Christian Rauh
@chrauh
Amongst other things dad (P+J), political scientist (WZB Berlin & University of Potsdam), bike nerd (n+1), and music addict (Kick, Snare, Kick Kick, Snare).
And when it comes to decision-making procedures, expert advice ranks first by a wide margin, whereas parliamentary votes and cross-party consensus rank last, no matter whether people are primed with Covid-19, climate change, or "societal challenges" in general. (4/6)
We find that policy measures curtailing democratic rights - postponed elections, banned demonstrations, government control over the media - barely dent citizens' support for pandemic policy packages, while measures reaching into their private lives clearly do. (3/6)
This finding is based on two survey experiments, fielded with 9,000 respondents in Germany, Hungary, Japan, Poland, South Korea and Spain in November 2021 during the Covid-19 Delta waves, when the trade-offs at stake were tangible rather than merely hypothetical. (2/6)
𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚? Our new (well…) study in @ejprjournal.bsky.social suggests that commitment to democratic rights and procedures does not look particularly robust once citizens face concrete crisis-related trade-offs. (1/6)
When starting a new dataset/corpus, get an overview first ... 🇪🇺 #EuropeanCouncil meetings 1975-2025
Tomorrow's politicization class will be on the EU in party politics ... excellent opportunity for plot procrastination ...
👋 DB Chaos. (Im Vordergrund der arme Mann, der den franz. Passagieren das Prinzip umgekehrte Wagenreihung erklärt)
But when non-EU states do recognize EU actorness, it follows relatively clear patterns: 📍 Geographical proximity; 💼 Trade dependence; ❌ Less likely among great powers and autocratic regimes.
Recognition mostly occurs in economic contexts—rarely in security, and especially hardly in relation to democracy or liberal values. And: recognition is largely driven by EU member states themselves. External recognition is rare—less than 12% of all speeches.
Key findings: EU actorness is frequently recognized—more so than for many international organizations (with the #AfricanUnion as an exception) or even states.
🤔 The #EU 🇪🇺 aspires to be a global actor 🌍 — but do other states recognize it as such? My new study in @intlinteractions.bsky.social develops targeted #NLP / #TextAsData tools to analyze 50 years of foreign policy discourse in the annual #UN General Debate (1970–2020). A thread (1/n)
Dear #Polisky hive mind: What are your best recommendations for resources that help students struggling with developing/refining #ResearchQuestions for term papers or theses?
After teaching spatial models in my EU politics class last week, I had to make an own entry to my students' meme competition this week ...
An opinion is only valid if it is mine. Say "hell yes" or leave. Now that's free speech, isn't it?
The corpora can be freely used under a CC-BY license and are shared via @gesis.org . For more info, check out the #ParlLawSpeech website (www.parllawspeech.org) and the EU-funded OPTED project (www.opted.eu). Put the data to work and keep us posted! (3/3)
#ParlLawSpeech provides new #DataLinkage across speeches and legislative documents, promising deeper insights into how parliaments work: how do MPs amend bills and how do they debate them in parliament? Our #rstats tutorials get you started. We are curious about what 👉 you 👈 come up with! (2/3)