In an op-ed in today’s The Guardian I examine where the success of the far right comes from. My main claim is that neither parties nor voters have fundamentally changed. Instead, they have been driven into each others’ arms. #thread 1/11 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

🆕 Why do young people vote less than older citizens? Using CSES data from 58 countries, Bruno Castanho Silva (@bcastanho.bsky.social) argues that young people are less likely to vote in #elections 🗳️ if they don't feel their age represented 🙋‍♀️ by candidates 👉 bit.ly/4aSMaGZ #OA #representation

🚨New article❗️ Where has everyone gone? Depopulation and voting behaviour in Spain EJPR journal with my brilliant coauthors Álvaro Sánchez-García Maria Delgado-García ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… UPF Ciències Polítiques i Socials 🚜Does depopulation change electoral support? Which party benefits from it?🧵

👌Nächsten Montag - 17.6. - 10:30 - WZB trifft die Wissenschaft sich mit Kevin Kühnert👌 auch mit vier grossartigen Wissenschaftler:innen unseres Zentrums für Zivilgesellschaftsforschung: Lisa Zehnter Teresa Völker Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti Christoph Ivanusch

❓Are the Politically Active Better Represented❓ Jennifer Oser will answer this question in her talk on June 28, 2024, at 4 pm. Please join us ONLINE or WZB The talk is part of our lecture series "Political Conflict and Civil Society" wzb.eu/de/node/82344

🎉 Excited that my paper 'The impact of local protests on political elite communication: evidence from Fridays for Future in Germany' found a permanent home with page numbers in Volume 34, Issue 3 of JEPOP Check out findings in thread below 👇 🔗doi.org/10.1080/174572…

📢 How does protest location affect the likelihood of politicians’ engagement? Using quantitative text analysis, Lennart Schürmann Jan Schwalbach & Noam Himmelrath examine geospatial dynamics of MP responses to #Covid19 protests in multilevel systems #OA 🔓 bit.ly/4eYRufx

🚨 Publication Altert More than happy to share that my very first paper is now out with EJPR journal 🥳 Which discursive elements make (non-)populist messages appealing to varying groups of people? Link to full article: doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… #OpenAccess 🔓

🤩I'm thrilled to announce that my book "Organizing for Independence" will be published with Amsterdam Univ Press this fall. The publication date could not be more fitting: October 1 - exactly seven years after the referendum that is at the core of the book. aup.nl/en/book/978904…

So happy to see this out and to have found such a great home for the paper PRXJournal 😍

Join our fantastic team at the Center for Civil Society Research - PhD position in political sociology (5 years - 75% E13 salary grade) Freie Universität Sociology FU Berlin WZB - All details: fu-berlin.de/universitaet/b…

❓How widespread is the new wave of environmental protests, and how do the profile and drivers of these events differ from others? 🔥 New paper with Swen Hutter in the JEPP on Environmental Protests in Europe See the 📜👉tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Three key findings 🧵

How do European publics perceive autocratic hosts of sport events? New study PLOS ONE w/ Johannes Gerschewski, Heiko Giebler, Sebastian Hellmeier & Michael Zürn. ➡️ doi.org/10.1371/journa… Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS) Uni Konstanz Department of Politics & Public Admіn Universität Konstanz

🎄October 1 will be early Christmas in Venezuela and also for me: My first book "Organizing for Independence" will be published with Amsterdam University Press. 🎅 Get it as a present for your loved ones! 📚 aup.nl/en/book/978904…