Strong performance from the UBC Political Science Honours Class of 2015 in this year's APSA Euro section awards. Congrats Klaudia Wegschaider! (get a load of this Richard Johnston 🇺🇦!)

📝New paper w/ Ruofan Ma and Aleksei Opacic on the pitfalls of a common way to test for causal mechanisms: the "intermediate outcome test." We show that they are only informative under very strong assumptions that are almost never discussed in practice. mattblackwell.org/files/papers/s…

Job: Assistant Professorship with Tenure Track in Sociology of Societal Digitalization at the University of Zurich jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stellen…

👏🥳Congratulations to DPIR alumna Klaudia Wegschaider, who has won the APSA section best dissertation award for her thesis on party strategies concerning the extension of immigrant, emigrant, and youth voting rights: ow.ly/SFis50SzKaA

Applications for our Visiting Fellowship Programme are open for Trinity Term 2025 (27 April - 21 June). Deadline: 29 September 2024 Open to academics, postdocs, independent non-academic researchers and PhD/DPhil students researching forced migration. rsc.ox.ac.uk/study/visiting…

Now that #EURO2024 is over & #Paris2024 is looming on the horizon, do not forget to submit your abstract for the workshop "The Politicisation of Sports" in Munich! Happy to answer any questions & receiving your proposals!

Last weekend, I finally graduated! 👩🏻‍🎓 It was extra special to graduate with two dear friends who had started with me many years ago 🥹💕✨ Thanks Pembroke College and University of Oxford for letting me share in your magic for some time. Soon on to new adventures at Yale ISPS

Shared some thoughts on applying for funding w/PSA ECN conference-goers today. Much of the logic of proposals is convincing readers you've got the right mix of a project that matters, person (or team) with a track record, and place (or places) that will best support the work. 🧵

I am thrilled to see my first publication out in the European Journal of Political Research “Why do people like technocrats?” with amazing co-authors Matthias Kaltenegger Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik! 🔓 Open access: doi.org/10.1111/1475-6… EJPR journal

🚨🚨New pub w Orit Kedar + Odelia Oshri! We study two electoral shifts in relation to the gender gap: the decline of social democracy and the rise of far-right parties. See🧵on the contributions to the supply side of Western European party politics and changing party systems

🎯 Publication alert! 🎯 Excited to share that my first single-authored dissertation paper is now published at The International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP 🔓Check out the open access (thanks Universität Wien) paper here: doi.org/10.1177/194016…

In light of the UK extreme-right (ER) riots & Tommy Robinson's role in them, our conditionally accepted British Jnl Poli Sci paper w/Florian Foos shows a causal effect of media exposure to extreme right actors, incl. Robinson, on support for extreme right views: osf.io/preprints/soca… 1/11

✅Flights booked, accommodation sorted, visa granted. I look forward to starting off my time in the US with #APSA2024 -- reach out if you are there and want to have a cup of tea. Then I will head on to Yale ISPS for ten months. Vienna, I will miss you while away. ❤️

📢 Oxford Politics and IR seeks a Postdoctoral Researcher in Comparative Politics to engage in a research group studying why people support democracy and how autocrats try to use that to facilitate authoritarian political outcomes.🗓️ CLOSES: Noon (BST), 30 Sept: ow.ly/ewGx50T8FPF

Anteil Wirtschafts- & Sozialpolitik vs. Migration & Integration in den Wahlprogrammen der Parteien seit 1970:

Noch unentschlossen für die #nrw24? Heute startet smartvote.at, eine Wahlhilfe die Matthias Kaltenegger, Franziska Windisch, Benedikt Seisl, Jakob Meinel, Manuel Scharrer und ich (vom STAWIUniVienna Universität Wien) mit dem politisch neutralen Verein Politools aus 🇨🇭 entwickelt haben 1/7

🚨 My book is out today: academic.oup.com/book/57946 🚨 2024 has been full of elections. In many, radical-right politicians made important electoral gains. My book hopes to contribute to debates on the rise of these politicians by putting forward a theory around social norms. 1/23