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Two three-year postdocs in quasi- or survey-experimental social science. The Department of Society and Politics at Aalborg University (Faculty of Social Sciences) is recruiting two full-time postdoctoral researchers to work on the...

I'm hiring two three-year postdocs and an RA for my project on how police presence affects perceived safety.

I'm looking for candidates who can contribute to the theoretical development and who have strong expertise in causal inference.

Deadline: March 1.

www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

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Hi pol/soc science community! Next semester, I teach a course on how to write a term paper in (empirical) political science. I love Powner's book "Empirical Research & Writing". Do you have any further recommendations (in English or German)? Looking forward to the wisdom of the crowd 🕵🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍💻

‼️ New paper out in @polbehavior.bsky.social !

We ask whether the politically active (in terms of electoral or other forms of participation) are better represented? See Jesper's detailed 🧵 below for more info on the paper! 👇

Häufigste Antwort bei Menschen unter 50 "keine Partei", dann AfD...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

Gruppe von Studierenden und Steffen Mau vor der Alten Mensa in Göttingen.

💫Ein krönender Abschluss meines Seminars "Mehr als drei Jahrzehnte nach Mauerfall: Wie gespalten ist Deutschland?"! Die Studierenden durften @steffenmau.bsky.social interviewen. Danke für dir spannenden Einblicke und herzlich willkommen in Göttingen! @uni-goettingen.de @ifdemgoettingen.bsky.social

UCD-co-led research into AI’s influence on democracy awarded seed funding

Congratulations to my amazing @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucdpolitics.bsky.social colleague @stefanmueller.bsky.social on his latest project

www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...

Das @manifestoproj.bsky.social analysiert seit vielen Jahren politische Texte - aber unser Datensatz ist voll mit Zahlen. In einem Artikel in den neuen WZB-Mitteilungen haben meine Kolleg:innen und ich anhand von sechs Zahlen beschrieben, was wir da eigentlich so machen. 🔍🖥️📄

🌟 PHD FELLOWSHIP ALERT! 🌟

I’m hiring 1 PhD fellow for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting 09/26! Great PhD community + int'l & supportive environment + FUN city. 💰for conferences + workshops! Lots of mentoring & career development opportunities! Deadline Jan 29th. Please apply!

Conflict on the campaign trail? How campaign effort and electoral competitiveness shape affective polarization Concerns about the consequences of affective polarization for governing and democracy have resulted in a strong surge of publications on the topic. Th…

New paper with Justin Robinson @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Our starting point is the observation that there is much variation in affective polarization across the UK.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

AMSTERDAM ❤️ ALSO BEAUTIFUL IN WINTER 😍 🎿🧀

One more week to apply to this postdoc position in Political Communication @ascor.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing 🫶

Please reach out if you have any questions.

@polcomm.bsky.social @fgkommpol.bsky.social @alessandronai.bsky.social

Research associate – doctoral candidate (75%) (ID 377) The Manifesto Project analyses parties’ election manifestos in order to study parties’ policy preferences. To this end, the project conducts conte...

📣 Come work with us! The @wzb.bsky.social Center for Civil Society Research is looking for a research associate/doctoral candidate (75%) for a 3 year period, starting on Apr 1, 2026. The researcher will work in the Manifesto Project. More:
wzb.hr4you.org/job/view/428...

Apply by Jan 25, 2026! 🗓️

We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher:

- focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related
- 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26
- 30h/week, incl some teaching
- deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

🚨Job alert! 🚨

I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.

⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26

More info:

🧵 PhD position (75%) in Political Behavior / Political Communication / CSS
📍 LMU Munich | ⏳ 3 years | 🗓 start March–May 2026

We’re hiring for DemocraGPT, a @bidt.bsky.social-funded project developing an AI-based training for difficult conversations in times of growing polarization

@luiseante.bsky.social et al. geben hochspannende Einblicke in das Demokratieverständnis von Führungspersönlichkeiten in der FPÖ- und AfD-Jugend.

Challenging Liberal Principles: Understanding of Democracy among Populist Radical Right Youth Leaders in Austria and Germany doi.org/10.1080/0964...

🚨 A must-read by my colleagues @iguinaudeau.bsky.social & @egrossman.bsky.social for anyone interested in French politics and the state of democracy more broadly

🫵WE WANT YOU 🎓
Are you interested in political communication, negative campaigning, and social norms? Are you experienced in quantitative methods? Do you have good rain clothes?

Then our postdoc position might be just for you: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Thank you for sharing. Merry Christmas

🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years)

We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald.

✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group

🚨🚨 job alert time 🚨🚨 @unibremen.bsky.social

3 PhD positions within the 3rd phase of the @sfb1342.bsky.social, with a focus on computational methods and/or on protest mobilization, specifically with a focus on Africa.

Starting time: early 2026, deadline: 14th of January.

more info below:

La proportionnelle : une urgence démocratique L'adoption du mode de scrutin proportionnel apparaît aujourd'hui, selon deux politistes, comme une condition nécessaire pour redonner à la démocratie française la capacité de renouer avec des gouverne...

👀 À lire sur @laviedesidees.bsky.social : « La proportionnelle, une urgence démocratique », une note co-écrite avec @egrossman.bsky.social qui nous tient très à cœur dans la crise politique que nous traversons. laviedesidees.fr/La-proportio...

BJPolS abstract discussing the effectiveness of coalition governments in Germany, Finland, and hypothetically constructed vignettes, analyzing voter response to unfulfilled electoral pledges and the subtleties of coalition commitments.

From October 2025 -

Election Pledges in Multiparty Governments: When do Voters Accept Non-Fulfillment? - https://cup.org/4hIsvyV

- Juha Ylisalo, @theresmatthiess.bsky.social, Katrin Praprotnik & @laurenzennser.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

Zugleich gibt es viele ermutigende Initiativen, die sich für einen Austausch und Demokratiearbeit einsetzen - vom informellen Austausch und neuen Begegnungsformaten bis hin zu größeren Projekte, wie das "Projekt Demokratiepatinnen und Demokratiepaten" in der niedersächsischen Polizei. 5/5

Es bleiben viele Herausforderungen: von der Frage der Erreichbarkeit vieler Bürger:innen, die sich abgewendet haben - oder drohen, sich abzuwenden, bis hin zur desolaten finanziellen Situation der Kommunen, die v.a. auf Kosten von Freizeitangeboten und Demokratiearbeit gehen. 4/5

Bei der Veranstaltung war der Blick auf die Verwaltung auf der Landes- und kommunalen Ebene gerichtet. Ein Subsystem unserer Demokratie, das oft aus dem Blick gerät. Dabei ist gerade hier der Kontakt zum Staat für Bürger:innen erfahrbar & prägend. Die Kommunen sind das Rückgrat der Demokratie! 3/5

Demokratie(arbeit) findet auf allen Ebenen statt. Wir brauchen mehr Begegnungsräume, offene Kontroversen & zugleich eine wehrhafte Demokratie. Aber auch bei der Herstellung des politischen Outputs ist "Luft nach oben". 2/5

Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around? (Published 2021) An interactive, street-level tour of America’s full political landscape.

🎅5️⃣ Do You Think You Can Tell How a Neighborhood Voted Just by Looking Around? By Emily Badger, Josh Katz, Kevin Quealy, and Rumsey Taylor from @upshot.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy to share that the German Research Foundation DFG funds my new project: “Countering Polarization: The Borda count as a basis for proportional representation”. I am recruiting 2 PhD candidates to join me in Hannover as of March 2026 or later! Feel free to reach out!

We're looking for a colleague (postdoc) 📢 @politikuhh.bsky.social
3+3 years
Doing your own research while teaching 2.5 courses per semester
Research agenda with links to our team (democracy, digital politics, political competition/behaviour)
DL 🗓️ 05/01
stellen.uni-hamburg.de/jobposting/6...

🚨New VAA Dataset🚨
@wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Some insights 🧵1/n