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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 20h

Related at all to this type of story, you think?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The battle for Scotland's flag: Why the right has adopted the saltire

The saltire has long been embraced by supporters of Scottish independence – but now it is being unfurled for a different cause.

www.bbc.co.uk

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 23h

📰 Our October issue is out and in your inbox

👉 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjpp20/3...

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 23h

Fair enough - have done so out of an abundance of precaution (phrase seared into my brain post-COVID)

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 1d

I have no doubt he'll be along to fight for the regeneration of the overwhelming whiter, poorer places in Blackpool, Middlesborough, Liverpool, and Essex any day now...

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 1d

If nothing else it's a strange place to choose to be a racist about, if it's the same place that I looked at! Wealthier and whiter than the England average.

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 1d

Not really the point, but this ward is apparently 85% white (let alone non-white British), 5% were not from the UK, and is one of the 'least deprived areas in England' (p16).

Maybe I'm looking at the wrong place 🤷‍♂️

www.solihull.gov.uk/sites/defaul...

www.solihull.gov.uk

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 1d

Not to mention, be required to explain how the Very Serious And Important Degrees will be funded without the cheap-to-run ones.

Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 1d

Any politician who talks about "rip-off degrees" but not the existential crisis facing maths departments at low tariff unis should not be taken seriously.

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 10d

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 2d

Seems that 'the research found the correlation between enjoying international food and a positive attitude towards immigrants was not simply because diners were more open in the first place' is based on several mediation analyses, which is... bold!

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Florian Foos @florianfoos.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 We have a cool new ESRC PhD studentship opportunity on the topic of political persuasion for someone interested in campaigning, field experiments and/or computational methods @lsegovernment.bsky.social, in collaboration with
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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats, good to see it out.

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · 8d

Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️‍🌈

But is this really the case?

doi.org/10.1017/S147...

Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

Allies on the streets but illiberal in the sheets? Gender and the public vs. private inclusion of sexual minorities

doi.org

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 7d

Always happy to receive and publish great papers especially from ECRs 👇

Jochem Vanagt @jochemvanagt.bsky.social · 8d

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social

We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.

Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 8d

🤝 @jochemvanagt.bsky.social, Katrin Praprotnik, @luanarusso.bsky.social, and @markuswagner.bsky.social show that when the mainstream right signals openness to govern with the far right, it eases tensions on the right but amplifies antipathy on the left 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Partisan affect and political tolerance in the context of shifting norms: the effect of coalition signals towards the radical right

Mainstream political actors in many countries face the challenging decision of how to engage with radical-right parties. While some systematically exclude them from power, others accept them as coa...

www.tandfonline.com

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 10d

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 10d

Are you, or do you know, someone who wants to do a PhD?

Applications are open for full funding (scholarship + maintenance) @sotonpolitics.bsky.social through the @scdtp.bsky.social

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 17d

Some sun would have been nice, if I'm being picky...

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 17d

It was a pleasure to visit the University of Amsterdam last week, a final trip before term starts...

Thanks for having me @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social @cvalebeek.bsky.social @hannesbey.bsky.social @twanhuijsmans.bsky.social and others without Bluesky!

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 28d

Really interesting paper.

One issue that complicates interpretation is that they their treatment is exposure to a human-centric AI assistant (ChatGPT) not an autonomous AI agent.

Creates a false sense of security rather than a more accurate subjective risk perception?

@mhaslberger.bsky.social ‬

JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 28d

📊 @mhaslberger.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich, and Jasmine Bhatia explore how exposure to AI shapes social policy preferences in a UK survey experiment.

💡 Their key finding: when faced with AI, people want support, not just protection

🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 23d

Happy to see another great paper out at @jeppjournal.bsky.social .

JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · 28d

📊 @mhaslberger.bsky.social, Jane Gingrich, and Jasmine Bhatia explore how exposure to AI shapes social policy preferences in a UK survey experiment.

💡 Their key finding: when faced with AI, people want support, not just protection

🖇️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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James Breckwoldt @jamesbreckwoldt.bsky.social · 24d

What Happened to Labour's 2024 Voters?

Using the recent wave of the @britishelectionstudy.com I look at people who voted Labour in 2024:
- How many are still with the party?
- How many have left?
- Why might that be?

TLDR: they've left because of economic issues/concerns, probably.

What Happened to Labour's 2024 Voters?

The who, what, when, how and huh of why Labour has lost so much support in such a short period of time

jamesbreckwoldt.substack.com

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 23d

You're not wrong, of course, but it also assumes that media does not increase political support. We found for UKIP, 10 years ago, that this wasn't the case www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

i.e., media coverage increases vote intentions, so justifying the coverage based on that is tautological.

Does Media Coverage Drive Public Support for UKIP or Does Public Support for UKIP Drive Media Coverage? | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core

Does Media Coverage Drive Public Support for UKIP or Does Public Support for UKIP Drive Media Coverage? - Volume 50 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 25d

Today in the British elite

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 25d

Can't see Pompey going down. Just looked solid. But agreed that the team and amount spent should see Saints do better. Not long until the next one!

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 25d

Good game on balance. Pompey probably deserved the win, Saints never really seemed to get going apart from spells in the second half. Seemed like two teams who will be around 10th!

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