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Now out in Journal of Politics @[email protected]. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social Werner Krause and I provide a new framework, method and data set to analyze vote switching between political parties. We also show how mainstream party convergence affects patterns of vote switching. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

🚨Job🚨 I am looking for a postdoc for my DFG public | @[email protected] project “Powerful Polls” (Universität Potsdam). Start date: October 1 (latest) Please share widely and apply! Do not hesitate to get in touch in case of questions. Full job add: uni-potsdam.de/fileadmin/proj…

Can Close Election Regression Discontinuity Designs Identify Effects of Winning Politician Characteristics? by John Marshall is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2024/03/27/can…

Interested in the effect of cross-class exposure on attitudes toward redistribution? In a new paper in British Jnl Poli Sci, Kim Sønderskov, Peter Thisted Dinesen, and I find that local exposure to poor individuals reduces support for redistribution among the well-off. OA: cup.org/3vP49Qr

On my way to Universität Münster, and reading all the amazing papers. I am super excited to meet so many great people and discuss research with them!

Ever wondered about what social desirability bias can tell us about how society works, and how we can measure it? Then check our new working paper in which we test different ways to manipulate social desirability in online surveys👇

The UK is facing a terrible wave of anti-immigration protests. It is plausible to think that this is partly the result of elite rhetoric normalizing far-right behavior. 1/8

Considering recent anti-immigrant violence in Britain, sharing work with Guy Grossman out now in AJPS doi.org/10.1111/ajps.1…

In light of the UK extreme-right (ER) riots & Tommy Robinson's role in them, our conditionally accepted British Jnl Poli Sci paper w/@FlorianFoos shows a causal effect of media exposure to extreme right actors, incl. Robinson, on support for extreme right views: osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/11

Now out in PNAS Nexus! We find that correcting misperceptions about the out-party has no consistent effect on partisan animosity, support for partisan violence, or support for undemocratic practices, suggesting that corrections are not a panacea for addressing democratic ills.

Der Tagesspiegel berichtet über den Wahlkampf der AfD in Brandenburg, der sich speziell an Schüler:innen richtet. Unter anderem mit einer Einschätzung von mir zu den kurz- und mittelfristigen Implikationen solcher Strategien.

Check out our new working paper, in which we investigate the role of social norms for democracy! #DEMNORM

New paper with Peter Thisted Dinesen and Kim Sønderskov just published (open access) in EJPR journal: doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… We study the connection between local economic inequality and political system support - and find no systematic relationship. 1/3

🚨 My book is out today: academic.oup.com/book/57946 🚨 2024 has been full of elections. In many, radical-right politicians made important electoral gains. My book hopes to contribute to debates on the rise of these politicians by putting forward a theory around social norms. 1/23

My work on immigrant integration considers policies that either remove structural barriers to integration without imposing cultural ones or that make specific accommodations for cultural diversity Really happy to share a piece of this work AJPS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

"Immigration frequently does not trigger a nativist backlash or extremist political mobilization; the relationship between immigration and conflict is highly contingent on political decisions." Rafaela Dancygier muse.jhu.edu/article/937734

This new database by Vincent Heddesheimer, Hanno Hilbig, Andreas Wiedemann, and Florian Sichart is fantastic and incredibly useful for anyone working with German election data. german-elections.com

Now open access!

🚨Very excited to share that my first solo publication "Testing the social pressure hypothesis: Does in-party social pressure reduce out-party empathy?" is out in PNAS Nexus 🚨 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne… Here’s what I find 🧵1/6

Nimbyism is often explained through property values or exclusion. But in recent work with Niels Nyholt, we explore a different perspective—local preservationism. It’s less about keeping people out and more about preserving neighborhood character. Read more: osf.io/preprints/osf/…