Eine starke Zivilgesellschaft für die Demokratie braucht (auch): Geld. Olaf Scholz stellen Sie sicher, dass diese Organisationen im #Haushalt berücksichtigt werden! #GeradeJetztFuerAlle weact.campact.de/petitions/demo…

🗓️Junge Wissenschaft trifft Politik am 17.6.: ein Morgen am WZB mit SPD-Generalsekretär Kevin Kühnert und den Themen: Demokratie, Vertrauen in die Institutionen und die veränderte Rolle von Kommunikation in Politik und Gesellschaft. Zur Anmeldung: wzb.eu/de/veranstaltu…

❓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

Für alle, die gestern keine Zeit hatten und weil der livestream recht holprig war - hier kann man die Diskussionsrunde nachschauen: youtube.com/watch?v=Wh0xW5…

🚨New article EJPR journal with my amazing co-authors Jan Schwalbach & @NoamHimmelrath: "Location matters! Geospatial dynamics of MP responses to Covid-19 protests in multilevel systems" 🔓Open Access: doi.org/10.1111/1475-6…  🧵A thread 1/6

Arrived in Lyon for the timely CES conference RADICAL EUROPE. Looking forward to our Panel with @eylemyap on Comparative Approaches to Extremism(s) on Friday. We present novel data on Islamist and right-wing extremism, individual radicalisation and framing.

Thanks to Matthias Dilling & Léonie de Jonge / @leoniedejonge.bsky.social for organising this workshop on responses to the far right. Can't wait to discuss this important topic over the next days at Swansea University.I'll present my new interview project on how and why media actors respond to the far right.

Coole Überraschung in der Post! Unsere Studie mit @dasalgon im neuen @Katapultmagazin kurz zusammengefasst & visualisiert.🗺 Wie Rechtsextreme öffentliche Debatten prägen (1994-2021): ⤵️

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

Programmatic accommodation of far-right challengers often entails rhetoric that erodes norms of civility and normalises far-right positions. This, a growing body of research shows, can help incite violence, especially with a "transmitter" as powerful as social media.

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

"Anstatt der Exotisierung Ostdeutschlands ist für ein besseres Verständnis der rechtswählenden Ostdeutschen ein internationaler Turn erforderlich. Schon allein um die Ursachenforschung nicht regional zu verkürzen." - mein Gastbeitrag in der heutigen @FAZ. faz.net/aktuell/feuill…

❓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 🧵

Join us for an online talk by Ken Roberts (Cornell) on 'Movement Parties from the Left and their Political Consequences in Latin America and Southern Europe' 🗓️ Monday, Oct 14, 5:30 p.m. CET 📣 Comment by Dontella della Porta, moderated by Sofía Donoso tinyurl.com/bdhcs6ej

💥 ‘Movement Parties of the Far Right’ is out 31 October 2024 on Oxford University Press! Pietro Castelli and I are very pleased with the result and grateful for the early praise received. Hope you enjoy reading it—we look forward to hearing your thoughts! Oxford Academic @OUPPolitics

Für unser EU Horizon Projekt „ProTest: Protest Culture under Transformation and as a Transformative Power“ suchen Sebastian Haunss und ich eine/n Doktorand*in (65%, E13 TVL, 3 Jahre) an der Universität Bremen. Mehr Infos hier: forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/de/7/201106061…

📢 I’m over the moon to share that my Emmy Noether project, The New Climate Divide will be supported by DFG public | @[email protected]!✨ It includes a 6-year postdoc position and two 4-year PhD positions, which I’ll be advertising soon. If ClimateDivide sounds intriguing, stay tuned! 👀 Short 🧵👇

🚨 Postdoc gesucht (100% - 3 Jahre)! 🚨 Du brennst für Protestforschung und innovative Text- und Umfrageanalysen? Werde Teil unseres Teams WZB Freie Universität MOTRA 📅 Bewerbungsfrist: 5. Januar 2025 wzb.eu/de/jobs/wissen…

Last Friday I successfully defended my doctoral thesis. I will need some more time to fully process this, but I did it - I am finally #PhDone. The past years have been really challenging, sometimes exhausting, but also fulfilling.

❓What are movement parties, how can we define them, measure them quantitatively, and identify examples in 🇪🇺? Our new introduction with Fred Paxton to the special issue of Acta Politica on "Movement Parties in Europe" answers these questions: doi.org/10.1057/s41269… Short 🧵👇