Sonja Blum

➡️ Check out the new article of Sonja Blum @sonjablum.bsky.social, Johanna Kuhlmann and Nora Habelitz @nhabelitz.bsky.social on #Sociology #Inequality #PoliticalEmotions #CIDAPE #ClimatePolicy #policynarratives #appraisaltheory #narrativepolicyframework.

➡️ Check out the new article of Nora Habelitz @nhabelitz.bsky.social, Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social and Sonja Blum @sonjablum.bsky.social on #EnergyPolicy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Excited that my first peer-reviewed article, co-authored with @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @sonjablum.bsky.social is out! We ask how German and Italian parties used emotions in energy policy communication during the 2024 European Parliament elections. 👉Open Access: doi.org/10.1002/epa2...

Interested into "family policy change", how to conceptualise and measure it? Then this piece we put together with Sonja Blum may be of interest to you.... journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

✨ Interested in conducting research on family policy and policy learning, in an international research environment? ▶️ 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position at Bielefeld University. 👇👇👇

📢 #CfP Emotional Conflicts around Energy Transitions in Europe 📍ECPR General Conference, 8–11 Sept 2026 #ecprgc26 Panel chaired by @sonjablum.bsky.social & me Section #Climate Conflict & Political Mobilisations 👉 Please send Abstracts by 3 Jan 2026 via 📩to nora.habelitz@uni-bielefeld.de

🚨Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Researcher at Bielefeld University ✨Research on policy learning, and work-family policies in Mexico & Germany, within the @sfb1342.bsky.social on global dynamics of social policy Applications until 12.1.26, details at: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/473...

CfP: 'Political #Emotions in Times of Conflict', 11-12 March 2026 in Florence @sns.it @cidape.bsky.social @sonjablum.bsky.social and I invite papers for our panel 'Emotional conflicts around Energy transitions in Europe: #Policy narratives and policymaking dynamics'. 👉Deadline 31.12.2025

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/

'Policy advisory bodies during crises: a scoping review of the COVID-19 literature in Europe' From our latest issue 21.3, by Clemence Bouchat et al. Read with #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1332/1744... @bupjournals.bsky.social @djmallinson.bsky.social

Der #Call for Proposals für die #Dreiländertagung #3LT2026 von DVPW, @oegpw.bsky.social & SVPW/ASSP ist offen. Wir freuen uns auf Vorschläge für Panels & Papers bis zum 14.11.2025! Alle Infos 👉 www.dvpw.de/veranstaltun... #CfP 14.11. #PoWi #Politikwissenschaft #DACH #Europa #Zukunft #SpreadTheWord

Nora Habelitz and Nikos Saridakis at #ECPR General Conference in #Thessaloniki. Nikos chaired a panel on #FarRight Mobilisation, @nhabelitz.bsky.social‬ presented a paper with @sonjablum.bsky.social‬ and @fabiennelind.bsky.social‬ on #emotions in policy communication during the 2024 #EU elections.

Check out one of the first publications from the CIDAPE project @cidape.bsky.social on „Climate, Inequality and Democratic Action - The Force of Political Emotions“ 👇

Last day of #ica25 🔥 Proud to have presented our work in progress on climate action salience on social media ahead of the 2024 EP elections 🇪🇺 for @cidape.bsky.social @fabiennelind.bsky.social @nhabelitz.bsky.social @sonjablum.bsky.social @tillhilmar.bsky.social @dominikzelinsky.bsky.social

This week, Susanna Soosaar (University of Tartu) and Nora Habelitz (University of Bielefeld) are working together to discuss climate policy narratives in Bielefeld. They’re analysing emotions in debates about climate laws in the Estonian and German context. 🌱

Nora Habelitz presenting research results with Fabienne Lind @fabiennelind.bsky.social and Sonja Blum @sonjablum.bsky.social at #ecprjs25. "Energized? How German and Italian Politicians emotionally narrate energy policy in the EU Elections 2024."🔋

Einladung: Am 2.7. um 12-13:30 geben Expert*innen Einblicke in die Individualförderung der #EU für die #PoWi: European Research Council #ERC und Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships Infos & Anmeldung bis 30.6. 👉 www.dvpw.de/veranstaltun... @erc.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu

One week left to propose your Special issue idea to the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 📣👇

Papers invited on the politics and policies shaping access to social rights, e.g.: How do policy actors perceive social citizenship + deserving groups? How is social citizenship redefined? 🇮🇹 ESPAnet Milan ⏳CfP til 24 April @ivanadobrotic.bsky.social www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...

🥳Volume 53, Issue 2, is here! We have a fantastic collection of articles, many thanks to all of our authors and reviewers for their contributions.

It's a wrap! An honour to host 130+ participants and friends this week in Bielefeld for the International Community, Work & Family conference! Here a picture from our PhD workshop on Tuesday- with great info on publishing in @cwfjournal.bsky.social by @cassandraengeman.bsky.social & Marc Grau Grau🙏!

🔎Which criteria guide constructions of 'deservingness' in public policy? We discuss in our new blog post: policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/03/26/w... 🌟Thank you to Johannah Kuhlmann and Sonja Blum @sonjablum.bsky.social for this interesting piece! 🌟

In our new article, we are asking how scientists deal with the political dynamics of policy processes that are inherent to policymaking. Thanks to Jule Ksinsik for the great collaboration @jule-k.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis now invites proposals for special issues! 📈3.9 (2023) Impact Factor/Q1 ⏰ Call open until 30 April 2025 All info on how to submit proposals can be found here: files.taylorandfrancis.com/jcpa-si-prop... @jcpascpa.bsky.social

Papers invited on the politics and policies shaping access to social rights, e.g.: How do policy actors perceive social citizenship + deserving groups? How is social citizenship redefined? 🇮🇹 ESPAnet Milan ⏳CfP til 24 April @ivanadobrotic.bsky.social www.espanetmilano2025.it/en-US/stream...

Und auch in diesem Jahr wieder mit @schaderstiftung.bsky.social: der #Lehrpreis #Politikwissenschaft 👉 dvpw.de/informatione... Bewerbungen & Vorschläge bis 15.04.2025 an buero@dvpw.de AK #Hochschullehre #PoWiLehre #Didaktik #PoWi

Das neue Format der DVPW-#Impuls-#Tagung ist vor allem für unsere Sektionen, Arbeitskreis und Themengruppen interessant: 👉 www.dvpw.de/informatione... Anträge bis 28.02.2025 an buero@dvpw.de @akpf-dvpw.bsky.social @dvpwtheoriesektion.bsky.social @dvpw-ipe.bsky.social @ecib-dvpw.bsky.social

✨Are you working on Policy Design and Evaluation in the Era of Transformation: Current and Future Perspectives? 📣 Call for Papers for EGPA Glasgow, 26-29 August 2025. Proposals invited until 28 March with @bishoyzaki.bsky.social, Celine Mavrot & Ellen Fobé See: media.timtul.com/media/web_ii...

Wir suchen Verstärkung an der AG Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft und Politikfeldanalyse! New year, new (Postdoc) researcher opportunity - an der Uni Bielefeld. Bewerbungsfrist ist der 10.1.2025 👇

👏 Thank you to all our authors, reviewers, board members, readers and friends of Policy & Politics for another great year! 🥳To celebrate, we have made our top 10 most highly cited articles in 2024 free to access until 31 Jan 2025. Happy holiday reading! policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/12/11/t...

🙌NEW PUBLICATION: Have you ever wondered why many women in early history supported rightist parties that often suppressed women's political rights? @jeppjournal.bsky.social In this paper, I offer a supply-side explanation, focusing on political parties' positions on gender policies, 1900-1975.

Job alert 🚨 🔎 (Postdoc) Researcher (full-time) Bielefeld University ✨Comparative Politics & Public Policy Apply until 3 January 2025 Details 🇩🇪 uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/386... Details 🇬🇧 uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/386... Please share widely/get in touch for more info

University of Oslo is hiring 2-4(!) Associate Professors in Political Science. The call is open to candidates from all subfields. Deadline is February 3rd. It comes with amazing colleagues, great work conditions, and lots of snow. Brown cheese, salmon, and cross-country skis can be supplementary.

Another look at the "law of dispersion": In the German city of Bremen, the turnout rates of different neighbourhoods in Bundestag elections have diverged quite dramatically over the past four decades.

Great news! @dfgpublic.bsky.social will fund our (w Thomas Koch & Nora Denner @ifpmainz.bsky.social) project on sociopolitical positioning of companies. I am thus looking for a phd student (3 year 75%) with basic knowledge in computational social science. job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

I feel honored that our systematic review on the Narrative Policy Framework is featured in Policy & Politics' quarterly highlights blog post! 👇

In Ch1, @sonjablum.bsky.social uses the case of AfD to talk about populist policy narratives (such as giving-to-give, or taking-to-take) and demonstrates welfare chauvinism’s exclusionary tendencies along the lines of immigration, gender, and sexual orientation. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

😃😞😨😡😍 Studying Emotions in Policy & Politics? We organise an ECPR joint session in Prague, which aims to bring the #methods for studying emotions to the foreground of our papers and discussions. Paper proposals invited till 21 Nov! policysky PAsky ecpr.eu/JointSessions

Join us in Greece to talk about policy and democracy… …and other issues of „Public Policy Design, Evaluation & Democratic Quality“! 🇬🇷Athens, 3-6 September 2024 EGPA conference 📝Call for papers until 15 May, see: media.timtul.com/media/web_ii...

How does the use of evidence in policy narratives change during crises? A new comparative study of New York City‘s pandemic school shutdowns is out - written together with the brilliant @klatt.bsky.social

10th International Community, Work and Family Conference: Exploring changing structures, policies, and practices in a global perspective Bielefeld University, 25-28 March 2025 Session proposals invited until 31 January. Details: blogs.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/soziolo... Polisky Gendersky #Sociology

2 weeks left to apply 👇

📣 Our COST Action organises a training school „Work-care policies, gender and social inequalities“ For early career researchers (PhD/Postdoc) When? 17-19 April 24 Where? Dubrovnik, Croatia Find all details at: www.sustainability-at-leave.uni-hamburg.de/activities/n... Gendersky Polisky #sociology

I'm very happy that Bettina Stauffer's and my article on the policy dimension in the Narrative Policy Framework #NPF made it to PSJ's new blog! If you want to know to get a brief overview of what the article is about (➡️ tl;dr 😉), click here: psjblog.net/2023/10/25/p...

Das WissZeitVG als Analysegegenstand im Blick der Politikwissenschaft: dazu organisieren Berenike Prem, @jjungblut.bsky.social & ich ein Panel beim DVPW Kongress 24 ⏳Abstracts welcome - aus verschiedenen Powi Teilbereichen und bis zum 31.10., see: www.dvpw.de/dvpw2024/cal... germanpoliticsky

Leute, es ist wieder soweit... wir suchen eine SHK für unser Team und bieten die (Mit-)Nutzung einer wunderschönen Espressomaschine (u.v.m.)! @polsozosifu.bsky.social @lenamasch.bsky.social @juliareuschenbach.bsky.social Alle Details hier: www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/polwiss/fors...

🚨CALL FOR AUTHORS🚨 We are looking for authors willing to write a short entry (2.5k words) on the topics below for our Encyclopedia of Political Communication Interested? ➡️ Reach out asap via email (a.nai@uva.nl) Plz repost for N and diversity @maxgroemping.bsky.social @dswirz.bsky.social

I am very pleased to announce the publication of the Handbook of Public Policy Evaluation, co-edited with Fred Varone and Steve Jacob. It explores policy evaluation's political role in democracies, aiming to reduce inequalities and enhance democratic policymaking: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/han...