Swen Hutter

Swen Hutter

@swenhutter.bsky.social

Political sociology at Freie Universität Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center

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Swen Hutter
@swenhutter.bsky.social

Our latest paper on party brands in Europe is outin @poppublicsphere.bsky.social! More to come as the brilliant @eborbath.bsky.social and I finalize a book manuscript that brings together insights on party names, action repertoires, organizational adaptations, and how voters respond to them.

Endre Borbáth@eborbath.bsky.social

🔔 New paper on party brands with @swenhutter.bsky.social in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social We study the supply (how parties call themselves) and demand (what voters reward) sides. We pair a new European dataset of party names with conjoint experiments on voter reactions OA 👉 doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Social Movement Studies Journal
@socmovstudies.bsky.social

As promised, the new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...

tandfonline.comSocial Movement StudiesSpecial issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Guest editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba. Volume 25, Issue 4-5 of Social Movement Studies

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Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb)
@protestinstitut.bsky.social

"Ohne #Engagement gäbe es keine #Demokratie. Denn sie lebt davon, dass unterschiedliche Personen zusammenkommen und sich gemeinsam für Ziele einsetzen. #Verbände, #Initiativen & #Vereine stiften #Gemeinschaft." 📣 @swenhutter.bsky.social, @wzb.bsky.social Süddeutsche Zeitung:

buff.lyWie kann ich die Welt verbessern?Bringt Demonstrieren überhaupt etwas? Oder meinen Abgeordneten zu kontaktieren? Ja, aber es ist auch schon viel getan, wenn man einem Verein beitritt, sagt ein Experte.

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Anita Gohdes
@argohdes.bsky.social

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

wzb.euPost-Doctoral Research Fellow (f/m/x) (ID 402)For the research project “Public Attitudes towards the Liberal Script” (PALS) at the Center for Civil Society Research, in collaboration with other research units and the Cluster of Excellence...

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Bastian Becker
@beckerbastian.bsky.social

Also finding it hard to keep up with new research? I built something to fix this. SciLove — swipe through recent papers in your field. The feed learns from your saves. Also matches you with researchers saving your work back (opt-out if you prefer). www.scilove.app 3,000+ journals, updated daily

scilove.appSciLove — Discover new research on the goA personalized feed of the latest peer-reviewed papers — swipe to save, skip, and make connections in minutes a day.

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Endre Borbáth
@eborbath.bsky.social

🔔 Happy to share our new paper in npj Climate Action on the effects of major climate protests on politically interested bystanders, co-authored with David Schieferdecker, @jacobsenjannes.bsky.social, @swenhutter.bsky.social, and Jule Specht. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s44...

nature.comThe effects of turnout at major climate protests on politically-interested bystanders: a survey field experiment - npj Climate Actionnpj Climate Action - The effects of turnout at major climate protests on politically-interested bystanders: a survey field experiment

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Jesper Lindqvist
@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social

🧵I am happy to announce a new article in Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social, “Are the Politically Active Better Represented?”, co-authored with @jenny-oser.bsky.social, @rdassonneville.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, and Anders Sundell. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

link.springer.comAre the Politically Active Better Represented? - Political BehaviorPolitical participation is considered an important path for people to influence politics. However, whether those who participate actually see more of their preferred policies implemented remains an op...

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Werner Krause
@krausewe.bsky.social

📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database! The data now covers - > 3.000 parties - 1.100 parliamentary elections - 402 presidential elections - 2.044 cabinets across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31). All info: ppeg.wzb.eu We hope that data is helpful to the community!

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Teresa Völker
@tevoelker.bsky.social

I'm very excited, extremely grateful and deeply honoured to receive the Best Dissertation Award from the German Political Science Association(DVPW)!

DVPW@dvpw.bsky.social

🏆 Der #DVPW #Dissertationspreis 2025 wird geteilt und geht an Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social und Julian Michel @julianpolsci.bsky.social! Beide Arbeiten leisten einen herausragenden Beitrag zur Erforschung der #Stabilität von #Demokratie. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! 🥳

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Jacob Gunderson
@jacobgunderson.bsky.social

Really pleased to this out as part of special issues on "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies". Huge thanks to the SI editors, @dpzollinger.bsky.social and @davidattewell6.bsky.social for putting the special together and all of their support during the process.

West European Politics@wepsocial.bsky.social

💥OUT NOW! "Cleavage size and stability in turbulent times: introducing the bloc volatility and fragmentation dataset" by @jacobgunderson.bsky.social Part of SI "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies", edited by @dpzollinger.bsky.social & @davidattewell6.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti
@dasalgon.bsky.social

In our new article, @tevoelker.bsky.social and I show how far-right actors have increased their influence on mainstream parties' agenda-setting. For the @euobserver.com, Hannah Kriwah has written about our study, and I had the pleasure to comment on it. euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

Teresa Völker@tevoelker.bsky.social

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Cas Mudde
@casmudde.bsky.social

“Political communication by mainstream parties plays a central role in the electoral success of the far right” How much more research do journalisten, politicians, pundits and strategists need before they finally change course?

theguardian.comGerman far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study findsNormalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

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Tarik Abou-Chadi
@tabouchadi.bsky.social

Great write-up of an important study by @tevoelker.bsky.social and @dasalgon.bsky.social. Far-right actors have been very successful in setting the political agenda. Many in politics and media still ignore this. They argue "immigration is important to people, hence we need to talk about immigration"

The Guardian@theguardian.com

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

theguardian.comGerman far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study findsNormalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...

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Daniel Saldivia Gonzatti
@dasalgon.bsky.social

"Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda" - for the @theguardian.com, @ashifakassam.bsky.social summed up our study. @tevoelker.bsky.social and I answered some questions to put our results into context. Give it a read! Study: bit.ly/4hhRFUN

The Guardian@theguardian.com

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds

theguardian.comGerman far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study findsNormalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers Mainstream parties are increasingly allowing the far right to set the agenda, researchers in Germany have found, describing it as a shortcoming that had unwittingly helped the far right by legitimising their ideas and disseminating them more widely. The findings, published in the European Journal of Political Research, were based on an automated text analysis of 520,408 articles from six German newspapers over the span of more than two decades. Continue reading...

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Manès Weisskircher
@manesweisskircher.bsky.social

New publication for everyone interested in climate politics, far-right climate obstruction, and the role of elite cues! 📚 "Climate action versus environmental protection?" now out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social (with Matthias Diermeier). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access!) (1/5)

tandfonline.comClimate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forestsThis article examines how political messengers, and not the message, influence attitudes toward renewable energy infrastructure amid an increasingly polarized climate change debate. Focusing on win...

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David Attewell
@davidattewell6.bsky.social

Replying to @davidattewell6.bsky.social

2/@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I set out 3 puzzles: How does a new cleavage work without strong intermediary orgs? How to reconcile cleavage theory w fragmented party systems? How are structural divides (e.g. ed) mobilized indirectly in political conflict today? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comUpdating cleavage theory for the twenty-first centuryContemporary cleavage research has linked ‘socio-cultural’ conflicts mobilised by new left and far right parties to structural divides in post-industrial knowledge societies. Contributions in this ...

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Swen Hutter
@swenhutter.bsky.social

Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...

doi.orgUnderstanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemicThe pandemic did not bring protest politics to a halt. Instead, it sparked diverse and divergent forms of contention. This study compares the development and characteristics of anti-containment pro...

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Violeta Haas
@haasvioleta.bsky.social

📣 Calling all future postdocs 📣 @iast.fr is hiring! This is an incredible opportunity. I couldn't have imagined a better place for my postdoc. The community is fantastic, full autonomy and great resources. Located between the Pyrenees, the Mediterranean, & the Atlantic. Anything more I need to say?

iast.frResearch FellowshipsEach year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

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Swen Hutter
@swenhutter.bsky.social

As I am fairly new to Bluesky, this comes a bit late, but it is still worth checking out: Our #oa introduction to the @jeppjournal.bsky.social special issue on "Europe’s Changing Protest Landscape" with @sophiahunger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

tandfonline.comJournal of European Public PolicySpecial Issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape. Guest Editors: Sophia Hunger & Swen Hutter. Volume 32, Issue 8 of Journal of European Public Policy