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Peter Luca Versteegen
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Postdoc at the University of Vienna. Researching polarization & democracy from a political psych perspective.

I do research and I run.

https://lucaversteegen.com
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chriswratil.bsky.social
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
versteegenluca.bsky.social
This sounds so cool! Glad researchers do this ⬇️
heikekluever.bsky.social Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · 4d
More and more young people are turning to the far right. Why and what can we do about it?

Join our #COVIDEU Workshop on Nov 21 (2–5 PM) to discuss causes and counter-strategies.

🚀 Hosted by @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social
💡 Funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de
👉 Register: tinyurl.com/bdenyfnw
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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rsenninger.bsky.social
📄 New WP version out - full overhaul!

The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )

Comments welcome!

🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
versteegenluca.bsky.social
Delia‘s research keeps inspiring me. Look this up ⬇️⬇️
dpzollinger.bsky.social Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · 5d
How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?

In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.

tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Educational Networks, Social Closure, and Cleavage Stabilization - Volume 55
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November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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bencehamrak.bsky.social
We’re looking for an RA for the MULTIREP ERC project at @univie.ac.at — working on citizens' fundamental motivations for political representation.
We look for MA students with some experience and a lot of interest in surveys & experiments.

Deadline is 10 Nov, 23:59pm!

wratil.eu/files/Resear...
November 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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sbvanoosten.bsky.social
The research I discuss about turnout amongst Muslims is from work in progress lead by @gefjonoff.bsky.social. Find the pre-print here:

Off, G., & van Oosten, S. (2025). Do gender patterns differ between the ethnic majority and Muslim minorities? doi.org/10.31219/osf...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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sbvanoosten.bsky.social
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Academic life goal achieved: interviewed about my research for Al Jazeera! @aljazeera.com

I discuss research on turnout amongst Muslims, voting for DENK and I bust the myth that Muslims vote for the PVV

Watch the full item here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnqF... links to research in below 👇🧵
October 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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jasimmank.bsky.social
Dieser Text bedeutet mir sehr viel. Seit (mindestens) eineinhalb Jahren beschäftigt mich, wie das Reden über unsere psychischen Probleme auf die Psyche selber wirkt. Es ist eine wahnsinnige Errungenschaft, dass das Schweigen der "traumatisierten" Kriegsgeneration... 1/n

www.zeit.de/2025/45/psyc...
Psychische Krankheiten : Wie das Reden über die Psyche zum Problem wurde
Es gibt immer mehr psychische Krankheiten, vor allem bei jungen Menschen. Das kann auch daran liegen, dass wir zu viel darüber reden – und Diagnosen die Identität prägen.
www.zeit.de
October 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
versteegenluca.bsky.social
Es ist problematisch, wie wenig der öffentliche Diskurs zwischen “Meinung” und “Fakten” unterscheidet. Die Wissenschaft hat keine “eindeutige Meinung” hierzu, sondern “eindeutige Fakten”, die mittlerweile auf sehr viel Evidenz beruhen. Meinungen (d.h. Bewertungen) kann man ablehnen, Fakten nicht.
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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jacobnyrup.bsky.social
Moreover, I have recently been awarded an ERC starting grant towards the project GETGOV to work further on this, so expect more data on cabinet members in the future. I am currently hiring two PhDs and two postdocs:

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Jacob Nyrup awarded EU funds to research political elites - Department of Political Science
Jacob Nyrup from the Department of Political Science has been granted a substantial 18 million Norwegian kroner by the EU's research council to examine political elites in countries before and after d...
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October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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larslott.bsky.social
📢Can free academia withstand democratic backsliding? Why some universities wither while others survive. Read the recently published article in #ISPR. Together with Katrin Kinzelbach and @silindberg.bsky.social (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0192...
October 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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chriswratil.bsky.social
A grim Monday in Europe:

The leader of the Western world posts an AI video dumping poo on protestors, abandons 🇺🇦 yet again & funnels 💰 bn in 🗳️ support to ideological friends abroad.

What is meant to breed apathy should spark resolve: We 🇪🇺 must finally act for ourselves — at a scale never seen.
October 20, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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wegschaider.bsky.social
🚨 New Working Paper with R.Bauböck + @sumpierrez.bsky.social

We introduce the concept of incongruent suffrage.

This describes when there are voting rights but no candidacy rights for a group. Or vice versa.

The paper includes descriptive data & exploratory case studies.

doi.org/10.33774/aps...
Title: Incongruent Suffrage Authors: Klaudia Wegschaider, Rainer Bauböck, Sebastián Umpierrez de Reguero Abstract: Candidacy rights and voting rights are not always congruent. Although voting rights are extensively studied, historical and contemporary incongruencies in suffrage have been widely overlooked. We propose a typology of suffrage incongruency that we apply to the enfranchisement of non-citizen residents and non-resident citizens—two categories recently at the center of enfranchisement scholarship and reform efforts. Using an original dataset that covers 165 countries and 61 years (1960-2020), we identify past and present voting-only incongruencies and candidacy-only incongruencies. Existing theories of suffrage extension focus on the voteshare maximizing logic of incumbents. However, these explanations cannot account for why only one part of suffrage is extended. With two exploratory case studies of Switzerland and the United Kingdom, we inductively arrive at potential explanations for why voting-only and candidacy-only incongruencies arise and resolve in democracies. We conclude with a research agenda on the causes and consequences of suffrage incongruencies.
October 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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joenoonan.se
My department is hiring a PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI.

This is part of WASP-HS, an interdisciplinary research cluster on AI’s impact on people and society.

Come and be my colleague!

Submission date: 15 Nov. 2025

su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in Political Science with an orientation towards Politics & AI
The Department of Political Science is a dynamic and strong education and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading an
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September 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
versteegenluca.bsky.social
Didn‘t expect to be so happy and relieved about who got the Nobel Peace Prize (and who did not).

@nobelprize.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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chriswratil.bsky.social
🚨We are looking for a research assistant at the masters level to help us with designing & running some surveys in the MULTIREP project.

If you are based in Vienna or around, have some interest in political representation & experience with surveys, consider applying! 👇

wratil.eu/files/Resear...
October 8, 2025 at 12:56 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🧵
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October 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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There are many parallels between publishing papers and putting a baby asleep. An endless 🧵

1. it takes longer than you think.
2. there are strategies, but it‘s essentially trial + error.
3. don‘t let them out of your hands too early, it‘ll fail
4. you usually hear back from them sooner than hoped
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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bart-maes.bsky.social
Politicians don’t just care how many people hold an opinion — they care how good that opinion is. In our new (open-access) article in West European Politics, based on survey data from 900+ politicians across 11 countries, we show: quality > quantity. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
October 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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kathrinkuehn.bsky.social
Hörtipp für den Feiertag / langes Wochenende also - Deutschlandfunk Systemfragen: Was sich an dem Streit über die nicht mehr veröffentlichten Armutszahlen übers Arm sein und über Forschung selbst lernen lässt. www.deutschlandfunk.de/arm-sein-war... 5/5
Hinter der Statistik - Was arm sein bedeutet
Armutsforscher kritisieren das Statistische Bundesamt: Es veröffentlicht nur noch Zahlen zur Armutsgefährdung, die auf bestimmte Weise berechnet wurden.
www.deutschlandfunk.de
October 3, 2025 at 7:07 AM
versteegenluca.bsky.social
There are many parallels between publishing papers and putting a baby asleep. An endless 🧵

1. it takes longer than you think.
2. there are strategies, but it‘s essentially trial + error.
3. don‘t let them out of your hands too early, it‘ll fail
4. you usually hear back from them sooner than hoped
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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danjdevine.bsky.social
Are you, or do you know, someone who wants to do a PhD?

Applications are open for full funding (scholarship + maintenance) @sotonpolitics.bsky.social through the @scdtp.bsky.social

Get in touch if you're interested

southcoastdtp.ac.uk/apply/
Apply - South Coast Doctoral Training Partnership
Our call for applications for studentships commencing in 2026/27 is now open (from 26th January 2025, 12:00am) The deadline for application is 17:00 GMT 16th Jan 2026. Below are our current applicatio...
southcoastdtp.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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annerasmussen.bsky.social
🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

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September 29, 2025 at 7:18 AM
versteegenluca.bsky.social
“We argue that previous moralization explains focus groups’ perception of division as persistent and insuperable”

Sounds like a great paper ⬇️ Important to move beyond elite and media causes to collective sense-making. How ppl see “the other side” is sticky- it stays and spreads
kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · Sep 26
How can we understand the forces that keep political conflict alive in social life, even when its political salience has waned? In my and Anna van Vree's new working paper, we analyse 27 focus groups on immigration to show how moral boundaries make division sticky & potent: osf.io/preprints/so...
September 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM