New paper out in the @thejop.bsky.social (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social)
Do opinion polls shape election results?
Using both cross-national data and a survey experiment, the answer we find is yes - though it depends on how we communicate polling results.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Werner Krause
"Ranging across the European continent and the Atlantic from the Middle Ages to the 19th century, [this] is a major intervention of astonishing scope and great explanatory power."
Democracy's Double Helix by Lars Behrisch, Coming Soon
#Politics 💙📚 #EuropeanHistory
cup.org/4mwRdmU
The idea English identity is confined to ethnicity & ancestry is more niche than abolishing monarchy/joining Euro
But media elites skew & overcompensate to an imaginary caricature of public = weird assymetry: venerate niches on right as 'authentic' but would lecture progressives about median voter
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
On 10 June, I am going to give a talk at the IHS in Vienna on Party Competition and the Normalization of the Radical Right. If you are around, you can sign up with the link below. I am at the IHS for the whole week, so do reach out if you'd like to meet up.
www.ihs.ac.at/news-and-eve...
“We’d save ourselves an enormous amount of trouble in the future if we’d agree to a simple litmus test: Immediately disregard anyone in the business of selling a vision who proudly proclaims they hate reading,” @chatterton.bsky.social wrote in 2023:
Identifying as someone who categorically rejects books suggests a much larger deficiency of character.
"Das #Burgtheater darf nicht zugrunde gehen," hieß es 1918 in den Zeitungen. Elisabeth Großegger schreibt im Standard-Blog über die Übernahme der Hoftheater durch die junge Republik. Jetzt reinlesen ⤵️
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)
The Atlantic
Tarik Abou-Chadi
www.derstandard.at
Nach 100 Jahren werden die Schwierigkeiten der Übernahme der Hoftheater durch die junge Republik neu bewertet
Registration now open for what is looking like an excellent conference in Vienna later this month.
botstiberbiaas.org/conference-w...
While a person who is not Roma only needs to send two messages to a landlord or real estate agent before they can view a rental property in Hungary, a member of the Roma community has to send nine. Th...
telex.hu
botstiberbiaas.org
Consuls have long occupied an ambiguous place in the historiography of international relations. Ubiquitous in imperial infrastructures, yet largely
New paper with @martingross.bsky.social in Political Studies 🗣️
"Feeling overlooked and underrepresented? Citizens’ preferences for dialect-speaking representatives"
Do dialects matter for political representation? Short answer: yes.
Constantin Wurthmann
Journal of Austrian-American History
📌 Session 4 on Democracy in Crisis:
“Young people vote roughly the same as other generations, but they have the far right in their voting set (...) Older people vote for mainstream parties, younger people vote for new parties"
🎙️Cas Mudde, University of Georgia, United States
@casmudde.bsky.social
