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Unpacking and celebrating the new book by André Bächtiger and John Dryzek “Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times”! 🎉 Out now, order your copy cambridge.org/core/books/del…

🆕 What do teenagers want from #democracy in the 21st century? 🇩🇪 Vanessa Schwaiger & A Bächtiger conduct an experiment with German teens & find them, in general, to be ‘status quo’ #democrats, preferring a #parliament to alternative institutions 🏢 👉 bit.ly/4aAjdj3 #OA

How to make citizens reject undemocratic candidates? 🤔Suthan Krishnarajan presented an innovative experimental setup on how to get citizens to prioritize democracy over party politics ☀️ The fantastic presentation was followed by a great dinner with the Democracy Research University Stuttgart team!🍕💫

Initial analyses of 🇪🇺election results in 🇩🇪 seem to confirm stereotypes of left-behind and populist voting. But are people who are/feel left behind generally undemocratic? Vanessa Schwaiger presents new research on the link between obj & subj disadvantage and undemocratic attitudes💫

Huge congrats to Jan Anye Velimsky who's successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Perceptions of Representation of People in Precarious Living Conditions" 🥳🎓🥂 In it he explores the impact of political & social exclusion on long-term unemployed people 📊

Summer dinner with our department 🥰 Wishing everyone a nice and relaxing semester break! ☀️

Neues Projekt: Wir haben erstmals Ergebnisse der Europawahl in allen 83.000 Gemeinden der EU ausgewertet und zeigen neue Muster. zeit.de/politik/auslan…

Mit diesem Datensatz (x.com/gles_data/stat…) lassen sich Wahlverhalten & Einstellungen der Erst- bzw. Jungwähler:innen bei der Europawahl in DEU gut im Vergleich analysieren. Also habe ich mir das mal angeschaut. In diesem Thread folgen ein paar deskriptive Ergebnisse 👇

In recent years, there’s been an explosion of books on the crisis of Western democracies. 📚 In this🧵, I’ll highlight 15 lesser-known books that anyone interested in the state of Western democracies should know about. 👇🏾

🎶 "Bad Blood" between Trump supporters and #TaylorSwift? Our survey conducted before the #USElection2024 reveals some interesting divides! Trump supporters show significantly lower Swift fan levels than Harris supporters. Let's take a closer look at some fun data! 📊 🧵👇