Nathalie Giger

🔔We are hiring!🔔
In Geneva, we are looking for a new colleague in comparative politics: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions!

🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

Feel free to reach out to me or Stefanie for more information!

We also analyze how these factors influence vote choice, and how the role of quality in elections can be strengthened – with cross-national surveys, survey and field experiments and panel data.

In the project we explore whether MPs can effectively perform and implement their ideas - something shaped by their effort and policy influence. The project develops a comprehensive index of MP quality always with a close focus on which qualities voters value most in a comparative perspective.

Join our international teams in Basel and Geneva for a four-year postdoc and two four-year PhD positions as of March 2025, here the job ads:
tinyurl.com/postdocUNIGE
tinyurl.com/phdUNIGE
tinyurl.com/phdUNIBAS

🔔Job Alert 🔔
Thrilled to share that @stefaniebailer.bsky.social and I have been awarded 1.5 million CHF in SNSF funding for our new project: “Electoral choice: Which role does legislators’ quality play?”
We’re recruiting 1 postdoc and 2 PhD candidates to join us in Basel and Geneva!

Transparency matters: The positive effect of politicians’ side income disclosure on voters’ perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core Transparency matters: The positive effect of politicians’ side income disclosure on voters’ perceptions

🆕 Side income impacts trust in politicians? 💰
@ohuwyler.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social
study voters across 7 🇪🇺 countries to see how transparency about parliamentarians’ extra income shapes #VoterPerceptions, #Trust, and electability

Mise au concours #Postdoc.Mobility. Approfondissez votre expérience de #recherche grâce à un séjour à l’étranger. Si vous voulez en savoir plus sur cet appel, participez à notre événement d’information en ligne, le 17.11.2025.

➡️ sohub.io/f091
🗓️ Délai de soumission: 03.02.2026

Better get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)!
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

📣 New EJPR publication!

@stefaniebailer.bsky.social, @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and I study citizens’ attitudes toward MPs’ side income disclosure in 7 European countries.

MPs who conceal income are trusted least, even less than those with very high side incomes.
doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100303

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.

🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations

I am very happy to serve as section co-chair for #EPSS Belfast next June, please consider submitting your most excellent work!

Excited to have become a member of this great initiative - do the same and show support!

"Invitation Letters Increase Response Rates in Elite Surveys" with @nathaliegiger.bsky.social. Short report @ JEPS.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction Social media platforms offer MPs the opportunity to directly signal attention to their local voters in the constituency. And while previous research has linked the strategic use of such local cues in...

📣 New research in EJPR together with the wonderful @nathaliegiger.bsky.social, @stefaniebailer.bsky.social, T. Turner-Zwinkels & S. Heller:

We find:
1) MPs use more constituency signals while campaigning,
2) voters notice the signals,
3) but don't reward that behaviour.

doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Are you a parent, and an early career scholar? Are you going to #EPSA? I'm thinking of organizing an event on #parenting and #academia at EPSA. Are you interested? Drop me an email. I'm looking for "partners in crime".

📢 We are hiring: 4-year PhD position at the Department of Government @univie.ac.at 👇

Unequal Democracies: Public Policy, Responsiveness and Redistribution in an Era of Rising Economic Inequality, Noam Lupu & Jonas Pontusson (Eds.). Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (2023) Click on the article title to read more.

📚 New book review published

Ari Ray @ariray.bsky.social reviews "Unequal Democracies" (eds. Noam Lupu @noamlupu.bsky.social and Jonas Pontusson) in the SPSR

@cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

⚠️ Six-year position at our department - work in lovely Vienna with a friendly team, 2 classes a term, and follow/develop your own research agenda. Feel free to ask me questions you might have. Deadline 24/01/25 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

🚨 Publication alert
I am so glad my publication "Political Attitudes and Sexual Identity in Germany: Examining the Sexuality Gap" has now been published in Swiss Political Science Review.
While there is an increasing literature on political behaviour, research on...
#LGB #LGBTQ

Swiss Political Science Review Click on the title to browse this journal

Out now! Thijs Vos, Lianne van Kalken, Geerten Boogaard and I look at voting patterns in Dutch municipal councils and what shapes the importance of the coalition-opposition divide onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Call for Papers: #EPSAXV in Madrid! 🚨

📅 June 26-28, 2025 📍 UC3M, Madrid, Spain 🔗 Submit: coms.app/epsa2025 🗓️ Deadline: Dec 18, 2024

Showcase your research in one of 18 divisions! 🌍🌞 Don’t miss out—join us in sunny Madrid!
Details: epsanet.org

If you are a PhD student and work on inequality, you can get funded for spending some time at our Cluster 'Politics of Inequality' @excinequality.bsky.social

www.exc.uni-konstanz.de/en/ungleichh...

New @excinequality.bsky.social working paper together with
@mbusemeyer.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social based on data from the #InequalityBarometer

"Individual Ideology and Biased Perceptions of Income"

kops.uni-konstanz.de/bitstreams/c...

"Encouraging politicians to act on climate." @ajpseditor.bsky.social (w @nathaliegiger.bsky.social, Maria Pérez & Kaya Axelsson) We study the motivations of local officials to learn about net zero policies in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇭🇮🇹🇩🇪🇫🇷

link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We are hiring: The political science department at the University of Geneva is looking for a PhD candidate in political behavior: jobs.unige.ch/www/wd_porta...
French for teaching required, otherwise free to work on any topic of interest!

UZH: Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track in Political Communication The University of Zurich invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professorship in political communication to begin on 1 February 2025. After two three-year appointments, promotion to a perma...

*** Assistant Professorship in Political Communication with Tenure Track ***

Our department (IKMZ - University of Zurich) is hiring!

More info:
jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Thank you for spreading the word and/or applying!

📣 Job alert: Hast du einen Master in Sozialwissenschaften und kennst dich in Umfrageforschung aus? FORS sucht eine*n wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter*in (80%, davon 40% im Homeoffice) für Datenerhebung & -analyse 👇

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