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Magda Breyer
@mabreyer.bsky.social
Postdoc political science | University of Basel | Political behavior, social status & class, gender | she/her

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Im Podcast Unibâle von @primenewsbasel.bsky.social spreche ich über die Auswirkungen von Hass im Netz auf die politischen Ambitionen von jungen Frauen und Männern.
Neues Jahr, neuer Podcast! 💁‍♀️🎧

Dr. Daniel Höhmann spricht mit PrimeNews über Hass im Netz, Sexismus und warum junge Frauen aus der Politik gedrängt werden.

Ein wirklich cooles Interview, schnapp Dir Deine Kopfhörer und die letzten Weihnachtskekse 🎅🍪 und hör rein!😁

primenews.ch/articles/202...
Unibâle: Hass im Netz drängt junge Frauen aus der Politik
Der Unibasel-Politologe Daniel Höhmann sagt, laut seiner Studie sind Politikerinnen von SVP und SP am stärksten betroffen.
primenews.ch
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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🥳 New year, new publication

📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social

With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.
January 7, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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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
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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For the Guardian, @jonhenley.bsky.social reports on our new research briefs on the politics of housing. Current policies too often treat housing as an asset. Housing as a social right has nearly disappeared from the agenda of even progressive parties.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
European progressives must tackle housing crisis to beat far right, say researchers
Centre left can win broad support by addressing soaring house prices and rents, according to data analysis
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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🔔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
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...
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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"But the SVP is different":

I hear this often, especially compared to A/fD.

But 2024 data confirm different story: programmatically, the overlaps are strikingly close.
The real difference is govt participation, not ideology.

And yet, many still label the SVP as a center-right ("bürgerlich") party
November 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Paper proposals for the @ecpr.bsky.social Joint Sessions, taking place in beautiful Innsbruck, April 7-10 2026, are now open. If you're working on an exciting gender paper using quants methods, please apply to our workshop: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... @mtplk.bsky.social @sgparliaments.bsky.social
Events
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 5, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social

𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭
21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET

@alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions.

👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...
PhD Prep Talk: Switzerland
Meet an EUI Researcher and alumnus from your country​!
www.eui.eu
November 5, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Mit WDR 3 Resonanzen habe ich heute über die Aussagen von Friedrich Merz gesprochen, darüber wie sein Kurs die radikale Rechte normalisiert und stärkt und warum er vielleicht mal öfter mit jungen Frauen sprechen sollte.

www1.wdr.de/mediathek/au...
Konservativer Anti-Migrationskurs befeuert die AfD
Wenn konservative Kräfte die Narrative von Rechtspopulisten übernehmen, hilft das den Rechts-Außen-Parteien statt sie zu schwächen. Das zeigt die EU-weite Forschung des Politologen Tarik Abou-Chadi.
www1.wdr.de
October 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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🗣️ Our new study in @jwpp.bsky.social shows that online abuse on social media discourages young women from pursuing political offices—before their actual political careers have even begun.

With @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and Tomoko Latteier

#GenderSky

👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
An Early Leak in the Pipeline – Online Abuse as a Barrier for Young Women’s Political Engagement
To what extent does online abuse on social media platforms obstruct an equal representation of women and men in politics? We investigate the frequency, character, and consequences of online abuse a...
www.tandfonline.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Mehr Sozialstaat und eine "antifaschistische Wirtschaftspolitik" werden häufig als Mittel gegen den AfD-Erfolg genannt. Doch was ist dran an der These & welche Sozialpolitik wünschen sich die AfD-Wähler tatsächlich? Eine Datenanalyse von @schieritz.bsky.social und mir.

www.zeit.de/politik/deut...
Sozialpolitik: Wer wenig hat, ist in ihren Augen selbst schuld
Mehr Sozialstaat könnte den Aufstieg der Rechtspopulisten bremsen, heißt es oft. Umfragen zeigen aber: Die Wähler der AfD verstehen unter Gerechtigkeit etwas anderes.
www.zeit.de
September 16, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!
NEW -

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ

- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
September 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Autoritäre Kräfte schränken Frauenrechte gezielt ein.

👉 Wie wird Antifeminismus als politisches Mittel eingesetzt?

👉 Und warum unterstützen auch Frauen Akteure, die ihre Rechte angreifen?

@mabreyer.bsky.social
‪@sarahbuetikofer.bsky.social

www.polit-forum-bern.ch/veranstaltun...
Wie die Demokratie wehrhaft bleibt! - Polit-Forum Bern
Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit sind weltweit bedroht. Immer mehr Menschen leben in Ländern, in denen demokratische Errungenschaften wie Meinungsfreiheit, Gewaltenteilung und Menschenrechte eingesc...
www.polit-forum-bern.ch
August 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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NEW -

The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - cup.org/44rcdVW

- @dweisstanner.bsky.social & @saengler.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
July 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Another piece on candidate selection of mine is forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social : Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR” (doi.org/10.1086/734244)
Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on.

A quick 🧵:
June 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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If you happen to have capacity for an extra first-time attendee do drop me a DM. :)
Thanks to all who signed up!

We received 100+ requests. We do have more first-time attendees than buddies.

If you signed up as a buddy (and my script works...) you will now have received an email with the details of the attendee we matched you with :)

Please do check your spam 🤓
You've (probably) got mail! ✉️

Heading to #EPSA2025 in Madrid?

Consider signing up to our buddy/mentor scheme that the diversity committee has set up to help first-time attendees navigate Europe's biggest political science conference

Questions? Send them over to @alonadolinsky.com or me 🙂
June 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Can government policies moderate political backlash to structural change?

Yes, the effect operates through material benefits and social recognition.

🚨New WP by @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, @thmskrr.bsky.social and @susanadptavares.bsky.social 🚨

shorturl.at/zFbZE
June 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Looking forward to an exciting workshop 'Inequality and the politics of class in the 21st century' at the ECPR Joint Sessions in Prague 🏰, co-organized by @peterla.bsky.social and me: ⬇️
May 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Thrilled to see my 1st PhD paper out in #PartyPolitics! Based on ~15000 posts by 86 German subnat. parties (2015-2019), Simon Franzmann & I show that dominant & challenger parties differ in the use of policy-based vs symbolic & positive vs negative appeals.

🔓:
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
May 13, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🚨3-Year Postdoc Position in Zurich @ipz.bsky.social

❓Political implications of labor market transformation

Plenty of flexibility, no teaching obligations, great research environment in an highly livable city.

Deadline: May 18, 2025.

tinyurl.com/postdoczurich

#polisky #poliscijobs #psjminfo
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April 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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What are the political consequences of long-term population loss? In a new paper for German Politics @benjaminhoehne.bsky.social, Hendrik Träger and I find that East German places more affected by depopulation provided stronger support for the AfD in recent state elections.🧵👇
shorturl.at/cujwa
April 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM