Postdoctoral Position in Party Leader Communication
4 days ago
The starting date is flexible subject to mutual agreement. The position is part of the project 'Justifying Defeat: Party Leader Framing of Election Losses', a 4.5-year project funded by The Independent Research Fund Denmark (6.2 million DKR). Shaping the story of the election outcomes is of key interest to party leaders and top candidates who want to maintain power. Such stories are also crucial to democracy, as questions about the legitimacy of an election may increase political polarization and lessen trust in democracy. Yet, little is known about what strategies and explanations party leaders rely on when facing electoral defeat. Some leaders may seek to attribute responsibility to others, other leaders may want to call attention to aspects of the election where they were successful, while yet others may completely deny defeat.
We aim to explore how party leaders communicate to their partisans and the public at large when their party has experienced an electoral defeat. Specifically, the project focuses on what kind of explanations for the electoral result, the party leaders make use of, and what consequences the usage of various explanations have for party leader support and democracy. The project is divided into three work packages. In work package 1, we will collect party leader explanations across time and countries from around the world. We will use these data to develop a typology of electoral defeat-explanations and moreover use qualitative interviews with former and current party leaders to explore how party leaders think about the communication of electoral defeats to partisans and the public. In work package 2, we plan to use the data collected in work package 1 to explore the conditions under which different explanations are used. Work package 3 will use randomized survey experiments to examine how the usage of the most prominent explanations uncovered in work package 1 influence partisan perceptions of the election result and the party leader as well as citizen trust in democracy among the broader electorate. There are rich opportunities for further developing the project by for instance exploring the role of opposing explanations from copartisans or competitors or by examining in large-N designs how the usage of specific explanations correlate with party leader survival.
Overall, the project contributes to general fields of research in elections, trust in democracy, political parties, and political communication. The postdoctoral researcher will be employed as part of and is expected to engage in collaborative research with the research group. The postdoc is expected to be present at the Department of Political Science at Aarhus University at least three days a week on average, participate in project meetings, and be part of the broader research environment at the Department.
The postdoc will moreover be expected to take a leading role in developing, designing and coordinating research projects and publishing research in high impact journals. As part of the research group, the postdoc is also expected to provide support for project-related research, organizational, and administrative tasks. Given the key goal of collecting and coding party leader explanations across a wide variety of countries, experience with computer assisted coding of big chunks of text and experience with large-N analysis of cross-national data will be positively evaluated.
The successful applicant will be part of a research project of high societal and research relevance and of a vibrant and supportive research team with an informal atmosphere. There will be excellent opportunities for intellectual development and mentoring as well as developing an independent research agenda within the context of the project. The project offers funding for conferences, additional training, and good opportunities for developing a strong academic network. The salary is highly competitive and set according to the Danish pay schedule.
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Århus, Århus Kommune, Denmark Aarhus Universitet (AU) Full timeThe Department of Political Science at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, invites applications for a 2-year fulltime postdoctoral position to join a new research project on how party leaders explain electoral defeat, and how the content of their explanations influence support for the party leader among partisans and trust in democracy more broadly. The project...
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Århus, Århus Kommune, Denmark Aarhus Universitet (AU) Full timeThe Department of Political Science at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, invites applications for a 2-year fulltime postdoctoral position to join a new research project on how party leaders explain electoral defeat, and how the content of their explanations influence support for the party leader among partisans and trust in democracy more broadly. The project...
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Århus, Århus Kommune, Denmark Aarhus Universitet (AU) Full timeJob DescriptionThis postdoctoral position is part of an exciting new research project on how party leaders explain electoral defeat. The project aims to explore how party leaders communicate to their partisans and the public when their party experiences an electoral defeat.The successful candidate will be employed as part of and is expected to engage in...
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