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PhD Candidate U of Frankfurt, Institute of Political Science.
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Timo Sprang @timo-sprang.net · Jun 11
🧵 Do radical parties receive fewer ministries? I investigated this fundamental question in my first single-authored article which is now online in
@cpsjournal.bsky.social. Find out here 👇
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kai-arzheimer.com
Why do @theresabernemann.bsky.social, @timo-sprang.net and I believe that #History is overrated (where the #farright is concerned)? #Videoabstract, full free article here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 📓 💻
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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laurenzennser.bsky.social
Der @juergenklatzer.bsky.social hat mich zu unserer (@manuelwagner.bsky.social) jüngsten Studie über Politiker:innen aus der Arbeiterklasse befragt:

www.falter.at/maily/202511...
Interview: "Politik ist zu einem Mittel- und Oberschichtgewerbe geworden"
Woher rekrutieren Parteien ihr politisches Personal? Eine neue Studie hat sich die Biografien von 2000 Regierungsmitgliedern angeschaut und liefert spannende Ergebnisse.
www.falter.at
November 15, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de
Edeltraud Roller wäre heute 68 geworden.
November 11, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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kottke.org
Here's next week's cover of the New Yorker
A New Yorker magazine cover illustration showing a crowded subway car filled with diverse passengers of different ages, ethnicities, and styles. New NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is in the middle of the scene, holding on to the rail.
November 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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jasfitzpatrick.bsky.social
Crazy story: I finished my habilitation with my inaugural lecture last Thursday.👩‍🎓 A lot of work completed under not always easy circumstances: #MomInAcademia #FirstGen At the same time, I am grateful for all the support along the way 🍀🙏 @kai-arzheimer.com @jasminriedl.bsky.social & Simon Franzmann
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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haakjes.bsky.social
Bildungssystem durchgespielt!🎓✨Antrittsvorlesung der großartigen @jasfitzpatrick.bsky.social mit würdigem Ende (s. Bild). Eine inspirierende & engagiertere Wissenschaftlerin, geschätzte Koautorin & wichtige Wegbegleiterin: danke, dass ich bei diesem besonderen Moment dabei sein durfte!
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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kai-arzheimer.com
Top work with top peeps @theresabernemann.bsky.social & @timo-sprang.net
rrresrobot.bsky.social RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · Oct 17
Are you interested in the #RadicalRight in Germany? → K. Arzheimer, T. Bernemann, and T. Sprang. “Oppression of Catholics in Prussia Does Not Explain Spatial Differences in Support for the Radical Right in Germany. A Critique of Haffert (2022)”. In: Electoral Studies 89 (2024),
October 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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donyhu.bsky.social
I find it so silly seeing so many articles that claim X percent of ChatGPT answers are wrong. I can create a test where it gets 100 percent of the questions wrong. To me, that's an irrelevant metric. It's on users to understand what good questions are to ask of AI, what good use cases are.
October 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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laurenzennser.bsky.social
🚨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.
October 29, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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adambonica.bsky.social
Look. It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it.

In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of +1.4 pts.

This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.
The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
timo-sprang.net
Word.
kai-arzheimer.com Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Oct 21
The more general point ,I guess, is that, somewhat unsurprisingly, a man without previous executive experience who left parliament in a huff back in 2009, appears not to be very good at politics
kai-arzheimer.com Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · Oct 21
Apart from everything else, #PolSci research suggests that this is not even a winning strategy - on the contrary. But what do I know? #GermanPolitics is of course totally different from how politics is done everywhere else, so why bother looking across borders?
October 22, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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haakjes.bsky.social
⌛ Time flew by during my research stay at @gesis.org Cologne this Aug/Sept! I had the pleasure of working with Dennis Abel & Stefan Jünger on how weather extremes shape climate policy support across political orientations. Grateful for the inspiring environment and great collaboration!
October 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
timo-sprang.net
Missed this, but amazing feeling to be known by this great bot! 😎
October 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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simonotjes.bsky.social
It would make government formation more difficult, coalitions less stable and decrease governability. Small parties like SGP and CU play a crucial role in ensuring the governability of this country.
Larger parties make the country difficult to govern with their mutual vetos
October 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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jwaeckerle.bsky.social
New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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jeremycliffe.bsky.social
There's a fascinating case study to be done on the different strategies of Macron and Sánchez. Both emerged, against the odds, from centrist milieux in the mid-2010s to lead their countries since 2017/18. But their fates are totally different.
October 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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garritzmannj.bsky.social
I'm super happy & proud to be able to work with this rock star group of a team (and academic guests)! 🧠🧠🧠💫🙏 @goetheuni.bsky.social @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social

- and it's really nice to check out parts of Frankfurt that I hadn't been to as part of our team event
September 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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arminschaefer.bsky.social
I am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word.
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de
August 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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arminschaefer.bsky.social
I'm delighted to see this article out in @govandopp.bsky.social! Jonas Wenker and I show that losing an election has a far stronger negative effect on populist voters than on non-populist ones. For populists, losing signals that the system is broken. 1/5 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Losers’ Dissent: How Election Results Shape Populists’ Satisfaction with Democracy | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
Losers’ Dissent: How Election Results Shape Populists’ Satisfaction with Democracy
www.cambridge.org
August 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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garritzmannj.bsky.social
I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.
July 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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valentimvicente.bsky.social
I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section.

I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
apsa.bsky.social APSA @apsa.bsky.social · Jul 14
Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Award Winners

APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the…
Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Award Winners
APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the APSA Awards Reception during the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Vancouver, BC, Canada. DISSERTATION AWARDS Gabriel A. Almond Award…
politicalsciencenow.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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kai-arzheimer.com
🚨 🚨 🚨 New OA publication in Research&Politics @respol.bsky.social.bsky.social‬ out today: #Islamophobia in Western Europe is unrelated to ✝️ #religiosity but highly correlated with #farright attitudes. A short 🧵

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
A structural equation model of far-right attitudes, religiosity, and Islamophobia
July 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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kai-arzheimer.com
Want more research on the #radicalright 📚 in your timeline? Easy: follow the 🤖
July 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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garritzmannj.bsky.social
I have a new paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The paper situates discussions about the Educational Cleavage in a longer temporal context (back to the Medieval time) to show that there have ALWAYS been conflicts between educational groups. (1/3)
June 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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robertwelz.bsky.social
New paper in @prxjournal.bsky.social

We conducted 4 experiments in Germany to examine how voters respond when opposition parties choose conflict or cooperation with the government.

Findings: Cooperation tends to win more support

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2474...

#polisky
Screenshot of the abstract of the paper, which reads: Opposition parties are central actors in accounts of democracies (e.g. Dahl 1966). Prior research addressed issues such as institutional factors to gauge the power wielded by opposition parties, and how they affect opposition parties’ choices for engaging in conflictual behaviour vis-à-vis the government or opting for cooperative approaches. However, scant attention has been devoted to understanding citizens’ views of such opposition party behaviour. We aim to fill this gap by examining how opposition parties’ choices of conflict or cooperation with the government affect citizens’ evaluations of both opposition and government parties. Our study centres on the case of Germany, where the considerable institutional power vested in opposition parties provides a framework for genuine choice between cooperation and conflict. We use data from four large-scale survey experiments in which we systematically manipulated opposition party behaviour. These experiments were conducted between 2020 and 2022, allowing us to study the effects of opposition party behaviour in different contexts, including cases of crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and in the realm of more everyday politics. Although mixed, the results suggest that cooperative opposition party behaviour provides a promising, often overlooked avenue for opposition parties to attract citizens.
June 23, 2025 at 12:09 PM