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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 12h

Descriptive representation has comparatively limited appeal for citizens, but is more important for historically marginalised groups. Citizens do not only focus on local politicians, but also seek representation from politicians in other districts www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Citizens’ Preferences for Multidimensional Representation | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Citizens’ Preferences for Multidimensional Representation - Volume 23 Issue 2

www.cambridge.org

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

“Because of the tremendous wealth of key figures…major corporations have enabled, collaborated with, and turned a blind eye to efforts to suppress, torture, falsely imprison, terrorise and murder dissenters … around the world.” Twitter [gave] the Saudi government a reach well beyond its borders.

Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/09/twitter-saudi-arabia-deep-ties-elon-musk-prince-mohammed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · 9d

NEW -

Deepening, Bridging, and Moving Minds in Stressful Times - https://cup.org/4pG5tfo

"In highly polarized situations, however, open communication is the only way to communicatively reach out to people."

- Simon Stocker, André Bächtiger, Bernhard Kittel & Marco Steenbergen

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the effects of communication modes on societal polarization during the COVID-19 crisis, with specific reference to Germany and Austria.

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Jeyhun Alizade @jeyalizade.bsky.social · 10d

Glad to see this out at @ajpseditor.bsky.social! I show that the immigration-crime issue, when salient, can shift leftist cosmopolitans to the Right. This is due to leftist voters being more conservative on crime than leftist parties.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

American Journal of Political Science | MPSA Journal | Wiley Online Library

Concern that immigration worsens crime problems is prevalent across Western publics. How does it shape electoral politics? Prior research asserted a growing left–right divide in immigration attitudes...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

Thread 🧵1/10

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Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · 15d

I can't wait for our Workshop on "Democracy on Mars" during the Berlin Freedom Week, with my favourite colleagues AND hosted in my favourite place, the Schwarzkopf-Stiftung Junges Europa 🚀 🫰 Sign up if you are in Berlin on November 15th! berlin-freedom-week.com/event/wie-so...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 17d

In den Niederlanden gab es am Wochenende rechtsextreme Ausschreitungen. In den 4 größten Ländern Europas führen rechtsradikale Parteien in den Umfragen. Ich verstehe den Fokus auf das Spektakel, aber der Dauerfokus auf Trump, Kimmel, Kirk scheint mir stark zu vernachlässigen was in Europa passiert.

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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 17d

European democracies are harmed by societal polarization, but can benefit from partisan polarization: the former lowers quality and trust, the latter is linked to better democratic quality www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Opponents, not enemies: disentangling the relationship between polarization and democracy in Europe

Contradicting claims exist about the extent to which identity-based ideological polarization is eroding or improving democracy. We address this ambiguity by disentangling different forms of polariz...

www.tandfonline.com

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 17d

📢 My last PhD paper is out in Legislative Studies Quarterly 📢

📌 Main finding
➡️ Party control of speaking time in parliament limits MPs’ geographical focus
➡️ Open access increases constituency representation

🔗 Read it open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · 17d

Ganz herzlichen Glückwunsch! 💐

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Bertelsmann Stiftung @bertelsmannst.bsky.social · 17d

Instagram und TikTok sind die Kanäle, über die sich junge Menschen am häufigsten über Politik informieren. Die Mehrheit folgt sogar politischen Influencer:innen. Unsere Studie mit dem @dpzberlin.bsky.social zeigt, wie die Social-Media-Kommunikation der Politiker:innen bei der Jugend ankommt. (bu)

Studie - Social Media sind essenziell, um junge Menschen mit politischen Themen zu erreichen

Ohne Social-Media-Plattformen erreichen politische Akteur:innen junge Menschen mit politischen Themen kaum. Denn über das politische Geschehen informieren sich junge Zielgruppen mehrheitlich auf Socia...

www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 17d

MySpace

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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 24d

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 29d

This is a paper I really care about. I feel the core message is very important for social scientists in general, and political scientists in particular.

"Quantitative Research in Political Science is Greatly Underpowered."

(with A+ co-authors)

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · Sep 10

God give me the reviewer strength of a well-caffeinated sweetener-loving junior scholar in an investigative mood

Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · Sep 8

Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/...

TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself!

This suggests manual editing of results tables.

Which is not good...

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Summary
Unfortunately, this example is not an isolated issue.

Across 9 appendix tables with 256 regression coefficients, I find:

5 cases of estimates outside their reported confidence interval
46 duplicates (i.e. estimate/CI combinations with an identical match in the same table)
At least 20 cases of asymmetric confidence intervals, which cannot be explained as rounding errors
17 values rounded to 4 decimal places (all others to 3 decimal places), indicating manual editing of tables
Over 50% of all estimates and confidence intervals are multiples of 0.008
It is difficult to diagnose exactly what is going on without access to the underlying data and code.

However, two broad conclusions can be drawn:

There are many errors and inconsistencies in the results which appear to be the result of manual editing.
There are strange patterns in the results which, if genuine, should have been noted and explained by the authors.

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Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · Sep 10

Wirklich Banane...aber eine Sex and the City Neuauflage mit UN-Diplomatin in der Hauptrolle würde ich eigentlich gerne sehen.

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Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · Sep 10

How to visually represent different democratic systems? We are currently working with an awesome design studio to figure it out. A sneak peak of a sketch for "Democracy on Mars" is here 👉 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

How can experts, citizens and representatives collaborate? What role could AI take in governance? Together with Civocracy 📢, we are preparing an online deliberation around these questions for a… | Dem...

How can experts, citizens and representatives collaborate? What role could AI take in governance? Together with Civocracy 📢, we are preparing an online deliberation around these questions for a democr...

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Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · Sep 3

❓Are cosmopolitans participatory, technocratic or representative democrats?

Despite their active role in society, few analyze cosmopolitans' governance preferences. My preprint uses cosmopolitanism as a multidimensional concept to investigate this question 🤔👇

Any feedback is welcome!

OSF

osf.io

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Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks so much Constantin!

Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · Sep 5

🥳 I'm excited that my project on opinion formation around the future of citizenship has received funding by @dfg.de

🔎 On this highly polarized issue, I will investigate opinion and opinion change in 4 migration societies. 💡This will include an issue-specific analysis of the transnational cleavage.

DFG - GEPRIS - Die Zukunft von Staatsbürgerschaft: eine deliberative Untersuchung von Meinungsbildung zum Wahlrecht in europäischen Migrationsgesellschaften

In Zeiten durchlässiger Grenzen stehen Konflikte um Staatsbürgerschaft in ganz Europa auf der politischen Agenda. Für Politik und Forschung ist es von ...

gepris.dfg.de

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · Sep 2

#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social -

“Sleeping with the enemy”: partisanship and tolerance in online dating - cup.org/3USYaD9

"...the influence of partisanship is on par with conventional criteria like physical appearance"

- Yara Sleiman, Georgios Melios & Paul Dolan

#FirstView

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous.

There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Franziska Maier @franziskamaier.bsky.social · Sep 3

❓Are cosmopolitans participatory, technocratic or representative democrats?

Despite their active role in society, few analyze cosmopolitans' governance preferences. My preprint uses cosmopolitanism as a multidimensional concept to investigate this question 🤔👇

Any feedback is welcome!

OSF

osf.io

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Aug 29

Das bemerkenswerte hier ist, dass die Verschiebung eben nicht 2015 passiert sondern 2017. Genau dann wenn Politik und Medien anfangen sich auf die aufsteigende AfD und ihre Themen einzuschießen. Wenn Migrationspolitik verschärft wird und Migranten dämonisiert werden. Es ist nicht Migration an sich.

Christian Endt @cendt.de · Aug 29

Eine Mehrheit spricht sich dafür aus, die Zuwanderung nach Deutschland einzuschränken. Der Anteil derer, die dabei eine klar restriktive Haltung einnehmen, hat in den vergangenen zehn Jahren – also seit Angela Merkels Satz "Wir schaffen das "– deutlich zugenommen.

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Andreas Hövermann @andreashoev.bsky.social · Aug 27

Neue Studie des @diw.de: Weniger Geflüchtete fühlen sich in Deutschland willkommen.

Unsere Studie ⬇️ zeigt, wie die Solidarität (unter Erwerbspersonen) mit (Ukraine-)Geflüchteten in den letzten Jahren zurückging und sich die Einstellungen ihnen gegenüber deutlich eintrübten.

Entwicklung der Einstellungen zu Ukraine-Geflüchteten --> Rückgang der Solidarität

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