Matthias Döring

💡 What can organizations potentially do?

⚖️ Balance gender in teams (while securing expertise and other aspects)
📝 Add team context to leader evaluations
🎓 Train leaders who are “a-prototypical” for their teams
Bias isn’t just individual—it’s social.

📊 How we tested this:

✔️ 3,400+ employees
✔️ 330+ supervisors
✔️ Danish local government
✔️ 360° leadership assessments + archival data
🔍 Multilevel modeling to capture team-level effects

<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library Leadership research has emphasized the crucial role of gender and documented how women leaders are rated more negatively regarding essential behaviors and competencies. Drawing on social identity the....

👥 Teams matter more than dyads!
Leader-follower gender matches have less impact on leadership ratings.

✅ It’s the team’s gender composition that counts more.
Leaders who fit the team’s gender composition get better evaluations.

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

🚨 New research: How Team Gender Composition Shapes Leadership Ratings

Our study in Public Administration Review shows:

👩‍💼 Female leaders shine in female-heavy teams
👨‍💼 Male leaders shine in male-heavy teams

#PAsky #managementstudies, #orgstudies, #mgmtsky

In einer völlig entgleisten politischen Einschätzung, in der die Union sich in der Mitte befindet und die AFD nicht am rechten Rand, bin ich erwartungsgemäß ein Linksextremist.
Unsere Medien sind komplett im Arsch.

How do performance failures affect user satisfaction? With co-authors (Mads Thau and @nathanfavero.com) @mfalcon.bsky.social (assoc prof @pa-sdu.bsky.social), leverage a major negative news story on Danish social services that broke during the fielding of a user survey. In @pareview.bsky.social

Matthias Döring modtager DFF-bevilling Lektor Matthias Döring skal i et nyt projekt undersøge, hvordan borgere oplever og navigerer i mødet med det offentlige. Projektet er netop støttet af Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond.

🚨 Big news! I’ve received a major grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark 🎉

Over the next 3 years, I’ll be developing and validating a tool to measure how well people's administrative literacy, across countries, languages, and services.

www.sdu.dk/da/om-sdu/fa...

And a special shout-out to Kristina Bøhnke and Bjarke Skærlund Risager for their incredible research support throughout this journey 🙌

Huge thanks to everyone who supported this journey: my department, the PA research group, and especially @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social, Morten Skovsgaard, Mette Kjærgaard Thomsen, Klaus Petersen — and many more 🙏

This project will help us better understand citizens’ resources, vulnerability, and how people deal with administrative burdens. The ultimate goal? More equitable public services.

👀 A call for a 3-year Assistant Professor position is coming soon — stay tuned!

Matthias Döring modtager DFF-bevilling Lektor Matthias Döring skal i et nyt projekt undersøge, hvordan borgere oplever og navigerer i mødet med det offentlige. Projektet er netop støttet af Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond.

🚨 Big news! I’ve received a major grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark 🎉

Over the next 3 years, I’ll be developing and validating a tool to measure how well people's administrative literacy, across countries, languages, and services.

www.sdu.dk/da/om-sdu/fa...

Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.

Work!! 🚨

We are looking for a #postdoc in our AI, media and Democracy Lab @aimediademlab.bsky.social

Dynamic position, great team, nice colleagues 💥

Profile: communication/ poli sci/ computational social sci

🗓️ DL November 1

Spread the word 📣

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Das Bild zeigt ein Stimmdiagramm der Bürgermeisterwahl in Wriezen mit einer Wahlbeteiligung von 60%, bei der Karsten Ilm (CDU) mit 48,8% der Stimmen deutlich vorne liegt. Das Bild ist ein Balkendiagramm, das die Ergebnisse einer Bürgermeisterwahl in Wriezen zeigt. Die Wahlbeteiligung betrug 60,0%. Drei Kandidaten werden aufgeführt: Thomas Knels (AfD) mit 27,0% der Stimmen, Nils Nestler (WRZ) mit 24,2% der Stimmen und Karsten Ilm (CDU) mit 48,8% der Stimmen. Die Balken sind farblich unterschiedlich kodiert (blau, orange, dunkelgrau).

Das Bild zeigt ein Stimmdiagramm der Bürgermeisterwahl in Nauen (Stand 14.09.2025, 19:14:25). Die Wahlbeteiligung lag bei 51,1 %. Das Diagramm zeigt die prozentuale Stimmenverteilung auf vier Kandidaten: Meger (31,4%), Zießnitz (5,5%), Wiebersinsky (47,3%) und Kilian (15,9%). Es handelt sich um ein Zwischenergebnis, bei dem 30 von 30 Wahlbezirken ausgezählt sind.

In Brandenburg fanden heute die ersten beiden von 29 Bürgermeisterwahlen statt. Nach #Meißen + #Wolmirstedt setzte es auch in #Wriezen + #Nauen deutliche Niederlagen für die AFD.
In ihren beiden Hochburgen rutschte die Partei von 46% auf 27% bzw. von 37% auf 16% (Vergleich BTW 25) 🧵

#dieblaueDelle

There has never been a more important time to study public policy and public administration. With @fgilardi.bsky.social
, I’m chairing the section on these topics for the first @epssnet.bsky.social conference, in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026. Send us your best work: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Which is truly the real tragedy. Same with all the Che shirts.

But that's the true power of capitalism for you, being able to capture and incorporate anything, even anti-capitalism or anti-commercialism.

Welp, quod erat demonstrandum :D

And true with the in fashion again. Though, my band shirts didn't survive this long. Now, I would look like a poser wearing new ones

Oh, this is very nice. But also quite hipster-ish, isn't it?

...

Obviously, that's just envy speaking

Interviewing extremists, even critically, in mainstream news outlets normalizes and increases support for their views

BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of extensive media exposure on public perceptions and normalization. It references specific research surveys conducted on Sky News UK and Australia, analyzing changes in public attitudes and policy effects due to media strategies.

NEW -

Media Platforming and the Normalisation of Extreme Right Views - cup.org/4mmVIAL

"exposure to uncritical interviews increases agreement with extreme statements and perceptions of broader support in the population"

- @dianebolet.bsky.social & @florianfoos.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Two assistant Professors in Public Administration Two Assistant Professors in Public Administration  (2.0 fte) Do you want to help shape the future of public governance? Join us in The Hague to strengthen our outstanding team of researchers and teach...

Leiden University is hiring two assistant Professors in Public Administration. More here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

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Wie schon einige anderen Kommentare aufzeigten: Nicht Europa bezahlt 15 Prozent. Im Endeffekt der amerikanische Verbraucher (an den die Kosten weitergereicht werden).

Nach Monaten dieser Debatte kann man ein bissl Genauigkeit erwarten.

Großartig zu sehen wie die Volksparteien Deutschlands, CDU und SPD, die Not der Stunde erkennen und staatsmännisch agieren, um die wichtigsten Richterämter des Landes zu besetzen.

In Zeiten des Populismus und der Erosion von Legitimität und Vertrauen und Politik, wirklich erfrischend. /s

To be clear, the final vote in the House hasn’t happened yet. It has cleared a procedural hurdle to get to a floor vote, but the final vote is pending.

It is urgently necessary to call GOP reps and demand that they vote down the bill.

This was absolutely my experience when I started at NIH in 2003.

I was very impressed with how well run things were compared to my experiences in both academia and the private sector.

Social scientists should not use chat interfaces when using LLMs in their research: they are impressively inefficient, and obscure/impose important methodological decisions that require thought.

THREAD🧵

As the father of a 2yo... I feel seen. Unfortunately...

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky