearch ✅
Read more on our #MEDemBlog 👉

Do you care about democracy in the EU? @ec.europa.eu wants to hear your views on disinformation, information manipulation, elections, free media, civil society, societal resilience, citizen participation and engagement.
Researchers - share your evidence!
Deadline 26 May
ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

Japan: Das Märchen von den vielen Hundertjährigen Viele Medien berichten immer wieder, dass auf Okinawa in Japan so viele Hundertjährige leben sollen wie nirgends. Doch das stimmt nicht.

Leben auf Okinawa in Japan so viele Hundertjährige wie nirgends sonst auf der Welt? Nö. Medien behaupten das trotzdem immer wieder. Jetzt ohne Paywall lesen: uebermedien.de/103765/japan...

Quick reminder: Join us on August 1, 2025 for a short online conference discussing your research ideas! 😎

📣 Last Chance to join!
#GESISworkshops

Earlier this month, Paul Bederke had the opportunity to attend the 1st OSCARS Annual Meeting in Rome (March 3–4, 2025), where he represented our HarDIS project – Harmony in the Democratic Ideological Space.
oscars-project.eu/projects/har...

In about a month, we submit our application for the ESFRI Roadmap 🇪🇺
Help us reach 1,000 researchers by showing your support here: forms.gle/dm8K4xFgXD9b...
⚙️ Regardless, we’re sure you’ll find MEDem’s tools & services useful once they’re live. We’re already working on first prototypes this year! 🏗️📊

The actual datasets are now also available online via the Harvard Dataverse: 🕵‍♀️ doi.org/10.7910/DVN/...

Also, this is the first election that I have heard several non-political scientists talk about strategically voting for Die Linke, with the goal of supporting the “left-wing” in the Bundestag - also from people who have never considered voting for Die Linke, before. Exit polls will be interesting!

Basierend auf einer Vielzahl von Datenquellen zeigen wir in unserem Research Brief eine Sache: Verluste an die radikale Rechte sind nur marginal relevant für die elektorale Krise der Sozialdemokratie. Anders gesagt: heutige Wähler von radikal rechts sind keine früheren Sozialdemokraten.

This overview deserves another share, important to be informed of the extent of the authoritarian actions of the Trump administration

Data Spotlight #7 As dedicated data curators, we're excited to showcase curated data collections that will hopefully ignite your research interests. Today we present you: Thematic Data Collection on Elections and Political Attitudes With the Bundestag elections on

#GESISblog #blog
Data Spotlight #7 on the GESIS blog: Dr. Alex Jedinger and Dr. Christina Eder introduce a thematic data collection on elections and political attitudes:

blog.gesis.org/data-...