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Clint Claessen
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Political Science Postdoc // University of Salzburg // INCONEX // Party Leaders // part of the TaDa Reading Group - tada.cool // www.clintclaessen.com
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Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · Jun 2
Some personal news! 🗞️

Today is my first day @unisalzburg.bsky.social as a postdoc in the INCONEX project sites.google.com/view/inconex with the wonderful @lucykinski.bsky.social! I’m very excited to start. Hmu if you’re in Salzburg :)
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stefanmueller.bsky.social
Connected_Politics Lab Seminars, Spring Trimester ⤵️

- 28 Jan: @jessicadicocco.bsky.social
– 11 Feb: Akitaka Matsuo
– 25 Feb: @malojan.bsky.social, @luissattelmayer.bsky.social, and Noémie Piolat
– 4 Mar: @vivifabrien.bsky.social
– 1 Apr: @elisaadamico.bsky.social
– 15 Apr: @miriamsorace.bsky.social
Overview of seminar series, details available at: https://www.ucd.ie/connected_politics/events/
January 21, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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leoniedejonge.bsky.social
🍿 If you’re looking to understand what’s happening inside the Dutch far right, today is a great day to read this paper in
@epsrjournal.bsky.social on the evolution of populist radical right party organization in the Netherlands. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 20, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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mikecowburn.bsky.social
🚨🎉 New Publication! 🎉🚨
January 5, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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richroll.bsky.social
This week, I'm joined by Rutger Bregman, Dutch historian and the guy who went viral telling Davos billionaires to pay their taxes.

We explore why so many of us feel stuck, unfulfilled, or disconnected from purpose, and how to redirect our talent toward what actually matters.

Episode 955✌🏼🌱
December 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
clint0475.bsky.social
Last day to sign up! 👇
clint0475.bsky.social Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · Dec 1
🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)!

We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome!

👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop

@erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation
December 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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jbgruber.bsky.social
I posted it here before, but @favstats.eu and I wrote an entry about LLMs in the encyclopedia below 👇

Final version is out now at www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Or read the preprint: doi.org/10.31219/osf...
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
clint0475.bsky.social
Happening Tomorrow! 👇
nicolaiberk.bsky.social Nicolai Berk @nicolaiberk.bsky.social · Dec 5
Our next #TADA session is just around the corner! 🚨

We are absolutely delighted to welcome Ju Yeon (Julia) Park, who will present her paper: "Toward a framework for creating trustworthy measures with supervised machine learning for text."

📅 Wed., Dec. 10, 17:00-18:00 (Berlin)

More info: tada.cool
TADA RG
TADA ✨ Initiative
tada.cool
December 9, 2025 at 5:37 PM
clint0475.bsky.social
Can really recommend this! @fabianhabersack.bsky.social is a fantastic JS host!
fabianhabersack.bsky.social Fabian Habersack @fabianhabersack.bsky.social · Dec 5
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
December 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
clint0475.bsky.social
Happening this week! 👇
clint0475.bsky.social Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · Dec 1
🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)!

We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome!

👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop

@erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation
December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:
Money Doesn't Buy Elections. It Does Something Worse.
Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.
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December 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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nicolaiberk.bsky.social
Our next #TADA session is just around the corner! 🚨

We are absolutely delighted to welcome Ju Yeon (Julia) Park, who will present her paper: "Toward a framework for creating trustworthy measures with supervised machine learning for text."

📅 Wed., Dec. 10, 17:00-18:00 (Berlin)

More info: tada.cool
TADA RG
TADA ✨ Initiative
tada.cool
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
clint0475.bsky.social
🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)!

We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome!

👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop

@erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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dpltr22.bsky.social
🚨Publication Alert!
My first first-author publication with @msaeltzer.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social is out in @polbehavior.bsky.social, which began as my bachelor's thesis. We study how party polarization shapes affective polarization—with a particularly important role of the AfD. (1/7)🧵
Cover page of the article. "Affective States: Cultural and Affective Polarization in a Multilevel-Multiparty System" by Dylan Paltra, Marius Sältzer and Christian Stecker. "Affective Polarization—the growing mutual dislike among partisan groups—has been identified as a major concern in democracies. Although both economic and cultural ideological divides contribute to ideological polarization, their affective consequences can differ. This paper argues that cultural polarization becomes especially consequential when mobilized by far-right parties. Using data from 116 elections in Germany’s 16 states (1990-2023), we combine more than 550 state-level manifestos with more than 150,000 survey responses to examine how party polarization translates into voter affect. Our analyses show that both economic and cultural polarization increase affective divides, but cultural disagreements fuel hostility only in the presence of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Acting as a cultural entrepreneur, the AfD amplifies the emotional impact of cultural divisions such as immigration, employing affective rhetoric and provoking strong rejection from other parties and voters. These findings highlight the catalytic role of far-right parties in transforming ideological competition into affective polarization."
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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sceus.bsky.social
🎙️ Listen now to the latest episode of our students' podcast, where they interviewed @lucykinski.bsky.social (project leader) and @clint0475.bsky.social (project assistant) about their INCONEX project funded by the @erc.europa.eu

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Podcast: buff.ly/Wui0qo9
Project website: buff.ly/ulzMTmf
Next Generation SCEUS • A podcast on Spotify for Creators
Welcome to Next Generation SCEUS, the podcast where we make the European Union a little less confusing and a lot more fun for (E)U! From quirky laws to the latest political drama, we dive into the…
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December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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lucykinski.bsky.social
Happy to have been part of this episode with @clint0475.bsky.social talking all things INCONEX, but also about the EU, what it means to be a political scientist these days, how AI will shape how we teach, and much more. Take a listen! 👂👇
December 1, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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nathaliegiger.bsky.social
🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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bschlipphak.bsky.social
Beside listening to the podcast, you should really read the full paper - the environmental costs are only one of the paper's punchlines. Plus: it is written in a very accessible way. Kudos to the authors, @seanhp.bsky.social, @isaacbravo.bsky.social & @clint0475.bsky.social!

osf.io/download/vwb5h
November 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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cklamm.bsky.social
🚨 Join us next Wednesday (🗓️ Nov 26, 🕔 5pm Berlin time) for an exciting session 🥳. @khaoulache.bsky.social will present co-authored work on "Beyond the Safety Bundle: Auditing the Helpful and Harmless Dataset".

If you'd like to join, please sign up for the mailing TADA.cool or send us a message.
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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mabreyer.bsky.social
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Abstract It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Happening Today! 👇
clint0475.bsky.social Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · Nov 8
Next Wednesday, we are very excited to have
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
November 12, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Happening this Wednesday!👇
clint0475.bsky.social Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · Nov 8
Next Wednesday, we are very excited to have
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
November 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
clint0475.bsky.social
Next Wednesday, we are very excited to have
@joachimbaumann.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work on "Large Language Model Hacking: Quantifying the Hidden Risks of Using LLMs for Text Annotation". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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verenakunz.bsky.social
Next Wednesday, we're excited to welcome @lexipalmer.bsky.social, who will present co-authored work with @cbarrie.bsky.social and Arthur Spirling on "Replication for Language Models: Problems, Principles, and Best Practices for Political Science". Paper and information on how to join ⬇️
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October 24, 2025 at 9:05 AM
clint0475.bsky.social
Last Saturday, I had the privilege to present our project’s work at the CSS section of the @psaireland.bsky.social in Galway: “Between presence and absence: social classes and vulnerable groups in parliamentary debates.” - I’d like to thank @alonadolinsky.com for her amazing feedback on the paper!
October 20, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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sceus.bsky.social
‼️Reminder - only five days left to apply for the job as a student assistant for @lucykinski.bsky.social! Don't miss your chance!
sceus.bsky.social Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies (SCEUS) @sceus.bsky.social · Oct 9
📣 Apply now as a student assistant (BA or MA level) to join @lucykinski.bsky.social 's INCONEX project in Salzburg as soon as possible!

❗ Apply until 20 October 2025❗

ℹ️ More information at www.inconex.eu and in our Linktree
October 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM