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Bernd Schlipphak
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Prof Research Methods | PolSci Uni Muenster | enjoys sound & transparent empirical research in #polpsych, #polcomm, #polsoc, & IR
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Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🚨 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...

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November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Our article with Erica Frantz, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Joe Wright is out in Political Behavior (open access). We show that polarization is not just a driver of democratic backsliding; it is endogenous to backsliding. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Democratic Backsliding and Endogenous Polarization - Political Behavior
Leading accounts of contemporary democratic decline emphasize the role of polarization in enabling incumbent governments to dismantle democracy from within. This study offers a fuller portrait of this...
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November 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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🎓 We’re hiring!
Two researcher / PhD positions in the ERC project DANCE – Dark Nerd Communities at the University of Münster 🇪🇺
🧮 Quantitative: survey, lab + field experiments
🎙️ Qualitative: ethnography, focus groups, interviews
Apply by 28 Nov 2025 👇
#AcademicJobs #ERC #PhD #CommunicationResearch
November 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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As the programme director of the Münster side, I handed over a present to my UT counterpart, Veronica Junjan: a German apple tree, to be planted in Dutch soil on the UT campus, symbolizing our commitment to continuing the fruitful collaboration in the future (kudos to my wife for the decoration!)
Oliver Treib schonk namens Universität Münster aan onze opleidingsdirecteur Veronica Junjan een appelboom, die symbool staat voor de vruchten die we in de toekomst nog van onze gemeenschappelijke bachelor- en masteropleidingen verwachten te plukken.
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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After the @uni-muenster.de's minibus had safely brought us to Enschede, the delegation of @ifpolms.bsky.social couldn't resist and used the UT photo frame to snap a little group pic
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.
October 13, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Methods don’t make meaning. Theory does.

Better methods won’t eradicate the slot machine.

Put the tools to the use of theory.

Thanks to @lseimpactblog.bsky.social for featuring my post.
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Quantitative political science shouldn’t favour tools over meaning - Impact of Social Sciences
Has the fetishization of quantitative tools obscured the wider context and meaning of in political science?
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November 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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🚨New INCITE-DEM webinar!

𝗘𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 - how can we make sense of complex data on democratic innovations?

📅 Wednesday, November 19th
⌚ 12:00 – 13:00 CET
🔗 Register: forms.office.com/e/0dwyEbXvMT
#incitedem #democraticinnovations #webinar
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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You know how people wait until the last minute to submit paper proposals? Well, it’s almost the last minute. Get those abstracts ready and send them in!
Looking forward to the inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social meeting in Belfast, 18–20 June 2026!

All political scientists encouraged to submit a paper. For work on public policy & administration, consider section I’m co-chairing w/ @asmusletholsen.bsky.social

⏳ 7 Nov 2025
🔗 epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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For my course on Conflict and Representation in the EU, I made an interactive Shiny app that plots CHES party positions, for all countries, years (1999-2024) and (most) dimensions in the dataset. Enjoy!
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/

#polsci #Polisky #EUsky #Comparativesky #polbehaviorsky
November 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Steffen Wamsler and I have a new paper in @ejprjournal.bsky.social !

We show that citizens who perceive their in-group to be disadvantaged express lower support for democracy and higher openness towards authoritarian alternatives!

tinyurl.com/y78hj253 @espol-lab.bsky.social @lifbi.bsky.social
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Democracy and disadvantage: How subjective group relative deprivation undermines democratic support
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October 9, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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👉 What works against right-wing extremism?

Excited to discuss this question with Tamara Ehs, Carolin Lange, Daniel Siemens, Thomas Weber & Daniel Ziblatt at Berlin’s Maxim Gorki Theater - together with German politicians and author Mely Kiyak.

