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Theres Matthieß
@theresmatthiess.bsky.social
Political scientist, Assistant Professor at the University of Göttingen, working on political representation, party competition, voting & social groups
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💫💫💫 Great News: We are over the moon that our paper "Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment?" is now published in BJPS @bjpols.bsky.social 🍾 🤗

👉🏻 doi.org/10.1017/S000...

w/ Juha Ylisalo, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social

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Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? - Volume 55
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‼️ New paper out in @polbehavior.bsky.social !

We ask whether the politically active (in terms of electoral or other forms of participation) are better represented? See Jesper's detailed 🧵 below for more info on the paper! 👇
February 9, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Häufigste Antwort bei Menschen unter 50 "keine Partei", dann AfD...
February 6, 2026 at 4:19 AM
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🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky
February 2, 2026 at 1:13 PM
💫Ein krönender Abschluss meines Seminars "Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach Mauerfall: Wie gespalten ist Deutschland?"! Die Studierenden durften @steffenmau.bsky.social interviewen. Danke für dir spannenden Einblicke und herzlich willkommen in Göttingen! @uni-goettingen.de @ifdemgoettingen.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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UCD-co-led research into AI’s influence on democracy awarded seed funding
www.ucd.ie
January 24, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄
January 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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🌟 PHD FELLOWSHIP ALERT! 🌟

I’m hiring 1 PhD fellow for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting 09/26! Great PhD community + int'l & supportive environment + FUN city. 💰for conferences + workshops! Lots of mentoring & career development opportunities! Deadline Jan 29th. Please apply!
Doctoral student in Political Science, specialization in political economy and political behavior
Doctoral position in Political Science, specialization in political economy and political behavior The Department of Political Science
web103.reachmee.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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New paper with Justin Robinson @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Our starting point is the observation that there is much variation in affective polarization across the UK.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Conflict on the campaign trail? How campaign effort and electoral competitiveness shape affective polarization
Concerns about the consequences of affective polarization for governing and democracy have resulted in a strong surge of publications on the topic. Th…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:02 PM
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AMSTERDAM ❤️ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER 😍 🎿🧀

One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing 🫶

Please reach out if you have any questions.

@polcomm.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...

Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️
Research associate – doctoral candidate (75%) (ID 377)
The Manifesto Project analyses parties’ election manifestos in order to study parties’ policy preferences. To this end, the project conducts conte...
wzb.hr4you.org
January 7, 2026 at 7:42 AM
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We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:

- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
jobs.univie.ac.at
January 7, 2026 at 9:26 AM
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🚨Job alert! 🚨

I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.

⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26

More info:
Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of “contentious politics/political violence/autocratic politics” - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
www.hu-berlin.de
January 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026

We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization
January 6, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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@luiseante.bsky.social et al. geben hochspannende Einblicke in das Demokratieverständnis von Führungspersönlichkeiten in der FPÖ- und AfD-Jugend.

Challenging Liberal Principles: Understanding of Democracy among Populist Radical Right Youth Leaders in Austria and Germany doi.org/10.1080/0964...
December 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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🚨 A must-read by my colleagues @iguinaudeau.bsky.social & @egrossman.bsky.social for anyone interested in French politics and the state of democracy more broadly
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓
Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes?

Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas
Vacancy — Postdoc: "Role of Social Norms and Norms Transgression in the Acceptance of Negative Campaigning"
<p><span>Are you passionate about political communication, election campaigns, and quantitative empirical research? The Amsterdam School of Communication Research is seeking a highly motivated Postdoc for the research project<em> ‘That’s (not) appropriate’– Role of Social Norms and Norm Transgression in Voters’ Acceptance of Negative Campaigning, </em></span><span>led by Dr. Corinna Oschatz.</span></p>
werkenbij.uva.nl
December 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)

We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.

✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
Postdoctoral Research Associate - International Research Training Group 2560 “Baltic Peripeties" 25/E19
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
www.uni-greifswald.de
December 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social

3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa.

Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January.

more info below:
December 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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👀 À lire sur @laviedesidees.bsky.social : « La proportionnelle, une urgence démocratique », une note co-écrite avec @egrossman.bsky.social qui nous tient très à cœur dans la crise politique que nous traversons. laviedesidees.fr/La-proportio...
La proportionnelle : une urgence démocratique
L'adoption du mode de scrutin proportionnel apparaît aujourd'hui, selon deux politistes, comme une condition nécessaire pour redonner à la démocratie française la capacité de renouer avec des gouverne...
laviedesidees.fr
December 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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From October 2025 -

Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? - https://cup.org/4hIsvyV

- Juha Ylisalo, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social

#OpenAccess
December 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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🎅5️⃣ Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around? By Emily Badger, Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy, and Rumsey Taylor from @upshot.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around? (Published 2021)
An interactive, street-level tour of America’s full political landscape.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Happy to share that the German Research Foundation DFG funds my new project: “Countering Polarization: The Borda count as a basis for proportional representation”. I am recruiting 2 PhD candidates to join me in Hannover as of March 2026 or later! Feel free to reach out!
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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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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🚨New VAA Dataset🚨
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n
November 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Good morning, social and political science community! We could use your expertise: Have you conducted online surveys targeting low-income populations? If so, we’d love to hear about your experiences.
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM