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Kathrin Ackermann
@ackermannk.bsky.social
Associate Professor @ University of Siegen
Political Science | Political Psychology | Participation | Political Behavior | Empirical Democracy Research
https://kathrinackermann.github.io/
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🥲 Thank you for the kind words, @nilssteiner.bsky.social! It was a great honor and pleasure for me to serve as spokesperson for @dvpw.bsky.social #AKWahlen for 6 years and to work with you, @conradziller.bsky.social, @heikogiebler.bsky.social and @melff.bsky.social in the steering committee.
The conference marked the end of @ackermannk.bsky.social’s second term as spokesperson.

Kathrin, thank you so much for your dedicated service to the #AKWahlen over the past six years!

Conrad and I will miss working with you in this capacity.
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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!
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025.

epssnet.org/belfast-2026/

@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!
September 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
🥲 Thank you for the kind words, @nilssteiner.bsky.social! It was a great honor and pleasure for me to serve as spokesperson for @dvpw.bsky.social #AKWahlen for 6 years and to work with you, @conradziller.bsky.social, @heikogiebler.bsky.social and @melff.bsky.social in the steering committee.
The conference marked the end of @ackermannk.bsky.social’s second term as spokesperson.

Kathrin, thank you so much for your dedicated service to the #AKWahlen over the past six years!

Conrad and I will miss working with you in this capacity.
September 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Two fantastic days of the annual conference of the #AKWahlen are now behind us.

Many thanks for the many excellent presentations, the friendly atmosphere, and to the local Berlin team for the fabulous organisation on site! ❤️

Watch out for the special issue in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!
September 19, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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🗳️ Tag 1 der AK-Wahlen-Tagung @ FU Berlin

💡Hervorragende Präsentationen und intensive Diskussionen zu aktuellen Themen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung

🤝 Viele Gelegenheiten zum Networking

📝 Wir freuen uns auf den zweiten Tag mit weiteren spannenden Einblicken!

#Wahlforschung #AKWahlen
September 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Der #Call for Proposals für die #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 von DVPW, @oegpw.bsky.social & SVPW/ASSP ist offen. Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge für Panels & Papers bis zum 14.11.2025!

Alle Infos 👉 www.dvpw.de/veranstaltun...

#CfP 14.11. #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #DACH #Europa #Zukunft #SpreadTheWord
September 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Finding: political trust can influence how people experience socio-economic risks 💡

In our article in @joftrustres.bsky.social, Atle Haugsgjerd & I show that political trust works as a psychological coping-mechanism - especially for those who believe the welfare state should manage economic risks.
September 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Uni Siegen is looking for at a postdoc or a PhD candidate who want to work with me on migration, qualitative research and mobilization.
lnkd.in/eZzBnj4m
Thanks for sharing
Nicole 🐬
September 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Looking forward to my first @ecpr.bsky.social conference! 💫

📣 On Wednesday, I will present joint work with @ackermannk.bsky.social on attitudes toward noncitizen voting.

📣 On Friday, I will present results from my interviews with local politicians in the US.

Excited to meet everyone! #ECPRgc25
August 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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My department at Leuphana University offers 6 fully funded PhD scholarships (incl. research funding) for three years.

If you are interested in studying democratic resilience (particularly party competition and elections 🤓) and you have a strong methodolgical background: Apply!

shorturl.at/kcTbG
July 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc
July 14, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
July 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Now that #EPSA2025 has begun, I invite you to attend the panel "Understanding the Rural-Urban Cleavage", which I will be pleased to chair next Saturday at 3 p.m. @lawrencemckay.bsky.social and @astroppe.bsky.social will present really interesting papers!
June 26, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy

These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas

www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

🚨Please share widely!

#Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social
@ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
wzb.eu
June 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Excited to learn about the latest developments in the European Political Science community 👏🚀
Thanks to everyone who is actively involved!

👇 Check out the website and join @epssnet.bsky.social
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

🧵
June 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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I’m presenting my paper on political trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds today at #EPSA2025 (@epsanet.bsky.social).

Come join us at 11.20 in room -1.A.04! 📣
June 26, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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❕📣 My first paper is now published!

“They don’t have the time for that, participating in politics” - How local politicians interpret political integration in the USA.

It is available as open access in the Journal of International Migration and Integration.

doi.org/10.1007/s121...
June 25, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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❗ The 𝘞𝘡𝘉 𝘉𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘪𝘯 (@wzb.bsky.social‬) establishes a 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 for the 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲 and is looking for its future 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 ❗

📣 Let all the excellent democracy researchers out there know! ⁣

wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire...

#Polisky
@epsanet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social
Director for the study of democracy
The Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) is Germany’s leading non-university research institute for fundamental social science research, with a...
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June 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Erinnerung an den CfP für die diesjährige AK-Wahlen-Tagung in Berlin (18./19.09.) - Deadline ist der 15. Juni 🕖📝🏃
📣 Call for Papers: Jahrestagung DVPW-Arbeitskreises "Wahlen und politische Einstellungen"

📅 18.-19. September 2025 Freie Universität Berlin

📨 Einreichungsfrist Abstracts: 15. Juni 2025 an [email protected]

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us...
June 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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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!
2 PhD positions in Electoral behavior
2 PhD positions to research how social group memberships become connected to vote choices
www.kuleuven.be
June 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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📣 Call for Papers: Jahrestagung DVPW-Arbeitskreises "Wahlen und politische Einstellungen"

📅 18.-19. September 2025 Freie Universität Berlin

📨 Einreichungsfrist Abstracts: 15. Juni 2025 an [email protected]

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dvpw.bsky.social

www.dvpw.de/fileadmin/us...
May 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM