Reto Bürgisser

Congratulations! Great to see this out.

Policy goal communication increases support for ambitious renewable energy policies In democracies, public support for policies is crucial to their legitimacy, and the absence can impede necessary reforms, which are needed to keep most disastrous effects of climate change at bay. Thi...

👋 New article out in @plosclimate.org

@istad.bsky.social & I experimentally demonstrate that communicating alignment between policies and the previously negotiated goals they aim to achieve boosts public support, as exemplified by ambitious decarbonisation goals in
doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Call for applications for a 3 years doctoral contract For the ERC GREENLOSS Project - Application deadline: May 17, 2026

📢 JOB ALERT! Fully funded 3-year PhD in Climate & Comparative Politics at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social. Starting in September.
The project is on the political consequences of climate policies in carbon-intensive communities across Europe.
🗓 Deadline: May 17
www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

New paper (first single-authored) in Ecological Economics 🎉
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Who makes the green transition on the labor market? How can we try to measure this? How does it add to broader research on the political economy of economic transitions?
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Offene Stellen / Open Positions

🚨Job alert 🚨

I have an opening for a postdoc in my team at @ipz.bsky.social in the area of digital democracy starting Sep 1, 2026.

If you are working on the impact of the digital transformation on politics, please apply by 🗓️ Mar 1, 2026.

📤 Please share widely!

www.ipz.uzh.ch/de/ueber-uns...

🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨

7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers.
Free of charge (limited travel support).

Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org
#methodsky #polisky

Who wants to accelerate digitalization? Evidence from the next generation EU program Post-industrial governments around the world are increasingly prioritizing policies to accelerate digitalization, but despite the growing literature on technological change and the knowledge econom...

📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP
doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵

We are looking for a postdoc!

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social)

⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*?

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

🚨 Job Alert!

We are looking for a Senior Scientist (40h/week) to develop, establish, and organize the research network “Democracy and Human Rights”.

Start: March 1, 2026
Application deadline: February 2, 2026

Find out more👇

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Senior-S...

⏳ 5 days left to apply!

4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
in a collegial & supportive department.

Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related.

Deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

⏳ 5 days left to apply!

4-year PhD position @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
in a collegial & supportive department.

Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related.

Deadline: 28 Jan 26

jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Austerity and Populism A large literature explains the rise of populist parties with the economic insecurities stemming from globalization and technological change. But despite the long-standing focus of the comparative and...

Very happy that our review article (with the @annualreviews.bsky.social) on „Austerity and Populism“ is now available as preprint: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... - with @sattlersthomas.bsky.social

This is a great 4-year PhD position in a collegial and supportive department. Come join us in Vienna.

Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related.

Deadline: 28 Jan 26

And more job opportunities: @univie.ac.at aims to fill 40 (!) doctoral positions in the social sciences, humanities and cultural studies

careers.univie.ac.at/en/praedoc/p...

This is a great 4-year PhD position in a collegial and supportive department. Come join us in Vienna.

Focus: representation, party competition, political behavior, political institutions, political economy, or related.

Deadline: 28 Jan 26

This is a brilliant piece on the restructuring of political competition in Western Europe and goes far beyond the question of populism. Great also for teaching.

Now out in QMMR (Notes from the Field): I reflect on my PhD fieldwork in informal camps of migrant farmworkers in Italy, and on how the slow work of building trust in a challenging field environment radically reshaped my research questions and methods
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Update #Startpaket #Politikwissenschaft #Österreich

With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome?
politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

Abstract It is widely accepted in political science – and remarkably established in public discourse – that status anxieties fuel a far right backlash against progressive politics. This narrative suggests that right-wing conservatives perceive the status of women, racial, or sexual minorities as threatening. Using open-ended survey questions fielded in Germany, we show that women and minorities indeed figure in people’s perceptions of status hierarchies, but in very specific ways: First, overall, people still perceive status as largely socioeconomically determined. Second, sociocultural groups figure in perceptions of who is gaining/losing status, less so in perceptions of the top/bottom of society. Third, more than conservative voters, it is social progressives who mention women and minorities as “winners”. While on race/ethnicity, we find evidence for a backlash, on gender and sexuality we find more evidence for a progressive momentum. This matters for progressive politics today and for how we empirically study status concerns.

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝
We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions.

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social

𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭
21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET

@alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions.

👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior?

🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left.

👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project

You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!

⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025

wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...

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How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations?

In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer.

tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

@siljahausermann.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social @elivolpi.bsky.social @denisetraber.bsky.social @nathaliegiger.bsky.social @samdschmid.bsky.social @anketresch.bsky.social @stefaniebailer.bsky.social @emmahoes.bsky.social @lucasleemann.bsky.social @lhaffert.bsky.social @giorgiomalet.bsky.social

@brueckmann.bsky.social @rfrbrghs.bsky.social @mabreyer.bsky.social @dpzollinger.bsky.social @seanstmllr.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social @walderm.bsky.social @benjaminschlegel.ch @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social @jellekoedam.bsky.social @eribertsou.bsky.social @dweisstanner.bsky.social

See below for more info on the PhD programmes and how to apply.

Share widely with your students in Switzerland 🇨🇭thinking about a PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social

𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗘𝗨𝗜 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 🇨🇭
21 Nov 2025 | 2:30pm CET

@alissasiara.bsky.social introduces the program & life at EUI, I share my experience, and we answer your questions.

👉 Register: www.eui.eu/events?id=58...

We’re looking for an RA for the MULTIREP ERC project at @univie.ac.at — working on citizens' fundamental motivations for political representation.
We look for MA students with some experience and a lot of interest in surveys & experiments.

Deadline is 10 Nov, 23:59pm!

wratil.eu/files/Resear...