Sven-Oliver Proksch
Professor of Political Science | University of Cologne | ERC MINORITYRULE | svenoliverproksch.com
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim 🚨 7 days of hands-on advanced methods + networking for PhDs, postdocs & early-career researchers. Free of charge (limited travel support). Deadline 1 March 2026: summerschoolwpm.org #methodsky #polisky
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - Voices of the party base: How supporters want established parties to respond to new parties - cup.org/4q1M0ET - Dominik Duell, @dielea.bsky.social, @sopro.bsky.social, Jonathan B. Slapin & @chriswratil.bsky.social #FirstView
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschBetter get your paper submissions in for the @epssnet.bsky.social conference in June 2026, as the deadline is 7 November, and we have no intention of extended that (given the submission numbers)! epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch🚨 EPSS Belfast 2026 Call for Papers - One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper or panel proposal to the European Political Science Society @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 conference - just one week to go before the deadline: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschNew from @erc.europa.eu project #MINORITYRULE with @sopro.bsky.social: We study voters’ knowledge about and perceptions of minority governments in 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪 and 🇸🇪. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147... When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️
- New publication with @jwaeckerle.bsky.social on citizens' knowledge and perceptions of minority governments in Europe from the ERC project #MINORITYRULE! @erc.europa.eu ⬇️
- New from @erc.europa.eu project #MINORITYRULE with @sopro.bsky.social: We study voters’ knowledge about and perceptions of minority governments in 🇩🇰, 🇩🇪 and 🇸🇪. Link: doi.org/10.1017/S147... When survey researchers or politicians talk about minority governments, what do voters understand? ⬇️
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... This we’’ll feature two sections to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Formal Political Theory & Political Representation 🧵
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View full threadReposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch▶️ Political Representation 👉🏽 Section chairs: @hannaeback.bsky.social & @sopro.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, esp. research advancing our theoretical understanding + offers new empirical evidence. >>> 3/
- This is a fantastic public good for scholars working on parliaments and representation!
- New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner: Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries Harmonized roles/policy areas Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940 Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p ⬇️
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschNew data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner: Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries Harmonized roles/policy areas Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940 Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p ⬇️
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... We'll feature two sections each Tuesday & Thursday to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This Tuesday: Party Politics & Historical Political Economy
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Electoral + Voting Behaviour & Climate Politics ▶️ Electoral + Voting Behaviour 🧵
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- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch▶️ Comparative Politics 👉🏽 Section chairs: @nathaliegiger.bsky.social & @filipkostelka.bsky.social 📢 Our section welcomes individual papers and panels that engage with states, political regimes, welfare institutions, and governance from both contemporary and historical perspectives. 1/
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026... Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference. 🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations
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- 📢 EPSS 2026 Call for Papers! @hannaeback.bsky.social and I are excited to invite submissions for the Political Representation section at EPSS 2026 in Belfast. EPSS has some exciting new panel formats this year - read on! 🧵
- We welcome work that addresses representation, legislative politics, or electoral institutions, especially research that advances our theoretical understanding and offers compelling empirical evidence. We are also interested in work with a focus on the representation of marginalized groups. 2/
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschDo men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9 doi.org/10.1177/1065...
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- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschEPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026. 😵💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA. 👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things. A short 🧵
- The Call for Papers for the 2026 EPSS annual conference in Belfast is now live! Looking forward to your submissions!! Check out all details in this thread 👇
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschThe European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast 🗓️ June 18–20, 2026 📍 ICC Belfast 📬 Deadline: Nov 7, 2025 🧵
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschI'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage! I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.
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- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch🚨 We're hiring! Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment. Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊 www.gesis.org/en/institute...
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- Finally in the same place at the same time! Great to meet up in Madrid and celebrate the 2nd edition of Foundations of European Politics. Get your copy at OUP now! 📘 @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social
- 📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschYesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/
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- Great news for political science in Europe! Excited to be part of the founding council of the new non-profit and member-led political science association in Europe EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social
- 🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
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- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschDelighted to see the 2nd edition of Foundations of European Politics 🇪🇺 in print! @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sopro.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social If you teach EU or European politics, you can order an inspection copy here: global.oup.com/ushe/product...
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- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch🎉 Exciting news! Our Cluster of Excellence @econtribute.bsky.social will be funded for another seven years by @dfg.de! We’re excited to continue our journey together. Many thanks to all involved! Find out more here: econtribute.de/funding-exte... #ExStra @unibonn.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social
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- 🚨The updated companion site for the 2nd edition of our textbook #foundationsofeuropeanpolitics is now live! Discover all data exercise updates and additions at www.foundationsofeuropeanpolitics.com @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @jbslapin.bsky.social 🚀🧵1/4
- 📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5
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- 📢 🇪🇺📘 Exciting news! The second edition of our textbook "Foundations of European Politics: A Comparative Approach" - with @catherinedevries.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social and @jbslapin.bsky.social - is out at Oxford UP! 🧵👇 1/5
- There’s never been a greater need to help students make sense of what’s happening in European politics. The fully updated edition offers a clear and accessible introduction to national and EU-level politics in Europe. 2/5
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch🚨 Join us for the next edition Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Bremen 🚨 Open to PhD students and early career scholars Fully-funded places available for applicants, deadline 1st of May 📅 summerschoolwpm.org
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- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschThe School of Politics and International Relations at @ucddublin.bsky.social is hiring again: Assistant Professor (open field) – Permanent position – €64k-€101k – Deadline: 7 April More details: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschParlLawSpeech also provides high-quality translations of speeches from the European Parliament 🇪🇺 and the Hungarian National Assembly 🇭🇺 into English. Learn more on our website at ParlLawSpeech.org/data and the respective GitHub page (github.com/ChRauh/OPTED...).
- 🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
- Exciting news for legislative scholars! We're thrilled to announce the release of #ParlLawSpeech, featuring full texts of parliamentary speeches and corresponding bills & laws in 7 parliaments + in the EP. Access full texts via @gesis.org & check out www.parllawspeech.org for R tutorials. (1/2)
- 🚨 #Data alert 📣 We just released #ParlLawSpeech – full texts of more than 40k bills, 28k laws, and 3 mio. parliamentary speeches from 7 countries (AT, CZ, DE, DK, ES, HR, HU) and the EU! If you study democracy with #TextAsData / #NLP methods, this is for you! A short 🧵 (1/3) #PoliSkyData #polisky
- #ParlLawSpeech is part of the EU-funded project #OPTED on political text infrastructure in Europe (www.opted.eu). The #ParlLawSpeech team includes @janschwalbach.bsky.social, @lukashetzer.bsky.social, @miklossebok.bsky.social, @chrauh.bsky.social, and myself. Dive in and analyze! 📊😉 (2/2)
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- Reposted by Sven-Oliver Proksch🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
- Reposted by Sven-Oliver ProkschBe part of the @leverhulme.bsky.social Climate Vulnerability team 🚀 I’m looking for a 2-year postdoc to join my group at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Apply if you’re an empirically minded junior researcher who just finished or abt to finish a PhD! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ634/p... ⏰ midday Feb 26 ⏰
