Fabian Habersack
@fabianhabersack.bsky.social
𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁
Postdoc at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social
PhD from @unisalzburg.bsky.social
Alum of @sciencespo.bsky.social
Party Competition | Representation | Democracy | Far Right
🌐 www.fabianhabersack.com
Postdoc at @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social
PhD from @unisalzburg.bsky.social
Alum of @sciencespo.bsky.social
Party Competition | Representation | Democracy | Far Right
🌐 www.fabianhabersack.com
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A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition
doi.org
🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥
Thrilled to see my article “A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties’ Programmatic Responses to Competition” finally published in Government and Opposition!
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
@govandopp.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Thrilled to see my article “A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties’ Programmatic Responses to Competition” finally published in Government and Opposition!
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
@govandopp.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Abstract submissions are now open for our workshop on ambiguity and blurring in party communication (ECPR Joint Sessions 2026).
🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
📅 Deadline: December 3, 2025
👇 Details below
🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
📅 Deadline: December 3, 2025
👇 Details below
Blurring or Accident? Voluntary and Involuntary Sources of Ambiguous Party Positions and Their Consequences for Democracy
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Abstract submissions are now open for our workshop on ambiguity and blurring in party communication (ECPR Joint Sessions 2026).
🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
📅 Deadline: December 3, 2025
👇 Details below
🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/Event...
📅 Deadline: December 3, 2025
👇 Details below
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Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
September 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Radical right accommodation really does not work.
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
New paper out with this exceptionally talented team
@katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Delighted to see that my #EJPR article now has page numbers! ☺️
🌅📙 64.3
Carrots 🥕 and Sticks 🪵
@fabianhabersack.bsky.social looks at over 30 years of 🇪🇺 party data to see if parties expand their focus or stick to key issues, with a focus on loyalty and opportunity to see why policy changes can fail 😤
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Carrots 🥕 and Sticks 🪵
@fabianhabersack.bsky.social looks at over 30 years of 🇪🇺 party data to see if parties expand their focus or stick to key issues, with a focus on loyalty and opportunity to see why policy changes can fail 😤
🔗
Carrots and sticks: How voter loyalty and electoral opportunities shape parties' policy priorities in Europe
FABIAN HABERSACK
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September 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Delighted to see that my #EJPR article now has page numbers! ☺️
Thrilled to share that the Palgrave Handbook on the 2024 EP Election is finally out! 🤩
Martin Dolezal and I co-authored the #Austria chapter on the rise of the #FPÖ, voter disaffection, and mapping 🇦🇹 and 🇪🇺 parties in the 2D policy space via #manifestoberta.
📖 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Martin Dolezal and I co-authored the #Austria chapter on the rise of the #FPÖ, voter disaffection, and mapping 🇦🇹 and 🇪🇺 parties in the 2D policy space via #manifestoberta.
📖 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
July 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thrilled to share that the Palgrave Handbook on the 2024 EP Election is finally out! 🤩
Martin Dolezal and I co-authored the #Austria chapter on the rise of the #FPÖ, voter disaffection, and mapping 🇦🇹 and 🇪🇺 parties in the 2D policy space via #manifestoberta.
📖 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Martin Dolezal and I co-authored the #Austria chapter on the rise of the #FPÖ, voter disaffection, and mapping 🇦🇹 and 🇪🇺 parties in the 2D policy space via #manifestoberta.
📖 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗
New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj
A short 🧵
1/7
New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj
A short 🧵
1/7
July 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
❗The segmentation of the right field is eroding, especially among young voters❗
New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj
A short 🧵
1/7
New article out by @simonbornschier.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social
@mrsteenbergen.bsky.social and myself
@ipz.bsky.social @wepsocial.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/ycxfx2aj
A short 🧵
1/7
Reposted by Fabian Habersack
📝🧵 New Publication ✨
My paper on multi-option referendums is now available open access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social
If you are interested in referendum design and/or immigrant enfranchisement and/or multi-method work, read on...
My paper on multi-option referendums is now available open access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social
If you are interested in referendum design and/or immigrant enfranchisement and/or multi-method work, read on...
July 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
📝🧵 New Publication ✨
My paper on multi-option referendums is now available open access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social
If you are interested in referendum design and/or immigrant enfranchisement and/or multi-method work, read on...
My paper on multi-option referendums is now available open access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social
If you are interested in referendum design and/or immigrant enfranchisement and/or multi-method work, read on...
“What we’re seeing right now mirrors elements of different historical periods, but this has never all happened at once.”
On the bright side of this #illiberal #backlash, I appreciate the US for curating this year’s most interesting summer reading list. 📚
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
On the bright side of this #illiberal #backlash, I appreciate the US for curating this year’s most interesting summer reading list. 📚
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Multi-level barrage of US book bans is ‘unprecedented’, says PEN America
Censorship at local to federal level recalls past authoritarian regimes ‘but this has never all happened at once’
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
“What we’re seeing right now mirrors elements of different historical periods, but this has never all happened at once.”
On the bright side of this #illiberal #backlash, I appreciate the US for curating this year’s most interesting summer reading list. 📚
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
On the bright side of this #illiberal #backlash, I appreciate the US for curating this year’s most interesting summer reading list. 📚
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Thrilled to share that this study, which I started back in 2021, has finally been published! 🎉 While topic modeling may not be the most cutting-edge anymore, the discussion on validation & standardization is still highly relevant. Proud of this work & contribution! 🙌📚
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
June 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thrilled to share that this study, which I started back in 2021, has finally been published! 🎉 While topic modeling may not be the most cutting-edge anymore, the discussion on validation & standardization is still highly relevant. Proud of this work & contribution! 🙌📚
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
Had a phenomenal time at the 1st ever Extremism & Democracy SG Conference #SGED25 in London — taking lots of new ideas and inspiration home. Really enjoyed @kai-arzheimer.com’s keynote reflecting on the field and history of the SG since its inception in 1999. Already looking forward to #SGED27!
June 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Had a phenomenal time at the 1st ever Extremism & Democracy SG Conference #SGED25 in London — taking lots of new ideas and inspiration home. Really enjoyed @kai-arzheimer.com’s keynote reflecting on the field and history of the SG since its inception in 1999. Already looking forward to #SGED27!
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Join us in London next week for our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference. Keynote by @kai-arzheimer.com, roundtable and panels on populism and radicalism. Observer only registration available- with @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @sajuria.com
Conference of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, Queen Mary University of London, 9 – 10 June 2025
European Consortium for Political Research
ecpr.eu
June 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Join us in London next week for our @ecpr-ead.bsky.social conference. Keynote by @kai-arzheimer.com, roundtable and panels on populism and radicalism. Observer only registration available- with @leoniedejonge.bsky.social @profannikawerner.bsky.social @stijntvankessel.bsky.social @sajuria.com
Hello #PolSky! 👋
What are your favorite non-journal sources for research inspiration? What are you reading or listening to these days? 🎧📚
Think blogs, podcasts, newsletters — anything accessible and rigorous that helps spark ideas. Bonus points if it’s great for #teaching in political science! 💡
What are your favorite non-journal sources for research inspiration? What are you reading or listening to these days? 🎧📚
Think blogs, podcasts, newsletters — anything accessible and rigorous that helps spark ideas. Bonus points if it’s great for #teaching in political science! 💡
April 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reposted by Fabian Habersack
Out today on #FirstView -
"Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates" - tinyurl.com/yc65ezcy
by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social
"Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates" - tinyurl.com/yc65ezcy
by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social
March 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Out today on #FirstView -
"Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates" - tinyurl.com/yc65ezcy
by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social
"Simply Speaking? Language Complexity among (Non-)Populist Actors in Parliamentary Debates" - tinyurl.com/yc65ezcy
by @rebeccakittel.bsky.social
Reposted by Fabian Habersack
What I can’t wrap my head around:
Are some Democrats really thinking that with every impeachable act they let pass & someone doing crazy stuff remains in office, the probability that transition of power will work after elections remains unaffected?
Sure, it goes down — every single time.
Are some Democrats really thinking that with every impeachable act they let pass & someone doing crazy stuff remains in office, the probability that transition of power will work after elections remains unaffected?
Sure, it goes down — every single time.
March 25, 2025 at 5:43 AM
What I can’t wrap my head around:
Are some Democrats really thinking that with every impeachable act they let pass & someone doing crazy stuff remains in office, the probability that transition of power will work after elections remains unaffected?
Sure, it goes down — every single time.
Are some Democrats really thinking that with every impeachable act they let pass & someone doing crazy stuff remains in office, the probability that transition of power will work after elections remains unaffected?
Sure, it goes down — every single time.
Hard to overstate how reckless and dumb this all is. What gives some hope is that, time and again, it’s the far right’s own incompetence that gets in its way. Though, if these kinds of f***ups are the only safeguard...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Hard to overstate how reckless and dumb this all is. What gives some hope is that, time and again, it’s the far right’s own incompetence that gets in its way. Though, if these kinds of f***ups are the only safeguard...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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#OpenAccess on #FirstView -
"A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition" - tinyurl.com/4v87v98b
by @fabianhabersack.bsky.social
"A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition" - tinyurl.com/4v87v98b
by @fabianhabersack.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 9:51 AM
#OpenAccess on #FirstView -
"A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition" - tinyurl.com/4v87v98b
by @fabianhabersack.bsky.social
"A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition" - tinyurl.com/4v87v98b
by @fabianhabersack.bsky.social
Reposted by Fabian Habersack
"Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power" by Frederik Hjorth, Jacob Nyrup, and Martin Vinæs Larsen. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
March 7, 2025 at 5:26 AM
"Reining in the Rascals: Challenger Parties’ Path to Power" by Frederik Hjorth, Jacob Nyrup, and Martin Vinæs Larsen. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
In the US, it’s the “woketopus”, a supposed deep-state cabal pulling the strings. In Germany, Markus Söder claims that NGOs have “spread like octopuses” in Green party-led ministries.
Different country, same playbook.
Different country, same playbook.
March 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In the US, it’s the “woketopus”, a supposed deep-state cabal pulling the strings. In Germany, Markus Söder claims that NGOs have “spread like octopuses” in Green party-led ministries.
Different country, same playbook.
Different country, same playbook.
Leaving #Canberra and heading back home to Austria (sadly, no kangaroos there). My #visiting #fellowship has been incredibly rewarding—great conversations, new friendships, and plenty of ideas to take home. Grateful to #ANU for the support that made this possible. Hope to be back in the future!
March 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Leaving #Canberra and heading back home to Austria (sadly, no kangaroos there). My #visiting #fellowship has been incredibly rewarding—great conversations, new friendships, and plenty of ideas to take home. Grateful to #ANU for the support that made this possible. Hope to be back in the future!
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The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.
The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings
And what it means for American Democracy
open.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The DOGE Purge Isn’t About Efficiency—It’s an authoritarian tactic. I wrote a more in depth piece on the empirical evidence showing how liberal-leaning agencies are being disproportionately targeted and how this mirrors authoritarian strategies seen in Hungary and Turkey.
What @benstanley.eu says! I genuinely have nothing more to add... 👇
March 1, 2025 at 1:20 AM
What @benstanley.eu says! I genuinely have nothing more to add... 👇
🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥
Thrilled to see my article “A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties’ Programmatic Responses to Competition” finally published in Government and Opposition!
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
@govandopp.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Thrilled to see my article “A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties’ Programmatic Responses to Competition” finally published in Government and Opposition!
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
@govandopp.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition | Government and Opposition | Cambridge Core
A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties' Programmatic Responses to Competition
doi.org
February 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥
Thrilled to see my article “A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties’ Programmatic Responses to Competition” finally published in Government and Opposition!
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
@govandopp.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
Thrilled to see my article “A Question of Commitment: Investigating How Citizens Perceive Parties’ Programmatic Responses to Competition” finally published in Government and Opposition!
🔗 Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/gov....
@govandopp.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
#AfD radikalisiert sich, „gutmeinende“ Moderate sucht man vergebens – zugleich schreitet #Normalisierung voran. Gefährlicher Mix!
@asheinze.bsky.social: „Die AfD ist mit dem Kurs der Radikalisierung jetzt sehr gut gefahren. Das bedeutet, dass es eigentlich auch weiter in diese Richtung gehen kann.“
@asheinze.bsky.social: „Die AfD ist mit dem Kurs der Radikalisierung jetzt sehr gut gefahren. Das bedeutet, dass es eigentlich auch weiter in diese Richtung gehen kann.“
Was folgt aus dem Wahlergebnis für die #AfD? Die Fraktion wird sich fast verdoppeln, mehr parl. Einfluss haben und ihre #Parteiorganisation ausbauen können - und das trotz #Radikalisierung. Der MDR hat mich dazu interviewt & einige neue Abgeordnete porträtiert. 📺
www.ardmediathek.de/video/fakt/a...
www.ardmediathek.de/video/fakt/a...
February 28, 2025 at 8:59 AM
#AfD radikalisiert sich, „gutmeinende“ Moderate sucht man vergebens – zugleich schreitet #Normalisierung voran. Gefährlicher Mix!
@asheinze.bsky.social: „Die AfD ist mit dem Kurs der Radikalisierung jetzt sehr gut gefahren. Das bedeutet, dass es eigentlich auch weiter in diese Richtung gehen kann.“
@asheinze.bsky.social: „Die AfD ist mit dem Kurs der Radikalisierung jetzt sehr gut gefahren. Das bedeutet, dass es eigentlich auch weiter in diese Richtung gehen kann.“
“Yet much of the blueprint comes not from Trump’s own policy team, but from a power-consolidation playbook established over the past decade by the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/12/the-orbanisation-of-america-inside-the-14-february-guardian-weekly
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/12/the-orbanisation-of-america-inside-the-14-february-guardian-weekly
The Orbánisation of America: inside the 14 February Guardian Weekly
A Hungarian-inspired revolution. Plus: How it all went wrong for Emilia Pérez
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“Yet much of the blueprint comes not from Trump’s own policy team, but from a power-consolidation playbook established over the past decade by the Hungarian authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán.”
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/12/the-orbanisation-of-america-inside-the-14-february-guardian-weekly
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/12/the-orbanisation-of-america-inside-the-14-february-guardian-weekly
Thrilled to speak at #ANU School of Politics & IR this Thursday about my recent #EJPR article! I’ll be discussing how voter loyalty and opportunities shape parties’ policy priorities.
👉 Full article (Open Access):
doi.org/10.1111/1475...
📅 Thu 20 Feb | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
📍 ANU (RSSS Room 3.72)
👉 Full article (Open Access):
doi.org/10.1111/1475...
📅 Thu 20 Feb | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
📍 ANU (RSSS Room 3.72)
February 17, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Thrilled to speak at #ANU School of Politics & IR this Thursday about my recent #EJPR article! I’ll be discussing how voter loyalty and opportunities shape parties’ policy priorities.
👉 Full article (Open Access):
doi.org/10.1111/1475...
📅 Thu 20 Feb | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
📍 ANU (RSSS Room 3.72)
👉 Full article (Open Access):
doi.org/10.1111/1475...
📅 Thu 20 Feb | 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
📍 ANU (RSSS Room 3.72)
Reposted by Fabian Habersack
Danke an die Kolleg:innen von der Open Expert Survey, die für Daniel Morgenstern, @sophiahunger.bsky.social & mich Fragen zur Brandmauer aufgenommen haben 👏
📣Auf oes25.de/OES25prerele... gibt es alle Ergebnisse & pre-release Daten!
Kurz: Es gibt klare Unterschiede im Ausmaß der Brandmauer
Lang: 🧵👇
📣Auf oes25.de/OES25prerele... gibt es alle Ergebnisse & pre-release Daten!
Kurz: Es gibt klare Unterschiede im Ausmaß der Brandmauer
Lang: 🧵👇
February 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Danke an die Kolleg:innen von der Open Expert Survey, die für Daniel Morgenstern, @sophiahunger.bsky.social & mich Fragen zur Brandmauer aufgenommen haben 👏
📣Auf oes25.de/OES25prerele... gibt es alle Ergebnisse & pre-release Daten!
Kurz: Es gibt klare Unterschiede im Ausmaß der Brandmauer
Lang: 🧵👇
📣Auf oes25.de/OES25prerele... gibt es alle Ergebnisse & pre-release Daten!
Kurz: Es gibt klare Unterschiede im Ausmaß der Brandmauer
Lang: 🧵👇