Christian Freudlsperger
@cfreudlsperger.bsky.social
ETH Zurich | Assistant prof | EU politics
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New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.
🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu
October 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We have just advertised a Full Prof position in the Political and Social Sciences department at the EUI (@eui-sps.bsky.social). Here are the details. Please spread the word, and get in touch if you have any questions.
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
www.eui.eu/Documents/Se...
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@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 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
Welcome! – VARICRIS
VARICRIS research project
bit.ly
October 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@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 🌐
We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵:
#PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐
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🚨 New(ish) Publication Alert! Delighted to see my article Credit Claiming in the EU @thejop.bsky.social I explore a classic question for accountability in Europe: when and why do govs claim credit for the work of the EU and shift blame onto Brussels to avoid responsibility? doi.org/10.1086/732970
Credit Claiming in the European Union | The Journal of Politics: Vol 87, No 3
Incumbents in multilevel systems are assumed to exploit uncertainty of responsibility by claiming credit and shifting blame, yet little is known about when and how they engage in these rhetorical stra...
doi.org
October 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
🚨 New(ish) Publication Alert! Delighted to see my article Credit Claiming in the EU @thejop.bsky.social I explore a classic question for accountability in Europe: when and why do govs claim credit for the work of the EU and shift blame onto Brussels to avoid responsibility? doi.org/10.1086/732970
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Just out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social online first..Hurry up free copies expiring in 50..49..48..47 ..😁
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9...
Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9...
Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age
War as external cause: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the theorising of European integration and EU politics, and the EU’s arduous formation in foreign and security policy
Russia’s war in Ukraine from February 2022 has had massive effects on Europe’s Union and its member states, prompting changes in policy, new policies, discussions of options and potential future tr...
www.tandfonline.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social online first..Hurry up free copies expiring in 50..49..48..47 ..😁
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9...
Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/25KK9...
Special thanks to @lucasschramm91.bsky.social and @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social guest editors of the Special Issue: European Integration in the Geopolitical Age
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The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
October 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Hertie School mourns the passing of Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Claus Offe, Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology, an extraordinary scholar, teacher and colleague.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
We extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and all who had the privilege to know him.
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Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4
September 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Last Friday (Sept. 19), @andduer.bsky.social, @mcortinaescudero.bsky.social, @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social and I had the great pleasure of hosting an excellent workshop at @unisalzburg.bsky.social on how to use Large Language Models #LLMs to boost International Relations research. A short 🧵1/4
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You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU?
Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇
@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇
@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
September 25, 2025 at 7:07 PM
You have work on politics in Europe, European integration or the EU?
Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇
@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
Submit it to next year's @epssnet.bsky.social conference section on "European and EU Politics“ 👇
@bjornhoyland.bsky.social & I are open to diverse proposals with a European dimension.
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📘64.4
Varieties of pro-Europeanism? 🇪🇺🤷♀️
@cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & M. Weinrich look at what impact party support for the #RedistributivePolity & #RegulatoryPolity across four European Parliament elections between 2009-2024 and finds cultural and economic influences
Read more:
Varieties of pro-Europeanism? 🇪🇺🤷♀️
@cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & M. Weinrich look at what impact party support for the #RedistributivePolity & #RegulatoryPolity across four European Parliament elections between 2009-2024 and finds cultural and economic influences
Read more:
Varieties of pro‐Europeanism? How mainstream parties compete over redistribution in the European Union
Having long shied away from proactively politicizing issues of European integration, the past crisis decade has put generally pro-European mainstream parties under pressure to spell out more clearly…
ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📘64.4
Varieties of pro-Europeanism? 🇪🇺🤷♀️
@cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & M. Weinrich look at what impact party support for the #RedistributivePolity & #RegulatoryPolity across four European Parliament elections between 2009-2024 and finds cultural and economic influences
Read more:
Varieties of pro-Europeanism? 🇪🇺🤷♀️
@cfreudlsperger.bsky.social & M. Weinrich look at what impact party support for the #RedistributivePolity & #RegulatoryPolity across four European Parliament elections between 2009-2024 and finds cultural and economic influences
Read more:
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The EU is a market with 450 million people.
There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.
Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.
Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
Trump Wants Europe to Stop Regulating Big Tech. Will It Bend?
www.nytimes.com
August 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The EU is a market with 450 million people.
There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.
Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
There is vast public support for regulation of big tech and for companies to meet their responsibilities.
Giving in after a decade of efforts in this space is undesirable and unnecessary.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b...
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Buket Buse Demirci, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social, and Frank Schimmelfennig examine how the EU reacts to geopolitical pressures 👇
🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Buket Buse Demirci, @cfreudlsperger.bsky.social, and Frank Schimmelfennig examine how the EU reacts to geopolitical pressures 👇
🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🧷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Last month, I had the honor of giving the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Annual Lecture at @ces-europe.bsky.social in Philadelphia. I spoke about the geopolitical uncertainty 🇪🇺 faces from 🇺🇸, 🇷🇺, & 🇨🇳, & how this poses 3 crises 🇪🇺 must respond to with more leadership & deeper integration.
Summary/video/slides:
Summary/video/slides:
JCMS/CES Annual Lecture: "Europe Adrift: The Future of the EU, the Global Economy, and World Order in an Era of Great Power Uncertainty"
Last month, I had the honor of delivering the Journal of Common Market Studies Annual Lecture at the Council for European Studies Conference in Philadelphia. The theme of the conference was “Legacies ...
www.markcopelovitch.com
July 31, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Last month, I had the honor of giving the @jcms-eu.bsky.social Annual Lecture at @ces-europe.bsky.social in Philadelphia. I spoke about the geopolitical uncertainty 🇪🇺 faces from 🇺🇸, 🇷🇺, & 🇨🇳, & how this poses 3 crises 🇪🇺 must respond to with more leadership & deeper integration.
