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Political Studies Association Specialist Group on Elections, Public Opinion and Parties

Website: https://www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/epop
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The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award, jointly supported by APSA and @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social, recognizes collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make significant contributions to political science. $2,000 cash prize. Deadline: Feb 11, 2026. Details: buff.ly/N9u7wK7
January 28, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 12:15 PM
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🚨New article🥳

➡️The big ideological geographic sort? The role of ideological discrimination, social capital and social whispers in deciding where to live, at JEPOP with @sofiabrei.bsky.social & @griambau.bsky.social (1/n) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 13, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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*PSA PRIZES* APSA-PSA International Partnership Award
🏅 Awarding political scientists engaged in collaborative & productive cross-national partnerships in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement.
📆 Application deadline 11 February 2026
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APSA-PSA International Partnership Award - Political Studies Association
The APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award honours political scientists engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a
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January 9, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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#Research that examined our #data measuring attitudes towards climate change was published by the Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties.

Pablo García-García (University of León 🇪🇸) assessed Round 11 (2023/24) respondents who recently voted for a far-right political party.
Shades of green? Examining environmental and energy attitudes among far-right party supporters in Europe
This study employs cluster analysis to examine the environmental and energy attitudes of far-right supporters using data from the European Social Survey.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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📝 What drives party support for deliberative democracy in Europe? Sergiu Gherghina & Bettina Mitru find support is shaped by left ideology, governing status, party novelty & manifesto length - not electoral strength or populism. OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/onjD7yS

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December 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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For the historical polling nerds out there, an article about our project with @ropercenter.bsky.social that digitised ~800 surveys by Gallup poll in Britain between 1955 and 1991 has been published in JEPOP. The merged dataset contains over three-quarters of a million respondents.
Revealing long-term trajectories of public opinion and polling in Britain: a new resource of historical data from the Gallup Poll in Britain, 1955–1991
From the 1930s to early 2000s, the British affiliate and later subsidiary of the Gallup Organization conducted around three thousand surveys of public opinion in Great Britain. While the records of...
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December 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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New article out in JEPOP with @eliemichel.bsky.social and @emilievh.bsky.social

We study how individual-level party-voter congruence shapes horizontal affective polarization (sympathy to other voters), using matched data of a Voting Advice Application in Belgium

Paper: tinyurl.com/4skwumdr
December 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Deadline today!! :)
A reminder to get your abstracts in by December 5th. Any aspect of gender, elections, public opinion, parties, candidates etc. very welcome!
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📣 Call for Papers: GenElect Annual Workshop on the Study of Gender and Elections
University of Manchester, Jan 12th-13th 26
Deadline: 5th Dec 25

Send us your papers on gender and elections, public opinion, parties, representation! @psaepop.bsky.social

Abstract submission here: lnkd.in/d2AQFYxN
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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A reminder to get your abstracts in by December 5th. Any aspect of gender, elections, public opinion, parties, candidates etc. very welcome!
@uompols.bsky.social

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📣 Call for Papers: GenElect Annual Workshop on the Study of Gender and Elections
University of Manchester, Jan 12th-13th 26
Deadline: 5th Dec 25

Send us your papers on gender and elections, public opinion, parties, representation! @psaepop.bsky.social

Abstract submission here: lnkd.in/d2AQFYxN
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December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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📣 Call for Papers: GenElect Annual Workshop on the Study of Gender and Elections
University of Manchester, Jan 12th-13th 26
Deadline: 5th Dec 25

Send us your papers on gender and elections, public opinion, parties, representation! @psaepop.bsky.social

Abstract submission here: lnkd.in/d2AQFYxN
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November 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Free eprints for my JEPOP article
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JN5C9...
I have a new research note out in JEPOP. I argue that higher government quality leads to a stronger rift in public attitudes on redistribution. Here’s a thread summarizing my argument and findings.
 
doi.org/10.1080/1745...

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November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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IN NEW ISSUE: What’s driving the narrowing gender gap in party activism? Susan E. Scarrow, JeongKyu Suh & Jamie M. Wright find shifts in party participation aren’t all about women stepping up but also about men stepping back - buff.ly/xa7cPL9

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November 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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In 2019 EP elections, environmental issues shaped voting across Western Europe. Silvia Bolgherini & Luca Carrieri examine how radical right parties benefitted more than Greens. Read more: buff.ly/XhtUF5z

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November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Just 1 day left to submit a paper to #PSA26! Follow the link below for full details.
October 16, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Is partner partisanship associated with vote choice? @cerifowler.bsky.social finds that it was for the 2016 Brexit Referendum & subsequent elections in the UK & argues that this can help us understand gender gaps in vote choice. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/eRDc16d

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October 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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We are now accepting applications for a new editorial team for #JEPOP, the official EPOP journal (www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbe...).

❗Closing date for applications: 21 Nov at 17:00 GMT❗

For further information/to get in touch with any informal enquiries, please see details in the call below.
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
We are now accepting applications for a new editorial team for #JEPOP, the official EPOP journal (www.tandfonline.com/journals/fbe...).

❗Closing date for applications: 21 Nov at 17:00 GMT❗

For further information/to get in touch with any informal enquiries, please see details in the call below.
September 30, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I’d encourage all @psaepop.bsky.social members to apply!
The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025.

epssnet.org/belfast-2026/

@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!
September 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Do UK voters see a trade-off between electoral integrity and turnout? Jeffrey A. Karp argues that beliefs about fraud and ideology, not turnout concerns, best predict support for photo ID. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/r2FnjwH

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September 24, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Paolo Chiocchetti, “British Eurosceptic voters before and after Brexit”, Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique [Online], XXX-3 | 2025
doi.org/10.4000/14qkm
British Eurosceptic voters before and after Brexit
Introduction A decade ago, Brexit emerged as the most salient, divisive, and transformative issue in British politics. Having gathered strength since the early 1990s both within the Conservative pa...
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September 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Join our team: We're recruiting 2 x 3-year post doc researchers for the Rural-Spatial-Justice project at Aberystwyth, to undertake fieldwork on rural discontent & support for disruptive politics in the UK, Europe & USA. Closing date: 19 Oct. Details: jobs.aber.ac.uk/en/vacancy/p...
Aberystwyth University - : Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Rural-Spatial-Justice) (5874)
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September 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Excited that my first PhD paper is published in Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties!🎉

🧵 @wurthmann.bsky.social & I examine: Do They Know What They Represent? Parliamentary Candidates’ Perceptions of Their Own Party’s Positions

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1745...
September 11, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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A great new dataset of Aus & UK MPs’ communications with their constituents.

These are growing, real-time corpora of elite political communication. Explore them now!

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September 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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This is a written version of one of our papers presented to the @psaepop.bsky.social conference in Exeter last weekend. open.substack.com/pub/ruralspa...
Where is Reform UK winning?
This is a written version of a presentation to the conference of the PSA Elections, Public Opinion and Parties Specialty Group (EPOP).
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September 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM