Luke Shuttleworth

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.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637

Now in an issue @psrm.bsky.social: I show that the 🇩🇰 Social Democrats could have won policy support for a pro-immigrant platform if their messaging were framed in moral terms. Findings provide a central corrective to the popular notion that the Social Democrats were destined to go anti-immigrant 👇🏻

Europe's Changing Protest Landscape Europe’s protest arena has grown more unpredictable and fragmented in recent years, with new actors, claims, and tactics emerging that do not fit the established left-libertarian dominance. How...

📢 Europe's Changing Protest Landscape
Protests have grown more fragmented in recent years. New actors, claims, and tactics have emerged. A special issue @jeppjournal.bsky.social ‪with an introduction by Swen Hutter & @sophiahunger.bsky.social provides insights.
www.wzb.eu/en/news/euro...

In der neuen Ausgabe der Internationalen Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie (Paragrana) schreibe ich zusammen mit @martinmettin.bsky.social über die Negative Anthropologie der Leistungsgesellschaft...

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Im @spiegel.de äußert @rodki.bsky.social Verständnis für Israels Kriegsführung in Gaza, ohne zu realisieren, dass es letztlich nicht darum geht, welche Friedenslösung *für ihn* denkbar ist!

Zu Frieden gehören immer zwei Seiten. Wenn die Zerstörung der Hamas mit Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit..

Our article on environmental protests in Europe now also has page numbers. Take a look at it, in case you missed it:

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter.

In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter!

We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity.

📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...

📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

German Politics in Times of Crises: The Success of the Post‐Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election Click on the article title to read more.

New article! 📚

"German Politics in #Times of #Crises: The Success of the Post-Merkel Conservatives in the 2025 Federal Election" is out in the @jcms-eu.bsky.social. Not the Scholz government, but the CDU's return may deepen the break with Merkel's legacy.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Quite a strong final statement: "Descriptive research is important and it is a pity that the general obsession with causal estimates disincentivizes researchers from attempting to publish careful and detailed description."

📣 Very excited to welcome the fabulous @anjaneundorf.bsky.social at the Politics Lecture Series
@humboldtuni.bsky.social @dynamics.bsky.social tomorrow. Come and join us! 👇

Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access!

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

What Abou-Chadi et al. show here is not just that conservative migration positions won't help social-democrats to attract voters, but also that left positions on retirement (that is allowing for early retirement) make social-democrats most attractive (and right positions make them less attracitve).

❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗

New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social ‬ @wepsocial.bsky.social

tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj

A short 🧵

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New article! 📚

"A Normal(ised) Far-Right Party? A Long-Term Perspective on the #FPÖ's Electoral Strength" out in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social. It analyses long-term organizational integration, the 2024 success & growing elite openess towards the FPÖ.

▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

*Register data* results now published for whole Germany:

37% of women under 25 voted for die Linke in the German federal elections in 2025.

Also very striking to see that the AfD was the strongest party among *all age groups of men except those older than 60*.

Neu im @pwportal:
Wir starten die PPRnet Brief Serie zur politischen Machbarkeit von Klimapolitik mit der Einleitung: „Klimapolitik – aber machbar“.

Warum Klimapolitik nur wirkt, wenn sie tragfähig ist

#Klima #Polisky #PPRnet
Mit @bjoernbremer.bsky.social & Jane Gingrich

🥁 Just a few more days until our first conference for the @ecpr.bsky.social Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy!
👏We have a fantastic line-up of speakers & presenters... 🍿 More info: ecpr.eu/Events/322

Zu sehen ist das Plenum des sächsischen Landtags während einer offenen Abstimmung. Auf der linken Seite heben die Abgeordneten der AFD den Arm und stimmen somit dem wahlvorschlag zu. Am unteren bildrand ist die CDU-Fraktion zu sehen, die ebenfalls ihre Zustimmung durch gehobenen Arm signalisiert. Oben in der bildmitte ist die sächsische staatsregierung zu sehen, die staatsminister und staatsministerinnen der CDU sowie Ministerpräsident Michael Kretschmer heben ebenfalls ihren Arm. Die Fraktionen von linke SPD und Grüne heben nicht den Arm.

Gemeinsame Abstimmung im sächs. Landtag❗
Mit Stimmen von AFD und CDU (darunter Michael Kretschmer) wurde der AFD Abgeordnete René Standke in den Beirat für die Abschiebungshaft- und Ausreisegewahrsamseinrichtung gewählt. Der Beirat soll Flüchtlingen in Abschiebeeinrichtungen zur Seite stehen. 🧵

New publication @wepsocial.bsky.social w/ Timothy Hellwig and Lawrence Ezrow!

We argue and show that non-centrist/extreme governments prioritize their core supporters over the median voter when making policy.

However, this strategy is likely to backfire at the next election.

tinyurl.com/ynexbzwh

Article title and abstract

New @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org article out in Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics with @georgenewth.bsky.social and @aurelmondon.bsky.social:

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐔𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐚𝐫-𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠

Short 🧵 on the key ideas 1/

Die Berliner SPD ist für diese Entscheidung mitverantwortlich. Ihr hattet die Möglichkeit mit Rot-Rot-Grün sinnvolle Verkehrspolitik zu machen und habt stattdessen mit der CDU koaliert. Öffnung der Friedrichstr., Aufhebung von 30er-Zonen und Angriff auf Kiezblocks. Ihr habt das alles ermöglicht.

Labour‘s strategy seems strongly driven by the idea that you can basically blackmail progressive voters into supporting them. You focus political strategy on winning (partially imaginary) centrists. To progressives the message is: if you don‘t vote for us you will end up with Farage. 1/

🚨 📒New article with @k8ebrown.bsky.social
& @aurelmondon.bsky.social! We propose a revised definition of the term ‘far right', problematise binaries between the far right & the mainstream & illustrate the ‘5th wave’ of far-right politics of this contemporary moment www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Today's speaker at the Politics Lecture Series is @na-wehl.bsky.social!

Join us at noon @humboldtuni.bsky.social to learn about what the kids are up to these days: "Perceptions of Unfairness and Political Engagement among Adolescents"

Our member @k8ebrown.bsky.social reflects on Keir Starmer's embrace of far-right rhetoric on migration in @theconversation.com.

Looks great, can't wait to read it!

🚨 Gestern wurde unser Thüringen-Monitor 2024 vorgestellt. Was bewegt die Menschen in Thüringen? Die Unterstützung für die Demokratie bleibt hoch – aber die Unzufriedenheit mit ihrer Umsetzung wächst weiter. /1