🗓Am 22. März 2026 ist in #Rheinland-Pfalz #Landtagswahl. Wir in der Abteilung Innenpolitik/Politische Soziologie des @powimz.bsky.social haben im Auftrag der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung Profile für alle zur #Wahl stehenden #Parteien verfasst. ⬇️ www.bpb.de/themen/parte...
New #OpenAccess -
"People-centred or Elite-centred Democrats? Legislators’ Process Preferences in the United States and Germany" - cup.org/4tGsbpP
by @crowdermeyer.bsky.social, Leonard Häfner, @clandwehr.bsky.social & @stallbaum.bsky.social
Thank you Marta :)
In our new paper in G&O, we show that US legislators have more people-centred process preferences, while German legislators are more balanced between people-centred and elite-centred preferences overall - but party affiliation matters.
Link to the paper:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🎧 JETZT REINHÖREN: #Forschungspodcast #MindsOfMainz – #DerGutenbergTalk | Folge 28: Demokratie im Fokus: Warum Politische Theorie heute die Gesellschaft bewegt | mit Prof. Claudia Landwehr 👉 www.magazin.uni-mainz.de/minds-of-main…
#Demokratie #Politikwissenschaft #PolitischeTheorie
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Join us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇
Now with page numbers, and a follow-up paper already in the works! 🤫
Instead of looking at singular preferences for how a democracy can be organized, @clandwehr.bsky.social, Christopher Ojeda and I use a survey experiment to study which democratic designs US and German citizens actually prefer:
Vor 34 Jahren begannen die rassistischen Pogrome in Hoyerswerda. Umfangreiche Webdoku dazu unter hoyerswerda-1991.de
The @powimz.bsky.social crowd enjoys the sunset cruise at the @ecpr.bsky.social conference in Thessaloniki. 😎
Together with @clandwehr.bsky.social, @arminschaefer.bsky.social, @stallbaum.bsky.social, @lionmert.bsky.social & @kwalz.bsky.social.
@powimz.bsky.social at #ECPRGC25 in Thessaloniki
The WZB Transformations of Democracy unit hosted a great workshop on how ideas of Democracy evolve over time . A great group & lots of scholarly progress.
Appeasement, as Churchill warned, is like feeding a crocodile and hoping to be the last one eaten.
Levitsky, Way, and me today in New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...
How do institutional parameters affect citizens’ evaluations of a political system as democratic? @clandwehr.bsky.social, C Ojeda & @stallbaum.bsky.social compare citizens’ design preferences in #Germany & #US. Read more: https://buff.ly/3Wx9YMl
@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social
Very happy to start 2025 with a new paper just out in @polstudies.bsky.social 🎉 Christopher Ojeda, @stallbaum.bsky.social and I use a factorial survey to explore citizens' institutional design preferences.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
