Matthias Dilling
Assistant Prof in Pol Scie @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social & co-convenor PSA German Politics | prev. Oxford, Swansea, PhD Oxford (Nuffield College) | Studying how and why political parties change & what this means for democracy | Book: t.co/1vvjasFYfD
- Reposted by Matthias DillingNew paper out at @electoralstudies.bsky.social. I show that - contrary to claims that personalised electoral systems are good for participation - Open Lists have no effect on turnout relative to Closed Lists; in fact, they increase rates of voter error. 🗳️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingIf you are an advanced PhD student or PostDoc working on AI and global politics/tech/authoritarianism come spend 1-6 months in Berlin this year with @scripts-berlin.eu! We have some funding for you and will help w/ visa and other moving issues. Info here: www.scripts-berlin.eu/about-us/job...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingI am accepting applications for a postdoc to work with me at the University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Area of Research: Democratic Institutions, Public Engagement, American History Due by February 23rd munkschool.utoronto.ca/current-oppo...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingA helpful reminder: so-called 'remigration' is literally Nazi stuff
- Reposted by Matthias DillingHow can stable personality traits explain less stable PRR voting? Daniel Komaromy, @delaneypeterson.bsky.social, @mrooduijn.bsky.social and I test whether negative contact with immigrants 'activates' these traits. Mostly, it doesn't. But: initial exposure and out-group definition may matter.
- Reposted by Matthias DillingWhy did antisemitism rise in Germany during the Covid pandemic? And why was this increase concentrated among political centrists, rather than on the fringes? doi.org/10.1017/S153... @kanol.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @uni-hamburg.de @politikuhh.bsky.social @socfub.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matthias DillingReally happy this work with @fraraffaelli.bsky.social found a home at EJPR. We show that growing up at times of high salience of immigration produces cohorts of voters who are more likely to vote for parties that they agree with specifically on immigration. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingHighly recommended to those interested in the dynamics at the last German General Elections 2025!
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling🚨New article by Maximilian Tkocz and Rachel Herring: Ontological Nuisance in Elite Discourse: Foreign Policy and the Populist Radical Right in Germany. Open Access in Global Studies Quarterly 👉https://academic.oup.com/isagsq/article/doi/10.1093/isagsq/ksaf124/8427349
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling🚨Publication Alert🚨 Supply & Demand of Regional Populism in Bavaria: Explaining the Regional Success of the CSU & Free Voters in German Politics 📑TL;DR: Regional populism is distinct from AfD's general populism and predicts CSU/FW voting well. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... A short 🧵 1/n
- Reposted by Matthias DillingI hear #ica26 @icahdq.bsky.social notifications are going out, so here’s my annual reminder to put outcomes into perspective for early-career folks (full disclosure: I didn’t apply this year).
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Matthias DillingKonrad #Adenauer ging mit dem Wahl- slogan „Keine Experimente“ in die Ge- schichte ein - er holte 1957 die absoltue Mehrheit. Doch war die Politik des ersten Kanzlers der BRD tatsächlich so reformarm? Nein, meint ZZF-Direktor Frank Bösch im @tagesspiegel.de anlässlich Adenauers 150. Geburtstags.
- Happy New Year! Excited to start 2026 with some archival research in Germany's federal archives on a new project on democratic resilience. 😀
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling@ecprtheloop.bsky.social invites pitches for the Future of Populism blog series, co-edited by @petraguasti.bsky.social and myself. Nearly 100 blogs have been published so far. 🔍 Any country, method, approach. 🎓 PhD students & ECRs especially encouraged. ✍️ Submit via The Loop 👉 lnkd.in/ghAy6s96
- Reposted by Matthias DillingClear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers. "These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
- Reposted by Matthias DillingOur neighbours at @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social are hiring 3 (!) tenure-track faculty members: – Assistant Professor in Political Economy – Assistant Professor in International Politics – Assistant Professor in Political Science Deadline: 15 Jan 2026 More details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social
- Reposted by Matthias DillingMy IR department at the CEU in Vienna, Austria is hiring a security scholar. I am happy to answer questions. careers.ceu.edu/job/Vienna-A...
