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@jwaeckerle.bsky.social

Post-doctoral researcher at the Cologne Center for Comparative Politics (University of Cologne) https://www.jenswaeckerle.com/

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It tells us so much about the debate around immigration that the first response by journalists and politicians here is not: does this mean they are over- or underrepresented? This bias and ignorance used to be limited to the most lurid and hateful parts of the media. It is now a standard response.

01.08.2025 08:27 — 👍 106    🔁 30    💬 4    📌 1

I'm adding to the Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts collection:

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21.07.2025 10:53 — 👍 20    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

The end. Shout out to Nyunyu wholesale dongdaemun for an excellent collection.

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10. Political theory

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9. Climate politics

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8. Political behaviour

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7. Social democracy in crisis

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6. Regression to the mean

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5. Median voter theorem

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4. Democracy

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3. Populism

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2. Qualitative methods

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Seoul novelty hats as political science concepts. A thread.

1. Quantitative methods

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Thank you, I'm very happy they are useful!

03.07.2025 16:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Blatant power grab! Gone will be the days of "Questions in legislative politics II", what have we become 😕

29.06.2025 10:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very excited to be part of this new association, a great future ahead for European political science.

26.06.2025 21:18 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodolgy 
Introduction to Conjoint Survey Experiments
04 to 08 August | Cologne 
Franziska Quoß (GESIS) & Lukas Rudolph (University of Konstanz)

GESIS Summer School in Survey Methodolgy Introduction to Conjoint Survey Experiments 04 to 08 August | Cologne Franziska Quoß (GESIS) & Lukas Rudolph (University of Konstanz)

Need causal insights into how people make decisions? Conjoint survey experiments let you unpack complex choices in realistic settings. Learn to design, implement, and analyze them in our #GESISsummerschool course with @phanxi.bsky.social & Lukas Rudolph.

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If you see this scene, your likelihood of AfD vote adds up to >0.5***

07.05.2025 13:57 — 👍 13    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#COMPTEXT2025

26.04.2025 14:12 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library Women in male-dominated organizations often must adopt more stereotypical masculine traits to advance within those hierarchies. While politics, historically male-dominated, should induce women to ble...

Now out in an issue with proper page numbers🎉

Women in parliament, particularly in left parties, adapt their speaking style over the years to fit the male-dominated hierarchies of parties and parliaments

With the best coauthors one could ask for @dmpullan.bsky.social @jwaeckerle.bsky.social

16.04.2025 16:02 — 👍 43    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1

📢 Our latest research (with L. Rudolph, @uni-konstanz.de) on operationalizing natural experiments, particularly extreme weather, has just been accepted @thejop.bsky.social 🌦️Natural experiments offer a unique way to analyze causal effects in real-world settings. But operationalization is often messy:

31.03.2025 08:55 — 👍 25    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 0

And if not, you can always get a second bite of the apple and maybe stretch this research agenda a bit

28.03.2025 14:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Definitely sounds like a juicy research project with promises of substantial citation yields.

28.03.2025 13:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Our universities shut it down to increase productivity?

28.03.2025 13:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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17.03.2025 11:08 — 👍 14    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky

13.02.2025 17:29 — 👍 265    🔁 108    💬 12    📌 9
GESIS Workshop 
Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R
 Lea Kaftan and Jan Schwalbach (both GESIS) & Jens Wäckerle (Cologne Center for Comparative Politics) 
Online from 01 to 03 April 2025

GESIS Workshop Introduction to Computational Text Analysis with R Lea Kaftan and Jan Schwalbach (both GESIS) & Jens Wäckerle (Cologne Center for Comparative Politics) Online from 01 to 03 April 2025

📢 Ready to dive into computational text analysis with #rstats?

Join @dielea.bsky.social, @janschwalbach.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social for the #GESISworkshop and gain hands-on skills to enhance your research!

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11.02.2025 17:57 — 👍 12    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1

This 👇👇 Wenn die deutsche Politik schon die Augen vor Forschungsergebnissen verschliesst, könnten sie doch wenigstens von den Nachbarländern lernen. Es ist nur noch schwer zu ertragen

29.01.2025 20:46 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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»Eine richtige Entscheidung wird nicht dadurch falsch, dass die Falschen zustimmen. Sie bleibt richtig«, sagt Merz.

Fraktion CDU/CSU so:

29.01.2025 14:09 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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