Holger Reinermann

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As long as we are not talking "REVEALED dynamic family size preferences" 😉

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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

Eine pet-flasche von rivella, der Deckel ist nicht fest am Flaschenhals.

Helvetia, Verteidigerin des Abendlandes.

Alte Bundestagswahlplakate mit Ludwig Erhard "Wohlstand für alle" und Willy Brandt "Wohlstand ist für alle da"

Valenzissue-Wettbewerb, Symbolbild.

I'm probably just ignorant, but the more I think about it, the _less_ of a difference I see between an R&R and a list of "conditions for acceptance"...

me looking up acronyms on my timeline

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Germany has started the politicisation of the courts.

The AfD is jubilating.

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I'm not going to repost any of the insane antisemitic conspiracy bullshit that grok is spewing today, but it highlights how absolutely essentially is that we not let LLMs become a form of epistemic grounding for our society.

A deer with a bush stuck to its horns.

Hikers and wild #campers; Please remember to recycle your Death Metal logos after you are done with them.

Deer and other wildlife might get stuck in them and have trouble getting free.

Thank you.

i hate it when people expect me to do something just because i said i would

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Graph showing that 65% of germans support higher defence expenditures to reach NATO’s 5% goal.

Absolutely striking numbers. 65% of Germans support Germany significantly increasing its defence expenditures to reach NATO’s 5%* goal.

*it’s a 3,5%+ goal, to be exact.

Zaller remains undefeated

Can't believe Gelman went for 'garden of forking paths' when 'choose your own adventure' was right there

Bitte reposten ;)

Screenshot of the abstract of the paper, which reads: Opposition parties are central actors in accounts of democracies (e.g. Dahl 1966). Prior research addressed issues such as institutional factors to gauge the power wielded by opposition parties, and how they affect opposition parties’ choices for engaging in conflictual behaviour vis-à-vis the government or opting for cooperative approaches. However, scant attention has been devoted to understanding citizens’ views of such opposition party behaviour. We aim to fill this gap by examining how opposition parties’ choices of conflict or cooperation with the government affect citizens’ evaluations of both opposition and government parties. Our study centres on the case of Germany, where the considerable institutional power vested in opposition parties provides a framework for genuine choice between cooperation and conflict. We use data from four large-scale survey experiments in which we systematically manipulated opposition party behaviour. These experiments were conducted between 2020 and 2022, allowing us to study the effects of opposition party behaviour in different contexts, including cases of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in the realm of more everyday politics. Although mixed, the results suggest that cooperative opposition party behaviour provides a promising, often overlooked avenue for opposition parties to attract citizens.

New paper in @prxjournal.bsky.social

We conducted 4 experiments in Germany to examine how voters respond when opposition parties choose conflict or cooperation with the government.

Findings: Cooperation tends to win more support

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2474...

#polisky

Academic freedom mostly means freedom to work on something for 10 years and still not submit it

Wir brauchen Daten!

Im Rahmen eines meiner Seminare @powimz.bsky.social sollen die Studis auch eigene Erfahrungen mit der Datenerhebung sammeln. Dazu haben wir eine kleine Umfrage zusammengestellt (ca. 15 Min.). Wir sind dankbar für jede*n Teilnehmer*in :)
survey.zdv.uni-mainz.de/index.php/89...

"My research sits at the intersection of..." Yeah most fatal accidents happen at intersections

Headline of an article with a picture of some cells, it reads "Scientists have discovered `third state' between life and death"

There's no way scientists are only just now learning about grad school

One Figure. One Message.

Age*Voting in the German federal election 2025 according to GLES data. @gles.bsky.social

Senior is just what they call you when “emerging” stops being plausible.

Friedrich Merz jetzt queere Ikone

What a relief that most publishers avoid this situation by just putting the thing out after the second round no matter how many errors are still in there 😁

Beeindruckend auch, wie man aus drei Datenpunkten 35 machen kann.