Jessica Kuhlmann
Political scientist | University of Siegen | political attitudes & behavior | migration & integration | quantitative methods
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannFür den MDR habe ich heute die Wahl von Sven Schulze zum Ministerpräsidenten von Sachsen-Anhalt und Perspektiven für die kommende Landtagswahl kommentiert. Hier einige Überlegungen dazu 1/🧵
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann🚨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 Jessica Kuhlmann🚨 #Bots and #LLMs threaten the integrity of online surveys and public opinion research, but we can identify LLM-generated text in open narrative responses by fine-tuning #BERT. New #OpenAccess article with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @rubac.bsky.social @carohaensch.bsky.social. 👉 doi.org/10.1177/0894...
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannFür die @fesonline.bsky.social haben @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de und ich die Dauerbaustelle Wahlrecht unter die Lupe genommen und danach gefragt, welche Zielkonflikte und Handlungsoptionen bei der nächsten Wahlrechtsreform bestehen: collections.fes.de/publikatione...
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannWe (@aleininger.bsky.social & our RA Lina Zündorf) have once again updated our encyclopedia of polarization with some great new examples of polarization research. You can find the new entries on polarization.wiki or listed below:
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannWie konnte die #AfD bei den #Integrationsratswahlen 2025 in NRW ausgerechnet unter Wähler:innen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte große Erfolge erzielen? 🤔 (1/2)
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannIm Fall Brandenburg wird gerade oft "Wählerwille" bzgl einer Regierung bemüht, den ein Wahlergebnis vermeintlich ausdrückt. Wie problematisch diese Idee ist, habe ich mit meinen Kolleg*innen @carolinaplescia.bsky.social & Alejandro Ecker nach den LTW-Wahlen 2024 untersucht: tinyurl.com/3frxua8x
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann👨💻 In a piece based on @polbehavior.bsky.social research, @chrisbutlerpol.bsky.social reports on his survey of politicians. 💡 He finds that while politicians do have reasonable understanding of which issues matter, they often make mistakes that have consequences for representation 👇 bit.ly/3KZhugI
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannA positive end to the first week back is that the book is now fully available. It's not on their website yet, but it is on mine. I'm really happy with how it turned out and grateful to all the authors. Hope it's useful. 🙌 djdevineorg.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
- Although not yet available to read (January 2026!), very happy to see our book on political trust online. Co-edited with @mfair.bsky.social and available open access, we think it'll be a useful addition to the field. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/a-r...
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann🎉 Online first: "Same old, same old? The return of the (not so) Grand Coalition after the 2025 German Bundestag election" by @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de & @klingelt.bsky.social 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...
- 📣 New open-access article on political knowledge among naturalized German citizens in International Migration Review. “Becoming an Informed Citizen — the Relationship Between Naturalization Regimes, Language, and Political Knowledge Among Naturalized Citizens”. doi.org/10.1177/0197...
- (1/3) 💫New open-access article on trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds in International Review of Sociology. “Understanding trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds – a latent profile approach”. doi.org/10.1080/0390...
- (2/3) I use latent profile analysis to construct trust profiles among immigrant citizens in Germany and then examine the relationship between different facets of immigrant integration and the constructed trust profiles.
- (3/3) Five trust profiles emerge, differing in their general level of trust and in their object of trust. Moreover, I find that integration should not be viewed as generally corrosive to trust. Rather, facets of integration and their varying association with different profiles should be recognized.
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann1/ Does growing up poor always lead to political apathy? Very happy to share my first paper published (open access) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, where I show that parents' influence mitigates the poverty gap in participation, while economic mobility does not. 🔗 shorturl.at/p5Bac
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann📢📢 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 Jessica Kuhlmann💥 Dieses Wochenende soll in Gießen die neue #Jugendorganisation der #AfD gegründet werden. Dabei geht es vielmehr um organisatorische Professionalisierung als um Mäßigung. Wie es zur Neugründung kam und was sich von der neuen JO erwarten lässt, habe ich für den @verfassungsblog.de analysiert. 👇
- Am Wochenende will sich in Gießen die neue Jugendorganisation der AfD gründen – begleitet von großen Gegendemonstrationen. Ideologisch wie auch personell zeigen sich Kontinuitäten zu der Jungen Alternativen, analysiert ANNA-SOPHIE HEINZE (@asheinze.bsky.social). verfassungsblog.de/afd-jugendor...
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🗳️ New study (w @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social) on AfD success in integration council elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: AfD achieved significant results in councils elected exclusively by voters with migration backgrounds. It's not about economics—it's about political competition. (1/3) - Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannEver wondered how to get better survey feedback from respondents? 🧐 👉 Check out our new @jssam.bsky.social paper together with @jkhoehne.bsky.social @jessicakuhlm.bsky.social testing different (1) visual designs and (2) answer formats of #FinalCommentQuestions. 🌐 academic.oup.com/jssam/advanc...
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann🚨 Who is willing to participate in video-based web surveys? 🎥 👉 Especially younger, male, and extraverted respondents as well as those with high survey interest. Check out our new #OpenAccess paper with #tlenzner @jkhoehne.bsky.social @conradziller.bsky.social in #mda. 🌐 doi.org/10.12758/mda...
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannThe conference marked the end of @ackermannk.bsky.social’s second term as spokesperson. Kathrin, thank you so much for your dedicated service to the #AKWahlen over the past six years! Conrad and I will miss working with you in this capacity.
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannTwo fantastic days of the annual conference of the #AKWahlen are now behind us. Many thanks for the many excellent presentations, the friendly atmosphere, and to the local Berlin team for the fabulous organisation on site! ❤️ Watch out for the special issue in @electoralstudies.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann🗳️ Tag 1 der AK-Wahlen-Tagung @ FU Berlin 💡Hervorragende Präsentationen und intensive Diskussionen zu aktuellen Themen der Wahl- und Einstellungsforschung 🤝 Viele Gelegenheiten zum Networking 📝 Wir freuen uns auf den zweiten Tag mit weiteren spannenden Einblicken! #Wahlforschung #AKWahlen
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannIch habe heute meine Ernennung zum Professor für Regierungslehre und Policyforschung an der Universität Halle-Wittenberg entgegengenommen. Ab dem Wintersemester lehre und forsche ich hier zu Demokratie, Parteien, Populismus. Ich freue mich auf die gemeinsame Arbeit mit Studierenden und KollegInnen!
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannExcited that my first PhD paper is published in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties!🎉 🧵 @wurthmann.bsky.social & I examine: Do They Know What They Represent? Parliamentary Candidates’ Perceptions of Their Own Party’s Positions 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannOK, a🧵: Our new paper studies workers' political consciousness in times of class demobilization. We show there's more to workers' politics than right-wing resentment. Listening to workers, we reconstruct their moral critiques of money, power & recognition. Link journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannI feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannHabe für das neue @apuz.bsky.social -Heft der @bpb.de einen Artikel über das Wahlverhalten junger Menschen beigesteuert und bin ein ganz klein wenig stolz auf diese Grafik, die dabei entstanden ist. Mehr Grafiken gibts hier: www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...
- Unsere neue Ausgabe #Jugend2025 in online! Mit Beiträgen von @martinschroeder.bsky.social , M. Albert, @wahlforschung.thorstenfaas.de, Chr. Schickhardt, B. Bannenberg u. I. Volf. Morgen gedruckt im "Parlament" @hib.bundestag.de. #jugend www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann„Der Anti-Wokeness-Diskurs fährt längst auf Autopilot, auch wenn sich Jens Jessen besonders schwungvoll hinters Lenkrad setzt.“ Meine Replik auf unsere Titelgeschichte in der vergangenen Ausgabe und ein paar Gedanken dazu, wo gerade die eigentlichen Probleme der Linken liegen.
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannTrend that was visible in previous polls continues: VVD losing support while CDA is gaining. PVV slightly ahead of GL/PvdA and CDA. Beyond these four parties, others are below 10% (D66 and JA21) or 5% (another 9 parties)
- The Peilingwijzer poll of polls for the Netherlands has been updated to include the latest poll of Ipsos I&O. 📊 📈 All graphs & figures: peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl Source Ipsos I&O: is.gd/F2ilU1
- Today was my first day as a visiting fellow at @mzesunimannheim.bsky.social Thanks to everyone at MZES for the warm welcome! 💫 I'll be here for the next four weeks, so if you're in Mannheim and would like to grab coffee, feel free to reach out! ☕
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannDas bemerkenswerte hier ist, dass die Verschiebung eben nicht 2015 passiert sondern 2017. Genau dann wenn Politik und Medien anfangen sich auf die aufsteigende AfD und ihre Themen einzuschießen. Wenn Migrationspolitik verschärft wird und Migranten dämonisiert werden. Es ist nicht Migration an sich.
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann"Der Sozialstaat ist ein Schutzfaktor, kein Krisenfaktor!" Freue mich riesig über mein ausführliches Interview in der @taz.de zur unsäglichen aktuellen Sozialstaatsdebatte!👇 @ifso.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social taz.de/Wirtschaftsw...
- Looking forward to my first @ecpr.bsky.social conference! 💫 📣 On Wednesday, I will present joint work with @ackermannk.bsky.social on attitudes toward noncitizen voting. 📣 On Friday, I will present results from my interviews with local politicians in the US. Excited to meet everyone! #ECPRgc25
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannHow does the second-order national election (SONE) theory hold up in the 2024 European Parliament election? I explore this in a short letter now published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannI am looking for a PhD student in Comparative Politics @powimz.bsky.social. My research focuses on political (in-)equality, representation, and responsiveness. I would be grateful if you could help to spread the word. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/49637
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannThe @epssnet.bsky.social call for the 2026 conference in Belfast opened today! 😮 epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Deadline: 7 November 2025
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannExtremely happy to see my first single-authored paper published! Check it out in @ersjournal.com 👇
- How does the social climate in a neighborhood influence political trust among immigrants? In her new paper, @hummlerteresa.bsky.social presents new insights based on LiV data: 👉 Perceived discrimination reduces political trust among immigrants. (1/2)
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannIf we don’t say “2026 MEN World Cup”, we should not say “2025 WOMEN European Cup”. Reject the “male norm” and just say “UEFA Euro 2025”, as there is no other one, so gender qualifications are unnecessary! Similarly, tag #EURO2025 rather than #WEURO2025
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann📢 New publication in Social Science Research: "Beyond Religious Categories" (with @hummlerteresa.bsky.social ) 📊 In a survey experiment, we investigate why Muslims are more likely to accept violent parenting practices than non-Muslims 📚 Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3
- I’m presenting my paper on political trust among German citizens with migrant backgrounds today at #EPSA2025 (@epsanet.bsky.social). Come join us at 11.20 in room -1.A.04! 📣
- ❕📣 My first paper is now published! “They don’t have the time for that, participating in politics” - How local politicians interpret political integration in the USA. It is available as open access in the Journal of International Migration and Integration. doi.org/10.1007/s121...
- During my time in Washington, D.C., last year, I interviewed local politicians about their views on the political integration of immigrants within their communities. I examined differences between immigrant and non-immigrant local politicians in particular.
- Key findings: Immigrant local politicians conceive political integration and other forms of integration as equally important. Non-immigrant politicians view political integration as subordinate to other forms of integration. Moreover, immigrants are described as inherently mistrusting of politics.
- The research was conducted during my research fellowship at @amgerinst.bsky.social in Washington, D.C. The fellowship is a cooperation between the NRW School of Governance, @unidue.bsky.social, the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia, and the American-German Institute.
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannFemale PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannI look forward to meeting many of you soon in Madrid for EPSA 2025. In case that’s helpful to anyone, here are some of my personal Madrid favorites:
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann🗞️ Honored to be featured in The New York Times discussing the far-right's strategic expansion in western Germany 📰 "Far-Right Party Tries to Expand Its Appeal in Germany’s West" by Clay Risen // Link (w paywall): www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/w... 📄 PDF for those behind the paywall: shorturl.at/1svWh
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannSo sieht die Entwicklung in Österreich aus. Der Rückgang hat nichts mit dem rechtswidrigen Grenzspektakel zu tun, sondern mit der Situation in Syrien und zT verlagerter Fluchtrouten.
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannJust over half a year ago, the Oxford Handbook of Dutch Politics was published. This means that authors working at Dutch universities, can now share a copy of their chapters online for free access, according to Dutch copyright law. My own chapters are linked below 👇
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannWhen getting access to samples for online surveys/experiments: With which companies besides Bilendi/yougov are you getting in touch? Asking mostly for Western democracies, maybe Poland. Thanks!
- Kommt vorbei beim Tag der offenen Uni in Siegen! ☀️ #UniSiegen
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann“The most underexplored form of revolt against mainstream politics right now is the second kind, involving not angry young men lurching rightwards but anxious young women turning, if anything, more sharply left.” Kudos to @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social for this op-Ed (which I missed earlier).
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannThis obsession is with “young men turning to the right” is everything that is wrong with the discussion about the far right. It is not just an inadequate read of what is happening, and a bias towards the male norm, but it also normalizes the far right and obscures support for inclusive politics. 🧵
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannI was interviewed for the “Ideas” section of @politicalquarterly.bsky.social I was very happy to be asked to reflect a bit on my career in addition to contemporary politics. Hope you like it!
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann📣 Call for Submissions: ALLBUS Award 2025 🏆 Have you published a social science article using ALLBUS data in a journal or edited volume between 2022 and 2024? Please consider submitting it by 15 April 2025 ⭐ 👉 More information: www.gesis.org/en/allbus/ab... @gesis.org
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannLeaving Berlin after an inspiring #GOR25! Great discussions on #web #tracking & #bot #detection, and a fantastic #GOR #party. Already excited for next year!
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann📢 New Paper out in @wepsocial.bsky.social! @conradziller.bsky.social and I examine how radical-right populist parties influence political support during times of progressive policy change❓ Our 3 main findings in a thread 🧵 👇 bit.ly/429gOK2
- 💬 Tomorrow, I will present my paper on local politicians' attitudes toward noncitizen voting at the @dvpw.bsky.social -conference on citizen's trust and societal polarization in times of transformation at the @uni-saarland.de.
- The research was conducted during my stay in Washington, D.C., at @amgerinst.bsky.social, which was part of a collaboration between the AGI, the NRW School of Governance, and the Staatskanzlei NRW.
- Reposted by Jessica Kuhlmann🚂 On my way to this year's conference of the @dvpw.bsky.social section "Comparative Politics" @uni-saarland.de 👉 www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/br... I look forward to presenting joint work with Antonia Lang (@infer-frankfurt.bsky.social) on geographical disparities and citizen's discontent.
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannRead this insightful short thread. Tarik has the receipts. I would emphasize in particular the neglect of trade unions, among civil society organizations. There is no hope for progressive politics and policies without strong unions and party-union alliances.
- Reposted by Jessica KuhlmannWho does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...
