Jürgen Maier
@maierjuergen.bsky.social
Political scientist working on the content, processing, and impact of political/campaign communication.
https://ksw.rptu.de/abt/politikwissenschaft/abteilung/politische-kommunikation/team/prof-dr-juergen-maier
https://ksw.rptu.de/abt/politikwissenschaft/abteilung/politische-kommunikation/team/prof-dr-juergen-maier
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🎬 Excited to co-direct a #ecprjs26 Workshop w/ J. Dedeigne on hostile communication styles 🤬
Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us!
📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay
Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us!
📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay
The Rise of Hostile Communication Styles and their Consequences for the Functioning of Modern Democracies
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 17, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🎬 Excited to co-direct a #ecprjs26 Workshop w/ J. Dedeigne on hostile communication styles 🤬
Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us!
📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay
Working on uncivil 🙄, intolerant 🙅🏻♀️, or violent 🤜 political rhetoric and its effects across countries, contexts, or media? Join us!
📅 Submit by 10 Dec: tinyurl.com/yjcaa3ay
😮 Hat Downs doch recht?! „Ich möchte uns jedenfalls nicht in einem Unterbietungswettbewerb sehen: Wer bietet sozusagen das niedrigste Rentenniveau an. Damit gewinnen wir keine Wahlen.“ So klar sprechen Politiker selten aus, dass es ihnen nicht um die Sache, sondern um Macht geht...
November 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
😮 Hat Downs doch recht?! „Ich möchte uns jedenfalls nicht in einem Unterbietungswettbewerb sehen: Wer bietet sozusagen das niedrigste Rentenniveau an. Damit gewinnen wir keine Wahlen.“ So klar sprechen Politiker selten aus, dass es ihnen nicht um die Sache, sondern um Macht geht...
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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions is now acceptable applications for the 2026-27 year. Please share and encourage people to apply!
Post Doctoral application apply.interfolio.com/177609
Visiting Scholar application apply.interfolio.com/177613
Post Doctoral application apply.interfolio.com/177609
Visiting Scholar application apply.interfolio.com/177613
November 15, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions is now acceptable applications for the 2026-27 year. Please share and encourage people to apply!
Post Doctoral application apply.interfolio.com/177609
Visiting Scholar application apply.interfolio.com/177613
Post Doctoral application apply.interfolio.com/177609
Visiting Scholar application apply.interfolio.com/177613
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🚨New Cambridge Element 🚨
Cognition and Conspiracy Theories by Andreas Musolff is now free to read until November 17th!
https://cup.org/47PLKBW
#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦
Cognition and Conspiracy Theories by Andreas Musolff is now free to read until November 17th!
https://cup.org/47PLKBW
#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
🚨New Cambridge Element 🚨
Cognition and Conspiracy Theories by Andreas Musolff is now free to read until November 17th!
https://cup.org/47PLKBW
#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦
Cognition and Conspiracy Theories by Andreas Musolff is now free to read until November 17th!
https://cup.org/47PLKBW
#Linguistics #LangSky 🐦🐦
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Are victimhood claims in political party manifestos and election programs on the rise? Yes, they are! Check out a brand new paper authored by @marlenevoit.bsky.social , @lucaskohler.bsky.social et al. -- published yesterday in @polpsyispp.bsky.social. Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops....
Victimhood claims in German political manifestos
Political campaigns often work with victimhood claims—stories construed around an (alleged) injustice that needs to be redressed or retaliated against. Notably, scholars have argued that victimhood c...
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Are victimhood claims in political party manifestos and election programs on the rise? Yes, they are! Check out a brand new paper authored by @marlenevoit.bsky.social , @lucaskohler.bsky.social et al. -- published yesterday in @polpsyispp.bsky.social. Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/pops....
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Ein Lieblingsprojekt (wieder) online. www.arbeiterzeitung.at Mehr als 200.000 Zeitungsseiten von 1945 - 1989 digital offen. Mit Volltextsuche von Politik bis Sport. Von 2004 bis 2021 gab es 2 Millionen Recherche-Cases. (Leider) weiterhin die einzige derartige zeitgeschichtliche Primärquelle.
