❗️ Tue, April 16, 12:00-13:30 CET 📍 Room A 231 and via ZOOM: Colloquium of Research Dept. B with Ronja Sczepanski "Group Identities and Social Norms across the Left-right Divide Evidence from the Illegal Pushback of Refugees" 👉 mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/events/g… (1/2)

I'm heartbroken to say we lost my brother, Steven Attewell yesterday morning after a long struggle with cancer. I'll put personal feelings and thoughts elsewhere, but given his and my community here, I want to talk about Steve's political and intellectual contributions. 🧵:

🆕Nous lançons notre newsletter ! Retrouvez chaque mois les dernières actualités et les prochains événements du Centre. ✉️Consultez le 1er numéro : urbanisme, élites, cybercriminalité, migrations, recrutements... swz8w.mjt.lu/nl3/T28b3J1JLw… 🔔Abonnez-vous : swz8w.mjt.lu/wgt/swz8w/xx3w…

Very excited to see my paper with Jon Fiva out in QJPS! In the paper, we study the importance of political parties in disciplining and motivating their elected officials. nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

Our #EP2024 Voter-Advice-Application is now live (w/ EUMatrix.eu). You vote on 20 issues and we "match" you to the MEPs & national/Euro parties based on how they voted. Currently in English, but available next week in all official EU languages. Have fun! eurompmatch.eu

If you are in Stuttgart tonight and a German speaker, don't miss this panel discussion at IF Deutschland on “Europe to the test. Between Confrontation and Cooperation”, with Ronja Sczepanski among the speakers. institutfrancais.de/fr/stuttgart/e…

This is a fantastic article by not only of the smartest but also one of the kindest colleagues I had the pleasure to work with at ETH Zurich!

What issues do German parties talk about in their #europeanelections manifestos? Using NLP methods (and Malo Jan 's great idea), I classified the sentences of the 2019 and 2024 manifestos according to the Policy Agendas coding scheme. A 🧶 :

Very glad to see the final paper of my dissertation (coauthored with Martin Haselmayer) now out in WEP Journal! doi.org/10.1080/014023…

I can’t recommend this workshop enough!

Happy that our paper ‘Separated by Degrees: Social Closure by Education Levels Strengthens Contemporary Political Divides’ with Jonne Kamphorst ) has been accepted for publication at Comparative Political Studies. See (osf.io/preprints/osf/…), and a thread below! (1/9)

My reflections on the 2024 European Parliament elections, and what they might mean for the future of EU policy-making and politics in Europe European Election Studies UK in a Changing Europe LSE Government 👇

💭 Why do anti-pluralist parties subvert democracy when elected into government while others do not? 🆕 M. Jacob combines data from public opinion surveys & party systems in 100 democracies to examine citizen support for democracy from 1990-2019 bit.ly/3L0jfGt #OA 🔓

Tomorrow’s French legislative elections attract quite a lot of attention in the world. A 🧶 on what to expect 👇

We are hiring 2 assistant professors in European politics! Deadline still quite far away, but please spread the word. Feel free to reach out for any questions. P.S. we are a great team to work with (ask our recent arrivals e.g. Ronja Sczepanski)

One more day to apply for this professorship of political science on politics and governance of the EU in Freiburg: uni-freiburg.de/university/job…

I'm happy to see that my paper on the sources of social status was published EJPR journal while I was on vacation 🏖️ Using a conjoint design, fielded in 🇨🇭, I show that economic and cultural sources shape social status. 1/4

🤩 Yeeha, it's here: I am happy that my book on "Retrospective pledge voting and political accountability: The costs of Brocken promises" is published 🥳 👉🏻 shorturl.at/01BDw 🧵

2 tenure track positions to work in beautiful Paris. Please consider applying. Happy to answer any kind of questions (or to find a person who can)

If you weren't already enchanted by PSRM Journal's use of emojis😅, go read the article (open access) to learn how mainstream parties might succeed with a pro-immigrant platform (vis-à-vis an anti-immigrant one) through moralizing their messages: doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2…