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Endre Borbáth

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💼 Assistant Prof. for Participation Research @uniheidelberg.bsky.social 🧐 PI, The New Climate Divide (Emmy Noether) 🧳 Guest @wzb.bsky.social 🔬 Parties • Movements • Participation • Climate Politics 📈 Quant Methods 🇪🇺 Western, Central & Eastern EU ⛰️🚴‍♀️🏃

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Nov 10

📢 I’m over the moon to share that my Emmy Noether project, The New Climate Divide will be supported by
@dfgpublic.bsky.social
!✨
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! 👀
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 1d

Wie sehr kann man keinen Bock haben, das Pendeln wieder aufzunehmen? SEHRSEHRSEHR

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Manès Weisskircher @manesweisskircher.bsky.social · 13h

New publication for everyone interested in climate politics, far-right climate obstruction, and the role of elite cues! 📚

"Climate action versus environmental protection?" now out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social (with Matthias Diermeier).

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access!) (1/5)

Climate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forests

This article examines how political messengers, and not the message, influence attitudes toward renewable energy infrastructure amid an increasingly polarized climate change debate. Focusing on win...

www.tandfonline.com

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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 1d

Civic Organizations and the Political Participation of Cross-Pressured Americans: The Case of the Labor Movement

Civic Organizations and the Political Participation of Cross-Pressured Americans: The Case of the Labor Movement By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University Civic associations…

Civic Organizations and the Political Participation of Cross-Pressured Americans: The Case of the Labor Movement

Civic Organizations and the Political Participation of Cross-Pressured Americans: The Case of the Labor Movement By Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University Civic associations underpin American democracy. How can politically cross-cutting associations engage members who hold divergent viewpoints amidst increasing partisan polarization and nationalization of politics? I examine this question in the context of labor unions, studying how unions engage members who hold conservative views at odds with some of the union’s political actions.

politicalsciencenow.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 1d

Going through some history of climate politics notes from last week, I realize we dont appreciate enough the climate mobilization of mid2010s and subsequent electoral green wave of late 2010s.

That moment was never really meant to be in the cards and we need to better study how we got there

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to the new semester in Heidelberg! 🏛️

I’ll be teaching a new seminar on Climate Change and Political Conflict (for the first time!) and another on survey methods.

Both syllabi are online: endre-borbath.eu/teaching/

Can’t wait to meet the students!

teaching | Endre Borbáth

Welcome to my personal page!

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d

Earlier today, László Krasznahorkai, the difficult, peculiar, obsessive, visionary Hungarian author, won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature. Revisit James Wood’s piece, from 2011, on the author’s strange fictions.

Madness And Civilization

The very strange fictions of László Krasznahorkai.

www.newyorker.com

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Bruno Castanho Silva @bcastanho.bsky.social · 6d

It's finally out! All parliamentary committee assignments for 14 countries, 30+ years, harmonized with other MP and parties datasets

Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 6d

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 7d

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 7d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 12d

I remember how much I liked his study on the transition in Eastern Europe when I first read it at CEU as an MA student: www.jstor.org/stable/40970... It is one of those texts with ideas that have stayed with me ever since. RIP

Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 13d

I have just seen this Diane, big congratulations, I am very happy to see that it worked out!!!

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 16d

Every time I read @adamprz.bsky.social reflecting on his life and work, I am in awe. Though I have never met him, and we move(d) in different circles, his reflections speak deeply to me.

One of the last intellectual giants in the field representing an increasingly different discipline.

How Democracies Fall Apart - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Adam Przeworski.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Matt DiGiuseppe @mdigiuseppe.bsky.social · 22d

🚨🚨🚨 Survey Researchers! WE HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM!🚨🚨🚨

I have access to the Comet browser by Perplexity.

I asked it to pretend to be a human, take the survey, and give me feedback. IT DID!

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Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social · 25d

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests.

doi.org/10.1080/1474...

Understanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic did not bring protest politics to a halt. Instead, it sparked diverse and divergent forms of contention. This study compares the development and characteristics of anti-containment pro...

doi.org

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks Linus! :)

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · 25d

Taking a closer look at @mierkezat.bsky.social @swenhutter.bsky.social & @eborbath.bsky.social's paper on cleavage formation and civil society and cannot recommend it highly enough! Really insightful theorizing, e.g. on changes in the form of civil society and its effect on group-party linkages:

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Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social · 27d

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out:

Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape"
with @sophiahunger.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

Journal of European Public Policy

Special Issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape. Guest Editors: Sophia Hunger & Swen Hutter. Volume 32, Issue 8 of Journal of European Public Policy

www.tandfonline.com

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 27d

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Sep 9

In many countries, (esp. white, male) workers increasingly vote for radical right parties. Still, a sole focus on right-wing ideology only captures a narrow part of working class consciousness. Most workers, including many right-wing voters, are politically demobilized and distant from all politics.

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Pietro Castelli Gattinara @pietrocastellig.bsky.social · 29d

📢 Call for applications!

I’m looking for a 4-year PhD researcher (100%) in Political Science: focus on public opinion & the far right

You’ll be part of the POLHYBRID project @sciencepoulb.bsky.social, working with me & @caterinafr.bsky.social
Deadline: 9 11 2025

👉 Info & apply: shorturl.at/El2mW

Doctoral Researcher (100%) in Political Science 4 years Focus: Public opinion, Political Conflict, and the Far Right

The Department of Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is hiring a doctoral researcher with a specialization in quantitative research (survey and experiments) for the project “...

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Sep 11

"You can’t write four op-eds a week and expect to produce a book with staying power”

Another great interview by @catherinedevries.bsky.social for her blog "Etched in Marble". @mkblyth.bsky.social is sharp and critical and his insights resonate deeply with me.

Etched in Marble: Mark Blyth on Writing, Thinking, and Why AI Can’t Save You

Writers on the Forces That Shape Us and the Writing That Endures

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti @dasalgon.bsky.social · Sep 9

On Saturday, I'll present the paper “Movement Parties and Parliamentary Speech in Chile, Spain, and Mexico”, co-authored with @eborbath.bsky.social and @janschwalbach.bsky.social ; 2pm, East Meeting Level, East 3.

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!!!

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Delia Zollinger @dpzollinger.bsky.social · Sep 2

Another fantastic piece out in our "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" special issue! (co-edited with @davidattewell6.bsky.social )

@mierkezat.bsky.social et al investigate the role of civil society in contemporary cleavage formation.

There are a few more SI contributions still to come!

Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Lotem Halevy @lotemhalevy.bsky.social · Aug 29

Interesting new article that fits nicely within "The Building Blocs" research agenda (t.ly/us7kj), which we recently contributed to: t.ly/Dg6zK

We, as scholars of Europe, can learn from scholars of MENA, SE Asia, etc, who have long emphasized the role of civil society for party competition.

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