Professor of Political Behaviour and Representation @ University of Mainz |
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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.
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.
Credits go to @korinlind.bsky.social for the last-minute advice
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Using original survey data from Germany, we find:
📌 Dialect speakers feel significantly less represented politically
📌 They have a stronger preference for politicians who speak their regional dialect
& this holds even after controlling for ideology, party preference, and government satisfaction.
We argue dialects are a subtle but meaningful form of descriptive representation: shared language may signal local attachment, group belonging, and recognition.
Largely overlooked in the literature but hopefully not for much longer 🙂
DOI: doi.org/10.1177/0032...
Thank you very much, @martingross.bsky.social for on-going fun working together on papers resulting from our Fritz Thyssen Foundation project on representation preferences and perceptions!
We are always happy to collaborate using our massive data set; if anyone interested, reach out!
Am Mittwoch, 10.06.2026, findet im Rahmen unserer #Forschungswerkstatt wieder ein spannender Vortrag statt:
Wir freuen uns auf Lina Eriksson (Universität Göteborg) und interessante Einblicke zum Thema "Social Norm Change: Winners, Losers, Strategies".
Alle sind herzlich Willkommen!
Constantin Wurthmann
Constantin Wurthmann
Constantin Wurthmann
Heute freuen wir uns auf Rahel Freiburghaus (Lausanne) in unserer #Forschungswerkstatt.
Sie spricht zum Thema: "Post Democracy: The Long-Run Consequences of Public Service Deprivation."
Zeit und Ort wie immer: 16 Uhr im P4 (Philosophicum)
Alle sind herzlich eingeladen!
Thank you @rfrbrghs.bsky.social for the great talk!! Such an interesting and innovative paper.
Everyone who could not attend our research seminar yesterday will have a chance to hear about it at EPSS in Belfast - see you soon!
