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Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨New Open-Access Research Alert 🚨

Why do we assume that certain people we meet are more or less similar to us politically?

Using data from the UK, Canada, and Germany, @seonghuilee.bsky.social and I explore this question in our new article in @wepsocial.bsky.social.

Check it out online now below.

How we think about the political stances of others: evidence on projection from Canada, Germany, and the UK

What leads people to assume that others are more or less similar to them ideologically? To answer this question, this article uses original data from three multi-party democracies to analyse respon...

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Governments implement public input with deliberative #MiniPublics

@avkevins.bsky.social & J.Robison investigate whether people see these groups as legitimate using surveys in 🇬🇧 to understand public support for #ClimareAssemblies

🔗https://buff.ly/iggUFJM

Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship

ANTHONY KEVINS, JOSHUA ROBISON

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Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · Jul 7

🚨New Open-Access Publication!🚨

In "When Caring Comes at a Cost", @naomilightman.bsky.social and I explore the effects of paid and unpaid caring on wellbeing and examine whether social expenditure plays a role in shaping those effects.

Check it out paywall-free in JESP: tinyurl.com/2yptx6kj

When caring comes at a cost: Psychological wellbeing of unpaid and paid carers and the role of social expenditure - Naomi Lightman, Anthony Kevins, 2025

This study examines whether, and under what conditions, unpaid and paid care work are associated with reduced psychological wellbeing. The article begins by lay...

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Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · Jul 1

🚨Now officially in print!🚨

Do the (partisan) origins of climate assemblies affect public support for these assemblies?

Using original UK survey data, Joshua Robison and I explore this question in a new EJPR article.

Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

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Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · May 12

Many thanks to our guests and to everyone who attended and contributed to such a thoughtful discussion!

Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · May 12

We were joined by elected representatives from three different levels of government:

• Cllr. Margaret Smidowicz – Charnwood Borough Councillor
• Dr. Jeevun Sandher – MP for Loughborough
• Cllr. Naomi Bottomley – Charnwood Borough Councillor and Leicestershire County Councillor

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Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · May 12

On Friday, I had the pleasure of hosting an event on “Life in Politics,” sponsored by the @lborocrcc.bsky.social and the @lborouniversity.bsky.social Department of International Relations, Politics and History.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Mar 20

New paper out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! With Ian McAllister, we examine how party competition and party positions condition the presence and size of an age gap in voting for the left. A short 🧵 below!

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Is there a ‘Youthquake’? The Structure of Party Competition and Age Differences in Voting - Ruth Dassonneville, Ian McAllister, 2025

Why do age differences matter for voting in some countries and not in others? Despite the prevailing narrative that a ‘youthquake’ in voting is occurring across...

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Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · Dec 17

🚨New #OpenAccess study 🚨

What types of people are more or less satisfied with social care in the UK - and how might age and ideology interact to shape satisfaction levels?

Naomi Lightman and I explore these questions in a new, open-access IJSW article: doi.org/10.1111/ijsw...

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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · Dec 17

Whenever there is a significant preference gap between lower-and higher-income groups–politicians’ perceptions of what citizens want are skewed towards the preferences of higher-income voters on socio-economic issues ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are poor people poorly heard?

A growing body of literature shows that the preferences of poorer groups in society are less well represented than the preferences of the rich. This paper scrutinises one possible explanation of ineq...

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Dec 11

The super election year is ending, with many winners and losers.

Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper, (@henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social ) asks: How do winning and losing candidates see elections?

Spoiler: Losers are more concerned about fairness.
Link: doi.org/10.1086/734240

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Moritz Marbach @moritz-marbach.com · Aug 30

🚨New Tool: paper-picnic.com The latest published political science research (and research in adjacent fields) every Friday. No alert chaos, no registration, no clutter. Powered by @crossref.bsky.social

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Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · Nov 26

🚨New #OpenAccess study🚨

Do the (partisan) origins of climate assemblies affect public support for these assemblies?

Using original UK survey data, Joshua Robison and I explore this question in a new EJPR article.

Check it out open access here: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Governments around the world are experimenting with deliberative mini-publics as a means of integrating public input into policymaking processes, including as a method for directly creating policy. This raises the important question of when ordinary people will judge the outputs of mini-publics to be legitimate and support their use. We investigate how public support for mini-publics is shaped by: (1) whether the mini-public is held in response to calls from politicians or from the general public; (2) which political party sets up the mini-public; and (3) whether there is partisan conflict surrounding the mini-public’s creation. To do so, we use two pre-registered survey experiments fielded in the United Kingdom that focus on climate assemblies, a prominent form of deliberative mini-public. Results are three-fold. First, we find some evidence that assemblies are more positively evaluated when they stem from the demands of local residents rather than partisan actors, but this effect is relatively modest and does not emerge consistently across our analyses. Similar findings are noted with regard to partisanship. Partisan conflict, by contrast, has a more robust effect – leading respondents to adopt more ideologically stereotypical views of the assembly, with left-wing (right-wing) respondents being more supportive of Labour-sponsored (Conservative-sponsored) assemblies.

Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social · Feb 26

Our latest #OpenAccess workfare study now has full citation details in Comparative Political Studies!

Click below to see @alexanderhorn.bsky.social, Kees van Kersbergen, and I examine how the shift from "welfare" to "workfare" may have shaped related policy attitudes.

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Workfare and Attitudes toward the Unemployed: New Evidence on Policy Feedback from 1990 to 2018 - Alexander Horn, Anthony Kevins, Kees Van Kersbergen, 2024

To what extent, and under what conditions, have workfare reforms shaped public opinion towards the unemployed? This article unpacks the punitive and enabling di...

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Alexander Horn @alexanderhorn.bsky.social · Oct 2

free book in honor of Kees van Kersbergen! For the Festschrift (eds. Green Pedersen/Jensen/Vis) @avkevins.bsky.social & I wrote "Ever the committed egalitarians – or the end of Scandinavian exceptionalism? Equality and welfare state preferences among voters and parties" @ politica.dk/boeger/no-no...

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