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling📣 @pietrocastellig.bsky.social and I are absolutely thrilled to announce that the call for the 5th @ecpr.bsky.social Summer School on ‘Concepts and Methods for Research on Far-Right Politics’ is now open! 🇮🇹 The event will be hosted by @unibo.it, from 6 to 10 July 2026. 🔗 ecpr.eu/Events/353
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling🚨 Postdoc in Comparative Politics/Public Opinion (2 years) We’re hiring a 100% Postdoc at the University of Greifswald. ✨ What makes this job special: Two full years to focus on research (no teaching, no admin overload) embedded into an International Research Training Group
- Reposted by Matthias DillingNeu im #DVPWblog: Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social, Preisträgerin des DVPW-Dissertationspreises, zeigt: Öff. Debatten stärken die extreme Rechte. In Deutschland verschoben sich seit 30 Jahren die Grenzen des Sagbaren –v. a. zu Migration & Islam. 👉 www.dvpw.de/blog/die-nor... #PoWi #Migration
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling#psjminfo: 2 x 3-year PostDoc positions, deadline Jan 4. We'll study the effects of border change, in ways that overlap with many subfields in CompPol and IR: e.g., HPE, PE of development, state formation, pol. geography, identity, ethnic politics. Also lots of (new) methods (ML, GIS, CausalInf...)!
- 🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling🌟 JOB ALERT! 🌟 I’m hiring 1 postdoc for my ERC project ECONENGAGE (@ Gothenburg 🇸🇪)! Starting ca. Aug '26! Congenial colleagues + int'l & supportive environment. 💸 for conferences + workshops! Lots of professional networking opportunities with scholars! Deadline Jan 7th. Apply! (see more below 🧵)
- Reposted by Matthias DillingPre-empting @epssnet.bsky.social #epss2026 notifications that are scheduled to go out later this week, thought I'd bump a few things about conferences and acceptances/rejections to put them into perspective (mainly as reminders to myself, but might benefit other early-career folks):
- Reposted by Matthias DillingThis 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.
- The 1️⃣article of our 5️⃣0️⃣Anniversary Special Issue "Debating European Politics: Advances and Perspectives" is out!🎉 "The rise of populism and the new cleavage" by Hanspeter Kriesi, describing contemporary populism is likely to be a temporary phenomen. 🔗https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2591874
- Come work with us! Trinity is a great place to work, and the Department very welcoming and research-active. Details and link 👇
- The Department of Political Science is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in Political Science. Closing date for applications is 15th of January 2026. Job details: jobs.tcd.ie @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @trisstcd.bsky.social
- Next try after my initial flight got cancelled due to the storm yesterday: Very much looking forward to presenting "Parties under Pressure" @sotonpolitics.bsky.social today (weather and flights permitting, wish me luck!). Thanks so much, @danjdevine.bsky.social, for having me! tinyurl.com/bp7tpr4a
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling📢📢 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!
- Reposted by Matthias DillingA philosopher and a neuroscientist walk into a bar and say 'we should write a paper on AI'. Ten years later, a political scientist (?) joins them and says 'I want in - let's write it'. Delighted to see finally this piece out in Big Data & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
- Reposted by Matthias DillingJoin us! Die Abteilung für Innenpolitik & Politische Soziologie sucht zum 01.04. eine*n neue*n Kollegin*en. Wir bieten: volle Promotionsstelle (EG13) für drei Jahre (Verlängerung um 3 Jahre möglich), flexible Arbeitszeitregelungen, kollegiales & forschungsstarkes Team. Mehr Informationen hier👇
- Reposted by Matthias DillingNot a drill - there's a Britain-focused lectureship (FT, permanent) available. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPQ588/l...
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- Reposted by Matthias DillingWir suchen Verstärkung auf einer Qualifikationsstelle am Institut für Politikwissenschaft der TU Chemnitz. Schwerpunkt: #Parteienforschung. Lehre: zwei SWS im Bachelor Politikwissenschaft. Beginn: Anfang Januar 2026 www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/p...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingAre you working on extremism (defined broadly) and/or democratic resilience in CEE? If so, @joncollins.bsky.social and I are organising a section at ECPR's General Conference in Krakow and we'd love to receive your submission. Deadline is 5 January 📝 Don't hesitate to contact us w any questions!
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling📣 New publication! The second article of my postdoc project on the far right and anti-gender mobilization is now out #openaccess in #GermanPolitics doi.org/10.1080/0964... It examines antifeminism in far-right party politics through the case of AfD Key findings: Antifeminism ✅ Radicalization ✅
- Reposted by Matthias DillingNew publication w/ my friend & amazing coauthor @fedetrastulli.bsky.social in @ejprjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 doi.org/10.1017/S147... We explore: Who considers which political issues as important & how is this related to sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables?
- Reposted by Matthias DillingQuite different from my work today substantively + methodologically - but thrilled to share this article based on my undergrad thesis, now out at German Politics & Society 43(3) @berghahnbooks.bsky.social. I analyse how 🇬🇧🇩🇪 state visits portray historical memory + joint future action.
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling🚨New VAA Dataset🚨 @wurthmann.bsky.social, @pluggedchris.bsky.social & I have published a new piece in European Union Politics that introduces our GEPARTEE Expert Survey and Europartycheck VAA data for the 2024 German EP elections: www.researchgate.net/publication/... Some insights 🧵1/n
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling🔔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!
- Reposted by Matthias DillingWe have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!
- Reposted by Matthias DillingReally happy to see this article out with Joes de Natris and Marijn Nagtzaam. We present the Netherlands Local Manifesto Project, our collection of local manifestos and illustrate its utility by studying the relationship between municipality and manifesto size journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingNew from me: “working the refs” has come for Wikipedia. The same type of attacks alleging anti-conservative bias that right wing politicians have make about social media are coming for the encyclopedia — because of its critical role in shaping AI answer engines. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingWho shares which sources on social media, and why does this matter politically? Our open-access @polcommjournal.bsky.social article shows how far-right French Twitter/X users strategically post and cite sources to achieve their goals. doi.org/10.1080/1058... #polisky #commsky #migcitsky A 🧵:
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling📌 The new issue of @nationalitiesp.bsky.social has been published #openaccess. Check it out here 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Keep reading, keep citing! On the Cover: Photo by Sanja Zlatanović and Juraj Marušiak polisky / nationalisky
- Reposted by Matthias DillingResearch on this is clear: the uncertainty created by this policy will lead to people integrate less into British society. It is trading-off the reasonable policy goal of integration for the useless symbolism of immigration numbers. Bad policy to appease the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling⏰ ⏰ Final call! Submit your abstract for PolMeth - Europe 2026 by Nov 15th here: polmeth.eu. Don’t miss the chance to share your research and connect with other world-class scholars ☺️
- Submit, submit! 🚨 Pleasant reminder to all, the 5th European PolMeth meeting will be 14-15 May 2026 at Trinity College Dublin 🇮🇪 Submissions close Nov. 15 ⚠️ You can find out more about the conference, including the submission form, here: polmeth.eu If you have any questions, please contact me 😀
- Reposted by Matthias DillingThe fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
- Reposted by Matthias Dilling🚨 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... 1/4 🧵
- Reposted by Matthias DillingCall for Abstracts: Together with @kirareneekurz.bsky.social, I'm editing a @cogitatiopag.bsky.social Issue on #YouthWings in #Europe! 🤓 We especially invite contributions focusing on countries in Central, Eastern & Southern Europe. Feel free to get in touch! www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingExcited to share that together with @malojan.bsky.social we’ve published a research note in #partypolitics introducing PartySOME, a comprehensive dataset on political parties’ social media activity. A thread 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingWe have just published the call for the Nuffield Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellowships in Politics. These are 3-year fully-funded postdocs that will allow you to focus on your research in a great academic environment. (And with excellent food) www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/the-college/...
- Reposted by Matthias DillingOn the “defeat” of the far right in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 The total number of far-right seats in the Tweede Kamer: 2021: 28 2023: 41 2025: 42 👈 And I don’t even count BBB here, which has radicalized significantly in the last year.
