Dominik Schraff
@dschraff.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Political Science, Aalborg University 🇩🇰
EU | Comparative Political Behavior | Inequality | Democratic Trust & Legitimacy
EU-NED
www.dominikschraff.com
EU | Comparative Political Behavior | Inequality | Democratic Trust & Legitimacy
EU-NED
www.dominikschraff.com
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🆕 Side income impacts trust in politicians? 💰
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability
Transparency matters: The positive effect of politicians’ side income disclosure on voters’ perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Transparency matters: The positive effect of politicians’ side income disclosure on voters’ perceptions
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November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
🆕 Side income impacts trust in politicians? 💰
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability
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Residential moves temporarily reduce people's participation in local politics and local civic initiatives. It disrupts local attachments, relevant local knowledge, and local social networks. Yet, it leaves national engagement unchanged journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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November 11, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Residential moves temporarily reduce people's participation in local politics and local civic initiatives. It disrupts local attachments, relevant local knowledge, and local social networks. Yet, it leaves national engagement unchanged journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone.
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation | Journal of Public Policy | Cambridge Core
Taxing your cake and growing it too: public beliefs on the dual benefits of progressive taxation
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November 11, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🚨Elites often warn: taxing the rich hurts everyone.
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
🤔But do citizens buy that story?
With @bcastanho.bsky.social & Hanna Lierse, we find: They don’t! Most people believe progressive taxes can deliver both — more equality and more growth. @jpublicpolicy.bsky.social #openaccess cup.org/3JVuvHm
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#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
Political corruption and voting in Romanian municipal elections: Why perceptions of collective action matter - https://cup.org/4oUhWuS
- Nicholas Charron & Andreas Bågenholm
#FirstView
Political corruption and voting in Romanian municipal elections: Why perceptions of collective action matter - https://cup.org/4oUhWuS
- Nicholas Charron & Andreas Bågenholm
#FirstView
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social -
Political corruption and voting in Romanian municipal elections: Why perceptions of collective action matter - https://cup.org/4oUhWuS
- Nicholas Charron & Andreas Bågenholm
#FirstView
Political corruption and voting in Romanian municipal elections: Why perceptions of collective action matter - https://cup.org/4oUhWuS
- Nicholas Charron & Andreas Bågenholm
#FirstView
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🚨 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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Do architecture and urban planning affect political behavior? Happy to share a paper that @tesaliarizzo.bsky.social and I have coming out at the APSR which uses computer vision to investigate how the built environment shapes inequalities in civic participation in Mexico: osf.io/preprints/so.... 🧵1/5
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Do architecture and urban planning affect political behavior? Happy to share a paper that @tesaliarizzo.bsky.social and I have coming out at the APSR which uses computer vision to investigate how the built environment shapes inequalities in civic participation in Mexico: osf.io/preprints/so.... 🧵1/5
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📄 New WP version out - full overhaul!
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
November 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📄 New WP version out - full overhaul!
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )
Comments welcome!
🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...
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Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out!
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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
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 8:36 AM
Excited to have this paper on social networks as a mechanism for cleavage stabilization with @dpzollinger.bsky.social out!
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
If we have you intrigued, also pairs with (and empirically engages) our theoretical piece on puzzles of contemporary cleavage research:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New publication just out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social: using household panel data from Germany, I show that residential moves are associated with declines in local-level engagement but have no effect on national-level engagement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 AM
New publication just out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social: using household panel data from Germany, I show that residential moves are associated with declines in local-level engagement but have no effect on national-level engagement.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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📘 The intro to the special issue "Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining" highlights how liberalism destabilises itself through excess, exploitation and exhaustion 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
📘 The intro to the special issue "Victims of their own success? How successful liberal orders can become self-undermining" highlights how liberalism destabilises itself through excess, exploitation and exhaustion 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Engagement-based #algorithms amplify intergroup hostility + moral-emotional content, leading it to be overrepresented in your feed
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
This leads us to falsely perceive that people want to see this kind of content and share more of it.
This technology fuels false polarization: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Are you already religiously following polls in Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Malta, Monaco, Poland or Türkiye?
Come join our team and support them with data entry!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Come join our team and support them with data entry!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Are you already religiously following polls in Bulgaria, Cyprus, France, Germany, Malta, Monaco, Poland or Türkiye?
Come join our team and support them with data entry!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Come join our team and support them with data entry!
Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Good vibes image of the day. I'd also be happy to get such a pyramid :)
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Good vibes image of the day. I'd also be happy to get such a pyramid :)
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Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/
Rechtsextremismus - Warum die radikale Rechte so stark wird
Rechtsradikale Parteien profitieren von nachlassender Stigmatisierung. Forschung zum politischen Verhalten zeigt, dass extreme Positionen offener gelebt werden.
share.deutschlandradio.de
October 31, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Krisen, Frust oder Angst vor dem sozialen Abstieg, das sind einige Ansätze, um das zu erklären: Warum so schnell viel mehr Menschen radikal rechte Parteien unterstützen, nicht nur in D. Seltener wird geschaut, inwiefern die Einstellungen schon da waren. share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothe... 1/
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It’s not easy to break free from deep dependencies. But it can be done. ICC to drop MS for German alternative ⬇️
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It’s not easy to break free from deep dependencies. But it can be done. ICC to drop MS for German alternative ⬇️
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
www.euractiv.com/news/interna...
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Happy to share that my article with Miguel Rueda and Shuning Ge is out for early view at @bjpols.bsky.social.
We show that the level of aggregation at which electoral results are published affects election integrity.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We show that the level of aggregation at which electoral results are published affects election integrity.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Do More Disaggregated Electoral Results Deter Aggregation Fraud? - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Happy to share that my article with Miguel Rueda and Shuning Ge is out for early view at @bjpols.bsky.social.
We show that the level of aggregation at which electoral results are published affects election integrity.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We show that the level of aggregation at which electoral results are published affects election integrity.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia
If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?
In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?
In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🚨 New piece out at @thejop.bsky.social w awesome @cvargiu.bsky.social & D Garzia
If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?
In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
If incivility means breaking norms, & norms are person- and context-dependent, *does incivility even exist*?
In the stage-2 registered report we investigate what drives perceptions of incivility
tinyurl.com/4h5u4y8y
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🌍 Brussels effect or 🪃 boomerang?
Francesca Minetto (@hertieschool.bsky.social) shows that over 20% of EU legislation draws directly on international models, revealing that the EU not only exports but also imports policies 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Francesca Minetto (@hertieschool.bsky.social) shows that over 20% of EU legislation draws directly on international models, revealing that the EU not only exports but also imports policies 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🌍 Brussels effect or 🪃 boomerang?
Francesca Minetto (@hertieschool.bsky.social) shows that over 20% of EU legislation draws directly on international models, revealing that the EU not only exports but also imports policies 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Francesca Minetto (@hertieschool.bsky.social) shows that over 20% of EU legislation draws directly on international models, revealing that the EU not only exports but also imports policies 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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My message at the United Nations General Assembly #UNGA80: "Welfare cuts are fuelling far right rise"
Press release ➡️: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Press release ➡️: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Welfare cuts are fuelling far right rise, warns UN expert
NEW YORK – The rolling back of protections for people living in poverty has created fertile ground for far-right movements across the world, warned the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human ...
www.ohchr.org
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
My message at the United Nations General Assembly #UNGA80: "Welfare cuts are fuelling far right rise"
Press release ➡️: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Press release ➡️: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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🧭 Natascha Zaun takes the long view on how EU migration policy evolved from integration to selective consolidation: from Amsterdam to today's ad hoc Schengen suspension 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 23, 2025 at 5:34 AM
🧭 Natascha Zaun takes the long view on how EU migration policy evolved from integration to selective consolidation: from Amsterdam to today's ad hoc Schengen suspension 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Wonderful to see our paper on perceived inequality and populism at the EJPR. 👇
🆕 Perceived #Inequality and #Populism
Evidence from 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇮🇹 show that people who perceive great inequality are more likely to hold populist attitudes according to @lstoetze.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke & @heikekluever.bsky.social 🗣️
📖 #OA
Evidence from 🇩🇰🇩🇪🇮🇹 show that people who perceive great inequality are more likely to hold populist attitudes according to @lstoetze.bsky.social, Johannes Giesecke & @heikekluever.bsky.social 🗣️
📖 #OA
Perceived inequality and populism | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Perceived inequality and populism
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October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Wonderful to see our paper on perceived inequality and populism at the EJPR. 👇
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💶🛡️ Can the EU learn from 1915 Switzerland on financing defence?
⚔️ Tiziano Zgaga traces how Swiss cantons organised defence spending at the central level and what this experience can teach today’s EU about creating fiscal capacity👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
⚔️ Tiziano Zgaga traces how Swiss cantons organised defence spending at the central level and what this experience can teach today’s EU about creating fiscal capacity👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
a red and white flag with a white cross on it is flying in the wind
ALT: a red and white flag with a white cross on it is flying in the wind
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
💶🛡️ Can the EU learn from 1915 Switzerland on financing defence?
⚔️ Tiziano Zgaga traces how Swiss cantons organised defence spending at the central level and what this experience can teach today’s EU about creating fiscal capacity👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
⚔️ Tiziano Zgaga traces how Swiss cantons organised defence spending at the central level and what this experience can teach today’s EU about creating fiscal capacity👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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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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Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021.
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core
Paths to Power: A New Dataset on the Social Profile of Governments - Volume 55
www.cambridge.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Paths to Power (PtP) is out in @bjpols.bsky.social! It is a database with data on cabinet members' social profile globally from 1966-2021.
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
This is a great team effort with @chknutsen.bsky.social, @peterla.bsky.social, @inalkristiansen.bsky.social. But many more helped us along the way 🙏
A short 🧵
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Citizens in 🥜-regions closer to Russia became more supportive of EU defence, enlargement & foreign policy after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (exception: energy policy)
By @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @svenhegewald.bsky.social
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
By @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @svenhegewald.bsky.social
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Citizens in 🥜-regions closer to Russia became more supportive of EU defence, enlargement & foreign policy after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine (exception: energy policy)
By @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @svenhegewald.bsky.social
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
By @giorgiomalet.bsky.social and @svenhegewald.bsky.social
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....