Anna Kurella

(PDF) Harnessing GPT for Enhanced Academic Writing: Evidence from a Field Experiment with Early-Career Researchers in the Social Sciences PDF | Large Language Models (LLMs) bring both risk and opportunity to scholarly communication, yet their effects on expert‐level research remain... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...

❗ Hier das working paper zu diesem Thema von Marc Ratkovic, Thomas Gschwend, @wendering.bsky.social, Kevin Bauer, @annakurella.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann, @melinscribe.bsky.social, @nschwitter.bsky.social:

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How do elites view ideology? Analysing candidates’ associations of left and right Political ideology is a fundamental aspect of politics and a well-researched area of political science, but difficult to measure. By examining the sentiment of political elites’ associations with ‘...

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I AM HIRING 2 postdocs (5 years) in my @erc.europa.eu project "The Politics of the Latent Educational Cleavage" at @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!

German call: www.fb03.uni-frankfurt.de/170856927.pdf
English call: www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/170858269.pdf

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Exciting news: as I’ve started a new chapter as an assistant professor at Leibniz Universität Hannover, my postdoc position at MZES is now open!

It’s a fantastic opportunity for recent PhDs: wonderful colleagues, excellent research infrastructure, and plenty of time to develop your own ideas.

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...

Abstract of the paper "How education, generation and gender jointly structure green and radical right voting" by Armin Schäfer and Nils D. Steiner. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying the voting for a green party by cohort and education.

Figure 2, displaying predicted probabilities and marginal effects of voting for a green party.

@arminschaefer.bsky.social & @nilssteiner.bsky.social:
👉Educational gaps have widened across cohorts
👉Concerning the greens, especially among women
👉Cleavage crystallizes with generational replacement
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"
#PoliSky #AcademicSky

Abstract of the article "Unfolding GAL-TAN: the multi-dimensional nature of public opinion in Western Europe" by Anna-Sophie Kurella and Milena Rapp. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 1, displaying the average structuring strength of latent conflicts across regions (north, central west, south).

@annakurella.bsky.social & @milenarapp.bsky.social show that public opinion on new cultural policy issues is not strongly aligned with preferences on traditional economic & moral policies.

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Part of forthc. SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again).

"The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties.

#BTW25 #GermanElection

This has been true for the entire existence of the AfD, but it is worth emphasizing again and again: Among German voters, the AfD is the most unpopular party.

"Grüne und AfD sind die neuen Pol-Parteien" Selbst im Wahlkampf ist es nicht immer leicht, die Unterschiede zwischen den Parteien zu erkennen. Doch es gibt sie. Vor allem bei Themen wie Migration und Klima nimmt die Polarisierung zu, sagt die P...

Ich habe mit ntv über die Positionen der Parteien im aktuellen Wahlkampf gesprochen – von der Rolle von Wirtschaft, Immigration und Klimapolitik bis zum GAL-TAN-Cleavage. Und zum Schluss gab es noch einen Exkurs zum Chaos-Theorem!
www.n-tv.de/politik/Grue...

131 Politikwissenschaftler haben im Open Expert Survey 2025 die Positionen der Parteien zu wichtigen Themen eingeschätzt. Im Vergleich zum OES21 ist vor allem die Wichtigkeit von Migrationspolitik gestiegen.
Einen ausführlicheren Blick & die Pre-Release-Daten gibt es hier: oes25.de/OES25prerele...

Measurement Makes Communicating Political Science Hard Imagine you are a political practitioner for a social democratic party.

Why would the CDU accommodate AfD policies, despite a plethora of research telling them not to?
My brilliant friend @philswatton.bsky.social wrote a fantastic, easy to understand piece on measurement: dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com/p/measuremen...

Party-Check Wie stark stimmen Sie mit den Parteien vor der Bundestagswahl überein? Finden Sie es mit Party-Check heraus!

Zur Bundestagswahl 2025 habe ich mit @pluggedchris.bsky.social, @annakurella.bsky.social
und @jocmuel.bsky.social das Tool #PartyCheck auf Basis der OES 2025 Parteipositionen entwickelt. Nach 15 Fragen bekommt ihr einen Match. Schaut doch mal rein! party-check.org

This supports Riker’s idea of heresthetics and issue entrepreneurship theory, but at the same time demonstrates that there is stability in real-world political competition.

Thus, I developed a model in which parties compete by taking position in a two-dimensional space and by simultaneously allocating their issue emphasis optimally. The results demonstrate that equilibria exist, and that they tend to be unique.

With this paper I seek to address a persistent gap in the formal literature on political competition: We know a lot about parties’ equilibrium policy positions, but not much about equilibrium salience levels.

New Article, open access!

doi.org/10.1177/0951...

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

I’m looking for a postdoc to join my Emmy Noether project on the New Climate Divide! 🌍

🔍 It is a 3-year position with a likely extension for another 3 years & no teaching obligations

📄 Check out the job call: uni-heidelberg.de/md/politik/p...

Thanks for sharing! 🤝

Thanks Roi!

Our formal and empirical results show that increasing issue salience only leads to vote gains if the party holds a competitive advantage: being moderately positioned on the economic left-right dimension, while taking a unique but not too extreme position on its core issue.

The role of issue salience and competitive advantages in spatial models of political competition | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

Super happy to finally find this paper with @milenarapp.bsky.social on @thejop.bsky.social website! We analyze under what conditions far right parties benefit electorally from increasing importance of immigration issues/ green parties benefit from increasing importance of environmental issues.

A screenshot of the call for applications.

🚨 CfA: MZES-DVPW Conference "Methods of Political Science"

🗓️ Mannheim, Mar 27-28, 2025

⏰ Deadline: Dec 16, 2024

🔗Apply via sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/mzes-dvpw-me...

@gessler.bsky.social, @aleininger.bsky.social, @hannahrajski.bsky.social, Oliver Rittmann & I look forward to your submissions!

How Important is European Integration for Pro-European Voters in Times of Politicization? - Politische Vierteljahresschrift The increasing success of Eurosceptic parties and multiple European crises have fostered the politicization of European integration. However, we know little about how pro-European voters behave in thi...

Very happy to see my first solo-authored paper published! I show that pro-European voters are increasingly considering European issues in their voting decisions. However, they still do so to a much lesser extent than Eurosceptic voters. Open access available: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Use this link for free access authors.elsevier.com/a/1iIWfxRaZg...

Combining voter preferences with party position estimates from different sources for studying voting... Researchers interested in policy voting and substantive representation face the challenge to combine party positions with voter preference data on a c…

New paper, together with @milenarapp.bsky.social : We discuss how voter preference data can be combined with party position estimates from expert surveys or manifesto data, and provide a rescaling technique to improve the fit. Hope this is useful for many!  www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Most positions for postdocs on European social research at the MZES!! 👉 Check out our 3-6yr fellowship on European societies + integration tinyurl.com/ycd6wxn7 and our 2yr fellowships tinyurl.com/2vaxwmht. 📅 Deadline for both 22 Dec 2023 polisky #sociology #socialpsyc