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New in Electoral Studies w/ Eric Linhart & @cerpintaxt.bsky.social: How do voters weigh proportional representation against clear majorities? Our survey experiment in DE, NL & UK finds that voters favor proportionality, esp. when trade-offs are explicit. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper 🚨 "Let the Machine Impose the Fine!" In a vignette study (N=2,345 German citizens), fines feel more acceptable when imposed by a machine than by a human official. A dark side of algorithmic discretion, with implications for public accountability. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just to add: they fared much better in 2016 than in 2021 by "eating up" votes from ILLs, which will continue today. A much better result than 2016 is to be expected b/c 2021 was special. See doi.org/10.1177/1354... by @cerpintaxt.bsky.social @christinajuen.bsky.social & @markustepe.bsky.social

#Dreiländertagung "Europas Zukunft - Zukunft Europa" von DVPW, @oegpw.bsky.social & SVPW/ASSP am 17.-19.06.2026 in Friedrichshafen Alle Infos 👉 www.dvpw.de/veranstaltun... #3LT2026 #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #DACH #Europa #Zukunft

It was a pleasure to present my joint work with Nir Gavish at the Collaborative Research Centre "Global Dynamics of Social Policy", @unibremen.bsky.social. My thanks to @markustepe.bsky.social and to all the participants, for their helpful and interesting questions, comments and suggestions.

🚀 CRC 1342 Phase III Kick-off Event: To mark the beginning of the third funding phase (2026–2029), more than 60 colleagues gathered on 7 and 8 May 2026 in the historic Kassenhalle at Forum am Domshof in downtown Bremen. Read more: socialpolicydynamics.de/en/

📣 CRC 1342 Jour Fixe: Professor Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan @raanan-sk.bsky.social from Hebrew University will give a talk on the "Curse of Highly Effective Social Policies" on Wednesday, May 20, 12 to 2 pm, Room 7.1020, UNICOM. #SocialPolicy Read more: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/en/

⭐ CRC 1342 participated in Excellence on-site visit: A delegation of international experts were welcomed to Bremen. Their evaluation will be instrumental in determining if the Northwest Alliance begins 2027 as a University Excellence Consortium. ⭐ Read more: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/en/

bppblog.com/2026/04/30/h... @markustepe.bsky.social @saaralonbarkat.bsky.social

📢 NEWS: We are pleased to announce the relaunch of the CRC 1342 website. 🚀 #SocialPolicy Discover our research, publications, and upcoming events – explore now: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/en/

Are civil servants less populist than private-sector employees? A new study with Ekaterina Widmer-Lytkina shows: yes, but mostly in Germany & Austria. What does this mean for democratic resilience? Find out. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🔗 doi.org/10.1111/puar.70111 Wilma, PhD (Pretty helpful Dog) and #postdog 🐾 @au.dk End🧵

Inwieweit sind Vermittlungsfachkräfte der Bundesagentur für Arbeit bereit, Beratungsaufgaben an KI-gestützte Entscheidungssysteme zu übertragen❓Das untersuchen die IAB-Forscher Martin Dietz & @chosiander.bsky.social mit Mareike Sirman-Winkler & @markustepe.bsky.social im @journalpa.bsky.social (1/4)

Our new paper is online: Priming public sector identity in five countries (DE, IL, SE, IT, UK) does not increase honest behaviour (although it does increase PSM). @bppjournal.bsky.social @markustepe.bsky.social @saaralonbarkat.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

JOB VACANCIES! 🌍 CRC 1342 is looking for new employees for the 3rd phase (2026-2029). Closing date: 14.01.2026. Check out our #PhD positions @unibremen.bsky.social! Read more: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/about-the-cr...

⏰ Job alert: We are looking for PhD Researchers! Only one week left to apply for our open #PhD positions in #socialpolicy at CRC 1342 | @unibremen.bsky.social. 🗓️ Application deadline: 14.01.2026 Details: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/about-the-cr...

Interested in conducting survey and behavioral experiments in Germany, Mexico, and South Africa? We have an open PhD position in the DFG Collaborative Research Centre “Global Dynamics of Social Policy” (CRC 1342). Application deadline: 14.01.2026. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

We conducted an interactive online experiment among U.S. voters to identify the effect of partisan group composition on behavior in a collaborative cheating game. Joint work with @cerpintaxt.bsky.social and Florian Erlbruch (open access). doi.org/10.1017/XPS....

Die #DFG fördert zur weiteren Stärkung der #Spitzenforschung an den Hochschulen 9 neue #Sonderforschungsbereiche (SFB). Die Themen reichen von pilzbasierten Baumaterialien über Autoimmunkrankheiten bis zu molekularer Bor-Chemie. Einzelheiten 👉 www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

CRC 1342 "Global Dynamics of Social Policy" Enters Third Funding Phase! 🌏🥳 DFG is supporting the CRC for another four years until the end of 2029! #socialpolicy Read more: socialpolicydynamics.de/en uni-bremen.de/en/

Happy to share the programme for the 9th edition of the "Political Economy: Theory meets Empirics" workshop, taking place over the next 2 days in Bremen, Germany. #EconSky

Looking forward to presenting two novel studies at the ESPAnet Annual Conference 2025 in Milan, on causal inference in social policy analysis (Stream 21) and solidarity behavior (Stream 13). www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US

Pleased to share our new open-access publication in Behavioural Public Policy on motivated reasoning about artificial intelligence in public policy, co-authored with Sebastian Hemesath. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Neue Publikation in der @pvs-journal.bsky.social zu der Wählerschaft des BSW. Link (open access): link.springer.com/article/10.1... Eine kurze Zusammenfassung der Studie.

The role of public values for design preferences toward AI-based chatbots in e-government. Evidence from a conjoint experiment among citizens and municipal front desk officers in Germany. Joint work with Sebastian Hemesath. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Der #dvpw2024 Kongress ist „vorbei!“. Vielen Dank an alle, die teilgenommen und mitgeholfen haben! @DVPW #Politikwissenschaft Uni Göttingen IPol Göttingen

Boris Pistorius - Festvortrag beim #dvpw2024 Kongress in Göttingen. @bmvg.bsky.social

Kongressparty #dvpw2024

Nach zwei Jahren Vorbereitung beginnt heute der 29. Wissenschaftliche Kongress der DVPW #dvpw2024 zum Thema #Polykrise an der Uni Göttingen! Am IPol Göttingen freuen wir uns auf die > 1200 Teilnehmenden, sagen Danke an alle helfenden Hände und wünschen einen guten Verlauf! 🤞🏻

Achim Goerres stellt das Papier "Costly Solidarity Behavior and the Identity of Others: The Novel Identity-Solidarity Game in a Large Panel Survey of the German Resident Population" bei der Konferenz der Nordic Political Science Association in Bergen vor!

The Institute of Political Science at the University of Bremen invites applications for the position of Professor (W3) in the field of Comparative Politics. The job description and details on the application process (deadline July 14, 2024) can be found here. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

What shapes citizens’ preferences for regulating risks associated with autonomous vehicles? Experimental evidence from Japan, the United States, and Germany. Joint work Sebastian Hemesath. Open Access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Deadline approaching. Fri. 15.12.2023. Looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (full-time, Salary Scale 13 TV-L, for an initial period of 3 years) at the SOCIUM in Bremen.

A new study on how citizens and public employees prioritize welfare clients‘ exceptional social needs when facing a moral dilemma. Joint work with Brian Dietrich, Michael Jankowski and Kai-Uwe Schnapp. Open Access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

PostDoc in behavioral political science? I am looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (full-time, Salary Scale 13 TV-L, for an initial period of 3 years) at the SOCIUM Research Center on Inequality and Social Policy in Bremen. Please don‘t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions!