Sarah C. Dingler

cc @hildecoffe.bsky.social

Gleichbehandlungskommission kritisiert Postenvergabe unter Gewessler "Sachfremde Motive" waren laut Gleichbehandlungskommission bei einer wichtigen Stellenbesetzung im Umweltministerium "in hohem Maß ausschlaggebend"

Wir kennen das: Spitzenfunktionen in der Verwaltung, die mit ehem. Mitarbeiter:innen aus Ministerkabinetten besetzt werden.

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Aber wie verbreitet ist das Phänomen?

Dazu erscheint heute eine Studie von mir: doi.org/10.15203/424...

BJPolS abstract of a scholarly article discussing the influence of legislators' gender on the questioning behaviors in parliamentary activities.

From January 2026 -

Gender Bias in Legislative Oversight: Do Parliamentarians Control Women Ministers More Tightly than Men Ministers? - cup.org/45Rm9Z6

- @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, @lenastephan.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social & @camilamontero.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

We‘re very excited for the next edition of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim! ✨

Join us and apply until 1 March!

More info in @melinscribe.bsky.social‘s thread below and here: summerschoolwpm.org

Application form: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/wpm/

💡 Understanding this bias helps explain broader challenges women face in political leadership roles and may inform reforms in parliamentary practices.

⚖️ Tighter scrutiny can create unequal working conditions: women ministers have to respond to more questions and justify decisions more often, thus, having less time for policy-making.

🔍 Based on interviews with 32 MPs we explore why this pattern exists: MPs implicit assumptions that women are less capable or trustworthy are drivers of increased scrutiny.

📈 The findings are clear: women ministers receive more oversight (written and oral questions) than male ministers across similar contexts.

📊 Using data from five European democracies since 1990, we analyze how often MPs ask written and oral questions to ministers.

🤔 The core argument: parliamentarians ask more questions to women than men ministers because of stereotypes about competence and trustworthiness i.e., bias, not performance.

📚 Our findings in short: Oversight is not neutral. Gender shapes how ministers are treated in parliament-even in established democracies.

🚨 So excited about our new paper in @bjpols.bsky.social : h7.cl/1iliZ! Together with @corinnakroeber.bsky.social, @lenastephan.bsky.social, @camilamontero.bsky.social, we analyze how gender shapes the extent to which ministers are scrutinized by parliament.

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

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🚨 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

Blurring or Accident? Voluntary and Involuntary Sources of Ambiguous Party Positions and Their Consequences for Democracy European Consortium for Political Research

Working on party positioning, policy complexity, or political ambiguity using text-analytic, survey-experimental, or other methods? 💡

If you still need a home for your paper at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2026, then look no further! 👇

Only 5 days left to apply! ⏰

#ecprjs26

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"Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters"

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy | PSO Journal | Wiley Online Library The communication of political leaders towards voters has become increasingly important in modern democracies – even more so during crises. This article addresses the question of which factors influe...

@lorehayek.at, @sarahdingler.bsky.social und @msenn.bsky.social vom @polsciuibk.bsky.social haben sich die Frage gestellt „Who Gets to Speak When the Roof is on Fire? Leadership in Political Crisis Communication“ 🎤

➡️ Den ganzen Artikel gleich hier lesen: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

When blame governments other governments in crises?

🎤 @christianschw.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social, @lorehayek.at & @msenn.bsky.social analyse Covid-19 press conferences

👉 They identifiy crisis severity, geography, and value proximity as key drivers

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Wahlsystem und Wahlrecht – Barrieren und Lösungsansätze für die Wahl von Frauen - Nomos eLibrary

📢 Neue Publikation

Mit @sarahdingler.bsky.social und @corinnakroeber.bsky.social habe ich für die Zeitschrift des @juristinnenbund.bsky.social den Beitrag „Wahlsystem und Wahlrecht – Barrieren und Lösungsansätze für die Wahl von Frauen“ verfasst. Hier gehts zum Heft: www.djb.de/zeitschrift/...

Congrats!!!

Mapping rhetorical styles in political crisis communication Crisis communication is inherently rhetorical, as it seeks to persuade audiences to accept interpretations, follow directives, and trust leaders. Studies that apply Aristotle's triad of appeals to ...

We (i.e. @lorehayek.at ek.at, @christianschw.bsky.social, @sarahdingler.bsky.social and I ) address this question of how to identify rhetorical styles in crisis communication in a new (#openaccess) publication in Policy Studies: doi.org/10.1080/0144...

We are looking for a lecturer in Comparative European Politics at Oxford. Join an incredibly stimulating intellectual environment. It is a 5-year position that should be great for early career researchers. Please get in touch if you have any questions.

New #openaccess publication by @lorehayek.at, @sarahdingler.bsky.social and myself: "Who Gets to Speak When the Roof Is on Fire? Leadership in Political Crisis Communication" in Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
doi.org/10.1002/rhc3...

2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior 2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices

I'm recruiting 2 PhD researchers to work with me on a project studying how social groups influence vote choices!

Info on the position and how to apply 👉 www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Please share with interested students who would like to move to beautiful Leuven!

Very excited to be part of this lecture! Come and join us later today.

Austria 🇦🇹 is often in the lower quintile when it comes to support for gender equality measures. Only 26% agree that parental support should be equal between men and women. 😐

#GenderEquality
ps. #Germany not much higher.

Disentangling different types of sexist attitudes and vote choice in Germany With a woman as head of German government for 16 years, many hoped (or feared) for significant progress in the areas of gender equality. Rather than progress, however, contributors have noticed a r...

Sexism isn't just driving support for the radical right — it shaped vote choice across the board in #btw21 🗳🇩🇪

Our new research shows how different forms of sexism influenced sympathy for chancellor candidates and party choice.

(Spoiler: not just the AfD!)
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are you a parent, and an early career scholar? Are you going to #EPSA? I'm thinking of organizing an event on #parenting and #academia at EPSA. Are you interested? Drop me an email. I'm looking for "partners in crime".

***Reminder***

Submit your abstracts for the ECREA Political Communication Section Interim Conference at the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social until March 30!
www.uibk.ac.at/de/congress/...

#ecreapolcom25

I am looking for a postdoc in my new project on "The domestic politics of EU action against democratic backsliding". Please, check also the project website for the call for applications (as well as the calls for two more postdoc positions in Bremen and Wroclaw): sites.google.com/view/deudem