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Max Heermann
@maxheermann.bsky.social
Political Scientist at ETH Zürich. Previously University of Konstanz.

Digital policy, European integration, International solidarity.
So if I submit two papers, only one can be accepted. Co-authors need to decide now who presents a paper?
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Are you aware of the new/forthcoming Korean adaptation of The Ax by the great Park Chan-wook?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKZp...

(Talking AI, YT just put a weird translated audio over it that I couldn't turn off and hope isn't shared)
NO OTHER CHOICE - Official Trailer - In Select Theaters Christmas
YouTube video by NEON
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Thanks for the shoutout! Your paper sounds super interesting, will read it soon!
October 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Residential mobility also matters: Urbanites who grew up in rural areas but later moved to cities are less polarised. Divided loyalties dampen affective divides — helping explain why ruralites are consistently more polarised than urbanites. 5/7
October 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Reposted by Max Heermann
This has important implications:

1) Creating a common front (or, "firewall" / "cordon sanitaire") against a radical right challenger requires a mainstream-party consensus. Once one party leaves this broad coalition, the effects of elite messaging weaken significantly.
September 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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The 2024 CHES included for the first time questions to measure positions on executive constraints & judicial independence, key features of horizontal accountability. Here, the rad right party family stands out as much less likely to support constraints on executives & judicial independence 4/
August 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
(2) Remember the rapid early trips of "Außenkanzler" Friedrich Merz? In a blog post for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social, @meraymaddah.bsky.social and I explore a rich new dataset on diplomatic travels to analyse where state leaders go for their inaugural foreign visits.
bsky.app/profile/ecpr...
July 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
July 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
(1) In the new In_equality magazine by @excinequality.bsky.social, we draw on original survey data from 9 countries to argue that public support for mutlilateral health policy is more robust than populists want to make you believe.
bsky.app/profile/exci...
🎉 New Issue Alert! The eighth issue of In_equality magazine is here: 7 Years of Research. Looking Back and Ahead. This edition dives into our research over the past seven years and takes a look at what’s next. Read it here (also available in German): t1p.de/hfl2c @Uni Konstanz
July 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM