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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · 15d

📢 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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Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social · 28d

@eavigano.bsky.social, Bruno Della Salla, Stefan Stojkovic, & Nils-Christian Bormann: In interwar Italy, violence boosted Fascist support at the polls but weakened the radical left. Suggests violence asymmetrically empowers nationalist, radical-right parties.
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Political violence and anti-system voting in interwar Italy - Edoardo Alberto Viganò, Bruno Della Sala, Stefan Stojkovic, Nils-Christian Bormann, 2025

What is the effect of political violence on electoral support for anti-system parties? We argue that the effect of violence is asymmetric and predominantly bene...

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Neeraj Prasad @neerajprsd.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025

It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

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

⛏️ After a LOT of digging, here's what I found:

🚩 5 estimates outside their CI
🚩 46 estimate-CI duplicates
🚩 20+ cases of asymmetric CIs
🚩 17 values rounded to 4 decimal places (all others 3dp)
🚩 >50% of all estimates and confidence intervals are multiples of 0.008 (???)

(CI = confidence interval)

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Sep 1

👉 Full article: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Political violence and anti-system voting in interwar Italy - Edoardo Alberto Viganò, Bruno Della Sala, Stefan Stojkovic, Nils-Christian Bormann, 2025

What is the effect of political violence on electoral support for anti-system parties? We argue that the effect of violence is asymmetric and predominantly bene...

doi.org

Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 Very happy to have a new paper out in @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social‬ with @bdellasala.bsky.social‬, Stefan Stojkovic & Nils-Christian Bormann

Using data from interwar Italy, we show that political violence has asymmetric effects: it benefits the radical right while weakening the radical left ⬇️

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Jun 13

Together with @paugrau.bsky.social, we have just posted our first Substack, which is our quick take on the outcome of the labour rights and citizenship referendums in Italy on 8-9 June
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Divide and Lose

One Reason Why Italy’s Progressives Lost the June 2025 Referendums

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · Jun 11

Our newest piece on BSW is now published. We show that when attitudes toward Wagenknecht come into the game, policies are no longer that meaningful in predicting behaviour. Personalisation in a personalised party! What a surprise! 😀
@sarahwagner.bsky.social

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Jun 2

Big congrats Clint!

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · Jun 1

I missed this last month, but the Golder/Bormann Democratic Electoral Systems dataset has an update to v5.0, and now includes democratic elections from 1919 to 1945 mattgolder.com/elections

Elections

DES Version 5.0 (1919-2020) Nils-Christian Bormann and I are releasing version 5.0 of the Democratic Electoral Systems (DES) dataset. The new dataset is the same as DES 4.2 but expands the time per…

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Francesco Bromo @francescobromo.bsky.social · May 6

Pub alert❗ Hot off the press! I explore some implications of judicial challenges to early parliamentary dissolution from a comparative perspective. I assess cases from Germany/Czechia/Nepal/Pakistan. I really enjoyed writing this one! Available (open access) at: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Mathias Kruse @matkruse.bsky.social · Apr 28

🚨New article🚨

Why does the ethnic majority expect that ethnic minorities "free ride" and contribute less to the collective?

In a new article in @bjpols.bsky.social, I show that negative expectations are driven by the correlates of ethnicity rather than ethnicity itself 🧵👇

OA-link: cup.org/4lOX7jN

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Apr 22

Happy to have worked on this project with such a brilliant team: @dielea.bsky.social, @bdellasala.bsky.social, @ojrj.bsky.social, Stefan Stojkovic, and Nils-Christian Bormann

🔗 rdcu.be/ehRgD

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨 We’ve released the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA) 🗳️

25 European democracies, 1919–1939: party positions, cabinet formation, elections (and subnational geo-coded data for 6 countries) 1/2 ⬇️

Lea Kaftan @dielea.bsky.social · Apr 15

We finally published the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data and Assemblies (AIEEDA)! 🗳️💽🤓 Find out more about party positions, cabinet formation, and parliamentary elections in 25 European democracies between 1919 and 1939! We also collected geo-referenced data for 6 countries! 🗺️📍
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Introducing the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data & Assemblies (AIEEDA)

Scientific Data - Introducing the Archive of Interwar Europe Election Data & Assemblies (AIEEDA)

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · Apr 10

📚😅🎉

Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher!

Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies.

Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com

#RStats #PyData

Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python

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Solveig Bjørkholt @sunny369.bsky.social · Feb 25

Happy to announce that my first article is finally in print in Political Science and Research Methods (PSRM).

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Dr. Sarah Wagner @sarahwagner.bsky.social · Feb 3

Why would the CDU accommodate AfD policies, despite a plethora of research telling them not to?
My brilliant friend @philswatton.bsky.social wrote a fantastic, easy to understand piece on measurement: dysfunctionalprogramming.substack.com/p/measuremen...

Measurement Makes Communicating Political Science Hard

Imagine you are a political practitioner for a social democratic party.

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Feb 4

🚨 Happy to see one of my PhD papers out at JEPOP
📚 I examine whether MPs' attention to local issues in parliamentary activities affects their re-election chances in party-centred contexts

www.tandfonline.com/eprint/G2HVG...

Ungated version here: eavigano.github.io/papers/jepop...

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Jan 20

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Christopher Wratil 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine @chriswratil.bsky.social · Jan 10

🚨 Out now in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social
: "Citizens' Preferences for Multidimensional Representation". Jack Blumenau, Fabio Wolkenstein & I investigate citizens' preferences regarding 6 dimensions of representation using surveys conducted in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇩🇪. Short 🧵(1/10) doi.org/10.1017/S15375

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Data Colada @datacolada.bsky.social · Dec 3

A popular tool in political science for dealing with nonlinearities in invalidated by...
...nonlinearities.

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[121] Dear Political Scientists: Don't Bin, GAM Instead - Data Colada

There is a 2019 paper, in the journal Political Analysis (htm), with over 1000 Google cites, titled "How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve ...

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Dec 10

Really impressive paper, huge congrats @valentindaur.bsky.social

Valentin Daur @valentindaur.bsky.social · Dec 10

🚨 PUBLICATION ALERT 🚨
Excited to share that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social!

It examines voter responses to mainstream party legitimization of (former) pariah parties.

A thread 👇1/n...
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Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond

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Francesco Bromo @francescobromo.bsky.social · Nov 21

Pub alert! Finally in print – my new EPSR article with Paolo Gambacciani and Marco Improta. Available (open access) at: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Edoardo Viganò @eavigano.bsky.social · Nov 18

Could you add me please? Thank you!

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