Dear all, I am looking for two PhD candidates (f/m/d; 30 hours/week; 4 years) with a focus on qualitative representation research in my ERC project INCONEX at the University of Salzburg, Austria. The project aims to understand who is made absent by whom, how, when, and why in the process of political representation. More information on the project is available here: https://sites.google.com/view/inconex/home The positions are funded for 4 years and involve completing a PhD thesis within the project’s thematic scope. The doctoral researchers will contribute to developing theoretical concepts on representative absence and conduct qualitative research, including interviews with EU parliamentarians and/or focus groups with absent citizens from Austria, Germany, and Spain. Salary is competitive and conference funds/career support are provided. Applications are due by 2 May 2025, end of day. Find the full job advertisement here: https://sites.google.com/view/inconex/news/PhD_candidates Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions! Best wishes, Lucy Kinski ----------------------------- Populist Party Responsiveness and Populist Party Voter Satisfaction With Democracy in Europe<https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8420> (2024) Politics & Governance. Mainstream party agenda-responsiveness and the electoral success of right-wing populist parties in Europe<https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2022.2155214> (2024). Journal of European Public Policy. Responsible judges or judging responsibilities? EU Court of Justice, <https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2297807> Bundesverfassungsgericht <https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2297807> and EU economic governance<https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2023.2297807> (2023). Journal of European Public Policy. Who talks to whom? Using social network models to understand debate networks in the European Parliament<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14651165221137994> (2023). European Union Politics. Framing Climate Policy Ambition in the European Parliament<https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance/article/view/5479> (2022). Politics & Governance. Dr. Lucy Kinski Principal Investigator ERC Starting Grant INCONEX<https://sites.google.com/view/inconex/home> Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies / Fachbereich Politikwissenschaft Edmundsburg Mönchsberg 2 A-5020 Salzburg | Austria 0662 8044 7624 lucy.kinski@plus.ac.at www.uni-salzburg.at/sceus