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Jochen Müller
@jocmuel.bsky.social
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Professor of political science @unigreifswald.bsky.social. Mainly interested in political parties, parliaments and public opinion.
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floriso.bsky.social
🌟 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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November 25, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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christinagahn.bsky.social
I‘m excited to take part in the
@zweitstimme.bsky.social Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behavior at the @hertieschool.bsky.social this week! I'll be presenting first results from a project with @klingelt.bsky.social on the Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems.
November 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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klingelt.bsky.social
Scholars have long paid attention to disproportionality between parties’ votes and seats emerging from the electoral system. In @sespjournal.bsky.social, Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social, and I show that disproportionality can also be a by-product of pre-electoral coalition formation.🧵
sespjournal.bsky.social South European Society & Politics @sespjournal.bsky.social · 14d
📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 🔓 #Italy
The disproportional consequences of a proportional bargain: candidate selection within Italian electoral coalitions in 2022

Read the article by Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social and @klingelt.bsky.social here #OpenAccess👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 13, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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pluggedchris.bsky.social
Philip Manow mit pointierten Argumenten zum Thema "Die Brandmauer nützt nur der AfD" www.stern.de/politik/afd-...
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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marcdebus.bsky.social
Happy to serve as the editor-in-chief of the Politische Vierteljahresschrift/German Political Science Quarterly (PVS/GPSQ) link.springer.com/journal/11615 @dvpw.bsky.social from January 2026 onwards. Thanks to Eric Linhart for his great work in the last six years! 1/3
October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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pluggedchris.bsky.social
Ich habe mit der Magdeburger Volksstimme über eine doppelte Gefahr für die CDU nach der Landtagswahl gesprochen: "Mord" in blau-schwarzer Koalition oder "Selbstmord" in einer überdehnten Anti-AfD-Koalition mit Einigungszwang. Etwas Empirie im thread...
October 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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lpbmv.bsky.social
Lange Nacht des Wissens in #Schwerin am 18.10.: wir sind dabei in der Landesbibliothek #MV mit dem Demokratiebus und freuen uns dort um 16 Uhr auf @jocmuel.bsky.social, @unigreifswald.bsky.social mit einem Ausblick auf die Landtagswahl 2026 #ltwmv26. Alle Infos 👇 politik-mv.de/2025/10/09/n...
Nacht des Wissens mit der LpB
Zur Nacht des Wissens öffnet die Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Günther Uecker ihre Türen gemeinsam mit der Landeszentrale für politische Bildung. Am 18. Oktober geht's in Schwerin los.
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October 17, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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msaeltzer.bsky.social
Job Alert! We are hiring two post-docs (full time, 4+ years) in our project SCEPTIC - Social, Computational and Ethical Premises of Trust and Informational Cohesion with @annanosthoff.bsky.social @guzoch.bsky.social and Prof. Andreas Peters (uol.de/informatik/s...)
October 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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argohdes.bsky.social
And if you want to learn more about how people make a career in dictatorship, pre-order the authors' (Christian Gläßel and @ascharpf.bsky.social) new book "Making a Career in Dictatorship":

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September 29, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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benjaminhoehne.bsky.social
Wir suchen Verstärkung auf einer halben Qualifikationsstelle am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der TU Chemnitz. Schwerpunkt: #Parteienforschung. Lehre: 2 SWS. Beginn: Mitte Oktober zum neuen Wintersemester.

www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...
September 15, 2025 at 7:41 AM
jocmuel.bsky.social
Great thread on our new paper 👇
@ankuepfer.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social and I show how applause (and other reactions) in parliamentary debates can provide a new perspective on party competition - signaling unity, disagreement, and exclusion. 👏
ankuepfer.bsky.social Andreas Küpfer @ankuepfer.bsky.social · Sep 13
👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@[email protected]), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)
Cover page of the article: "The sound of party competition: how applausereflects unity, disagreement, and the electoralcycle in parliamentsAndreas Küpfera , Jochen Müllerb and Christian Steckeraatechnical university of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany; buniversität Greifswald, Greifswald,GermanyABSTRACTThis article studies how applause reflects the dynamics of party competitionduring parliamentary debates. While legislative scholars often emphasise theselection of speakers and content of debates, spontaneous reactions from fel-low MPs remain understudied. Analysing 750,000 instances of applause in thedebates of the German Bundestag (1976–2020), it was found that applausepatterns, although largely spontaneous and immediate by nature, systemati-cally reflect incentives from party competition such as signalling party andcoalition unity, ideological (dis)agreement, and ostracising specific parties.Applause also indicates issue emphasis, especially near elections. The findingssuggest that applause can serve as a nuanced and abundant indicator in thestudy of party competition, complementing more static measures derived frommanifestos and expert judgements. By analysing applause patterns over fourdecades, this study opens new avenues to explore nonverbal reactions asmarkers of party competition in other parliaments."
September 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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ankuepfer.bsky.social
New article on parliamentary reactions 👏 (with @jocmuel.bsky.social and @pluggedchris.bsky.social) online first at @wepsocial.bsky.social!
wepsocial.bsky.social WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Sep 12
💥Online first:

"The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments"

by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...
Abstract of the research article "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by Andreas Küpfer, Jochen Müller and Christian Stecker. Published online first in West European Politics. Figure 1, displaying the occurences of different types of reactions in the German Bundestag between 1976 and 2020. Figure 3, displaying the heatmap of predicted applause per 1000 words based on a Poission regression model. Figure 5, displaying expected applause for interaction terms government and opposition.
September 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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UC Davis Political Science is hiring an assistant professor in comparative politics. For more information, please see the description here: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07299

The deadline is September 15.
Department of Political Science - Comparative Politics
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
August 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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eliaskoch.bsky.social
New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social!

🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result.

Read full 🧵 below:
August 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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saengler.bsky.social
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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garritzmannj.bsky.social
I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.
July 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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psagermanpol.bsky.social
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Are you an undergraduate or masters student in the UK 💂‍♂️working on German Politics⚫🔴🟡?

We award up to three Essay Prizes 🥇

Submit your essays or dissertations now 📫

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PSA75 Essay Prize
To mark the 75th anniversary of the UK’s Political Studies Association, the German Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) has created a one-off essay prize for undergraduate and masters students to celeb…
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July 18, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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eliaskoch.bsky.social
Happy to see @ankuepfer.bsky.social's & my study on when politicians engage in discourse — and when they prefer to avoid it — featured at @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social!

blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...
When do politicians engage in discourse – and when do they avoid it?
Ideological polarisation shapes who debates whom in the German Bundestag, but substantive discourse may become less common in the years ahead.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
jocmuel.bsky.social
📣 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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heikekluever.bsky.social
📣 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
jocmuel.bsky.social
Noch 10 Tage bis zum Bewerbungsschluss! ⏳
An der @unigreifswald.bsky.social ist eine W3-Professur für Politische Bildung und Didaktik der Sozialkunde zu besetzen.

Zur Ausschreibung 👉
www.uni-greifswald.de/universitaet...
July 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
jocmuel.bsky.social
Many thanks to the editors for bringing together such a diverse and interesting volume – and for organizing a very stimulating preparatory workshop. Stefan Ewert and I are grateful for the opportunity to contribute.
politicsunisaar.bsky.social European Politics @USAAR - Daniela Braun | Georg Wenzelburger @politicsunisaar.bsky.social · Jul 1
Our new #PoliSci collected volume on border regions as laboratories of European research is finally here. Check it out (in German): www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/10.5771/9...
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July 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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ganghof.bsky.social
The elections in Poland will raise doubts about semi-presidentialism, rightly so. But it is important to get the critique right. There is unfortunately a widespread belief in political science & comparative constitutional law that constitutional design does not matter for democratic backsliding. 1/
June 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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kruppkolleg.bsky.social
Was verbindet Populismus und Antisemitismus?
Der international renommierte Soziologe Chad Alan Goldberg, aktuell Fellow am @kruppkolleg, beleuchtet in seiner Lecture empirische Daten aus 🇩🇪 & 🇺🇸 – und zeigt, warum diese Verbindung uns alle betrifft.

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May 16, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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kunkakom.bsky.social
🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."

Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?

We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
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May 8, 2025 at 4:03 PM