Summary/video/slides:
Summary/video/slides:
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Together with my brilliant colleagues Stacie E Goddard, Ronald R Krebs, and Berthold Rittberger, we published a piece in #ForeignAffairsMagazine: "Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order"!
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order
A less legalistic system would help protect democracies.
www.foreignaffairs.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Together with my brilliant colleagues Stacie E Goddard, Ronald R Krebs, and Berthold Rittberger, we published a piece in #ForeignAffairsMagazine: "Liberalism Doomed the Liberal International Order"!
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by @sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter.
In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 22, 2025 at 8:45 AM
📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by @sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter.
In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section.
I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Award Winners
APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the…
APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the…
Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Award Winners
APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the APSA Awards Reception during the 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Vancouver, BC, Canada. DISSERTATION AWARDS Gabriel A. Almond Award…
politicalsciencenow.com
July 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am so honored, happy, and still a bit in disbelief that my book "The Normalization of the Radical Right" has won APSA's Dahl Award and the best book prize for the Democracy and Autocracy Section.
I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
I can't thank enough everyone who has helped out with this project throughout the years.
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Very happy to see our work published on @wepsocial.bsky.social! Together with @uwepuetter.bsky.social, we propose the concept of the EU core executive to explain how the Union responds to major cross-sectoral policy challenges like the Green Deal.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Here is what we find ⬇️
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Here is what we find ⬇️
The EU core executive and the Green Deal
The Green Deal has been one of the European Union’s (EU) boldest, cross-sectoral policy responses. Public administration scholarship suggests that such endeavours rely on coercion by pivotal execut...
doi.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Very happy to see our work published on @wepsocial.bsky.social! Together with @uwepuetter.bsky.social, we propose the concept of the EU core executive to explain how the Union responds to major cross-sectoral policy challenges like the Green Deal.
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Here is what we find ⬇️
doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Here is what we find ⬇️
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It seems that the Commission will indeed propose one big fund to cover all existing structural funds and the CAP and to organise the payout from this fund via a single national plan That would mean a huge departure from how the EU budget and the MFF negotiations have worked so far.
Here is why:
Here is why:
July 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It seems that the Commission will indeed propose one big fund to cover all existing structural funds and the CAP and to organise the payout from this fund via a single national plan That would mean a huge departure from how the EU budget and the MFF negotiations have worked so far.
Here is why:
Here is why:
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Took months of work, but @aagilli.bsky.social and I are proud to bring you a paper that deals with the true elephant in the room:
Should the EU equip itself with a nuclear deterrent, and if so, how?
www.bruegel.org/working-pape...
Should the EU equip itself with a nuclear deterrent, and if so, how?
www.bruegel.org/working-pape...
June 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Took months of work, but @aagilli.bsky.social and I are proud to bring you a paper that deals with the true elephant in the room:
Should the EU equip itself with a nuclear deterrent, and if so, how?
www.bruegel.org/working-pape...
Should the EU equip itself with a nuclear deterrent, and if so, how?
www.bruegel.org/working-pape...
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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.
🧵
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
🚨 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.
🧵
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.
🧵
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Thrilled to share my new publication @epsrjournal.bsky.social!
When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too!
But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful?
I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort
When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too!
But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful?
I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort
June 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Thrilled to share my new publication @epsrjournal.bsky.social!
When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too!
But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful?
I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort
When we think of lobbying, we often picture big businesses or NGOs. But regional governments lobby, too!
But what makes govts-as-lobbyists successful?
I study intergovt lobbying success based on a multi-year data collection effort
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#jobs 🚨🚨🚨
4 postdocs in Münster:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5...
I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!
4 postdocs in Münster:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5...
I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!
Postdoctoral Research Associate - EU Forscher*in - (salary level E 13 TV-L, 100 %)
stellen.uni-muenster.de
May 14, 2025 at 6:43 PM
#jobs 🚨🚨🚨
4 postdocs in Münster:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5...
I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!
4 postdocs in Münster:
stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/5...
I‘m involved in one appointment. More details will follow soon!
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📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5
May 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5
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Very much looking forward to this stellar event!
Join us on May 1 @uwmadison.bsky.social for our 2025 Jean Monnet 🇪🇺 Center Symposium, "Europe Amidst Uncertainty." We have to discuss & a 💯 lineup of local scholars & Europe-based experts to discuss democracy, geopolitics, & the global economy.
Program/info: europe.wisc.edu/event/keynot...
Program/info: europe.wisc.edu/event/keynot...
April 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Very much looking forward to this stellar event!
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Wie reagiert die EU auf Trumps #Zölle? Sehr gute Zusammenfassung des gestrigen Gipfels von @fbermingham.bsky.social, ein paar Gedanken im 🧵:
EU trade ministers meeting this morning in Luxembourg to thrash out retaliatory measures vs Trump
They will be briefed by Sefcovic on his recent trip to Beijing, with the potential diversion of Chinese overcapacity goods also likely a topic for discussion.
Will follow events on this thread...
They will be briefed by Sefcovic on his recent trip to Beijing, with the potential diversion of Chinese overcapacity goods also likely a topic for discussion.
Will follow events on this thread...
April 8, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Wie reagiert die EU auf Trumps #Zölle? Sehr gute Zusammenfassung des gestrigen Gipfels von @fbermingham.bsky.social, ein paar Gedanken im 🧵: