Jürgen Maier

I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
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Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Beyond rationality. Toward a more comprehensive understanding of the use of negative campaigning - Volume 17 Issue 3

☀️ Vol 17.3

Arguing that current views on #NegativeCampaigning are too narrow, these authors (🧵⬇️) outline a complete model building on personality traits, values, social norms and attitudes toward #NegativeCampaigning across 12 elections 🇩🇪

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New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social!

🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result.

Read full 🧵 below:

Deshalb:

doi.org/10.1016/j.pa...

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference!

📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast

🗓️ June 18–20, 2026

📍 ICC Belfast

📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025

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The @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮

epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Deadline: 7 November 2025

📢 Out now! The Handbook of Affective Polarization is officially published 🎉

📖 Open Access & packed with 30 great chapters thanks to amazing authors. Huge thanks to everyone, and in particular to @marianotorcal.bsky.social for the great (and fun) collaboration! 💙

Link below for the e-book 👇

Negative campaigning and electoral mobilization: empirical evidence from German state elections Recent research has been inconclusive about the systemic effects of negative campaigning. The available studies, most of which focus on the United States, either conclude that attack behavior decre...

New research with @sebstier.bsky.social and @monadian.bsky.social. Triangulating turnout data at the constituency level and candidate surveys we find that negative campaigning has a mobilizing effect in German state elections.

doi.org/10.1080/2474...

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First 50 copies of the paper can be downloaded for free using this link:

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EZHMB...

Is #NegativeCampaigning linked with higher #AffectivePolarization? you bet

In this new open-access chapter @ealasaid.bsky.social and I discuss the literature & present novel experimental evidence - also linking incivility with support for #PoliticalViolence

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www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap-o...

Mobilizer, demobilizer–or artefact? Measuring the influence of research designs on the direct effect of negative advertising on voter turnout in U.S. election campaigns The effects of negative campaign advertising on turnout in U.S. elections vary greatly. Some researchers have suspected that differences in research methods are partly responsible for the conflicti...

New research on the impact of negative campaigning on turnout.

Research question: Do research designs influence whether we find a mobilizing, a demobilizing or no effect of attacks on electoral participation? Answer: Usually not, but sometimes yes.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Researchers value null results, but struggle to publish them Survey finds that fear of reputational harm and a lack of support and publication platforms are among respondents’ key concerns.

“just 68% of the 7,057 researchers whose work had produced null results had shared them in some form, and just 30% had tried to publish them in a journal.”

What a joke.

#NullEffectsMatter

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Help us spread the word! @rudalev.bsky.social & I are the editors!

It is OUT the last (printed) version of Handbook of Affective Polarization doi.org/10.4337/9781...
It is open Access!!!

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

Nein, aber man muss immer auch das Positive sehen.

Auf jeden Fall hat der Programmierer dem Land Baden-Württemberg eine Menge Geld gespart. Mitarbeiter des Jahrzehnts.

New ANES data release: A preliminary release of the data from a survey administered to cohabiting spouses or partners of sampled individuals on the FtF and Web is now available as a standalone file.

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Interesting paper. Can you provide a DOI?

In diesem fast schon klassischen Paper (open access) haben Lamb et al. die Klimaausreden gesammelt und kategorisiert, die herangezogen werden, wenn leugnen nicht mehr möglich ist.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sudhof-Bericht ungeschwärzt (mit Hervorhebungen) Bericht der Sachverständigen Dr. Margaretha Sudhof (Maskenbericht) mit Hervorhebung der vormals geschwärzten Stellen

Erst geschwärzt. Dann ungeschwärzt. Jetzt mit Hervorhebungen, was geschwärzt wurde. Der Sudhof-Bericht zeigt jetzt, was genau das Gesundheitsministerium verbergen wollte – klar markiert, für alle sichtbar: fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/27...

🎉 New research alert! My study with the great @ilketoygur.bsky.social has just been published in JEPP @jeppjournal.bsky.social‬: "Does climate policy backlash fuel Eurosceptic vote? Exploring the link in the European Parliament elections" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Data > Opinion

Gestern Interview mit Rheinischer Post zur Frage, inwiefern Zusammenarbeit BSW/AfD wem nützt oder schadet.
Jetzt laufen - wie erwartbar - die Mail- und Postfächer voll.

Wissenschaftsfreiheit stirbt auch damit, wenn so aktiv versucht wird, Meinungsäußerung einzuschüchtern.

24 HOURS OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026 24 HOURS OF POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY CONFERENCE 2026

PSA: If you're currently in Prague for #ISPP2025, you might also like joining the 24 Hours of Political Psychology in Vienna in February!
No conference fee, always worth a trip! Approach me with any questions 😊
Submissions are open until the end of September: 24hpolpsy.univie.ac.at #24hpolpsy2026

"הציבור איתנו. מי שלא פתח עדיין את הלב זה נתניהו, ולשם אין דרך להגיע" פרופ' ישראל ויסמל־מנור הוא מומחה לדעת קהל שמתנדב במטה משפחות החטופים. הוא הכין את המשפחות להופעות פומביות ובנה קמפיינים לשמירת מאבקן על סדר היום. לדידו, על אף שבאופן טבעי חייהם של רוב הישראלים ממשיכים...

Sign the deal. End the war.
www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...

congrats, Gijs!

Why do people search for individual politicians? Because they (don't) like them. In a new paper we find sympathy/antipathy to be important predictors of political information seeking. We also find searches for female politicians more often concerned with appearance & family. doi.org/10.1177/1461...