🗓️ Nov 8, 7:30 pm
🔗 www.gorki.de/de/der-rat-d...
November 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Once again, it's time for anyother episode (8) of my series on "Great colleagues @ifpolms.bsky.social doing exciting (and enviable) research": @tobiasalbrecht.bsky.social does not only write important pieces like the one below, he is also a great (and fun) colleague to work with!
I have a paper out in Philosophy and Social Criticism: "Deep Disagreement as a Challenge for Democratic Education: Learning to Compromise" 🥳 - and it's open access 👇

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November 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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From our latest issue: Empowered Minipublics for Democratic Renewal? Evidence from Three Conjoint Experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland by SASKIA GOLDBERG, MARINA LINDELL, ANDRÉ BÄCHTIGER www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Empowered Minipublics for Democratic Renewal? Evidence from Three Conjoint Experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Empowered Minipublics for Democratic Renewal? Evidence from Three Conjoint Experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland - Volume 119 Issue 3
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October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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I am very pleased to share that I have been appointed Professor of Transdisciplinary Social Science at the University of Amsterdam! 🎉

www.uva.nl/shared-conte...
Matthijs Rooduijn benoemd tot hoogleraar Transdisciplinaire Sociale Wetenschap
Matthijs Rooduijn is benoemd tot hoogleraar Transdisciplinaire Sociale Wetenschap. Zijn leerstoel richt zich op de samenwerking tussen wetenschap en de samenleving aan voor democratie, polarisatie en ...
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October 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Thanks to the great help by @rstrauch.bsky.social, Gabriele Spilker and the Cluster of Excellence "The Politics of Inequality" @excinequality.bsky.social, version 5.0 of the "Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database" (coverage until 2022) is now available at mmadatabase.org!
Mass Mobilization in Autocracies Database
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October 29, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Colleagues @powimz.bsky.social are seeming lucky - not only because they start later than the rest of us, but also because, you know:

"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." (Albert Camus)
Happy Start of Term Day, German academics! #AcademicChattter
October 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Wonderful to see our paper on perceived inequality and populism at the EJPR. 👇
🆕 Perceived #Inequality and #Populism

Evidence from 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇮🇹 show that people who perceive great inequality are more likely to hold populist attitudes according to @lstoetze.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke & @heikekluever.bsky.social 🗣️

📖 #OA
Perceived inequality and populism | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Perceived inequality and populism
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October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:

#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
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October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Cool paper by @eddieyang.bsky.social, confirming our LLM hacking findings (arxiv.org/abs/2509.08825):
✓ LLMs are brittle data annotators
✓ Downstream conclusions flip frequently: LLM hacking risk is real!
✓ Bias correction methods can help but have trade-offs
✓ Use human expert whenever possible
October 21, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Die Universität Münster lädt alle Interessierten am 27. Oktober zu einem Tag der Lehre 2025 ein. Unter dem Titel „Die Lehre(n) der Zukunft: Gemeinsam forschend lernen und lehren“ können sich alle Interessierten über aktuelle und innovative Lehrkonzepte austauschen.
Universität lädt zu einem Tag der Lehre ein
Die Universität Münster lädt alle Interessierten am 27. Oktober zu einem Tag der Lehre 2025 ein. Unter dem Titel „Die Lehre(n) der Zukunft: Gemeinsam forschend lernen und lehren“ können sich alle Inte...
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October 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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New semester, new great lineup for our #InternationalStudies seminar with amazing speakers at @uni-konstanz.de

➡️ Gabriella Gricius @ggricius.bsky.social
➡️ Fabio Franchino
➡️ Livia Schubiger
➡️ Kenneth Schultz
➡️ Giorgio Malet @giorgiomalet.bsky.social
➡️ Timon Forster @timonforster.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Did you know? 🤔 We’re 100% Gold Open Access ✅

Every article we publish is peer-reviewed, high quality, and free to read from day one. 😱

This #OpenAccessWeek, dive into research you can share without barriers. 📖✨
European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
European Journal of Political Research - Alessandro Nai, Isabelle Borucki, Nicole Curato, Caterina Froio, Emilie van Haute, Airo Hino, Markus Wagner
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October 20, 2025 at 9:37 AM