Startseite | Archiv der Arbeiter-Zeitung
www.arbeiterzeitung.at
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Ein Lieblingsprojekt (wieder) online. www.arbeiterzeitung.at Mehr als 200.000 Zeitungsseiten von 1945 - 1989 digital offen. Mit Volltextsuche von Politik bis Sport. Von 2004 bis 2021 gab es 2 Millionen Recherche-Cases. (Leider) weiterhin die einzige derartige zeitgeschichtliche Primärquelle.
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4 days left! Spread the word
📣Job alert: we are hiring a PhD candidate in comparative political behavior @sspunil.bsky.social in beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland, to work with data from @cses.bsky.social @nesconsortium.bsky.social and other networks : bit.ly/4mWVrnE
Deadline: 9 November.
#polisky
Deadline: 9 November.
#polisky
Opportunités de carrière : Assistant·e·diplômé·e en sciences politiques dans le domaine des comportements politiques comparés (22500)
bit.ly
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
4 days left! Spread the word
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ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
2016-2020-2024-panel-merged-study - ANES | American National Election Studies
electionstudies.org
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
ANES Data Release! electionstudies.org/data-center/...
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
The 3-wave ANES panel is now available. It merges data from 3 election studies (2016-2020-2024), the first time the ANES has collected interviews of the same respondents across 3 presidential elections.
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Interested in the sociodemographic background, policy preferences, attitudes and campaign strategies of candidates for the 2025 Bundestag election? The @gles.bsky.social Candidate Study 2025 is now available (doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA... @gesis.org) and includes CCS Module IV
@ccs-project.bsky.social 👇
@ccs-project.bsky.social 👇
🚨New GLES release for #BTW25: GLES Candidate Study 2025 (ZA10102)
📅24/03–09/06/2025
👥512 interviews
🗳️Political background & nomination, campaigning, political issues, democracy & representation, sociodemographic background
🌍Includes CCS Module IV (@ccs-project.bsky.social)
📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...
📅24/03–09/06/2025
👥512 interviews
🗳️Political background & nomination, campaigning, political issues, democracy & representation, sociodemographic background
🌍Includes CCS Module IV (@ccs-project.bsky.social)
📥 doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA...
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Interested in the sociodemographic background, policy preferences, attitudes and campaign strategies of candidates for the 2025 Bundestag election? The @gles.bsky.social Candidate Study 2025 is now available (doi.org/10.4232/5.ZA... @gesis.org) and includes CCS Module IV
@ccs-project.bsky.social 👇
@ccs-project.bsky.social 👇
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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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Out now: key data from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study. 75 countries, >32,350 journalists, >300 researchers, seven years of successful collaboration. Many thanks to all who contributed to this project!
www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/
www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Out now: key data from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study. 75 countries, >32,350 journalists, >300 researchers, seven years of successful collaboration. Many thanks to all who contributed to this project!
www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/
www.worldsofjournalism.org/reports-wjs3/
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🤖 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 🇳🇱
Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025
🧵Thread
Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025
🧵Thread
October 23, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🤖 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐈 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 𝐃𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐀𝐈𝐠𝐧 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫 🇳🇱
Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025
🧵Thread
Less than one week before the Dutch elections, @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social & I looked at over 20k posts to reveal patterns in the usage of AI-generated visuals across Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X. #tk2025
🧵Thread
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The increase in science funding applications from 2023 to 2025 across programs is huge.
And most likely the competition will increase unless investments are made in science and research (which have repeatedly shown to pay off later for society at large).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
And most likely the competition will increase unless investments are made in science and research (which have repeatedly shown to pay off later for society at large).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.
www.nature.com
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The increase in science funding applications from 2023 to 2025 across programs is huge.
And most likely the competition will increase unless investments are made in science and research (which have repeatedly shown to pay off later for society at large).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
And most likely the competition will increase unless investments are made in science and research (which have repeatedly shown to pay off later for society at large).
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New publication alert🔓🚨
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.
October 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
New publication alert🔓🚨
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.
Toxic speech is widespread on social media – but do users mirror the toxic behavior of their ingroup or react defensively to outgroup toxicity?
Our new paper in JCMC examines how ingroup and outgroup behavior shape the spread of toxicity on social media.
📣 Studie zur Wahrnehmung und Wirkung der TV-Debatten 2025 mit Marco Hirsch, Kevin Brendel, Peter Hevesi, Paul Lukowicz, @jenniferbast.bsky.social und @hannahdecker.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.5771/0340...
doi.org/10.5771/0340...
ZParl Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen - Nomos eLibrary
In der ZParl werden alle Bereiche der Politik behandelt, in denen es um Legitimations- und Repräsentationsfragen geht. Bundes- und Landesparlamentarismu…
doi.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📣 Studie zur Wahrnehmung und Wirkung der TV-Debatten 2025 mit Marco Hirsch, Kevin Brendel, Peter Hevesi, Paul Lukowicz, @jenniferbast.bsky.social und @hannahdecker.bsky.social.
doi.org/10.5771/0340...
doi.org/10.5771/0340...
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This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!
ReplicationResearch.org is now open for submissions!
Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.
Submit replications and reproductions from many different fields, as well as conceptual contributions. With diamond OA, open and citable peer review reports, and reproducibility checks, we push the boundaries of open and fair publishing.
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This is a highly interesting, timely and great initiative - a new diamond OA journal for #replication research! It is interdisciplinary, but #PolSci is specifically invited. Hence, if you or someone you know has an interesting replication paper, do not hesitate to submit!
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📢 New Publication Alert!
Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup
👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup
👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
This paper investigates how spatial party competition shapes topical negative campaigning during Germany's 2021 federal election. We define topical negative campaigning as attacks on opponents that...
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 8:26 AM
📢 New Publication Alert!
Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup
👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...
Thrilled to share our latest article with @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Johannes Steup
👉 Topical Negative Campaigning Under Spatial Pressure: Party-Level Strategies for Attacks Across Multiple Issues
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0964...
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Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm
Open Media and Communication Research
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October 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Have added Global Perspectives in Communication (@gpccomm.bsky.social) to @moritzbuchi.bsky.social's and my list of open access journals in the field of Communication. #openscience #opencomm
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Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
W 2-Professur für Politische Psychologie (m/w/d)
jobs.rptu.de
September 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Exciting new job in Landau 🤩 We’re searching for a Professor of Political
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
Psychology (W2). Very much looking forward to your applications – if you
have any questions, please reach out to me. jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...
Die Arbeitseinheit Politische Kommunikation der RPTU in Landau sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (100% TVL-13) für 3 Jahre.
jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2...
Post bitte gerne teilen!
jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2...
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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter/Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (m/w/d)
jobs.rptu.de
September 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Die Arbeitseinheit Politische Kommunikation der RPTU in Landau sucht einen wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter (100% TVL-13) für 3 Jahre.
jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2...
Post bitte gerne teilen!
jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/2...
Post bitte gerne teilen!
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New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America
@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
www.pnas.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
New in PNAS with @seanjwestwood.bsky.social and @ylelkes.bsky.social: Why depolarization is hard: Evaluating attempts to decrease partisan animosity in America
@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
@prl.bsky.social @pnas.org
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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▶️ Party Politics
👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social
📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes.
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👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social
📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:40 PM
▶️ Party Politics
👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social
📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes.
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👉🏽 Section chairs: @zeynsom.bsky.social & @sarahwagner.bsky.social
📢 This section welcomes work on party organizations, party electoral strategies, parties in government, as well as electoral and behavioral consequences of parties’ strategies & their organizational changes.
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Here is the (open access) scientific paper for folks interested in digging deeper:
Evaluating the Performance of Past Climate Model Projections
Evaluation of uninitialized multidecadal climate model future projection performance provides a concrete test of model skill
The quasi-linear relationship between model/observed forcings and temper...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Here is the (open access) scientific paper for folks interested in digging deeper:
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In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!
Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!