My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

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We can rule out other explanations 1) the finding is not compositional. The beer attribute only appeals to working-class radical right voters, not working-class voters of other parties 2) the finding is not driven by gender stereotypes. Female candidates drinking beer are similarly appreciated (8/n)

While we find that all respondents dislike politicians ‘drinking wine’ (with the exceptions of the greens), only the radical right voters positively respond to the ‘drinking beer’ attribute. (7/n)

We test this argument in a conjoint experiment in the German-speaking parts of Switzerland. Our cultural consumption attribute differs between politicians drinking beer in a pub (‘Beiz’), meeting friends, and drinking wine while listening to classic music. (6/n)

Looking forward to presenting my new OUP book in the REPRESENT seminar (online) on Dec 6. Join us if you want to know more about centrist anti-establishment parties 👇
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My book is here! Such a wonderful feeling to see it in print. While the book covers a group of parties that is very successful in the volatile party systems of Centr.&Eastern Europe, I learned a lot from studying these parties for party system change in general. A thread 1/10

Finally our JEPP paper "Democracy challenged: different party families politicize different democratic principles" (with @gessler.bsky.social @tabouchadi.bsky.social @lleemann.bsky.social has a volume number. A thread 👇1/n