Max Grömping
Political Scientist at @griffith.edu.au, Brisbane / Assoc. Editor @democratization.bsky.social/. Interest groups, authoritarian politics, disinformation, electoral integrity, trust.
- Reposted by Max GrömpingWhich groups mobilise on #climate policy in Australia? 📣 Darren Halpin and I have a new paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social that systematically maps who mobilises on climate policy in Australia, what side of the issue they fall on, and in which arenas they mobilise. Key finding include 🧵
- Important agenda setter on public trust, including the who's who in that area.
- A 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...
- Reposted by Max GrömpingFor the second year in a row, the wealth gains for the 100 richest Americans exceeded what ALL American households spent on groceries combined. ~$995B for billionaires vs ~$775B in total grocery spending. We have an oligarchy and inequality problem masquerading as an affordability crisis.
- Reposted by Max GrömpingWho 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 🧵:
- Please share widely! Great #PostDoc opportunity at one of Australia's top #PoliticalScience departments, on a #FutureFellowship on electoral resilience. 3yrs, great pay, and a workplace practically next to the Great Barrier Reef! Closing date is 1 Oct 2025 jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
- Great work on democratic resilience by my @larslott.bsky.social & Aurel Croissant
- Why are some democracies more resilient than others? How can their resilience be improved? Together with Aurel Croissant, I’ve developed a conceptualization of democratic resilience as resilience performance and resilience capacity. Read the full article here (Open Access): doi.org/10.1177/0032...
- Wow, Princeton UP got bamboozled into this like a travel vlogger.
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- Reposted by Max GrömpingAre tailored ads in political campaigns as persuasive as conventional wisdom holds? 📢 In joint work w/ @heikekluever.bsky.social we present evidence from a field experiment with the German Greens ahead of the 2024 European Elections calling this into question 🤔 #epsa2025 ⏰: Friday, 16:50 📍: 0A.10
- Reposted by Max Grömping🚨In PNAS🚨 The right often accuses fact-checkers of political bias But we analyzed Community Notes on Musk's X and found posts flagged as "misleading" are 2.3x more likely to be written by Reps than Dems! The issue is Reps sharing misinformation, not fact-checker bias... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Check out this great work by @griffith.edu.au colleague @ammassarisofia.bsky.social on women's party engagement on the radical right.
- Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:
- Friends in Germany interested in #deliberative #democracy, this is THE event for you. "Can citizen councils strengthen representative democracy?". I wish I could make it to Berlin for this one.
- Können Bürgerräte die repräsentative Demokratie stärken? Wir diskutieren Ergebnisse aus vier praxisnahen Forschungsprojekten auf einem Roundtable mit @polenz.bsky.social, @kliesenberg.bsky.social, Felix Arndt, Stabstelle Bürgerräte @bundestag.de und @heikekluever.bsky.social 1/4
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- Reposted by Max GrömpingHere's me saying it like it is regarding Elon Musk and X as a propaganda tool that is increasingly biased towards the far right. The article is in French - in this thread are some auto-translated excerpts from my comments. Shout out to @markandrejevic.bsky.social www.rtbf.be/article/comm...
- Two in three Australians say they have encountered misinformation in the lead up to the election. How concerned should we be? Read about the results of our recent survey w @acarson.bsky.social theconversation.com/fake-news-an...
- Reposted by Max Grömping🚨 New book alert! Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals. Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
- What a well-argued thread about the benefits of semi parliamentarism.
- I highly recommend following @adamprz.bsky.social's substack.
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- Congrats, @breznaunate.bsky.social @emrinke.bsky.social @kunkakom.bsky.social and team. Taking part in this project was not only eye-opening in terms of #metascience but also great fun. Even with shared data and code, reproducibility is not a given. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
- What a fantastic opportunity to talk with Alex Fischer and Selen Ercan about the role of research for democratic practice. I learned about communicating democracy research for better impact + suggested we listen to scholars of #authoritarianism to address the current moment @deldemucan.bsky.social
- 🚨 @newscientist.com SCOOP: I've exclusively obtained Peter Kyle's interactions with ChatGPT using FOI laws - in what I believe may be a world-first transparency release. The chatbot said "Lack of Government or Institutional Support" slowed UK AI adoption www.newscientist.com/article/2472...
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- !! "you can’t fact check your way to a win in this kind of frame game. You have create alternative frames, support people in telling stories that resonate with those frames, and make sure those stories are heard"
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- Reposted by Max GrömpingEveryday authoritarianism is mostly boring and tolerable, but it is always maddening and stupid
- "U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump administration" Levitsky & Way analyse the capture of the US state in comparative perspective. By far the best read on what's going on. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
- Reposted by Max GrömpingAs Vance 'lectures' Europe on free speech, it is good to be reminded that the United States ranks 55 (!) on the World Press Freedom Index. The top 10 countries are ALL in Europe. #journalism #democracy #freepress rsf.org/en/index
- Reposted by Max GrömpingCurious about targeting strategies in the 2025 German elections? 🗳️ favstats.github.io/de25/targeti... Updated daily, my dashboard tracks how much € German parties spend on targeted ads. For example 1M on “lookalike” audiences to reach people similar to a pre-defined audience (often supporters). 📊
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- Wie kriegt man diesen post in die filter bubble der Politiker*innen aller Volksparteien? Was ich nicht verstehe ist, wie eine solche Masse sozialwissenschaftlicher findings immer noch auf taube Ohren stößt.
- Reposted by Max GrömpingStarkes Signal!! Über 60 dt. Hochschulen & Forschungsinstitutionen haben heute ihren Ausstieg bei X bekanntgegeben, s.u. #eXit X sei nicht mehr vereinbar mit ihren Grundwerten: „Weltoffenheit, wissenschaftliche Integrität, Transparenz und demokratischer Diskurs.“ Liste der Beteiligten hier:
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- Christmas came early this year. Absolutely great condition this one.
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- 📢 New article w @acarson.bsky.social, @timgravelle.bsky.social et al studies election #disinformation during Australia’s 2023 Voice referendum: Trust in the AEC remains high, but disinformation has a small, measurable impact. Ping me for access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SBAHXY... #polisky 1/5
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- 📢 Please share widely. PhD Scholarships ($37k/yr) on Mapping & Harnessing Public (Mis)Trust! 🎓 @griffithuniversity.bsky.social and @sydneyuni.bsky.social. Join an ARC-funded team exploring public trust in Australia. Start 2025. Deadline 6 December www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships... #polisky #commsky
- Reposted by Max GrömpingWhat attributes of a government lead citizens to view it as trustworthy? Our article - led by @danjdevine.bsky.social - is out in EJPR today... Competence, benevolence and integrity all matter - but perceived benevolence matters most. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Max GrömpingI asked my students to use #ChatGPT to write a public policy brief, as part of their my policy course: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- I'm happy to see this discussion paper by Andrea Carson (La Trobe U) and myself on causes, consequences, and countermeasures of #misinformation out in the world. csrm.cass.anu.edu.au/research/pub... #polisky #dictatorsky
- This is the one I've been waiting for! 👍🏼
- We noticed there wasn't a starter pack on authoritarian politics yet – Now there is! go.bsky.app/UFHn7sS Spread and ask to join!at://did:plc:3r6q7l4ljeqtwowwbz2d74dq/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3layv2e44nj2i
- www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11... Again, well done, The Onion.
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- The only commentary I can tolerate today. Well done, The Onion. 👍🏼
- Today’s Historic Front Page: November 6, 2024 theonion.com/todays-histo...
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- As someone who, 10yrs ago, researched crowdsourced election monitoring á la Kawal Pemilu, Reclaim Naija, or Kartanarusheniy, I find it enraging but also quite logical to engineer a "wisdom of the crowd" this way. Guess I was too optimistic back then.
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- If you're in Brisbane on 25 September, don't miss Janjira Sombatpoonsiri's talk on digital repression at UQ! www.rolandbleiker.com/news/registe...
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- I like how this place is growing. More and more polisci in my feed.
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- A lesson in how journalists should investigate the true costs and benefits of policy questions and thereby sense check questionable framing. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08...
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- Reposted by Max GrömpingNEW: Open Letter on the Need for Preregistration Transparency in Peer Review docs.google.com/document/d/1... To work as intended, preregistration needs to be part of peer review process. We make commitments to doing so as authors, editors, & reviewers. Please sign and share widely with colleagues!
