Blaue Wahlkarten prägen die mediale Berichterstattung zu Wahlerfolgen der AfD. Vor den Landtagswahlen zeigen Christian Stecker, @KuhlenDaniel, Leon Siefken und ich in einem Beitrag für DVPW, warum diese Karten oft trügerische Eindrücke vermitteln können. 🧵👇shorturl.at/J7hQ5

Sorry for the self-promotion: I finally managed to put together a list of all the threads I've written so far on elections & other topics. You can find them on my Thread Reader Profile: shorturl.at/JHjxK or below in this thread👇. 🧵(1/N)

#Pretest #Item #database A new milestone has been reached with the inclusion of the latest item: The GESIS pretest database now comprises 3,000 items that have been cognitively tested at GESIS and are freely accessible. pretest.gesis.org/Pretest/

A commonly held notion is that Germany's far-right party AfD is especially successful in the country's more rural areas. However, a look at the party's election results in over 10,000 municipalities suggests that the link between rurality and AfD support is rather diffuse.🧵👇

John Peel's 1981 Festive 50

Call for Abstracts: Dr Gundi Knies @gknies.bsky.social, Andreas Klärner, and I are organizing a Special Session on “Subjective Well-Being and Geographies of Discontent in Rural Europe” (S32) at #ERSA2025 in Athens. Submission Deadline: February 25, 2025. ersa.eventsair.com/ersa2025/call-… ERSA

Joseph Weizenbaum (März 2000)

Publication alert Politische Vierteljahresschrift (PVS)! In a new research note, Marc Debus, Christian Stecker and I investigate how past support for far-right extremist parties shaped the AfD's electoral success in the 2024 European elections. A thread🧵. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We have just published a new article from our project Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequalities. It deals with electoral preferences in Central Europe (Czechia, eastern Germany, Poland): periodicos.uff.br/geographia/art…

New article on spatial inequalities and electoral preferences available on ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/38…

Ende letzter Woche gab es Kritik an diesem Post. Ich habe deshalb nochmals Befunde zu sozial- und wirtschaftspolitischen Einstellungen der AfD-Wählerschaft zusammengetragen. Ebenfalls habe ich zu diesem Thema Surveydaten der GLES und des Allbus ausgewertet. Ein langer Thread.🧵

Excellent 🧵. And - as also outlined by Steffen Mau in his recent book - this population decline is one of the reasons why the AfD phenomenon will not vanish quickly even with the best policies.

Proud to announce that my doctoral student Larissa Deppisch successfully defended her doctoral dissertation at Georg-August-University of Göttingen. Her cumulative dissertation is titled 'Feelings of being “left behind” in rural areas?' More info: thuenen.de/en/institutes/…

We have just published a new working paper from our Czech-German-Polish project ‘Social and Political Consequences of Spatial Inequality‘. In Thünen Working Paper 270 we detail our methodological approach for qualitative case studies. Download here: thuenen.de/media/publikat…

We secretly placed small flags on a university campus and monitored what happened over the course of two semesters. The Israeli flag had the highest removal rate; politically motivated removals disproportionately targeted Israeli flags; removals´were highest in hallways of...

Zug verpasst wegen Grenzkontrollen. Ich brauch's nicht.