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European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger
@politicsunisaar.bsky.social
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European Politics at Saarland University | Empirical EUropean Studies | Comparative Politics | with an interest in Computational Social Science
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And another job ad: We're looking for four student assistants! #hiring
December 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Job ad: The city of Saarbrücken is currently searching for applicants familiar with the field of #InternationalRelations. Find out more:
Mitarbeiterin/Mitarbeiter im Bereich „Internationale Beziehungen“
stellenangebote.saarbruecken.de
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Our new #PoliSci study shows how randomized response techniques can reveal hard-to-measure lobbying influence inside German parliaments. A cautious but promising step toward studying sensitive political behavior more directly.

Learn more:
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Studying honest answers to sensitive issues in politics New evidence on lobbying influence
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November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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We are looking for a teamlead for our large-scale project SOUNDS!

#compsocsci #PoliSky #PoliSci #hiring #JobAlert
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November 18, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Watch our latest #PoliSci talk at TEDx "Wie bekommen wir mehr Bevölkerung in die Politik?" (in German) where Prof Braun discusses declining voter turnout, growing polarisation and loss of trust as well as potential solutions.
Wie bekommen wir mehr Bevölkerung in die Politik? | Daniela Braun | TEDxSaarbrigge
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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November 17, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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This year we hosted the German #PoliSci Association's annual conference. Read up on some of the results in our newest publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
“Citizen’s trust and societal polarization in times of transformation” - Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft -
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November 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Send us a video of max 3 minutes about your vision of democracy before 9 November 2025 and win a trip to Brussels 🇧🇪 to the #ActEU final conference (and add another line to your CV!) 🏆

Find out more about the contest, the questions and the requirements 👉 tinyurl.com/ActEUContest
October 27, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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How do culture and ideology shape #AI, and how does AI shape them?

Join our #PoliSci talk on how values are embedded, contested, and signaled in generative AI systems, and what this means for the politics of AI.

Learn more: www.uni-saarland.de/en/chair/bra...
Dr. Pascal König „From tech wars to tech culture wars? “Value shaping” and “value signaling” in AI system design and governance“ As Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly sophisticated in emulating human communication and expressing social values, they also gain greater relevance for questions of culture and identity. This makes it important to take seriously the role of culture in AI in its own right. This article conceptualizes and illustrates major ways in which this value dimension becomes salient and provides an overview of conflicts over embedding culture and political ideology into generative AI systems. Besides an unintentional incorporation of values into AI, governments and businesses intentionally shape the values of AI systems – leading to tensions within and between societies and both on the level of AI system design and governance. Governments and businesses furthermore engage in value signaling as the open recognition of the fact that certain social values and political ideas are embedded in AI systems. These developments add an important facet to the politics of AI.
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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When a government is seen as fair & trustworthy, people feel included & actively participate in politics 👉 #ActEU Scientific Lead Daniela Braun explores this connection in our recent #TEPSAExplainer

🔗 youtu.be/r_8oudinAtk
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October 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Why does political #legitimacy matter in a democracy? ➡ Here is #ActEU Daniela Braun's answer 👏

Watch the full #TEPSAExplainer on YouTube 🔗 youtu.be/r_8oudinAtk
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September 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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The widespread acceptance of a government's authority by its people is key for a healthy democratic system 👉 #ActEU Scientific Lead Daniela Braun tells us more about the importance of political #legitimacy in her recent explainer ⬇️
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September 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Digital technologies reshape politics & religion alike — but how do European politicians reference religion online?

Our #PoliSci study together with @davidschweizer.bsky.social & Eva-Maria Euchner examines EP candidates’ X (Twitter) profiles in 🇩🇪🇸🇪🇳🇱🇬🇧. Read more:
Frontiers | Is secular–religious party competition moving online? Digital religious profiles of candidates running for the European Parliament
New digital technologies alter various societal spheres, including the landscape of religion and politics. “Christianity influencers,” faith tweets, digital ...
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September 23, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Was #climate policy central in the 2024 European election campaign – and how divided were parties along left-right lines?

Find out in our #PoliSci study by Daniela Braun, Djamila Jabra & @janpollex.bsky.social:
Climate Change and Political Parties: Higher Salience and More Diversification Over Climate Change in the 2024 EP Elections?
The EU faced several crises during the Parliament’s last term, notably the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. However, advanced by the new Commission President von der Ley...
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September 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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🤝 Political trust is fundamental for representative democracy 👉 but what makes a government legitimate? And why does legitimacy matter?

Find out in our latest #TEPSAexplainer with #ActEU Daniela Braun 🔗 youtu.be/r_8oudinAtk
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What makes a government LEGITIMATE? | Daniela Braun
YouTube video by Trans European Policy Studies Association (TEPSA)
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September 18, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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We compared #EU issues' salience in the 2019 & 2024 EP elections and found out: Mainstream parties turned more negative on EU policies, while Eurosceptics became somewhat less negative on the EU polity.

Read more in our #PoliSci publication: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/qo...
Party competition on European issues in the 2024 EP elections | Italian Journal of Electoral Studies (IJES)
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September 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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We are looking for a project manager for our large-scale project SOUNDS!

Learn more: bit.ly/SOUNDS-Manager

#compsocsci #PoliSky #PoliSci #hiring #JobAlert
September 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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#InternationalDayOfDemocracy
Today, we celebrate the International Day of Democracy. We take a look at the development of democracy in the world over the past 80 years, by visualizing the V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index (LDI), using the heat map graphing tool.
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The mage shows a heat map graph of the V-Dem Liberal Democracy Index for the years 1945 to 2024. The graph shows the number of countries, indicated by color, scoring from low to high on the Liberal Democracy Index for each year in the period.
September 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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How do different types of regional organizations react to current challenges and crises? Find out in our #PoliSci publication together with @lisa-h-anders.bsky.social & Alexander Libman which explores this question by bringing together contributions from EU studies and comparative regionalism.
Crises, Adaptation, and Resilience—Exploring Crises Responses of Regional Organizations from the Perspective of EU Studies and Comparative Regionalism - Politische Vierteljahresschrift
How do different types of regional organizations react to current challenges and crises? This special issue of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift explores this question by bringing together contribut...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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🤔 What is 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒔, and why does it matter for the future of representative democracies?

If you haven’t yet explored the latest 📖 publication by Georg Wenzelburger, now is the perfect time. Start your week with some fresh #PROTEMO insights www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... ✨
September 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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✨ #PROTEMO in 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 journal!

Georg Wenzelburger from @uni-saarland.de has published 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐠𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲: 𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚.

Read it here ➡️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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September 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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29 Mio. Euro Förderung für das Kompetenzzentrum SOUNDS:
Ziel der Forschungsstelle ist es, Informatik und Sozialwissenschaften zusammenzubringen, um gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen datenbasiert zu analysieren.

Mehr dazu: www.uni-saarland.de/aktuell/gese...

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Millionenförderung des Landes: Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft mit neuen Datenquellen analysieren
Satellitenbilder, soziale Medien oder Barcode-Scanner in Geschäften bieten einen reichen Datenschatz, der bisher in den Sozialwissenschaften noch wenig genutzt wird. Neue KI-gestützte Methoden helfen ...
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September 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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💥New study with Daniela Braun @politicsunisaar.bsky.social in dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management @barbarabudrich.bsky.social:

Who engages with environmental issues in a multi-level system? An exploratory analysis of German parties’ issue emphasis
Abstract of the article "Who engages with environmental issues in a multi-level system? An exploratory analysis of German parties’ issue emphasis" by Daniela Braun and Martin Gross. Published in dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift für Public Policy, Recht und Management 18 (1): 162-184.
September 1, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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The amount of data available is greater than ever, yet remains mostly unused by social scientists & #PoliSci researchers. The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) aims to change that - and receives 29 million Euro in funding from Saarland's state gov!🎉

Read more: bit.ly/SoundsPM
Project analysing society and the economy with new data sources garners millions in state funding
Satellite images, social media and barcode scanners in shops offer a wealth of data that has so far been little used in the social sciences. New AI-supported methods are helping with the evaluation, b...
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August 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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USAAR's Cluster for European Studies is looking for a science communication officer!

Learn more: bit.ly/CEUS-Ausschreibung

#PoliSci #hiring
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August 6, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Check out our new interdisciplinary volume on border regions as laboratories for researching #Europe!

www.nomos-shop.de/isbn/978-3-7...

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August 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM