Markus Wagner

I was lucky enough to read an early draft - what a great book, and one that will change the way you think about public opinion.

Nick Vivyan, Chris Hanretty (@chanret.bsky.social) and I have a new book out: “Idiosyncratic Issue Opinion and Political Choice”. The core of the book is making the argument that citizens’ views about political issues neither reduce to an ideological orientation nor to a lack of substance. (1/10)

Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations

#AffectivePolarization ≠ only #Partisanships 🎉

Ida Bæk Hjermitslev & @markuswagner.bsky.social widen the lens on political identity, looking in Germany, where ideological identities (left/right) are as strong as party IDs and shape how people judge others 🤔

Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Some people like using our (w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social) heroes & villains paper to teach partisanship.

We've made it easier (and fun?) for students with a new online playground 🦹

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

www.turnbulldugarte.com/heroes-playg...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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What’s a multiverse good for anyway? Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and Andrew Gelman Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?>

With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social

juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

OpenVAA v0.1 Shiba is out now!

Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3

📣 Deadline extended: 12 February 2026
We look forward to receiving further applications!

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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations - https://cup.org/49PM2eq

- Ida Bæk Hjermitslev & @markuswagner.bsky.social

#FirstView

🚨 Job Alert!

We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”.

Start: March 1, 2026
Application deadline: February 2, 2026

Find out more👇

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

Austerity and Populism A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

BJPolS abstract discussing the surge of far-right parties in recent decades, investigating the implications when left-wing governments are in power.

NEW -

Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success - https://cup.org/3NpBdXI

- Albert Falcó-Gimeno, @jurado.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

🚨Job Alert

Apply for our fully-funded PhD position at the Department of Government. If you want to pursue research in an area of comparative politics broadly conceived, check our offer 👇!

Deadline is 28 January.

We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:

- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026 Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in Political Science / Politics and Policy in/of Europe and the European Union

Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions.
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

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Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members:

– Assistant Professor in Political Economy
– Assistant Professor in International Politics
– Assistant Professor in Political Science

Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
More details: jobs.tcd.ie
@tcddublin.bsky.social

Congrats!

🎄 Now if this isn't the perfect Christmas gift for scholars of elections! A fresh @cses.bsky.social Module 6 Advance Release for you all to analyze and explore!

The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe - Scientific Data Scientific Data - The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️

✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨

When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background?

🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅

Check it out here: 🧵

Santa would vote Green and Scrooge would go for Reform, poll finds Many voters see Father Christmas as a left-wing progressive who would back Zack Polanski’s party — although people tend to think he would share their own views

What sort of shameless headline-seeking shyster would do a poll like this...?

www.thetimes.com/article/8653...

21. There was, however, one extremely positive new development, and that is the relatively new textbook by @saragoodman.bsky.social and Jennifer Cyr, a collaboration of 30+ female and non-binary scholars. ♥️

It is a breath of fresh air in the increasingly complex (U.S.) qualitative literature.

❄️ December is here, so it's a good time to plan methods training for 2026! I’ve been asked about methods schools recently, so here’s a non-authoritative list. I did my PhD in Europe, and focus on quantitative political science, so this is inevitably biased and may be outdated. Additions welcome! 🧵👇

Affective Polarisation in Comparative Perspective General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers
🎓 Affective Polarisation in Comparative Perspective
🪑 @luanarusso.bsky.social & @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/AGcZGGN

#Polisky #CallforPapers #CallforPanels

Congratulations, Matthijs! Sounds exciting!

Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a PI-Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for my project "What Citizens Think They Should and Can Do in Democracies”. The project comes with 1 PhD (co-supervised w/ a proper academic adult) and 2 RA positions + funding for interviews and surveys.

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Congratulations, Stuart! Looking forward to seeing the results of this!