How are parties’ ideological positions and levels of populism connected? Michael Jankowski, Christina-Marie Juen and I propose an integrated framework to study populism in the two-dimensional policy space. This piece is forthcoming in EJPR journal: ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Robert A. Huber, Michael Jankowski, and Carsten Wegscheider investigate how discontent fuelled by unfulfilled policy preferences affects the level of populist attitudes: doi.org/10.1007/s11615…

As populism is hot, measuring its prevalence among political actors has been a core challenge of empirical research. In a new Political Analysis, Michael Jankowski and I discuss potential pitfalls of measuring populism through text-as-data approaches cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Capable but Not Empowered? Carsten Wegscheider (Carsten Wegscheider) & Marlene Mauk (@MaukMarlene) examine how emancipative values affect protest participation across different contexts. Read OPEN ACCESS in Political Studies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Political Studies Association Sage Politics #ECRs

How do radical right youth leaders in Austria and Germany understand democracy?  A new paper (available open access) by Luise Anter, Uwe Backes, reinhard heinisch, Steffen Kailitz and Carsten Wegscheider investigates.  tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨 New #OpenAccess publication! 🚨 Excited to share my article with Carsten Wegscheider in Politics & Governance. Common wisdom holds populist attitudes stem from discontent—but is this driven by economic grievances, political alienation, or both? cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgov… 🧵1/10

Kicking off the second day of the conference on #PoliticalSupport with a panel of social norms, affective polarization and consequences for democracies with Tim Allinger Carsten Wegscheider @M_Filsinger @AlinaZumbrunn Joe Phillips Uni Duisburg-Essen @unidue.bsky.social Empirical Political Science @unidue #Duisburg