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Roman Senninger
@rsenninger.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Political Science, Aarhus University

I study political elites, institutions, and public opinion in Europe, using experiments and computational methods.

https://romansenninger.github.io/

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📄 New WP version out - full overhaul!

The Politics of Evidence Selection (w/ @jesperasring.bsky.social )

Comments welcome!

🔗 osf.io/preprints/so...

Hey PSRM! It looks like you tagged the other Mathias Rask. An understandable mistake given the Mathias density at the department 😄 We struggle with this from time to time as well. The correct Mathias Rask Jeppensen doesn’t seem to be on Bluesky.
Happy to see my article with @joostvanspanje.bsky.social on the short-term political consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy announcement published in @psrm.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Glückwunsch und Guten Start!
we have 5 positions open at @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt
- a 4,5 year postdoc in my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage
- 2 postdoc & 2 PhD positions, 4 years, in a research group on Reconfiguration & Internalization of Social Structure

www.uni-frankfurt.de/48794784/FB0...
Goethe-Universität — FB03 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Die Goethe-Universität ist eine forschungsstarke Hochschule in der europäischen Finanzmetropole Frankfurt. Lebendig, urban und weltoffen besitzt sie als Stiftungsuniversität ein einzigartiges Maß an E...
www.uni-frankfurt.de
The Christmas prepping was prepping, and I almost forgot to tell you that @miguelpereira.bsky.social is coming all the way to Münster to present work on politicians' ability to use evidence in policy making!

This Wednesday, find the Zoom link below 👇
@danbischof.bsky.social @mwegemann.bsky.social
It's out!!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Big thank you to my coauthors @small-schulz.bsky.social and @lorenzspreen.bsky.social, and to all participants who discussed 20 political issues over 4 weeks in 6 subreddit, 3 experimental conditions and let us observe.
It is almost 10 years since Hanspeter Kriesi published his seminal article on the politicization of European Integration @jcms-eu.bsky.social.

A short thread on how things stand as of 2024, with @chesdata.bsky.social, looking at salience, clarity, and unity of party positions towards the EU 🧵:

The EU 🇪🇺 now adopts fewer legal acts per year, but the regulatory load inside them keeps growing 📈

A new @jeppjournal.bsky.social article by Brandsma et al. measures regulation by counting actual regulatory statements (“Companies shall…”).

I plotted their data: fewer acts, more obligations.

Cool! Congrats, Tore!
Paper out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com:

1) those groups (women, African Americans, lower SES, rural) that are underrepresented in science have been less trusting of science.

2) If you improve representation in science, you improve trust among those groups.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Representation in science and trust in scientists in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
Druckman et al. document gaps in trust in scientists in the USA. People from groups less represented among scientists (for example, women and those with lower economic status) are less trusting. Incre...
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Tillykke!

Reposted by Roman Senninger

Very happy that my forthcoming @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements - "How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia: Economic Development, Regime Change, and State Formation, 800–1800." Can now be pre-ordered at www.cambridge.org/core/element...
How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
Cambridge Core - Political Economy - How Settlers Shaped Eastern Europe and Scandinavia
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Reposted by Francesco Nicoli

This reaction should be seen as proof of a confident European Commission that is doing its job well by enforcing rules that protect its citizens.

Reposted by Thomas M. Meyer

Trump getting a Peace Prize from FIFA: corruption recognizes talent.

Reposted by Roman Senninger

Reviewed together with the excellent books by @rsenninger.bsky.social @annebind.bsky.social
@sorenserritzlew.bsky.social and colleagues "Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission" global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Happy to see the review of the book by @nenaoana.bsky.social @alexmoise.bsky.social and Hanspeter Kriesi on the EU and COVID recently published at Oxford University Press by Reinout van der Veer at the @jei-publication.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The technocracy-responsiveness nexus in EU policy-making
Debates over EU policy-making often depict the EU either as an unresponsive technocracy or as responsive despite constraints. Yet these two images are not unrelated. First, the increased focus of E...
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Political communication research overwhelmingly relies on text. But parliamentary speech is multimodal! In our new @psrm.bsky.social article, Mathias Rask and I show that legislators also signal partisan conflict nonverbally— through changes in vocal pitch during floor speeches. 🧵 1/11 #polisky
Fascinating summary of the recent NBER paper on the impact of Brexit now on the @ukandeu.bsky.social site ukandeu.ac.uk/brexits-impa...
A blog post giving a more thorough take on survey experiments and the credibility revolution: cyrussamii.com?p=4168

Perhaps change point detection
New paper! @william-dinneen.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Yiqing Xu and I use GPT to code 91k articles from 174 polisci journals (2003–2023)and track research designs, transparency practices, and citations. How has the credibility revolution reshaped the discipline? doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!
🚨 LSE Assistant Professor in Political Science 🚨

We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social

Any questions, please reach out to me

📣 Please share! 📣

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I left the Danish Political Science conference in Nyborg early this morning and am now on my way to Frankfurt.

Really looking forward to presenting my work at @infer-frankfurt.bsky.social!
Our InFER talks enter another round! We are regularly visited by international scientists to discuss their exciting research projects. Feel welcome to visit us in the upcoming winter semester 2025 for discussions about peace and security, political communication and redistribution!
🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟

I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science PAR 2025/838
The Department of Political Science is an international academic environment that welcomes students, researchers and
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We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
Assistant Professor in Political Science
Assistant Professor in Political Science, , <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university</span></em></p> <p style="text-ali...
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🤩 Party positions in the 2024 European Parliament 🇪🇺!
I merged the CHES expert survey with EP composition data to visualize the political space of the current EP. The graphs make the center of gravity in the EP quite clear, on multiple dimensions and policy issues.
dimiter.shinyapps.io/ches/