gemäß der gewählten Terminologie müsste es eigentlich Wahlhilfengehilfen heißen...
06.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@maierjuergen.bsky.social
Political scientist working on the content, processing, and impact of political/campaign communication. https://ksw.rptu.de/abt/politikwissenschaft/abteilung/politische-kommunikation/team/prof-dr-juergen-maier
gemäß der gewählten Terminologie müsste es eigentlich Wahlhilfengehilfen heißen...
06.10.2025 08:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📢 New Publication Alert!
Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup
👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm
01.10.2025 07:25 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 1Wonderful 🪧
01.10.2025 08:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
Die Arbeitseinheit Politische Kommunikation der RPTU in Landau sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (100% TVL-13) für 3 Jahre.
jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2...
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New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America
@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
▶️ Party Politics
👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social
📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes.
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Here is the (open access) scientific paper for folks interested in digging deeper:
23.09.2025 17:01 — 👍 86 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 0In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Do candidates with a „dark“ personality are more likely to attack in televised debates? You bet! New research with @alessandronai.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1016/j.ac...
Excited about the very first EPSS conference in Belfast next year!🤩 @kenbenoit.bsky.social & I co-chair the Political Communication Section and invite submissions on contents & effects of political communication, broadly conceived, and media-politics relations⬇️Please reach out in case of questions
01.09.2025 12:03 — 👍 29 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1Hatte heute eigentlich einen ARD Brennpunk zum Thema erwartet. 😕
05.09.2025 18:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Happy to share my co-authored piece with Tan Khai Ee, on one of the first empirical studies of Facebook ads in India.
We examine how incumbency, personalization & issue focus shape campaign tone in subnational elections: Bihar (2020), West Bengal (2021) & UP (2022).
Cover page of the article, titled "Seen one, seen 'em all: political outgroup homogeneity and negative affect", including the abstract: Outgroup homogeneity, the perception of lower trait variability in the outgroup, is an important psychological mechanism in intergroup relations. This concept is broadly applied to the context of political left-right party camps. A more homogenous perception of the outcamp limits perceived similarities and connections and could thereby foster negative impressions. This study examines whether the outcamp is generally perceived as more homogeneous than the incamp, if this perception is driving negative affect and lastly, whether it reduces the likelihood of voting for the other camp. Support is found for all three assumptions using cross-sectional data from the full Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) and causal evidence from the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES). Outgroup homogeneity emerges as a crucial aspect of political intergroup relations. It also provides further context to findings on affective polarization by identifying a form of outgroup dislike that is rooted in group identities rather than factual disagreement.
Here we go 🍎 as my first paper got published at WEP this week!
I show that political out-groups are perceived to be more homogeneous and that this is driving negative feelings and (un)willingness to vote for the other group.
It is open access, so you can give it a read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
We have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarisation and I will take it as an opportunity to introduce some of the features again.
On ❄️ polarization.wiki you can find descriptions, formulas, data and applications of the most common measurements of political polarization.
😠@maierjuergen.bsky.social, @alessandronai.bsky.social & Nynke Verhaar: More negative when it matters less? Comparing party campaign behaviour in European and national elections
🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Partisan defections & vote switching continued to decline in 2024 as negative partisanship continued
preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-g...
If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...
25.08.2025 04:54 — 👍 213 🔁 68 💬 4 📌 4New study with Michaela Maier, Lea Gorski & Felix Schmidt! Using web-tracking and experience sampling data we show that German voters are equally exposed to positive and negative information; however the exact relevance varies across channels and methods of data collection.
doi.org/10.1177/1077...
We have page numbers! Comparing the tone of campaign communication for 150+ parties in 28 countries for the 2019 EP and national elections @alessandronai.bsky.social, Nynke Verhaar and I found that only extreme parties attack more in second- than in first-order elections.
doi.org/10.1080/1350...
Now open access
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Now open access
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Walter Lippmann Best Article of the Year Award
✍️ @alessandronai.bsky.social, Chiara Valli, @maierjuergen.bsky.social & Loes Aaldering
“Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context: Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data”
🌅📙 64.3
Are poor people poorly heard?👂
These authors (🧵⬇️) use citizen surveys in 🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦 & 🇩🇪 to claim that politicians hold biased views of what citizens want & shows that politicians perceptions parallel the rich for the most pressing economic issues.
buff.ly/5UlH75b
Genau mein Thema
14.08.2025 16:59 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Here’s a summary thread:
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Power game between to dark personalities at the end of the week at the end of the world. However, one of them is cool and conscientious, while the other is erratic. Source: global.oup.com/academic/pro... by @alessandronai.bsky.social and me
14.08.2025 08:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
"From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝
📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me