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Robert A. Huber
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Professor of Political Science Methods at @unisalzburg.bsky.social‬ • Editor at @ejprjournal.bsky.social • Studies Populism and Climate Politics • Previously University of Reading and ETH Zurich • More info: www.robertahuber.com .. more

Robert Huber is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate. known for his work crystallizing an intramembrane protein important in photosynthesis and subsequently applying X-ray crystallography to elucidate the protein's structure. .. more

Environmental science 40%
Biology 18%
New position at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social, dont’t hesitate to apply if you study ecological transitions👇👇👇

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Fear, anger, and populism on Twitter/X 😡

Using machine learning on 1M UK tweets, @giulianoformisano.bsky.social, Jörg Friedrichs, Florian S. Schaffner & Niklas Stoehr seperate #Populist from #Governmentalist rhetoric and track how emotions drive #PoliticalCommunication
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Populism and governmentalism as thin-centered ideologies: Emotions and frames on social media
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As the year wraps up 🎁 EJPR is taking a short winter break 🎄

Warm wishes for a restful holiday season to our authors, reviewers, and readers!

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🍊 Fresh out!

@shimmelroos.bsky.social, Maija Jäske & Maija Setälä examine how information regarding the design features of an advisory mini-public affect the wider public's trust in the mini-public - based on the Finnish Citizens' Jury on Climate Actions organised in 2021.

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🎉 Excited to share that our article “Adopting restriction: how coalition governments respond to radical right parties” (with @fabioellger.bsky.social) has won the Gordon Smith & Vincent Wright Memorial Prize 2025 from @wepsocial.bsky.social 🏆
#OpenAccess from @epsrjournal.bsky.social -

Stable or variable distrust? Disentangling the relationship between political trust and electoral behavior - https://cup.org/4afqJn4

- @cvalebeek.bsky.social, @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social

#FirstView

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🍊 Fresh out!

Felix Bitterer & @simonkuehne.bsky.social examine why police officers in Germany hold more conservative political attitudes and how self-selection into the police force plays an important role.

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🥗 What do politicians think voters believe about #ClimatePolicy?

Ingrid Faleide & @astanordo.bsky.social show that citizens, elected officials, and public administrators all underestimate #PublicSupport for meat-free days, with elected elites misreading voters the most
Second-order beliefs among citizens, elected political elites, and unelected political elites: Insights from Norwegian climate policy | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Second-order beliefs among citizens, elected political elites, and unelected political elites: Insights from Norwegian climate policy
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we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure

www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
www.uni-frankfurt.de
🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)

We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.

✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
Postdoctoral Research Associate - International Research Training Group 2560 “Baltic Peripeties" 25/E19
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
www.uni-greifswald.de
🎉 The Gordon Smith & Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes 2025 have been awarded to @fabioellger.bsky.social & @heikekluever.bsky.social and Marie Kübler!

The full announcement can be found here:
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/journals/fwe...
The Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes
Explore the article collection: The Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prizes. Published in West European Politics.
www.tandfonline.com

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🗳️ Does negative #Campaigning work?

British 🇬🇧 experiment by Alan Duggan, Caitlin Milazzo, Harry Applestein & John Barry Ryan shows that attacks on personal traits, even if paired with positive messaging, can backfire and hurt how #Voters view the sponsor
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Personal attacks or policy debates? How voters respond to negative campaign messaging
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📢 Reminder: Submit your panel & paper proposals to the DARTS network's section at the 2026 ECPR General Conference at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, 8-11 September 2026 #ecprgc26

🎯 S09: “Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space”: ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Challenges to Representation and Democracy in a Transnational Space
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.
The 1️⃣article of our 5️⃣0️⃣Anniversary Special Issue "Debating European Politics: Advances and Perspectives" is out!🎉

"The rise of populism and the new cleavage" by Hanspeter Kriesi, describing contemporary populism is likely to be a temporary phenomen.

🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2591874
Happy to share that @ecprtheloop.bsky.social has published a blogpost summarising the key findings from my paper @wepsocial.bsky.social on how opposition party strategies relate to their performance in election polls.

Paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Blog post: shorturl.at/lLPgm
How election polls shape government-opposition conflict
Elias Koch finds that opposition parties become more confrontational towards the government when losing in the polls, and particularly when their support drops below the previous election result. But ...
theloop.ecpr.eu
📢♀️ 'Resilience in Action: A Toolkit for Feminist Strategies in Times of Backlash' is out now!

