Thomas M. Meyer

@thomasmmeyer.bsky.social

1.3K followers 590 following 78 posts

Professor of Comparative Political Institutions @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

Previously @humboldtuni.bsky.social

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Thomas Meyer is a German political scientist and professor emeritus at Dortmund university.

Source: Wikipedia

Political science 49%

Communication & Media Studies 18%

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 3d

Selbst eine Minderheitsregierung aus SPD & CDU kam in der Befragung nach der Wahl 2025 nicht so schlecht weg [befragt wurden Personen in ganz Deutschland, nicht nur Brandenburg, im Rahmen der @gles.bsky.social ]

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 3d

Trotz anderer Mehrheitsverhältnisse (durch Parteiwechsel) sind diese Ergebnisse, denke ich, immer noch relevant:
Wähler*innen haben sehr unterschiedliche Vorstellungen davon, wer einen "Regierungsauftrag" erhalten hat.

Reposted by Carolina Plescia

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 3d

Im Fall Brandenburg wird gerade oft "Wählerwille" bzgl einer Regierung bemüht, den ein Wahlergebnis vermeintlich ausdrückt.

Wie problematisch diese Idee ist, habe ich mit meinen Kolleg*innen @carolinaplescia.bsky.social & Alejandro Ecker nach den LTW-Wahlen 2024 untersucht:
tinyurl.com/3frxua8x

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 4d

Just submitted a grant proposal for a (collaborative) project I really care about. 🙏

How much time will R2 need to rip it apart?😢

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

Far point, but I think the situation here is different from the one in Germany under the Exzellenzinitiative: We are already supervising (too?) many PhD students, the majority *without any funding*. If anything, the goal is to increase the number of funded positions in SSH compared to other subjects

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

A list of potential supervisors at the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences can be found here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

careers.univie.ac.at

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

If you consider pursuing a PhD in political science, sociology, communication, demography, cultural and social anthropology, science and technology studies, nursing science or development studies, please consider this prestigious possibility

Reposted by Sophie Lecheler

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

careers.univie.ac.at

Reposted by Sophie Lecheler

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Great possibility to pursue a PhD @univie.ac.at : 4-year funded position with lots of flexibility and room to explore your own ideas. Supervison teams within the department, embedded in the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences. Includes a (modest) teaching load.

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 5d

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...

jobs.univie.ac.at

Reposted by Ruth Dassonneville, Jochen Müller, Markus Wagner , and 2 more Ruth Dassonneville, Jochen Müller, Markus Wagner, Thomas M. Meyer, Sophie Lecheler

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 5d

jobs.univie.ac.at

Reposted by Thomas M. Meyer, Alessandro Nai, Johannes Breuer , and 1 more Thomas M. Meyer, Alessandro Nai, Johannes Breuer, Christian Rauh

Manifesto Project @manifestoproj.bsky.social · 5d

📣 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! 🗓️

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...

wzb.hr4you.org

Reposted by Thomas M. Meyer

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · 14d

Was haben wir 2025 über Politik in Österreich gelernt?

Ein 🧵 mit 10 Publikationen aus dem abgelaufenen Jahr ...

Reposted by Thomas M. Meyer, Jens Rydgren, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte

theresa gessler @gessler.bsky.social · 14d

One week left to apply - join us in Hamburg @politikuhh.bsky.social for the next years 👋

Reposted by Thomas M. Meyer

humboldtuni.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social · 21d

🎉 Große Anerkennung für die #HumboldtUni: Anette Eva Fasang wurde zum Mitglied der Leopoldina gewählt. Die Auszeichnung würdigt ihre exzellente Forschung zu Demografie, Sozialstruktur sowie zur Soziologie von Familien und Lebensverläufen. Mehr dazu 👉 www.hu-berlin.de/nachrichten/...

Porträt von Anette Eva Fasang, die freundlich in die Kamera blickt. Sie trägt ein helles Oberteil vor einem neutralen, grauen Hintergrund; das Bild ist sachlich und professionell ausgeleuchtet.

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Mark J. Brandt, Robert Huber , and 8 more Cas Mudde, Mark J. Brandt, Robert Huber, Jason Reifler, Ingo Rohlfing, Christian Breunig, Thomas M. Meyer, Alessandro Nai, Federica Genovese, Claudia Landwehr, Roman Senninger

Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · 26d

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

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Dec 6

Yet another low and yet another reason to boycott the FIFA World championship (again).

Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Dec 5

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

Reposted by Thomas M. Meyer

Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Dec 5

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

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Dec 4

Amazing!🎉 Esp knowing how difficult that is in 🇦🇹

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Simon Hix, Elizabeth Saunders , and 23 more Diane Coyle, Simon Hix, Elizabeth Saunders, Stephen P. Jenkins, Steven Van de Walle, Samuel L. Perry, Stefanie Walter, Alexander Wuttke, Justin H. Kirkland, Robert Huber, Jason Reifler, Benjamin Braun, Valerie Mueller, Ingo Rohlfing, Robert C. Richards, Christian Breunig, Tom van der Meer, Thomas M. Meyer, Nazita Lajevardi, Federica Genovese, Tom Louwerse, Cullen S. Hendrix, Alexandra Cirone, Nicolai von Ondarza, Francesco Nicoli, Roman Senninger

Sara Hobolt @sarahobolt.bsky.social · Nov 25

🚨 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/...

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Nov 24

You're right. That was in October 24. Even worse...

Reposted by Dimiter Toshkov

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Nov 24

Just learned that Holger Döring retired from ParlGov in October.

If I'm not misreading his message, then this great resource will not be updated anymore 🖤

parlgov.org/2024/10/01/r...

Retiring from ParlGov - ParlGov project

parlgov.org

Reposted by Jürgen Maier, Hanna Bäck, Sona Golder , and 2 more Jürgen Maier, Hanna Bäck, Sona Golder, Thomas M. Meyer, Bonnie N. Field

Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · Nov 24

Interested in the theory and empirics of multi-party governments? Thomas Bräuninger and I edited a Handbook on Coalition Politics with Edward Elgar Publishing: lnkd.in/eis8Yc2y /1

Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Nov 10

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

1/4 🧵

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Nov 6

We have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food)

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...

Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics - Nuffield College Oxford University

www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Nov 3

Zu coalition governance und der Zuordnung von Staatssekretär*innen kommt man in dem Seminar vermutlich auch noch

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Oct 30

Congratulations! 🎉

Reposted by Robert Huber, Thomas M. Meyer, Werner Krause

Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik @laurenzennser.bsky.social · Oct 29

🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.

Reposted by Robert Huber, Thomas M. Meyer, Ben Crum , and 1 more Robert Huber, Thomas M. Meyer, Ben Crum, Karsten Mäuse

Christian Rauh @chrauh.bsky.social · Oct 22

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris).
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:

#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

Welcome! – VARICRIS

VARICRIS research project

bit.ly

Reposted by Robert Huber, Thomas M. Meyer

Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social · Oct 10

🚨 Job Alert!

The Department of Government is offering a position as Senior Lecturer in ‘Quantitative Methods and the Political System of Austria’.

Interested? Find the full vacancy here: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Applications are open until 27th of October! ✉️‼️

Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · Oct 8

Senior lecturer for "Qualitative Methods and Policy Studies": jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-L...

Senior Lecturer (Academic Teaching) for 'Qualitative Methods and Policy Studies'

jobs.univie.ac.at

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