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Rebecca Kittel
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PostDoc FU Berlin & Research Affiliate WZB | PhD from EUI | Populism, Parliamentary Behaviour, Party Communication, Protest Behaviour, Text-as-Data | https://rebecca-kittel.eu/
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Rebecca Kittel @rebeccakittel.bsky.social · Mar 26
🚨Publication Alert

Very happy to share that my second PhD paper is now out with @govandopp.bsky.social 🤗🎉

Do populist politicians use simpler language? I analyse 30 years of parliamentary discourse to shed light on that question! 👇

Full article: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
#OpenAccess
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hajogu.bsky.social
💫New paper out with @chjncke.bsky.social in @europeansocieties.bsky.social:

📝"Far-right contention in civil society: Multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets"

🧵A short thread about the paper:
Title and Abstract of the paper "Far-right contention in civil society: multiple lenses on action repertoires, actors, and targets". Authors: Hans Jonas Gunzelmann, Christin Jänicke Abstract: Over the past decade, the far right has been on the rise in civil societies across Europe. Civil society organizations have been challenged by the far right in governments, political parties, and within their own ranks. However, there is little systematic research on how the far right stirs conflict within civil society. Civil society research has tended to ignore ‘uncivil’ society and has instead focused on social capital and cohesion. Research on the noninstitutional side of the far right has been growing but has largely neglected the consequences for established civil society organizations and their members. This article addresses these blind spots by providing a conceptual framework and a methodology for studying the far right in civil society, which is applied to a case study. First, we construct a conceptual framework that adapts the contentious politics paradigm to the study of civil society. We delineate far-right contention within civil society and construct typologies of the action repertoires, actors, and targets. Second, we develop a methodology that combines different lenses to expand our view on far-right contention in civil society. We propose a mixed-methods research design for mapping far-right contentious events. Third, we apply our conceptual framework and methodology to the case of Germany by empirically mapping the action repertoires, actors and targets. Our findings fundamentally shift the scholarly understanding of the far right in civil society: We find that far-right contention in civil society goes well beyond adversarial actions by far-right actors. This has important implications for researchers and practitioners.
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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jwaeckerle.bsky.social
New from @erc.europa.eu project #MINORITYRULE with @sopro.bsky.social: We study voters’ knowledge about and perceptions of minority governments in 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪 and 🇸🇪.

Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️
Screenshot of the start of the paper. Title (Political knowledge and perceptions of minority governments in Europe), authors (Jens Wäckerle and Sven-Oliver Proksch) and journal (European Journal of Political Research)
October 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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pitrieger.bsky.social
Excited to share my first single-authored dissertation paper!

I study how voters react to party differentiation in coalitions. Voters like clear partisan signals, but the gains are short-lived and limited to aligned supporters.

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October 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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jwaeckerle.bsky.social
New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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October 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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tevoelker.bsky.social
New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵
Abstract
October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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evakrejcova.bsky.social
1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space.
👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
September 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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manifestoproj.bsky.social
📣 Manifesto Project Data & Corpus Update 2025 is here! What's new? 🧵:
September 5, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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stefanmueller.bsky.social
The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social.
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Keine WiSo ohne PoWi! Für eine starke Politikwissenschaft im Bachelor & Master
https://www.change.org/p/keine-wiso-ohne-powi-für-eine-starke-politikwissenschaft-im-bachelor-master
September 8, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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sgparliaments.bsky.social
👋🏻 Welcome to those attending the ECPR General Conference #ecprgr25! Our section this year is action-packed with panels every day of the conference - here is an outline of what to expect:
August 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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tiondelisa.bsky.social
"Wissenschaftskommunikation ist Teil meiner Arbeit und nicht mein Privatvergnügen."

Genau deshalb muss der Umgang mit Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit systematisch erfolgen und darf nicht an Individuen hängenbleiben. Auch wenn gerade bei kommunizierenden Forscherinnen die "Kritik" ad personam erfolgt.
jmwiarda.bsky.social Jan-Martin Wiarda @jmwiarda.bsky.social · Aug 25
Hotline gegen Hass

Wie der Scicomm-Support angefeindeten Wissenschaftler:innen hilft: Teresa Völker und Matthias Fejes über Drohungen, Schutzstrukturen und den Mut, in der Öffentlichkeit weiter für Wissenschaft einzustehen.

Im Wiarda-Blog: www.jmwiarda.de/blog/2025/08...
August 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
rebeccakittel.bsky.social
On my way home after a great day of teaching Web-Sraping and Automated Data Collection at the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology @unibremen.bsky.social. It was a pleasure to meet all these motivated and talented researchers! #wpm #WomenInPolMeth
July 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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saengler.bsky.social
Really happy to see my work with @dweisstanner.bsky.social published with @bjpols.bsky.social. In this letter, we look at symbolic class signalling through cultural consumption and how effective it is across voters of different parties.

A thread 👇 (1/n)

#OpenAccess - cup.org/3GSCIKV
The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
The Electoral Appeal of Symbolic Class Signalling Through Cultural Consumption - Volume 55
cup.org
July 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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chrauh.bsky.social
🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such?

My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020).

A thread (1/n)
July 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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eborbath.bsky.social
🚨 New article out in Journal of Civil Society with Swen Hutter!

We explore how civil society organizations (CSOs) mobilized volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic, a moment of both rising need and shrinking organizational capacity.

📖 Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1744...
July 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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tiondelisa.bsky.social
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION! Who belongs to “the people” – and who does not?

What a great way to start the week. I’m really happy that my article on populist in- and outgroup references is now out in @polstudies.bsky.social #openaccess 🔓

doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Screenshot of the abstract of the article.
June 16, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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dasalgon.bsky.social
📣 "Contentious Politics in Catalonia"

Join us June 20, 2pm @wzb.bsky.social

Book launch "Organizing for Independence" by @hajogu.bsky.social (WZB)

Discussion: @laiabalcells.bsky.social (Georgetown) on aff. polariz. & nat. conflicts

Info & registration (on site/Zoom) www.wzb.eu/de/veranstal...
Program of the Lecture Series "Civil Society and Political Conflict" at the WZB, 2025.
June 6, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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svenschreurs.bsky.social
During the past months, I've been working on a debate section for JEPP. I invited a group of scholars with (very) different disciplinary backgrounds and substantive views to revisit Fritz Scharpf's asymmetry thesis, discussing its relevance in the twenty-first-century EU.
May 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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cairosofie.bsky.social
🚨 New WP! 📄 "Publish or Procreate: The Effect of Motherhood on Research Performance" (w/ @valentinatartari.bsky.social
👩‍🔬👨‍🔬 We investigate how parenthood affects scientific productivity and impact — and find that the impact is far from equal for mothers and fathers.
May 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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rsenninger.bsky.social
When politicians use simple language, citizens understand more and see them as less elite.

New paper with @danbischof.bsky.social out in @thejop.bsky.social!

doi.org/10.1086/736693
Can Simple Language Affect Voters' Political Knowledge and Their Beliefs About Politicians? | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja
www.journals.uchicago.edu
May 16, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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sopro.bsky.social
📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5
Book cover of the second edition of Foundations of European Politics A Comparative Approach
May 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
rebeccakittel.bsky.social
Politik und Grammatik - Im @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy durfte ich über meine Forschung zur Sprachkomplexität im Bundestag reden und welchen Effekt diese auf Wähler*innen hat. Wer reinhören mag: www.deutschlandfunk.de/politik-und-...
Politik und Grammatik - Rebecca Kittel, Politikwissenschaftlerin
www.deutschlandfunk.de
May 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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gessler.bsky.social
We're organizing another round of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology 🎉
summerschoolwpm.org

Our super-cool speakers include msands.bsky.social @allisonwkoh.bsky.social @melinscribe.bsky.social @rebeccakittel.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social & @indiiigo.bsky.social

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April 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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sophiahunger.bsky.social
🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨

Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org
Image of a building of the University of Bremen with the text "Summer School for Women in Political Methodology" and "20 to 26 July at the University of Bremen" writen on it.
April 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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ericbeltermann.bsky.social
Morgen ist es soweit: In einem transdisziplinären Workshop loten wir die Möglichkeiten der Landesparlaments-Datenbank stateparl.de für Wissenschaft, Journalismus, Verwaltung und Zivilgesellschaft aus. Die Veranstaltung wird durch die @berlinualliance.bsky.social möglich gemacht. 🫶
Gemeinsam Politik im föderalen System besser verstehen und analysieren Transdisziplinärer Workshop Wann? Wo? 1. April 2025, 09:30 Uhr bis 16:30 Uhr Vertretung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein beim Bund, In den Ministergärten 8, 10117 Berlin Programm 09:1509:3010:1513:0014:0015:1515:3016:30Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Uhr Ankommen Begrüßung & Einführung Überblick über den Projektkontext Transdisziplinäre Potentiale von „StateParl“ entdecken Interaktive Einführung Szenario-Entwicklung in transdisziplinären Kleingruppen Kennenlernen Entwicklung einer gemeinsamen Fragestellung Bearbeitung mit den verschiedenen Werkzeugen von „StateParl“ Mittagspause Bu[et in der Landesvertretung Prototyping in transdisziplinären Kleingruppen Beantwortung der Fragestellung Empfehlungen für die Anwendung und Weiterentwicklung von „StateParl“ Pause Ergebnisse und Reflexion Ende
March 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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bcastanho.bsky.social
Pretty cool by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social - populists do not use easier language when speaking in parliament. They have to try and show competence?
govandopp.bsky.social Government and Opposition @govandopp.bsky.social · Mar 26
Out today on #FirstView -

"Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates" - tinyurl.com/yc65ezcy

by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM