Markus Wagner

Markus Wagner

@markuswagner.bsky.social

Political scientist @ University of Vienna 🇬🇧🇩🇪🇦🇹🏳️‍🌈

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Florian Keusch
@floriankeusch.bsky.social

I will start a new group at @wuvienna.bsky.social next spring and am recruiting. - Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) Social Data Science tinyurl.com/ykfsctp8 - Research and Teaching Associate (PhD candidate) Survey Method/Social Data Science tinyurl.com/4k7sandh Deadline: Nov. 4

jobs.wu.ac.atJob opportunity Assistant Professor, non-tenure track at think:impact - Dabei sein, wenn Denken zur Zukunft wird. An der WU Wirtschaftuniversität Wien finden Sie Jobs, um Ihr Potenzial zu entfalten.2931 - Political Economy of Public Policy

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Lukas Stoetzer
@lstoetze.bsky.social

Ever wondered what attributes are relevant in your conjoint experiment? And what assumptions you need to estimate it? Asya and I got you covered. In a new working paper we propose the APNS: the probability that an attribute's level change is necessary and sufficient for the selection of a profile.

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Frederik Thieme
@frederikthieme.bsky.social

Why do green parties struggle electorally despite widespread support for climate action? My new (first 😱) paper explores why green parties remain uniquely challenged in economic crisis & that the mechanism is not only about sociotropic concerns, but also voters’ pocketbooks 🧵 doi.org/10.1017/S147...

doi.orgPocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CorePocketbook politics and climate action: How economic strain reduces support for green parties

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Tarik Abou-Chadi
@tabouchadi.bsky.social

For my new research unit Politics of Democracy at the Berlin Social Science Center @wzb.bsky.social, we have 3 open research positions. 2 postdocs: 4 + 2 years (100%) 1 doc: 2 years (75%) Starting date: 1 March 2027 (negotiable) Application deadline: 1 November

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Jacob Edenhofer
@jacobedenhofer.bsky.social

Very interesting -- persuasion is much, much harder than the "we just need to communicate our policies better" crowd assumes!

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social

Extremely impressive field experiment by @nmalhotra.bsky.social et al. had few effects on election attitudes among conservatives in TX despite being "exposed to an average of 20 online videos, 18.5 cable TV videos, 23.9 display ads, 3 text messages, and 3 postcards" www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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Sofia Marini
@sofiamarini.bsky.social

💬 Do intra-party procedures affect how voters evaluate policy repositioning? With Leen Lingier, @jasmienluypaert.bsky.social & @markuswagner.bsky.social, we show experimental evidence that more inclusive decision-making processes can increase approval of the repositioning and ptv for the party 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

sciencedirect.comVoter reactions to party policy repositioning: The role of inclusive intra-party decision-makingChanges in position present opportunities and risks for political parties. Parties reposition themselves hoping that the new stance will prove more po…

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Isabella Rebasso
@isabellareb.bsky.social

New paper with Yanna Krupnikov out in Political Communication! 🎉 We know moral-emotional content ("moral outrage") spreads fast on social media. But does that mean people actually want to see it? We tested whether people select this content when given the choice - turns out, not really.

tandfonline.comRethinking Assumptions About Moral Content Selection: Moral-Emotional Content May Be Less Appealing Than AssumedRecent work has shown that moral-emotional content spreads rapidly on social media platforms such as X (Twitter). These patterns have led to concerns that social media facilitates the spread of mor...

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Reto Mitteregger
@indubioproreto.bsky.social

New publication out in @epsrjournal.bsky.social! We know young voters vote for different parties and hold different attitudes than older citizens. What we know less about: whether they also care differently about political issues. Using novel experimental survey data, I show: they do! 👇

cambridge.org“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core“Nothing else matters?” Salience differences between young and old

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Isabella Rebasso
@isabellareb.bsky.social

Very belatedly sharing this because the last months were busy: The limits of appraisal theory for political emotions is out in Political Psychology! @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I ask whether appraisal theories of emotion work the same way in politics as in everyday life.

onlinelibrary.wiley.comThe limits of appraisal theory for political emotions: Evidence from two U.S. surveysEmotions, such as anger and anxiety, play a central role in political behavior and are extensively studied by political scientists. However, political science has largely adopted psychological theori...

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Koichi Osamura
@koichiosamura.bsky.social

I'm very happy to share that my first dissertation paper is now online in Party Politics (🔓)! I examine how political appointments (patronage) relate to coalition support in multiparty presidential systems, using roll-call data from Brazil's Chamber of Deputies (2003-2018). doi.org/10.1177/1354...

journals.sagepub.comBureaucratic appointments and coalition support in presidential systems – An analysis of Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies - Koichi Osamura, 2026How does the provision of political appointments influence coalition support in multiparty presidential systems? While the importance of cabinet portfolios for ...

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Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government
@stawi-univie.bsky.social

Why does democracy backslide even when most people say they support it? ⚖️🏛️ Senior Scientist Dr. Marta Vukovic @martav.bsky.social explains why citizens sometimes tolerate democratic violations and what it takes to protect liberal democracy in Rudolphina's newest article and video. ⬇️ @univie.ac.at

rudolphina.univie.ac.atDemocratic backsliding explained | University of ViennaDemocracy can backslide even when most people say they support it. University of Vienna political scientist Marta Vukovic explains why citizens sometimes tolerate democratic violations and what it tak...

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Piotr Marczyński
@piotrmarczynski.bsky.social

Our study on how citizens imagine their political opponents is out in Political Studies! It was great to engage with open responses in the Polish case. Below you can find the link to the article and the summary thread by @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

journals.sagepub.comBlurred boundaries: Exploring political stereotyping in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Poland - Eelco Harteveld, João Areal, Markus Wagner, Piotr Marczynski, 2026Political stereotypes—beliefs about the attributes of politically defined groups—can deepen polarization by obscuring commonalities among citizens. Yet little i...
Eelco Harteveld@eelcoharteveld.bsky.social

Now out: our study on what citizens imagine their political opponents to be like in Brazil, the UK, Germany & Poland 💭 We use open-ended survey answers to show how political stereotypes often blur issues, groups, traits, voters and elites. Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0032... See thread for a summary 👇

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Markus Wagner
@markuswagner.bsky.social

Now out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Eelco Harteveld@eelcoharteveld.bsky.social

What do citizens imagine their political opponents to be like? Polarization is real, but it also lives in our heads, fueled by stereotypes. We asked people in 🇧🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪 & 🇵🇱 to describe opponents in their own words. With @jnareal.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social & @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social 👇

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte
@turnbulldugarte.com

I'm exceptionally proud of this paper so it is nice to hear that others found some merits in it too. Very grateful to the award committee for taking the time to read and engage with the paper. It is exhibit 79816 in the school of "partisanship is one helluva drug" doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

doi.orgHeroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge CoreHeroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities - Volume 14 Issue 1
Political Science Research and Methods@psrm.bsky.social

🏆 The 2025 Vera Troeger Best Paper Award goes to Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte (@turnbulldugarte.com) and Markus Wagner (@markuswagner.bsky.social) for "Heroes and Villains: Motivated Projection of Political Identities". 🎉 Congratulations! 👏 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.orgHeroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge CoreHeroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities - Volume 14 Issue 1
Markus Wagner
@markuswagner.bsky.social

It was such a pleasant surprise to receive this award, and thanks to @turnbulldugarte.com for letting me tag along on this fun paper!

Political Science Research and Methods@psrm.bsky.social

🏆 The 2025 Vera Troeger Best Paper Award goes to Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte (@turnbulldugarte.com) and Markus Wagner (@markuswagner.bsky.social) for "Heroes and Villains: Motivated Projection of Political Identities". 🎉 Congratulations! 👏 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.orgHeroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge CoreHeroes and villains: motivated projection of political identities - Volume 14 Issue 1

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Roman Senninger
@rsenninger.bsky.social

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

international.au.dkAssistant Professor in Political Science - Vacancy at Aarhus UniversityVacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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James Feigenbaum
@jamesfeigenbaum.bsky.social

This looks absolutely incredible. @lars.vilhuber.com I think you're going to love this

Yiqing Xu@yiqingxu.bsky.social

🧵 Introducing ReproAI, an author-facing agentic AI plugin for replication packages: reproai.org We built this tool to help authors prepare replication packages before submission, w/ @leoyangyang.bsky.social.

reproai.orgReproAI: the plugin for reproducible replication packagesAn author-facing AI plugin that helps you prepare a cleaner, reproducible replication package before submission.

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Evelyne Hübscher
@evehubscher.bsky.social

Out now and open access: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Right on time to present some follow up work at @ councilforeuropeanstudies.org/2026-confere... and @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

annualreviews.orgAusterity and PopulismA large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

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Tobias Widmann
@twidmann.bsky.social

📢 I’m hiring 2 three-year postdocs at Dept of Political Science, @au.dk! Come work with me on The Politics of Shaming and Shamelessness — a new project on elite rhetoric, emotions, norms, hostility and political violence. Deadline: 31 August 2026 Start: Dec 2026–Feb 2027 Please share widely! 🙏

international.au.dk2 three-year postdocs in political communication and political psychology at Aarhus University - Vacancy at Aarhus UniversityVacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

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Vicente Valentim
@valentimvicente.bsky.social

Our department has three calls for tenure track positions. IE is a fast growing group of scholars doing top-notch work, which offers very attractive conditions in a great European city. If you are looking for an academic job in Europe, definitely do consider applying.

IE Political Science Department@iepolisci.bsky.social

We are hiring! We have 3 tenure track positions open: - Comparative Politics: apply.interfolio.com/188149 - International Relations: apply.interfolio.com/188150 - Political Economy: apply.interfolio.com/188151 All jobs have deadlines Oct 5th. Please help spread the word to potential candidates.

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Kai Arzheimer
@kai-arzheimer.com

🚨 🚨 🚨 new publication (with @antonialang.bsky.social) klaxon!!! Over the past decade, scholars have increasingly turned to “place” as a key factor in political behaviour — particularly on the far right, in Europe & the US. Urban-rural divides are especially intriguing. But are they true cleavages? 🤔

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European Journal of Political Research
@ejprjournal.bsky.social

Taking a stand ✋️🧍 These authors 🧵 use survey data across 9 countries to assess the downstreams consequences of #AffectivePolarization & intervene to successfully reduce participants #AffectivePolarization in 6 of the 9, improving interpersonal relations and social norms buff.ly/tHRWa65

cambridge.orgThe (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge CoreThe (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies

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Sven Hegewald
@svenhegewald.bsky.social

Super happy to see the last paper from my dissertation published in @polbehavior.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 In this paper, I investigate stereotyping along the urban–rural divide using data from a conjoint experiment fielded in nine European countries. The paper is available here: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

doi.orgThe Urban–Rural Divide in People’s Minds: Stereotypes of Urbanites and Ruralites in Nine European Countries - Political BehaviorRecent scholarship increasingly views the reemergence of the urban–rural divide in political behavior through the lens of social identity theory. Given this understanding of political divisions between cities and the countryside, it is crucial to investigate how urban and rural social groups are perceived, specifically, to what extent these groups are associated with entrenched stereotypes. Examining the urban–rural divide in people’s minds through a conjoint experiment, this paper sheds light on stereotypes of urbanites and ruralites in nine European countries. The results indicate that rural residents are typically viewed as Eurosceptic, anti-immigrant, working-class, older, and less educated. By contrast, typical urbanites are perceived as Europhile, pro-immigrant, upper-middle-class, younger, and university-educated. These perceptions are not held uniformly, however. Individuals tend to project their own characteristics onto others, perceiving those similar to themselves as more typical members of their place-based in-group. Likewise, a similar logic emerges regarding the relationship between urban–rural stereotypes and affect. While individuals tend to express warmer feelings toward those they perceive as typical members of their place-based in-group, these affective evaluations critically depend on whether individuals themselves align with the stereotypes in question. Overall, these findings provide systematic evidence on stereotyping along the urban–rural divide. By way of that, they further underscore the importance of a social identity perspective to political divisions between urban and rural residents.

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Steffen Hurka
@steffenhurka.bsky.social

📢 PhD position in Political Science Join the ERC-funded #DEMOLAW project, studying the design, creation and survival of democratic laws across the US, UK and EU using computational methods. 📍 Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen 📅 Apply by 12 July 2026 #PhD #PoliticalScience #AcademicJobs

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Anita Gohdes
@argohdes.bsky.social

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

wzb.euPost-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 402)For the research project “Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script” (PALS) at the Center for Civil Society Research, in collaboration with other research units and the Cluster of Excellence...

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GASPAR UGent
@gasparugent.bsky.social

📣 GASPAR is looking for a new PhD Candidate! Interested in working on political ambition or on how parties continue to structure the political debate through party cues? 📅 Deadline for applying is July 8th Any questions? Contact @bramwauters.bsky.social More information below 👇

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Katjana Gattermann
@kgattermann.bsky.social

Less than 1 week left to apply for this exciting postdoc opportunity ⬇️ @kathleenbeckers.bsky.social & I look forward to receiving applications 😀

Katjana Gattermann@kgattermann.bsky.social

🚨New PolCom Postdoc Vacancy🚨@kathleenbeckers.bsky.social & I are hiring on project "Media, Inequality, and Democratic Support" as part of the Horizon Europe project EDGE ⬇️ Start: 1 Oct 2026, length: 30 months, location: @ascor.bsky.social 🤩, DL: 7 June 2026! More info & apply: tinyurl.com/23zdmjhe

tinyurl.comVacancy — Postdoc Position "Media, Inequality, and Democratic Support"<p><span>Are you looking for a postdoctoral position in political communication research? Are you interested in media, inequality, and democratic attitudes, and would like to become an expert on the t...