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Thomas M. Meyer
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Professor of Comparative Political Institutions @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Previously @humboldtuni.bsky.social

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Thomas Meyer is a German political scientist and professor emeritus at Dortmund university.

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Political science 49%
Communication & Media Studies 18%
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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 4d
📣 Reminder: Doctoral Recruitment Call 2026 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬
Deadline: 📅2 March 2026, 14:00 CET
The University of Vienna invites applications for at least 40 fully funded, 4-year doctoral positions in the #SocialSciences, #humanities and cultural studies. #AcademicSky #univie
Find all information here: ⤵️
careers.univie.ac.at

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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

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Valentina Ausserladscheider @vapunkt.bsky.social · 12d
‼️If you are an early career researcher interested in CPE and related field and focus on Eastern Europe, the great team around @dorobohle.bsky.social at the Department of Political Science @univie.ac.at is looking for a postdoc 📣 Deadline 27.02. 📯Details here👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at

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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

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Reto Bürgisser @retobuergisser.bsky.social · 17d
⏳ 5 days left to apply!

4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
in a collegial & supportive department.

Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related.

Deadline: 28 Jan 26

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

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 9
Selbst eine Minderheitsregierung aus SPD & CDU kam in der Befragung nach der Wahl 2025 nicht so schlecht weg [befragt wurden Personen in ganz Deutschland, nicht nur Brandenburg, im Rahmen der @gles.bsky.social ]

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 9
Trotz anderer Mehrheitsverhältnisse (durch Parteiwechsel) sind diese Ergebnisse, denke ich, immer noch relevant:
Wähler*innen haben sehr unterschiedliche Vorstellungen davon, wer einen "Regierungsauftrag" erhalten hat.

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 9
Im Fall Brandenburg wird gerade oft "Wählerwille" bzgl einer Regierung bemüht, den ein Wahlergebnis vermeintlich ausdrückt.

Wie problematisch diese Idee ist, habe ich mit meinen Kolleg*innen @carolinaplescia.bsky.social & Alejandro Ecker nach den LTW-Wahlen 2024 untersucht:
tinyurl.com/3frxua8x

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 8
Just submitted a grant proposal for a (collaborative) project I really care about. 🙏

How much time will R2 need to rip it apart?😢

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 7
Far point, but I think the situation here is different from the one in Germany under the Exzellenzinitiative: We are already supervising (too?) many PhD students, the majority *without any funding*. If anything, the goal is to increase the number of funded positions in SSH compared to other subjects

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 7
A list of potential supervisors at the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences can be found here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
careers.univie.ac.at

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 7
If you consider pursuing a PhD in political science, sociology, communication, demography, cultural and social anthropology, science and technology studies, nursing science or development studies, please consider this prestigious possibility

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 7
And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...
careers.univie.ac.at

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Jan 7
📢 Great possibility to pursue a PhD @univie.ac.at : 4-year funded position with lots of flexibility and room to explore your own ideas. Supervison teams within the department, embedded in the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences. Includes a (modest) teaching load.
laurenzennser.bsky.social 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

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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

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Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · Jan 7
📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...

Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
Research associate – doctoral candidate (75%) (ID 377)
The Manifesto Project analyses parties’ election manifestos in order to study parties’ policy preferences. To this end, the project conducts conte...
wzb.hr4you.org

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Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · Dec 29
Was haben wir 2025 über Politik in Österreich gelernt?

Ein 🧵 mit 10 Publikationen aus dem abgelaufenen Jahr ...

Reposted by Thomas M. Meyer, Jens Rydgren, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

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theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · Dec 29
One week left to apply - join us in Hamburg @politikuhh.bsky.social for the next years 👋
Image of the Alster with sunny weather

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humboldtuni.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social · Dec 22
🎉 Große Anerkennung für die #HumboldtUni: Anette Eva Fasang wurde zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt. Die Auszeichnung würdigt ihre exzellente Forschung zu Demografie, Sozialstruktur sowie zur Soziologie von Familien und Lebensverläufen. Mehr dazu 👉 www.hu-berlin.de/nachrichten/...
Porträt von Anette Eva Fasang, die freundlich in die Kamera blickt. Sie trägt ein helles Oberteil vor einem neutralen, grauen Hintergrund; das Bild ist sachlich und professionell ausgeleuchtet.

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Dec 17
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...
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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Dec 6
Yet another low and yet another reason to boycott the FIFA World championship (again).
rsenninger.bsky.social Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Dec 5
Trump getting a Peace Prize from FIFA: corruption recognizes talent.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Dec 5
Trump getting a Peace Prize from FIFA: corruption recognizes talent.

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Dec 4
Amazing!🎉 Esp knowing how difficult that is in 🇦🇹

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Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · Nov 25
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Nov 24
You're right. That was in October 24. Even worse...

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Nov 24
Just learned that Holger Döring retired from ParlGov in October.

If I'm not misreading his message, then this great resource will not be updated anymore 🖤

parlgov.org/2024/10/01/r...
Retiring from ParlGov - ParlGov project
parlgov.org

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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · Nov 24
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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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Nov 10
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

1/4 🧵

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Nov 6
We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University
www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Nov 3
Zu coalition governance und der Zuordnung von Staatssekretär*innen kommt man in dem Seminar vermutlich auch noch