Great collaboration and fun project from my not-so-historical time at @[email protected] / @powimz.bsky.social!

Interested in the wild combination of #Catholicism, Prussian heritage and current radical right-wing #populism in #Germany? Then you might want to put this paper on top of your reading list 🤓👇🏼

Historical legacies are overrated: Theresa Be, Timo Sprang, & I show that religious persecution of Catholics in Prussia does not explain levels of far-right voting in contemporary #Germany. Click to read the article. It's open access & just 4000 words bit.ly/rr-history-bunk

I am super happy that Timo Sprang joined my team recently! - successfully poached from Armin Schäfer Kai Arzheimer 🇪🇺 & @ElsasserLea 🙃😎🙏 And what better way to start than to publish your first paper in Electoral Studies - before even starting the PhD 🤯 shorturl.at/ZHaNY

Super proud of my team Katrijn Siderius, Konstantin Dulin, Timo Sprang: This week, we are sending out six papers or paper revisions out for review. Fingers crossed for constructive Reviewer 2s! Hopefully lots of exciting research coming out soon! Goethe-Universität InFER Frankfurt

Last week I had the opportunity of giving the graduation speech for this year's class at @[email protected] / @powimz.bsky.social. It has been such an honour and a really great time I had there. Thanks again to everybody who made this the special experience that it was, and best of luck to all of us graduates!

Legacies are overrated. #OpenAccess 📝 #Germany #Prussia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I am hiring Goethe-Universität InFER Frankfurt! I have a vacancy in my research project on Ministries of Finance and the Politics of Social Policy-Making. Looking forward to applications & happy to answer questions! DVPW DVPW-Sektion Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft EPSA APSA CES Max Weber Programme

Die Bundesregierung beginnt nicht nur mit einer historischen Erosion des Grundrechts auf Asyl, sondern setzt jetzt auch die gezielte Verelendung von bestimmten Gruppen als politische Maßnahme ein. Sicherheitspolitisch und elektroal ein Desaster. Vor allem die AfD freut sich. 1/

🚨 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

History is bunk. #OpenAccess 📝 #Germany #Prussia sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Can't wait for this term's Comparative Politics Speaker Series & InFER Frankfurt colloquium to start. Fantastic lineup again. We start w Rune Stubager, followed by Malte Reichelt, Amalia Alvarez Benjumea, Julian Schuessler, Ozan Aksoy, & Delia Zollinger. Co-hosted with Lars Leszczensky

As promised, I have written up my immediate post mortem, looking at where and why my prediction for the US election went wrong. You might, of course, have zero desire at this hour to pick over these bones. But a very very quick thread...

The person most likely to be the next German Chancellor thinks the United States of America have a history of 235 years of free and fair elections. I don't even know where to start.