Markus Wagner

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

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Ich sprach mit @markuswagner.bsky.social und Birgit Sauer von der @univie.ac.at über den Rechtsruck in Europa. Beide beschäftigen sich in ihren Arbeiten über die Art und Weise, wie (radikale) Positionen normalisiert und so legitimiert werden, etwa durch andere Parteien. orf.at/stories/3343...

Wahlen und Co.: „Brodelnde Mitte“ geht nach rechtsorf.at Europa rückt nach rechts. Giorgia Meloni regiert in Italien, in den Niederlanden steht Geert Wilders kurz davor. In Deutschland erfährt die AfD an Zuspruch, hierzulande könnte die FPÖ die National...

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Save the date! The fifth meeting of the German Political Psychology Network will be held at the University of Vienna on September 19-20, 2024. Please submit your abstracts to: univiepsy.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (Deadline January 31, 2024)

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Are you interested in funding to study for a PhD in social sciences in the UK? Here's a long thread describing how things work.

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1/4 New article at EJPR! @ChristinaGahn & I explore the impact of displaying margins of error (MoE) in public opinion polls on citizens' voting intentions. We use a vignette experiment with > 3000 respondents in Germany. Paper (Open Access): tinyurl.com/y28fvfk8 polisky commsky polcom

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🚨 preprint alert 🚨 In this note with @turkenburgemma.bsky.social , we document a non-linear relationship between affective polarization (AP) and democratic support. These results can explain previous mixed findings and emphasize a potential silver lining of AP 👇 osf.io/5nhtg/

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Come and join us! @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social is hiring an assistant prof (tenure-track) with a specialization on political economy in/of Europe www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

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🚨PhD position in Pol Comm🚨 We are looking for a PhD candidate on the project 'The Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization', supervised by the awesome @CorinnaOschatz, myself, and Andreas Schuck Please repost for N and diversity! Details below polisky commsky

Come and work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! We are looking for a PhD student to explore the 'Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization' Deadline: 10 Jan 24 Starting: Preferably April 24 All details: tinyurl.com/45ryj32t RT=🧡 @ascor.bsky.social, # commsky # polsky

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How should we understand the Dutch election outcome? Very informative piece by the excellent @stijntvankessel.bsky.social on how we got here, and what next.

Geert Wilders’ win shows the far right is being normalised. Mainstream parties must act | Stijn va...t.co The Party for Freedom leader succeeded last week because he has become part of the Dutch political furniture. This disturbing trend needs to be halted, writes political analyst Stijn van Kessel

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Most positions for postdocs on European social research at the MZES!! 👉 Check out our 3-6yr fellowship on European societies + integration tinyurl.com/ycd6wxn7 and our 2yr fellowships tinyurl.com/2vaxwmht. 📅 Deadline for both 22 Dec 2023 polisky #sociology #socialpsyc

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Our Department is advertising a new Tenure Track Assistant Professorship on Media Literacy! Click here to apply: academicjobs.univie.ac.at/datenabfrage...

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Online first: "Do more inclusive parties change less? Intraparty democracy and programmatic change" by Sofia Marini doi.org/10.1080/0140... Polisky

Come join us in Vienna! We are hiring a tenure track assistant professor in social policy, broadly defined. Do get in touch if you have questions. https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Track-Professor-in-the-field-of-Political-Science-with-focus-on-Social-Policy/1001235101/

Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Political Science with focus on Social Policyjobs.univie.ac.at Tenure-Track Professor in the field of Political Science with focus on Social Policy

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Once-in-a-blue-moon job opportunity at @ascor.bsky.social University of Amsterdam - full prof position in political communication ! vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Full... DL 5 December Please share widely for diversity!

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We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to work on political trust and skepticism in my ERC-funded research project CRITICALTRUST. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Post... Please contact me if you have any questions!

