Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine
@chriswratil.bsky.social
Associate Professor for Government @univie.ac.at, works on political representation & behavior, public opinion, populism & the EU - usual disclaimers
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Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
November 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Just published in @bjpols.bsky.social: @sergipardos.bsky.social and I show that inter-regional moves in pursuit of employment security reduce individual worries about immigration—a mobility pattern that, in the aggregate, reinforces spatial polarization in anti-immigration sentiment. cup.org/3XiB6yD
🚨 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...
1/4 🧵
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...
1/4 🧵
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 AM
🚨 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...
1/4 🧵
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...
1/4 🧵
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Time to reshare this piece on the pitfalls of following the road Denmark has taken on immigration: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Time to reshare this piece on the pitfalls of following the road Denmark has taken on immigration: ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
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The book is real! To celebrate, I will give out five copies to interested early career folks. DM if you’d like one.
November 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The book is real! To celebrate, I will give out five copies to interested early career folks. DM if you’d like one.
Lat chance to get in your papers on European and EU Politics for next year‘s inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast! Excited to read your abstracts 😃
Deadline tomorrow! If you have a paper on European and EU politics, @chriswratil.bsky.social and I would love to consider it for our section. Hope to see you in Belfast!
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
November 6, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Lat chance to get in your papers on European and EU Politics for next year‘s inaugural @epssnet.bsky.social conference in Belfast! Excited to read your abstracts 😃
Dems wins are not only important for the political offices gained, the control denied to Republicans. But they are perhaps even more important for the bandwagon effect and consensus heuristic that will convince parts of the public susceptive to mass signals that Dems are the „right“ choice.
November 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Dems wins are not only important for the political offices gained, the control denied to Republicans. But they are perhaps even more important for the bandwagon effect and consensus heuristic that will convince parts of the public susceptive to mass signals that Dems are the „right“ choice.
🚨 Last chance for students in Vienna to apply for this 👇 great research assistant position to work with the MULTIREP team & the fantastic @bencehamrak.bsky.social.
If you are interested in developing & running surveys on political attitudes, don’t miss out on applying by 10 November!
If you are interested in developing & running surveys on political attitudes, don’t miss out on applying by 10 November!
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...
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 5:00 PM
🚨 Last chance for students in Vienna to apply for this 👇 great research assistant position to work with the MULTIREP team & the fantastic @bencehamrak.bsky.social.
If you are interested in developing & running surveys on political attitudes, don’t miss out on applying by 10 November!
If you are interested in developing & running surveys on political attitudes, don’t miss out on applying by 10 November!
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Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)!
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)!
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference
Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.
epssnet.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
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Heute heißt es immer wieder, man habe das Volk beim EU-Beitritt 1994/95 in Sachen Neutralität "belogen" oder das Thema zumindest kleingeredet. Aber stimmt das?
Ein Thread mit Zitaten aus dem Kurier rund um den EU-Beitritt. Spoiler: Die Debatte hat sich seitdem nur wenig verändert.
Ein Thread mit Zitaten aus dem Kurier rund um den EU-Beitritt. Spoiler: Die Debatte hat sich seitdem nur wenig verändert.
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Heute heißt es immer wieder, man habe das Volk beim EU-Beitritt 1994/95 in Sachen Neutralität "belogen" oder das Thema zumindest kleingeredet. Aber stimmt das?
Ein Thread mit Zitaten aus dem Kurier rund um den EU-Beitritt. Spoiler: Die Debatte hat sich seitdem nur wenig verändert.
Ein Thread mit Zitaten aus dem Kurier rund um den EU-Beitritt. Spoiler: Die Debatte hat sich seitdem nur wenig verändert.
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I have just written a Substack piece with some scenarios of what would have happened in the recent Dutch election if there had been 4% electoral threshold (with apologies to my Dutch friends for banging on about this!) substack.com/home/post/p-...
What Would happen if The Netherlands had a 4% Electoral Threshold?
Political scientists of electoral systems love The Netherlands.
substack.com
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I have just written a Substack piece with some scenarios of what would have happened in the recent Dutch election if there had been 4% electoral threshold (with apologies to my Dutch friends for banging on about this!) substack.com/home/post/p-...
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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? ⬇️
Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147...
When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️
October 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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? ⬇️
Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147...
When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️
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Netherlands, 9:00 PM Ipsos-I&O exit poll:
Seat projection national parliament
D66-RE: 27 (+18)
PVV-PfE: 25 (-12)
VVD-RE: 23 (-1)
GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5)
CDA-EPP: 19 (+14)
JA21~ECR: 9 (+8)
FvD-ESN: 6 (+3)
BBB-EPP: 4 (-3)
...
+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands
Seat projection national parliament
D66-RE: 27 (+18)
PVV-PfE: 25 (-12)
VVD-RE: 23 (-1)
GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5)
CDA-EPP: 19 (+14)
JA21~ECR: 9 (+8)
FvD-ESN: 6 (+3)
BBB-EPP: 4 (-3)
...
+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Netherlands, 9:00 PM Ipsos-I&O exit poll:
Seat projection national parliament
D66-RE: 27 (+18)
PVV-PfE: 25 (-12)
VVD-RE: 23 (-1)
GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5)
CDA-EPP: 19 (+14)
JA21~ECR: 9 (+8)
FvD-ESN: 6 (+3)
BBB-EPP: 4 (-3)
...
+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands
Seat projection national parliament
D66-RE: 27 (+18)
PVV-PfE: 25 (-12)
VVD-RE: 23 (-1)
GL/PvdA-G/EFA|S&D: 20 (-5)
CDA-EPP: 19 (+14)
JA21~ECR: 9 (+8)
FvD-ESN: 6 (+3)
BBB-EPP: 4 (-3)
...
+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/netherlands
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🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
Wenn sich das ZDF über nächsten Boulevard-Titel beschwert „63% finden ÖRR ist Lügenpresse“ mit der Frage „Manchmal machen öffentlich-rechtliche Medien Fehler wie zuletzt zu X. Mr Y hat in diesem Zusammenhang von Lügenpresse gesprochen. Liegt er in diesem Fall richtig?“
Don’t ask me to rescue you!
Don’t ask me to rescue you!
Leider null Lernfähigkeit beim ZDF. Obwohl die Redaktion einen halben Tag Zeit zur Korrektur gehabt hätte, entscheidet sie sich, das irreführende Diagramm im TV zu präsentieren.
#Stadtbild
#Stadtbild
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Wenn sich das ZDF über nächsten Boulevard-Titel beschwert „63% finden ÖRR ist Lügenpresse“ mit der Frage „Manchmal machen öffentlich-rechtliche Medien Fehler wie zuletzt zu X. Mr Y hat in diesem Zusammenhang von Lügenpresse gesprochen. Liegt er in diesem Fall richtig?“
Don’t ask me to rescue you!
Don’t ask me to rescue you!
Wirklich unverantwortlich
Leider null Lernfähigkeit beim ZDF. Obwohl die Redaktion einen halben Tag Zeit zur Korrektur gehabt hätte, entscheidet sie sich, das irreführende Diagramm im TV zu präsentieren.
#Stadtbild
#Stadtbild
October 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Wirklich unverantwortlich
Dies ist keine Frage zum „Stadtbild“-Zitat von Merz, es ist de facto eine Frage zu Einstellungen zu potenziell kriminellen Migrant*innen ohne Aufenthaltsstatus. So wird das verstanden.
Es anders darzustellen, ist nur eines: Meinungsmache, weil Umfrageergebnisse Einfluss auf Einstellungen haben.
Es anders darzustellen, ist nur eines: Meinungsmache, weil Umfrageergebnisse Einfluss auf Einstellungen haben.
Die Umfrage hierzu entstand am Donnerstag, nachdem Merz seine Aussagen am Mittwoch präzisiert hatte. Die genaue Frage lautete so:
October 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Dies ist keine Frage zum „Stadtbild“-Zitat von Merz, es ist de facto eine Frage zu Einstellungen zu potenziell kriminellen Migrant*innen ohne Aufenthaltsstatus. So wird das verstanden.
Es anders darzustellen, ist nur eines: Meinungsmache, weil Umfrageergebnisse Einfluss auf Einstellungen haben.
Es anders darzustellen, ist nur eines: Meinungsmache, weil Umfrageergebnisse Einfluss auf Einstellungen haben.
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Is it?
Sounds like normal politics to me and that's good.
Perhaps the socialists should call a confidence vote. They need to parliamentarize the Union.
Sounds like normal politics to me and that's good.
Perhaps the socialists should call a confidence vote. They need to parliamentarize the Union.
October 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Is it?
Sounds like normal politics to me and that's good.
Perhaps the socialists should call a confidence vote. They need to parliamentarize the Union.
Sounds like normal politics to me and that's good.
Perhaps the socialists should call a confidence vote. They need to parliamentarize the Union.
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I predict the chances for an op-ed that goes "We've been lawlessly killing people for decades, and nobody cared. Why should that now be a problem? Also, lol @ you shitlibs getting shit in your shitty faces haha" at 99.9%, given how (a)nihilism is the new conservatism.
Trump: "I don't think we're necessarily going to ask for a declaration of war, I think we're just gonna kill people that are bringing drugs into our country. We're going to kill them. They're going to be, like dead."
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I predict the chances for an op-ed that goes "We've been lawlessly killing people for decades, and nobody cared. Why should that now be a problem? Also, lol @ you shitlibs getting shit in your shitty faces haha" at 99.9%, given how (a)nihilism is the new conservatism.
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@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
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@chriswratil.bsky.social & @bjornhoyland.bsky.social are leading the "European and EU Politics" section @epssnet.bsky.social conf. Proposals on European/EU politics & integration are due 7 Nov 2025. Papers: app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec.... Panels: app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec....
Oxford Abstracts
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October 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
@chriswratil.bsky.social & @bjornhoyland.bsky.social are leading the "European and EU Politics" section @epssnet.bsky.social conf. Proposals on European/EU politics & integration are due 7 Nov 2025. Papers: app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec.... Panels: app.oxfordabstracts.com/auth?redirec....
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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Breaking EU rule of law protection news
Late on Thursday, the NL Parliament, by majority, instructed the NL government to initiate *Article 259 TFEU State-to-State infringement proceedings against Slovakia* over its recent constitutional change to limit LGBTIQ-rights & to deny supremacy of EU law
Late on Thursday, the NL Parliament, by majority, instructed the NL government to initiate *Article 259 TFEU State-to-State infringement proceedings against Slovakia* over its recent constitutional change to limit LGBTIQ-rights & to deny supremacy of EU law
October 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Breaking EU rule of law protection news
Late on Thursday, the NL Parliament, by majority, instructed the NL government to initiate *Article 259 TFEU State-to-State infringement proceedings against Slovakia* over its recent constitutional change to limit LGBTIQ-rights & to deny supremacy of EU law
Late on Thursday, the NL Parliament, by majority, instructed the NL government to initiate *Article 259 TFEU State-to-State infringement proceedings against Slovakia* over its recent constitutional change to limit LGBTIQ-rights & to deny supremacy of EU law
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.
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
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.
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.