@christinajuen.bsky.social
Senior Expert @ Bertelsmann Stiftung Berlin Political Scientist interested in political representation, democracy and political attitudes // www.cmjuen.com
Happy to share that the German Research Foundation DFG funds my new project: “Countering Polarization: The Borda count as a basis for proportional representation”. I am recruiting 2 PhD candidates to join me in Hannover as of March 2026 or later! Feel free to reach out!
03.12.2025 11:07 — 👍 31 🔁 15 💬 6 📌 1Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇
02.12.2025 14:12 — 👍 28 🔁 30 💬 1 📌 0
Call for Papers for the LoPaPol 2026 workshop in Darmstadt, 24-25 March 2026.
Abstract proposals should be sent until January 11 to Christina-Marie Juen or Martin Gross.
LoPaPol is back! 💥
Come join us in Darmstadt for the 3️⃣ edition of the Local Party Politics workshop!
⏰ 24-25 March 2026
🚧 Organizers: @christinajuen.bsky.social Björn Egner @pluggedchris.bsky.social & myself with the help of LoPaPol legends @simonotjes.bsky.social & @rafreuse.bsky.social
Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1
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Really happy to see this article out with Joes de Natris and Marijn Nagtzaam. We present the Netherlands Local Manifesto Project, our collection of local manifestos and illustrate its utility by studying the relationship between municipality and manifesto size journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
22.11.2025 08:29 — 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Überraschend, dass das ZDF-Politbarometer diese Umfrage so verzerrt darstellt: Statt nach der Originalaussage von Merz zu fragen, die tagelang diskutiert wurde, wird in der Umfrage seine späte Rechtfertigung ergänzt. In der Grafik wird das aber gar nicht erwähnt. So geht Framing.
24.10.2025 08:57 — 👍 2091 🔁 682 💬 109 📌 108
Ich habe mit der Magdeburger Volksstimme über eine doppelte Gefahr für die CDU nach der Landtagswahl gesprochen: "Mord" in blau-schwarzer Koalition oder "Selbstmord" in einer überdehnten Anti-AfD-Koalition mit Einigungszwang. Etwas Empirie im thread...
22.10.2025 09:57 — 👍 26 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 5
Warum verlassen so viele Abgeordnete freiwillig den Bundestag? Unsere neue Studie "Arbeitsplatz Bundestag" zeigt, wo es hakt – und wie bessere Bedingungen politische Arbeit stärken können. (neu)
www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/themen/ak...
🎓✨ Officially Dr. Reuse! ✨🎓
After 4 years of hard work, I defended my PhD on ideology in local politics.
It was an unforgettable night. Grateful to my supervisors @nicolasbouteca.bsky.social & Kristof Steyvers, colleagues, family & friends for making this possible. ❤️
Congratulations, Simon!
01.10.2025 21:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Fast exakt das Erststimmenergebnis der Bundestagswahl 2025 in NRW im Februar 2025.
Insgesamt kaum Veränderungen seit Februar. Lässt sich kaum etwas für die Bundespolitik ablesen (lässt es sich eh sehr selten bei Kommunalwahlen, es sind eben LOKALE Wahlen und keine mid-terms).
Abstract of the research article "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by Andreas Küpfer, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker. Published online first in West European Politics.
Figure 1, displaying the occurences of different types of reactions in the German Bundestag between 1976 and 2020.
Figure 3, displaying the heatmap of predicted applause per 1000 words based on a Poission regression model.
Figure 5, displaying expected applause for interaction terms government and opposition.
💥Online first:
"The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments"
by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Call for Papers für die Tagung des AK "Lokale Politikforschung" mit dem Thema "Demokratie auf lokaler Ebene: Herausforderungen, Krisen und Perspektiven", die am 11. und 12. Dezember 2025 bei der Bertelsmann-Stiftung in Berlin stattfindet.
Noch 3️⃣Wochen Zeit für Einreichungen zur @dvpw.bsky.social Tagung des AK „Lokale Politikforschung“!
🌟Demokratie auf lokaler Ebene: Herausforderungen, Krisen und Perspektiven
🎫11.-12.12.2025 in Berlin
⏱️Deadline für Einreichungen: 1.10.2025
@munchsybille.bsky.social @christinajuen.bsky.social
New post for POP 📢
𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺: 𝗔𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 is a great resource for teaching and learning 🔥
It was a pleasure to publish this article written by the editors of this amazing project @robert-a-huber.bsky.social & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social
us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/po...
The second paper of our symposium is out @wepsocial.bsky.social 😍
Guest edited with @simonotjes.bsky.social @cerpintaxt.bsky.social & @christinajuen.bsky.social
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
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
New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social!
🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result.
Read full 🧵 below:
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!
shorturl.at/kcTbG
📣 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
14.07.2025 07:16 — 👍 93 🔁 68 💬 5 📌 7💥Very happy & proud that the Special Issue "Party Politics at the Local Level" has found such an excellent home @spsr.bsky.social
Huge thanks to my co-editors @christinajuen.bsky.social @rafreuse.bsky.social @simonotjes.bsky.social & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social
A 🧵on the SI contributions:
Hey y'all I am hiring a PhD student. Minimal teaching load and many opportunities for more ;)
uol.de/job566en
The PVV has left the Dutch coalition. What does this mean? Will there we be new elections? When? Who will win? Which government will form? 🧵
03.06.2025 08:12 — 👍 183 🔁 84 💬 5 📌 23BA in PoWi oder verwandtem Fach fast fertig? ✅
Interesse an dem, was gerade in der Welt passiert? ✅
Jetzt bewerben und ab dem WS mit @clandwehr.bsky.social, @arminschaefer.bsky.social, @nilssteiner.bsky.social et al. @powimz.bsky.social studieren ✅
(Kurzlink im Video & im ersten Kommentar)
First slide of keynote speech on new developments in local politics research.
Presentation on policy positions in German municipalities, together with Christina-Marie Juen.
Honoured to give the keynote speech at LoPaPol 2025 @polscileiden.bsky.social.
But before that: presenting insights of our @dfg.de project, w/ awesome @christinajuen.bsky.social. 😍
Thanks to @simonotjes.bsky.social @rafreuse.bsky.social & @christinajuen.bsky.social LoPaPol is going places.
Today in the historical academy building of @unileiden.bsky.social the second Local Party Politics conference (LoPaPol) organized by @polscileiden.bsky.social Looking forward to seeing many colleagues including @martingross.bsky.social, @rafreuse.bsky.social and @christinajuen.bsky.social
08.04.2025 08:12 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
The politics of seeking and avoiding discourse in parliament / When do politicians debate each other in parliament, and when do they prefer to avoid discourse? While existing research has shown MPs to unilaterally leverage the dialogical nature of legislative debates to their advantage, the circumstances facilitating actual discursive interaction have so far received less attention. We introduce a new framework to study the emergence of discourse in political debates. Applying this framework, we expect ideological differences and government–opposition dynamics to shape politicians' choices about seeking or avoiding discourse. To test these hypotheses, we draw on an original dataset of all 14,595 attempted and successful interventions (Zwischenfragen) – extraordinary, voluntary discursive exchanges between speakers and MPs in the audience – in the German Bundestag (1990–2020), extracted using an annotation pipeline developed specifically for this study. We find that MPs separated by diverging preferences seek discourse with one another more often than their ideologically aligned counterparts. At the same time, these exact attempts do less frequently result in discursive interactions. When considering government–opposition dynamics in this process, we observe very similar patterns: Attempts to initiate discourse are particularly common among opposition MPs facing government speakers, and we find tentative evidence suggesting that government actors are most likely to avoid these invitations to discursive interaction. Our findings have important implications for our understanding of elite behaviour in public environments.
🚀 Our paper (with @eliaskoch.bsky.social) on ‘The Politics of Seeking and Avoiding Discourse in Parliament’ is finally out as EarlyView at the EJPR!
08.04.2025 08:06 — 👍 64 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 2
Call for papers! The annual meeting of the @dvpw.bsky.social working group on Analytical Political Theory will take place on Oct 9-10, 2025 in Mainz. This year, we are particularly interested in papers on democratic process preferences!
theorie.politik.uni-mainz.de/files/2025/0...
Call for papers for the 11th Annual Conference of the Austrian Political Science Association, University of Salzburg, September 25/26, 2025. Come visit us in Salzburg and present your research!
Go to www.oegpw.at/conference/ for more information and to submit your proposals.
With the joint majority of AfD and CDU, the "firewall" (Brandmauer) is becoming a central issue in the Bundestag election campaign. In a new study (with @christinajuen.bsky.social & @martingross.bsky.social), we examine how voters react to CDU candidates' varying positions on issues & firewall. 🧵
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