🧰⚒️ Free to use and share. May this support many of you in pushing back against backlash.

💯⚡Proud of the Push*Back*Lash team @aissr.bsky.social

⬇️👇Download here #Toolkit2
pushbacklash.eu/dissemination/
Push Back Lash - Dissemination
Cartoons You can browse and download each episode of our Cartoon Series: Let’s Design Equality Together here. Cartoons and supporting materials are available in English and an additional language depe...
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From October 2025 -

Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - cup.org/47ifc4B

"we show that educational divides are diminished in the presence of countervailing networks"

- @davidattewell6.bsky.social & @dpzollinger.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨

I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions.

Link and more information in second post.

Position Start: Fall 2026
Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! I’m extremely grateful to my colleagues and collaborators for their support and help, and very excited to start this new adventure. Looking forward to all the collaborations ahead! #ERCCoG 1/2
Die Bundesregierung ist unbeliebt, doch die AfD profitiert davon nicht: In Umfragen bewegen sich ihre Beliebtheitswerte kaum. Hat sie ihr Wählerpotenzial ausgeschöpft?
Wählerschaft der AfD: Die AfD ist vorerst am Limit
Die Bundesregierung ist unbeliebt, doch die AfD profitiert davon nicht: In Umfragen bewegen sich ihre Beliebtheitswerte kaum. Hat sie ihr Wählerpotenzial ausgeschöpft?
www.zeit.de

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Rural vs. working class? A new study shows they’re not as different as we think. 🌾🏭

Both feel cities get too much, both want more support for working people, and both back redistribution. 🤝

There’s real political potential in this shared outlook according to Marta R. Eidheim 🗳️
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters? | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Redistribution between people and places: Conflict or consensus among rural and working-class voters?
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Working on party positioning, policy complexity, or political ambiguity using text-analytic, survey-experimental, or other methods? 💡

If you still need a home for your paper at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2026, then look no further! 👇

Only 5 days left to apply! ⏰

#ecprjs26

ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
Blurring or Accident? Voluntary and Involuntary Sources of Ambiguous Party Positions and Their Consequences for Democracy
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu

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What kind of difference-in-differences studies (ideally with data available) do other #PoliticalScience folks use in teaching?

Thanks for sharing and boosting

#Diff-in-diffs
Am 10. Dezember begrüßen wir Sarah de Lange (Universität Leiden, NL) in der #Forschungswerkstatt (16 Uhr, P5). Ihr Vortrag zum Thema "Threats, intimidation, and harassment that political scientists experience in Europe" bietet sicherlich interessante Einblicke auch jenseits der Politikwissenschaft.

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populism: S. J. Turnbull-Dugarte. “Public Support for the Cordon Sanitaire: Descriptive Evidence From Spain”. In: Party Politics (Apr. 2024), p. 13540688241246141. dx.doi.org/10.1177/13540688241246141.
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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What happens when a pandemic collides with an election?🦠vs.🗳️

@celinejhonegger.bsky.social's study of Germany’s 2021 #COVID🦠 comms finds the Health Minister dodged blame and claimed wins with citizen-blaming peaking during the “emergency brake.”
When crisis meets election: Navigating blame and credit in a consensus democracy | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
When crisis meets election: Navigating blame and credit in a consensus democracy
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Why are cities and rural areas drifting apart politically? 🌄🌆

@indubioproreto.bsky.social & @lhaffert.bsky.social conducted a long-term Swiss study to find the biggest divide is amongst younger generations who hold very different views depending on where they grew up 👶 🔎
How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023) | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How generational replacement feeds the urban-rural divide: Evidence from Switzerland (1995–2023)
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📢 Very happy that my first single-authored paper found its home at @environmentalpol.bsky.social 🌱 I am beyond thankful to all the fantastic people who gave me feedback and supported me along the way! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (1/5)🧵
Everywhere you vote, you always take the weather with you: the effects of local temperature anomalies on Green party voting
Does local exposure to weather extremes and anomalies influence voting behavior? Previous research has linked extreme weather events, temperature anomalies, and attitudes toward climate change. How...
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What issues matter most to #Voters? 😬

@gefjonoff.bsky.social & @fedetrastulli.bsky.social study 6 European countries to find that different groups care about different issues--and that what people care about isn’t the same as what they think about those issues. 🧭🗳️
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Who prioritises what? Determinants and measurement of voters’ issue prioritisation
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