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My book is here! Such a wonderful feeling to see it in print. While the book covers a group of parties that is very successful in the volatile party systems of Centr.&Eastern Europe, I learned a lot from studying these parties for party system change in general. A thread 1/10

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🚨Our preprint searching for patterns of "Journalism for Sale" within the context of what is known in 🇦🇹 as the Inseratenaffäre is now online. This is shared work between IPKW UNIVIE, SES UNIFR & DCM UNIFR. w/ @janabernhard.bsky.social @hajoboo.bsky.social a.o. 🧵 below 👇 1/10 osf.io/preprints/so...

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Excited that this workshop on cleavage politics is happening at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2024 in Lüneburg. Find all the information here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... You can propose papers until 23 November. We look forward to your submissions! Feel free to get in touch with any questions. polisky

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Our team at POLITICO is hiring. If you want to do fascinating research work and are looking for an amazing team (& want to enjoy Berlin summers), please consider applying and reach out ([email protected])! Equally, do get in touch if you have questions, will happily talk you into applying! ;)

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One week left to apply! 🚨 PhD position on polarization in great department and city! @ipz.bsky.social Start date = negotiable polisky PSJMinfo

Excited to share on 🟦 as well: My project on Multidimensional Polarization received a 4-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation 🎉 🚨 Please help me share the ad for the PhD position on the project! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... polisky PSJMinfo

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If anything, to me the events of the past days have shown what it means to have a moral compass in foreign policy (and who does not have one). This reflection by Barack Obama is very much worth reading: barackobama.medium.com/my-statement...

Thoughts on Israel and Gazabarackobama.medium.com It’s been 17 days since Hamas launched its horrific attack against Israel, killing over 1,400 Israeli citizens, including defenseless…

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How much do Republicans and Democrats disagree about political facts? In the news, we can frequently find reports of large gaps in how partisans perceive the world. Wide and widening partisan gaps have serious implications for the functioning of our democratic systems! 1/7

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Our paper on the effect of fiscal austerity on political polarization is now officially published in the current issue of @bjpols.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... With @evehubscher.bsky.social and @markuswagner.bsky.social

NEW ISSUE - British Journal of Political Science - Volume 53 - Issue 4 - October 2023 - cup.org/491n4pZ

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I have access to DALLE 3. Here's the "Museum of Bad Graphs". If anyone has a prompt they'd like me to test, send it over!

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Thread: How do voters judge IMF interventions? In a new paper (doi.org/10.1177/0010... forthcoming with CPS), together with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social and @markuswagner.bsky.social we find that voters often see IMF interventions more positively than generally assumed. Survey experiments… 1/4

Voters and the IMF: Experimental Evidence From European Crisis Countries - Evelyne Hübscher, Thomas...doi.org IMF interventions are often associated with rising political discontent in countries where the Fund intervenes. Studies examining this relationship, however, fa...

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👇Perhaps the best piece *ever* written about scientific fraud & a fascinating character study of Gino and Ariely. Compared to the recent lightweight NYT article, this longform goes far into the dark underbelly of academic "research." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... academicsky polisky

They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?www.newyorker.com Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.

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Check out this great special issue on comparative affective polarization -- including my paper with @liorsheffer.bsky.social and Guy Mor: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Check out this new special issue in Electoral Studies: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/elec... It contains 7 cool articles on the nature and causes of AP - using observational and experimental data, focusing on measurement, elites and ideology, and an important theoretical piece as well.

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Great opportunity for first post on BlueSky! Excited to have an article in this Electoral Studies special issue on comparative Affective Polarization w/my good buddy @roizur.bsky.social . Check out all the neat comparative work on measurement, parties, and role of policy in AP!

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📢 📢 📢 OPEN DATA RELEASE 📢 📢 📢 New large-scale comparative dataset on (negative) campaigns and candidate personality worldwide NEGex 2.0 is now available: osf.io/mekwg/ Covers all nat elections worldwide (2016-2020) ✅ 142 national elections ✅ 720 candidates ✅ 457 parties Data is open & free