Markus Wagner

@markuswagner.bsky.social

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Political scientist @ University of Vienna 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇦🇹🏳️‍🌈

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Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Alexander Wuttke, Robert Huber , and 3 more Mark J. Brandt, Alexander Wuttke, Robert Huber, Erika Franklin Fowler, Markus Wagner, Matthijs Rooduijn

Isabella Rebasso @isabellareb.bsky.social · 3d

🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧵

Disentangling the Sophistication-Emotion Link: Political Interest and Confidence-in-Knowledge, but not Knowledge, Drive Emotional Responses - Political Behavior

Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others? Past work suggests that political sophistication, consisting of knowledge and interest, is related to feeling strong emotions abou...

link.springer.com

Reposted by Will Jennings, Markus Wagner

Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 4d

Some people like using our (w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social) heroes & villains paper to teach partisanship.

We've made it easier (and fun?) for students with a new online playground 🦹

doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

www.turnbulldugarte.com/heroes-playg...

Reposted by Richard McElreath, Mark Rubin, Rebecca Sear , and 6 more Richard McElreath, Mark Rubin, Rebecca Sear, Ingo Rohlfing, Markus Wagner, Johannes Breuer, Florian Keusch, Kris Hardies, Jan R. Boehnke

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5d

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?>

With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social

juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

What’s a multiverse good for anyway?

Julia M. Rohrer, Jessica Hullman, and Andrew Gelman

Multiverse analysis has become a fairly popular approach, as indicated by the present special issue on the matter. Here, we take one step back and ask why one would conduct a multiverse analysis in the first place. We discuss various ways in which a multiverse may be employed – as a tool for reflection and critique, as a persuasive tool, as a serious inferential tool – as well as potential problems that arise depending on the specific purpose. For example, it fails as a persuasive tool when researchers disagree about which variations should be included in the analysis, and it fails as a serious inferential tool when the included analyses do not target a coherent estimand. Then, we take yet another step back and ask what the multiverse discourse has been good for and whether any broader lessons can be drawn. Ultimately, we conclude that the multiverse does remain a valuable tool; however, we urge against taking it too seriously.

Reposted by Mark J. Brandt, Markus Wagner, Maria Sobolewska

Veikko Isotalo @isoveikko.bsky.social · 6d

Did you know there is an open-source framework for building Voting Advice Applications? OpenVAA (openvaa.org) offers a way to develop a VAA for any election. It is fully localisable, accessible, modular and free to use. 1/3

Reposted by David Lazer, Jon Green, Justin H. Kirkland , and 4 more David Lazer, Jon Green, Justin H. Kirkland, Scott Clifford, Markus Wagner, Jens Rydgren, Rense Corten

Jona de Jong @jonadejong.bsky.social · 7d

Do ordinary Republicans and Democrats really avoid each other in everyday life? In a new working paper with Delia Baldassarri, we present descriptive and experimental evidence to challenge the view that partisanship drives the formation of social relationships.

osf.io/preprints/so...

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Reposted by Anne Rasmussen, Robert Huber, Markus Wagner , and 8 more Anne Rasmussen, Robert Huber, Markus Wagner, Thomas M. Meyer, Will Lowe, Sven‐Oliver Proksch, Werner Krause, Federica Genovese, Claudia Landwehr, Tarik Abou‐Chadi, Roman Senninger

Melanie Sauter @melinscribe.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

Reposted by Markus Wagner

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 10d

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -

Beyond partisanship: Ideological identities and affective evaluations - https://cup.org/49PM2eq

- Ida Bæk Hjermitslev & @markuswagner.bsky.social

#FirstView

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Robert Huber, Markus Wagner , and 4 more Cas Mudde, Robert Huber, Markus Wagner, Thomas M. Meyer, Henrik Skaug Sætra, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Carolina Plescia

Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social · 17d

🚨 Job Alert!

We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”.

Start: March 1, 2026
Application deadline: February 2, 2026

Find out more👇

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

jobs.univie.ac.at

Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville, Ben Barr, Jonathan Hopkin , and 3 more Ruth Dassonneville, Ben Barr, Jonathan Hopkin, Markus Wagner, Jens Rydgren, M Josep

Evelyne Hübscher @evehubscher.bsky.social · 18d

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

Austerity and Populism

A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

www.annualreviews.org

Reposted by Markus Wagner

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 18d

NEW -

Left-Wing Governments and Far-Right Success - https://cup.org/3NpBdXI

- Albert Falcó-Gimeno, @jurado.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the surge of far-right parties in recent decades, investigating the implications when left-wing governments are in power.

Reposted by Markus Wagner, Alessandro Nai, Carolina Plescia

Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social · Jan 7

🚨Job Alert!

The Department of Government is looking for a PhD researcher with a focus on political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy or political behaviour.

Start: October 1, 2026
Deadline: January 28, 2026

Interested? Find out more: tinylink.net/CiQaE

Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville, Jochen Müller, Markus Wagner , and 2 more Ruth Dassonneville, Jochen Müller, Markus Wagner, Thomas M. Meyer, Sophie Lecheler

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · Jan 7

We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:

- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

jobs.univie.ac.at

Reposted by Daniel Ziblatt, Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller , and 10 more Daniel Ziblatt, Anna O. Law, Jan W. Mueller, David Brady, Stuart Elden, Efrén O. Pérez, Robert C. Richards, Markus Wagner, Dana R. Fisher, Federica Genovese, Pepper D. Culpepper, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Stark

Anna Grzymala-Busse @annagbusse.bsky.social · Dec 23

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend.

Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it.

sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

View of Theda Skocpol in Conversation with Edwin Amenta on Sociology, Political Science, Higher Education, and U.S. Politics | Sociologica

sociologica.unibo.it

Reposted by David M. Farrell, Dave O’Brien, Kai Arzheimer , and 7 more David M. Farrell, Dave O’Brien, Kai Arzheimer, Jason Reifler, Jane Green, Markus Wagner, Tom van der Meer, Ariadne Vromen, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Tom Louwerse

Stefan Müller @stefanmueller.bsky.social · Dec 19

Our neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members:

– Assistant Professor in Political Economy
– Assistant Professor in International Politics
– Assistant Professor in Political Science

Deadline: 15 Jan 2026
More details: jobs.tcd.ie
@tcddublin.bsky.social

Photo of Trinity College Dublin taken by Stefan Müller

Reposted by Tim Bale, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Kim Oosterlinck , and 9 more Tim Bale, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Kim Oosterlinck, Benjamin Braun, Markus Wagner, Ariadne Vromen, Isabelle Guinaudeau, Federica Genovese, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Tom Louwerse, Cyril Benoît, Mihail Chiru

Florence Faucher @ffaucher.bsky.social · Dec 19

Come and join us at the CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée: we are looking for a new assistant professor in political science working on ecological transitions.
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Recruitment - Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Political Science 2026

Recruitment 2026 - Sciences Po is recruiting two Assistant Professors (tenure track) in Political Science / Politics and Policy in/of Europe and the European Union

www.sciencespo.fr

Markus Wagner @markuswagner.bsky.social · Dec 18

Congrats!

Reposted by Thorsten Faas, Markus Wagner

Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Dec 17

🎄 Now if this isn't the perfect Christmas gift for scholars of elections! A fresh @cses.bsky.social Module 6 Advance Release for you all to analyze and explore!

Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) @cses.bsky.social · Dec 17

Announcement: The Second Advance Release of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) Module 6 dataset is now available for download! For more information, please see: cses.org/2025/12/16/m...

The Second Advance Release of CSES Module 6 is now available. Download for free at www.cses.org ... Includes 18 election studies, 17 countries/provinces, and 33,871 respondents.

Reposted by Markus Wagner, Héctor Cebolla‐Boado

Dr. Sanne van Oosten @sbvanoosten.bsky.social · Dec 17

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️

✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨

When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background?

🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅

Check it out here: 🧵

The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Perception of Names in Experimental Studies on Ethnic Origin: A Cross-National Validation in Europe

www.nature.com

Reposted by Tim Bale, Markus Wagner

Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · Dec 14

What sort of shameless headline-seeking shyster would do a poll like this...?

www.thetimes.com/article/8653...

Santa would vote Green and Scrooge would go for Reform, poll finds

Many voters see Father Christmas as a left-wing progressive who would back Zack Polanski’s party — although people tend to think he would share their own views

www.thetimes.com

Reposted by Ingo Rohlfing, Markus Wagner

Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · Dec 12

21. There was, however, one extremely positive new development, and that is the relatively new textbook by @saragoodman.bsky.social and Jennifer Cyr, a collaboration of 30+ female and non-binary scholars. ♥️

It is a breath of fresh air in the increasingly complex (U.S.) qualitative literature.

Reposted by Markus Wagner

European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Dec 11

📣 Call for #ecprgc26 Panels and Papers
🎓 Affective Polarisation in Comparative Perspective
🪑 @luanarusso.bsky.social & @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social
⌛ Deadline: 5 Jan buff.ly/AGcZGGN

#Polisky #CallforPapers #CallforPanels

Affective Polarisation in Comparative Perspective

General Conference 2026, 8 – 11 September, Jagiellonian University

buff.ly

Markus Wagner @markuswagner.bsky.social · Dec 9

Congratulations, Matthijs! Sounds exciting!

Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Anne Rasmussen, Markus Wagner , and 3 more Jürgen Maier, Anne Rasmussen, Markus Wagner, Ben Worthy, Alessandro Nai, Roman Senninger

Frederik Hjorth @fghjorth.bsky.social · Dec 4

Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky

Reposted by Robert Huber, Markus Wagner, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · Dec 4

Excited to share that I’ve been awarded a PI-Grant from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) for my project "What Citizens Think They Should and Can Do in Democracies”. The project comes with 1 PhD (co-supervised w/ a proper academic adult) and 2 RA positions + funding for interviews and surveys.

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Markus Wagner @markuswagner.bsky.social · Dec 3

Congratulations, Stuart! Looking forward to seeing the results of this!

Reposted by Ben H. Ansell, Alexander Wuttke, Efrén O. Pérez , and 2 more Ben H. Ansell, Alexander Wuttke, Efrén O. Pérez, Jacob Montgomery, Markus Wagner

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Dec 2

"The Credibility Revolution in Political Science"

osf.io/preprints/so...

Reposted by Markus Wagner

Konstantin Bogatyrev @bogatyrev.bsky.social · Dec 1

❄️ December is here, so it's a good time to plan methods training for 2026! I’ve been asked about methods schools recently, so here’s a non-authoritative list. I did my PhD in Europe, and focus on quantitative political science, so this is inevitably biased and may be outdated. Additions welcome! 🧵👇

Reposted by Gijs Schumacher, Markus Wagner

Jakob Kasper @jakobkas.bsky.social · Dec 1

Excited to share a new preprint with @bnbakker.bsky.social, @ylelkes.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Affective polarization research focuses almost exclusively on valence, despite affect having at least two core dimensions. We show that emotional arousal matters!

OSF

doi.org

Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville, Jochen Müller, Stefan Müller , and 8 more Ruth Dassonneville, Jochen Müller, Stefan Müller, Markus Wagner, Alessandro Nai, Marta Kołczyńska, Werner Krause, Katrin Weller, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Claudia Landwehr, Tarik Abou‐Chadi

theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Dec 1

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

Research Associate (Postdoc) Political Science § 28 Subsection 2 HmbHG

stellen.uni-hamburg.de

Markus Wagner @markuswagner.bsky.social · Nov 28

I hope that there will be an opportunity for the authors, ideally within the APSR, to respond to your comment.

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