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Endre Borbáth
@eborbath.bsky.social
💼 Assistant Prof. for Participation Research @uniheidelberg.bsky.social
🧐 PI, The New Climate Divide (Emmy Noether)
🧳 Guest @wzb.bsky.social
🔬 Parties • Movements • Participation • Climate Politics
📈 Quant Methods
🇪🇺 Western, Central & Eastern EU
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📢 I’m over the moon to share that my Emmy Noether project, The New Climate Divide will be supported by
@dfgpublic.bsky.social
!✨
It includes a 6-year postdoc position and two 4-year PhD positions, which I’ll be advertising soon. If ClimateDivide sounds intriguing, stay tuned! 👀
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NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

Brand Transformation in #European #Politics: The Rise and Limits of #Nonclassical #Names

By @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1017/S153...
December 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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This is a fantastic dataset for studying the evolution of political attitudes and party preferences in Germany.

Here's a mosaic plot of vote choices in 2025 by vote choices in 2021 (as reported back then).

One striking observation is the high volatility behind the overall gains of the Left Party.
December 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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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
December 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social.

A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:
December 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Heute vor 4 Jahren ist der große #Politikwissenschaft ler Klaus von #Beyme gestorben.
Wir gedenken seiner wieder mit einer Vorlesung an der @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, diesmal am 15. Januar, 18 Uhr in der Aula. Sprecherin: Prof. @andrearoemmele.bsky.social von der @hertieschool.bsky.social.
December 6, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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This is an interesting paper.

I continue to sense that we as a field have concluded, either you have an identification strategy as defined here, or you don’t have a valid causal claim. And that is really not true.
"The Credibility Revolution in Political Science"

osf.io/preprints/so...
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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When and why protests reinforce institutional politics on the far right? "Protests of the Far Right" ed. with @pietrocastellig.bsky.social & @andreapirro.it is under contract @oxfordunipress.bsky.social with a terrific lineup of contributors who helped us covering & comparing 14 countries.
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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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
December 1, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Studienzeit - Fadenzeit. Erst gilt das angesichts der historischen Bedeutung des heutigen Tages, denn heute vor genau 53 Jahren fand die erste vorgezogene Bundestagswahl EVER statt. Noch dazu waren erstmals auch 18-, 19- u 20-Jährige dabei. Grund genug für eine Jugendwahlstudie zur BTW25.
November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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New publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?
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
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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The next green electoral wave in Europe will be powered by housing grievances. May this be one way in which European Greens shed some of their endemic NIMBYism.
Keeping a roof over our heads is getting expensive.

This affects everything: the cost of living expensive, savings & creates stress about making ends meet.

The next generation depends on us to fight the housing crisis.
🇪🇺 The EU must step up and tackle this.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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I wish more schools had money to organize book workshops. I have attended one today that was intellectually so stimulating. As any good book workshop, it will not only make the manuscript that was being discussed better, but it will make the future work of all the participants better.
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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‼️Last chance to submit your paper or panel proposal to EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is TODAY!

Don’t miss out - it will be full of great political science and fun social events! 👩‍🏫🥳

epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨

Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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The mobilising effect of grievances outweighs the demobilising effect of scarce resources, and contradicts widespread assumptions about the limited electoral benefits of representing precarious workers www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Precarity and political protest
How does precarity in the labour market affect political engagement? Considering the negative impact of unemployment and atypical employment on turnout, existing research suggests that precarity de...
www.tandfonline.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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If you know anyone considering doing a PhD in political science or sociology, encourage them to apply to the EUI PhD program and join the institute's landmark 50th cohort of PhD researchers in the SPS Department! Applications from Central and Eastern Europe are particularly welcome!
🚨 Applications Now Open for the EUI PhD Programmes 2026-2027!

📊 Economics |⚖️ Law |📘 History | 🏛 Political and Social Sciences

Join the EUI's 50th PhD cohort!

Apply by 15 January 2026 (14:00 CET) for the academic journey of a lifetime! 👉: eui.eu/phd

#EUIPhD #PhDOpportunity
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🚨We’re hiring! The Max Weber Institute in beautiful Heidelberg seeks a W3 Professor of Sociology (focus: sociological theory) who connects well with the department’s focus on comparative sociology adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Happy to answer any questions! #Sociology #socsky
Stellenausschreibungen an der Universität Heidelberg
Infosystem der ZUV
adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de
October 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]
October 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Today is the day 🎁

The #dsa regime for researchers to get access to platform data to study societal impact and risks starts TODAY.

This has been a loooooong time coming. And the proof of the pudding will be in the eating …

#dataaccess #commsky

digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/new-...
New measures unlock access to data from largest online platforms to support research
As of today, new rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA) will allow researchers to gain unprecedented access to very large online platforms' data to study the societal impact stemming from the plat...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Next week my partner, Lenka Vrablikova, will become a liver donor to her identical twin Katka. They are raising money to cover the costs this life-saving surgery . Please donate if you are able to:

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-katka...
October 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!
🏆 Der #DVPW #Dissertationspreis 2025 wird geteilt und geht an Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social und Julian Michel @julianpolsci.bsky.social!

Beide Arbeiten leisten einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erforschung der #Stabilität von #Demokratie.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳
October 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Our recent paper on civil society and cleavage formation (w @eborbath.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social) was featured in the Research-in-Brief series at @stanfordcddrl.bsky.social. Check out their summary of the project here 😊 cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/news/civil-s...
Civil Society, Cleavages, and Political Parties in Western Europe
CDDRL Research-in-Brief [4-minute read]
cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu
October 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Analysis of references between 1990 to 2024 shows that there is a decline in book referencing (52% to 28%) in polsci journals 😮

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
From Bookworm to Browser: The Decline of Books in Political Science Scholarship | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core
From Bookworm to Browser: The Decline of Books in Political Science Scholarship
www.cambridge.org
October 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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We see this with the Gen Z protests too: politicisation lowers participation
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM