Vincent Heddesheimer
@vheddesheimer.bsky.social
Politics PhD student @Princeton
vincentheddesheimer.github.io
Co-creator of GERDA: The German Election Database
http://www.german-elections.com/
vincentheddesheimer.github.io
Co-creator of GERDA: The German Election Database
http://www.german-elections.com/
Pinned
The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines
doi.org
Very happy to see "The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines" out in the
@apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Are university still a left-wing thing in Europe?
Unsure: HE is a hierarchical institution with egalitarian employees
I find that universities increasingly inculcate selfish career concerns for status while leaving universalist concerns for global justice unchanged
Unsure: HE is a hierarchical institution with egalitarian employees
I find that universities increasingly inculcate selfish career concerns for status while leaving universalist concerns for global justice unchanged
NEW -
Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process - https://cup.org/3LG3lVj
- @mgiani.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process - https://cup.org/3LG3lVj
- @mgiani.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
November 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Are university still a left-wing thing in Europe?
Unsure: HE is a hierarchical institution with egalitarian employees
I find that universities increasingly inculcate selfish career concerns for status while leaving universalist concerns for global justice unchanged
Unsure: HE is a hierarchical institution with egalitarian employees
I find that universities increasingly inculcate selfish career concerns for status while leaving universalist concerns for global justice unchanged
Very happy to see "The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines" out in the
@apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines
doi.org
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Very happy to see "The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines" out in the
@apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
@apsrjournal.bsky.social. w/ @erikvoeten.bsky.social and @hannohilbig.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
June 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
📊 Exciting update to our German Election Database! Our federal election panels now include the 2025 German federal election.
Download the data here: german-elections.com/election-data/
A thread about what is new:
Download the data here: german-elections.com/election-data/
A thread about what is new:
german-elections.com
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german-elections.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
📊 Exciting update to our German Election Database! Our federal election panels now include the 2025 German federal election.
Download the data here: german-elections.com/election-data/
A thread about what is new:
Download the data here: german-elections.com/election-data/
A thread about what is new:
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New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨
High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
May 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
New (first! 🥳) Publication 🚨
High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
High-street retail vacancies, capturing economic decline, are linked to increased support of UK's populist party, UKIP (now Reform).
Reposted by Vincent Heddesheimer
Preprint with @vheddesheimer.bsky.social
Economic Insecurity Increases Affective #Polarization and Outgroup-Aversion
osf.io/preprints/os...
You may remember I'm on team "precarity" not team "social media." Causal / diff on diff evidence from Dutch panel study LISS en.centerdata.nl/liss-panel
Economic Insecurity Increases Affective #Polarization and Outgroup-Aversion
osf.io/preprints/os...
You may remember I'm on team "precarity" not team "social media." Causal / diff on diff evidence from Dutch panel study LISS en.centerdata.nl/liss-panel
OSF
osf.io
April 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Preprint with @vheddesheimer.bsky.social
Economic Insecurity Increases Affective #Polarization and Outgroup-Aversion
osf.io/preprints/os...
You may remember I'm on team "precarity" not team "social media." Causal / diff on diff evidence from Dutch panel study LISS en.centerdata.nl/liss-panel
Economic Insecurity Increases Affective #Polarization and Outgroup-Aversion
osf.io/preprints/os...
You may remember I'm on team "precarity" not team "social media." Causal / diff on diff evidence from Dutch panel study LISS en.centerdata.nl/liss-panel
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Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
GERDA: The German Election Database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - GERDA: The German Election Database
www.nature.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Out now! "GERDA: The German Election Database." GERDA provides comprehensive municipal, state, and federal election results at the municipality level between 1990 and 2021.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Our paper "GERDA: The German Election Database" is out in Nature: Scientific Data!
We collected and harmonized election results for federal, state, and local elections for 1990-2021.
Updates for more recent elections, pre-1990 elections, and county elections soon!
We collected and harmonized election results for federal, state, and local elections for 1990-2021.
Updates for more recent elections, pre-1990 elections, and county elections soon!
April 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Our paper "GERDA: The German Election Database" is out in Nature: Scientific Data!
We collected and harmonized election results for federal, state, and local elections for 1990-2021.
Updates for more recent elections, pre-1990 elections, and county elections soon!
We collected and harmonized election results for federal, state, and local elections for 1990-2021.
Updates for more recent elections, pre-1990 elections, and county elections soon!
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Like this paper? Here's another that will be right up your alley.
Here, the authors merge voter files & online resumes to create a dataset of 34.5M people.
They show that Dems & Reps choose distinctive career paths and employers. This leads to a lot of partisan segregation at the workplace.
Here, the authors merge voter files & online resumes to create a dataset of 34.5M people.
They show that Dems & Reps choose distinctive career paths and employers. This leads to a lot of partisan segregation at the workplace.
April 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Like this paper? Here's another that will be right up your alley.
Here, the authors merge voter files & online resumes to create a dataset of 34.5M people.
They show that Dems & Reps choose distinctive career paths and employers. This leads to a lot of partisan segregation at the workplace.
Here, the authors merge voter files & online resumes to create a dataset of 34.5M people.
They show that Dems & Reps choose distinctive career paths and employers. This leads to a lot of partisan segregation at the workplace.
Reposted by Vincent Heddesheimer
How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩
Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social!
📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵
Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social!
📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵
April 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩
Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social!
📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵
Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social!
📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵
Reposted by Vincent Heddesheimer
With correct link: Just published on APSR First View: "Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base" by Sean Kates, Eric Manning, Tali Mendelberg, and Omar Wasow. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
April 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
With correct link: Just published on APSR First View: "Plutopopulism: Wealth and Trump’s Financial Base" by Sean Kates, Eric Manning, Tali Mendelberg, and Omar Wasow. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558
March 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558
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"Sorting for K Street: Postemployment Regulations and Strategic Wage Setting in Congress" by Elisa Maria Wirsching. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
March 12, 2025 at 11:10 PM
"Sorting for K Street: Postemployment Regulations and Strategic Wage Setting in Congress" by Elisa Maria Wirsching. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Just published on APSR First View: "Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks" by Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine De Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Just published on APSR First View: "Without Roots: The Political Consequences of Collective Economic Shocks" by Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social, Nicola Bariletto, and Catherine De Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.
The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings
And what it means for American Democracy
open.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.
Reposted by Vincent Heddesheimer
New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...
🧵Thread
osf.io/preprints/os...
🧵Thread
February 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia:
osf.io/preprints/os...
🧵Thread
osf.io/preprints/os...
🧵Thread
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About 214,000* Germans living abroad had registered to vote** in yesterday's election. Because this was a snap election with a compressed timeline, many voters didn't receive their absentee ballots in time.*** I'm one of them: mine arrived today. The day after the election.
February 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
About 214,000* Germans living abroad had registered to vote** in yesterday's election. Because this was a snap election with a compressed timeline, many voters didn't receive their absentee ballots in time.*** I'm one of them: mine arrived today. The day after the election.
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Immer spannend zu sehen wen die AfD so auf Facebook und Instagram versucht zu erreichen 😅
February 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Immer spannend zu sehen wen die AfD so auf Facebook und Instagram versucht zu erreichen 😅
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🚨 Pub alert 🚨
I am incredibly excited that my first publication with the amazing Yannick Pengl, @carlmc.bsky.social, Lars-Erik Cederman and
Luc Girardin has been finally accepted
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
!
We study the consequences of increased state reach in multiethnic states.
🧵 [1 / 4]
I am incredibly excited that my first publication with the amazing Yannick Pengl, @carlmc.bsky.social, Lars-Erik Cederman and
Luc Girardin has been finally accepted
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
!
We study the consequences of increased state reach in multiethnic states.
🧵 [1 / 4]
January 28, 2025 at 3:00 AM
🚨 Pub alert 🚨
I am incredibly excited that my first publication with the amazing Yannick Pengl, @carlmc.bsky.social, Lars-Erik Cederman and
Luc Girardin has been finally accepted
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
!
We study the consequences of increased state reach in multiethnic states.
🧵 [1 / 4]
I am incredibly excited that my first publication with the amazing Yannick Pengl, @carlmc.bsky.social, Lars-Erik Cederman and
Luc Girardin has been finally accepted
@apsrjournal.bsky.social
!
We study the consequences of increased state reach in multiethnic states.
🧵 [1 / 4]
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New article now out in @thejop.bsky.social. We provide a new framework for the costs and benefits of parties' anti-elite strategies and use a novel measure based on parties' twitter messaging to analyze when they become more anti-elitist.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
January 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
New article now out in @thejop.bsky.social. We provide a new framework for the costs and benefits of parties' anti-elite strategies and use a novel measure based on parties' twitter messaging to analyze when they become more anti-elitist.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...
January 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
My fantastic co-author Julian Voss has meticulously compiled municipality-level election results for Post-WW2 Western German elections (1949-1969) from historical records. What a great resource! Read the paper, use the data: osf.io/preprints/os...
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New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈
Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇
Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇
January 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
New Working Paper: Teenage boys and girls in Norway are more ideologically polarized than ever. Using data for 130,000 high-schoolers over 34 years, I find that a surge in anti-feminism among boys is driving much of the recent trend.📈
Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇
Read: osf.io/preprints/os...
Findings 🧵👇
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🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨
In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime.
Thread : 🧵
In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime.
Thread : 🧵
Just published on APSR First View: "When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands" by Gemma Dipoppa. @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands
www.cambridge.org
December 11, 2024 at 6:04 PM
🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨
In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime.
Thread : 🧵
In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime.
Thread : 🧵
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New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵
November 28, 2024 at 8:21 AM
New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵
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Also, as @vheddesheimer.bsky.social @hannohilbig.bsky.social and I found in this paper, this could intensify support for the AfD osf.io/preprints/os...
November 27, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Also, as @vheddesheimer.bsky.social @hannohilbig.bsky.social and I found in this paper, this could intensify support for the AfD osf.io/preprints/os...