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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · 4d

Japan set for first female PM after Sanae Takaichi - a hardline conservative who favours tighter restrictions on immigration - wins LDP leadership race www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Takaichi to become Japan’s first female prime minister | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

Japan is set to have its first female prime minister after Sanae Takaichi won the leadership election of the Liberal Democratic Party on Oct. 4.

www.asahi.com

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · 6d

Hard to think of anyone more deserving of this important award - congratulations on this well-earned recognition @ehernandez.bsky.social!

Enrique Hernández @ehernandez.bsky.social · 6d

I’m very happy and honored to receive the National Research Award for Young Researchers in Social Sciences. Many thanks to everyone who has supported me along the way

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona @uab.cat · 7d

🏆 El professor de la #UAB Enrique Hernández, Premi Nacional de Recerca per a Joves 2025

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 20d

We're looking forward to putting together a *fantastic* Electoral and Voting Behaviour section for the @epssnet.bsky.social 2026 meeting in Belfast!

‼️ Make sure to submit your papers by 7 November 2025!

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 20d

👉🏽 Section chairs: @siljahausermann.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social

📢 Our section welcomes work on elections, referenda & political decision-making, from participation & opinion formation to social cleavages, mobilization, institutional effects & more.

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Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 21d

🧲 We are hiring!
✨ PhD position to join @dec-gr.bsky.social
🏁 4-year FPI contract
🎓 Pol Sci / Social Sci background + Master’s + English
📧 Send expression of interest with CV and motivation letter to [email protected]
🔗 tinyurl.com/yc3epmv2

Call for expressions of interest for a PhD scholarship within the project GPOL – Democracy, Elections and Citizenship

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · 29d

We offer further details in our blogpost at ECPR’s TheLoop theloop.ecpr.eu/how-welfare-...

How welfare policy affects immigration attitudes

Social policies shape public opinions on immigration. A study by Alina Vrânceanu and Bilyana Petrova shows that in Western Europe, generous welfare systems – perhaps counterintuitively – make natives ...

theloop.ecpr.eu

Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · 29d

Read an older post to learn more about what we ask, what we do and what we find: bsky.app/profile/alin...

Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Mar 10

Thrilled to share a new paper with @bpetrova.bsky.social just published online at the European Journal of Political Research.

We examine how welfare systems affect natives attitudes’ to immigration.

Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · 29d

Our article is out now in the latest issue of the EJPR. Available Open Access:👇

European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 29d

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How do welfare systems shape views on immigration?

A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social
& @bpetrova.bsky.social finds:
Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants
Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰)

Read more:

Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe

ALINA VRÂNCEANU, BILYANA PETROVA

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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ECPR Standing Group on Public Opinion & Voting Behaviour @ecprpovb.bsky.social · Aug 26

Our first panel starts on Tuesday, 26 August 2025, at 08:30, and our last panel starts on Friday, 29 August 2025, at 13:30.

First we have In person icon Building: Explaining Populist and Radical Right Support

(Law Building, Floor: 2, Room: 212)Tuesday 08:30 - 10:15 EEST (26/08/2025)

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ECPR Standing Group on Public Opinion & Voting Behaviour @ecprpovb.bsky.social · Aug 26

Did you know we do a Best Paper Award at each General Conference?! 🏆🚨‼️ To be considered for the 2025 POVB Best Paper Competition, you must upload your paper to the ECPR platform or email it to the chairs/discussants before your presentation. 🏆 #ecprgc25

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Bruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · Aug 22

Very grateful to the ECPR political theory jury for this wonderful news!

European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Aug 22

🎉 Congratulations @brunoleipold.com (@lsepoltheory.bsky.social) for winning our 2025 Political Theory Prize

⭐ Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought (@princetonupress.bsky.social)

👉 More about the winner buff.ly/TweS2Bw #ECPRPrizes

The 2025 Political Theory Prize is awarded to Bruno Leipold

European Consortium for Political Research

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Many congratulations, Bruno!

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Aug 22

Bookmarked! Good to see renewed attention to the topic of ambivalence in immigration attitudes

Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · Aug 21

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social !

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

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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.

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Bogdan G Popescu @bgpopescu.bsky.social · Aug 20

Big news: Imperial Borderlands is now out in paperback @universitypress.cambridge.org James Robinson (2024 Econ Nobel) calls it "pathbreaking." Empire + institutions + data science—same frontier, softer cover. www.amazon.com/Imperial-Bor...

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EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium @behaviour-eui.bsky.social · Aug 6

📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!

We’re looking for presenters for the upcoming term (early October to mid-December 2025).

If you’d like to present, please fill out the form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🗓 Deadline for proposals: August 31

EUI Political Behaviour Colloquium

Please fill in the details below to submit your proposal. Kindly provide the title and abstract of your paper, as well as your availability to present. The Colloquium is held every Tuesday from 17:00 ...

docs.google.com

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Whocounts @whocounts.bsky.social · Aug 6

🔍 Interested in poverty, stats & “invisible” populations?
We're hiring a PhD researcher to re-examine how poverty is measured across Europe.
Join our friendly interdisciplinary team at UAB @igopbcn.bsky.social
📍3-year funded post | Starting late 2025
📎 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/356896

Predoctoral Researcher (2025DILIFRUA84)

Job position Predoctoral Researcher

euraxess.ec.europa.eu

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Jul 20

Upper House elections today in Japan, with 125 seats up for grabs out of 248. After a campaign dominated by inflation, taxes and immigration, the ruling coalition (Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito) looks set to suffer losses
asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Jap...

Japan election live: LDP slumps as Sanseito, DPFP make gains

PM Ishiba vows to stay on; Opposition parties rule out coalition

asia.nikkei.com

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Jul 17

Ahead of Sunday’s Upper House elections in Japan, Sanseito’s hardline immigration rhetoric appears to be gaining salience
www.reuters.com/world/japane...

'Japanese First' party shakes up election with alarm over foreigners

An upstart party is gaining support ahead of elections in Japan by railing against a 'silent invasion' of immigrants, pushing the government to tackle fears about foreigners as it drags into the mainstream rhetoric once confined to the political fringe.

www.reuters.com

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · Jul 13

Kirill Zhirkov & Robert H. Brehm find that calling immigrants “illegal” or “undocumented” doesn’t affect perceptions in experiments. However, people’s preferences for these terms do reflect their broader attitudes toward immigration policy.

Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Jul 13

The first plenary speech at IPSA 2025 - delivered by former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon - centred on current challenges to liberal democracy and the interconnectedness of today’s (global) crises

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Caterina Froio @caterinafr.bsky.social · Jul 3

Heading to @ipsa.org in SKorea? I’ll be there representing the @ejprjournal.bsky.social editorial team. Join the Meet the Editors session on July 13th, 12:45 PM.
Whether you’re curious about publishing in EJPR, about the review process, or just want to say hello, you are welcome! Info www.ipsa.org

Meet the Editors: Publishing in Leading Journals

This interactive, café-style session is designed for scholars from the Global South seeking to enhance their engagement with leading international academic journals in political science, international...

www.ipsa.org

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Jul 2

Super important new research on the underrepresentation of rural areas in national parliaments. Check it out! 👇

dec-gr.bsky.social @dec-gr.bsky.social · Jul 2

📢 New publication alert: "Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments" by @gricoc.bsky.social, @rgarciadelhorno.bsky.social and @ehernandez.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Rural representation in Europe: The presence of place in national parliaments

Recent research shows a growing rural-urban divide in political attitudes and behavior, which has given currency to expressions like “places that don'…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Dan Slater @dnsltr.bsky.social · Jun 20

The connections between IMMIGRATION and AUTHORITARIANBISM are becoming more obvious and tragic by the day. Our latest issue of Democracy & Autocracy @umichDemocracy tackles these connections head-on, from multiple comparative angles: 1/6

ii.umich.edu/emerging-dem...

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Jun 25

On my way to EPSA 2025! Very much enjoying the train 🚆 journey from Barcelona to Madrid. What a stunning landscape!

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Alina Vranceanu @alinavranceanu.bsky.social · Jun 13

Congratulations Vicente! Very well deserved!

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