The third #ActEU policy brief has arrived!
The third #ActEU policy brief has arrived!
Great news! ๐ฌ Our series of #ActEU Animated Explainers is available on YouTube with SUBTITLES in Italian ๐ฎ๐น, French ๐ซ๐ท, and German ๐ฉ๐ชโผ๏ธ
Follow the animated characters here & learn more about political trust in Europe๐ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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New publication: Party Competition and Voter Attitudes in German Border Regions
Using innovative local VAA data the study shows how party competition and voter preferences on European integration take shape where #EUpolitics meets the local level.
Learn more: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
"Why vote if nothing ever changes?"
In the fourth episode of #DemocracyCracks, Eva Ribera explores how the center of gravity of political participation may be shifting.
Hear #ActEU Heather Grabbe of Bruegel & listen to the episode open.spotify.com/episode/0X9y...
๐งฒ How did #ActEU researchers collect data on political trust? ๐ฝ๏ธThis animated video explores ActEU's web-scraping tool, one of the largest collections of European political communications ๐ youtu.be/LwTeWZjWMtE
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The SOUNDS initiative is hiring for ๐ช๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป/ ๐ช๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ป๐ฑ
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ถ๐ป/ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ป๐ฑ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฑ-๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐บ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ธ๐๐
๐ช๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ณ๐๐๐ธ๐ผ๐บ๐บ๐๐ป๐ถ๐ธ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฆ๐ข๐จ๐ก๐๐ฆ (๐บ/๐/๐ฑ).
Link: www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/up...
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How do emotions influence political responsiveness? In his contribution to our issue 3/2025, Georg Wenzelburger of @politicsunisaar.bsky.social argues that by focusing on preference-policy linkages, previous research has often underestimated the role of emotions.
Read more: doi.org/10.1515/spp-...
Join us on 5. March for our (German) #PoliSci talk with #UNTWIST: "How political are gender question really?"
Sign up here: bit.ly/untwist-gsb
The second #ActEU policy brief is here!
The Societal Observatory Using Novel Data Sources (SOUNDS) project is inviting applications for the following position:
๐ฃ๐ผ๐๐๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ (๐ณ/๐บ/๐
) ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฆ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด (๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ณ: ๐ช๐ฎ๐ด๐ฌ๐ญ)
Paygrade: E13 TV-L 100%
Duration: 2 years
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OUT NOW ๐คฉ The first 3๏ธโฃ episodes of our podcast series "Democracy Cracks" are now available on your favourite podcast platforms!
โก๏ธ open.spotify.com/show/75RInYw...
This mini-series is created as part of #ActEU and narrated by TEPSA's Programme Manager Eva Ribera!
At the end of the #ActEU Final Conference, Scientific Lead Daniela Braun will provide her concluding remarks, summarising the achievements of the ActEU project ๐
Make sure to follow our livestream on TEPSA's YouTube channel ๐ www.youtube.com/channel/UCUP...
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A quick summary of the first #ActEU policy brief:
Coming soon: Activating European Citizensโ Trust in Times of Crisis and Polarization
This #PoliSci book will explore how trust and legitimacy shape Europeโs representative democracies, introducing the #ActEU framework to assess democratic change and polarization.
We're #hiring: This time we're looking for a project lead assistant for our large-scale #compsocsci project SOUNDS!
๐Register TODAY for the #ActEU final conference "Detached, distrustful, disengaged? Rethinking democracy in todayโs Europe"
Join us for lively discussions on trust, legitimacy and polarisation in Europe with our diversified and interactive panels!๐ก
๐ tepsa.eu/events/acteu...
European parties often miss what voters actually care about. New #ActEU research shows clear gaps between party platforms and voter priorities with consequences for trust and political stability.
Read more in our latest #PoliSci blogpost:
Join us in january for a #PoliSci talk by Dr Anne Jadot: "What drives French voters to the polls?"
Another day, another job ad: We're also looking for a student assistant for a new project at our chair!
#hiring
And another job ad: We're looking for four student assistants! #hiring
Job ad: The city of Saarbrรผcken is currently searching for applicants familiar with the field of #InternationalRelations. Find out more:
Our new #PoliSci study shows how randomized response techniques can reveal hard-to-measure lobbying influence inside German parliaments. A cautious but promising step toward studying sensitive political behavior more directly.
Learn more:
We are looking for a teamlead for our large-scale project SOUNDS!
#compsocsci #PoliSky #PoliSci #hiring #JobAlert
Watch our latest #PoliSci talk at TEDx "Wie bekommen wir mehr Bevรถlkerung in die Politik?" (in German) where Prof Braun discusses declining voter turnout, growing polarisation and loss of trust as well as potential solutions.
This year we hosted the German #PoliSci Association's annual conference. Read up on some of the results in our newest publication: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Send us a video of max 3 minutes about your vision of democracy before 9 November 2025 and win a trip to Brussels ๐ง๐ช to the #ActEU final conference (and add another line to your CV!) ๐
Find out more about the contest, the questions and the requirements ๐ tinyurl.com/ActEUContest
Dr. Pascal Kรถnig โFrom tech wars to tech culture wars? โValue shapingโ and โvalue signalingโ in AI system design and governanceโ As Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are increasingly sophisticated in emulating human communication and expressing social values, they also gain greater relevance for questions of culture and identity. This makes it important to take seriously the role of culture in AI in its own right. This article conceptualizes and illustrates major ways in which this value dimension becomes salient and provides an overview of conflicts over embedding culture and political ideology into generative AI systems. Besides an unintentional incorporation of values into AI, governments and businesses intentionally shape the values of AI systems โ leading to tensions within and between societies and both on the level of AI system design and governance. Governments and businesses furthermore engage in value signaling as the open recognition of the fact that certain social values and political ideas are embedded in AI systems. These developments add an important facet to the politics of AI.
How do culture and ideology shape #AI, and how does AI shape them?
Join our #PoliSci talk on how values are embedded, contested, and signaled in generative AI systems, and what this means for the politics of AI.
Learn more: www.uni-saarland.de/en/chair/bra...
When a government is seen as fair & trustworthy, people feel included & actively participate in politics ๐ #ActEU Scientific Lead Daniela Braun explores this connection in our recent #TEPSAExplainer
๐ youtu.be/r_8oudinAtk
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Why does political #legitimacy matter in a democracy? โก Here is #ActEU Daniela Braun's answer ๐
Watch the full #TEPSAExplainer on YouTube ๐ youtu.be/r_8oudinAtk
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The widespread acceptance of a government's authority by its people is key for a healthy democratic system ๐ #ActEU Scientific Lead Daniela Braun tells us more about the importance of political #legitimacy in her recent explainer โฌ๏ธ
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