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European Journal of Political Research
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Publishing original and substantial contributions to the study of comparative European politics. A journal from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14756765
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 27m
🆕 Deservingness perceptions & candidate support 👥

#GroupAppeals help connect #VoterIdentity 🧩 to voting choices 🗳️ – @rdassonneville.bsky.social, Rune Stubager & Mads Thau want to know if this appeals to other social groups 📣

📖 #OA
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 1d
🆕 Attitudes toward international organisations? 🌍

Exploring #Technocratic & #Populist attitudes, Reinout van der Veer & @profonderco.bsky.social use survey data across five European 🏤 countries to explain how people view IOs

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Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Representation matters: Technocracy, populism, and attitudes towards international organisations
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 2d
🆕 Sore losers on election night? 🫢

Einar Bäckström shows #VoterSatisfaction does not change right after electoral decisions, but becomes more polarised over time ⏰ instead long-term processes drive the winner-loser gap🏅

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Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core
Sore losers on election night? Examining the temporal emergence of the winner–loser gap
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 7d
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 7d
EJPR News 📰

That is all from📘 Vol 64, Issue 4 of EJPR!

Featuring 20 articles and more than 8 research notes, 📖 looking at the latest in #PolSci research and the comparative study of politics.

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EJPR 64.4 Out Now
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 8d
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#Populist parties frame politics as a battle between the “honest and upright people” and the “evil and corrupted elite,” shaping their ideological identity around this dichotomy according to @robert-a-huber.bsky.social, A.Zaslove & M.Meijers

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The anatomy of populist ideology: How political parties define ‘the people’ and ‘the elite'
MAURITS J. MEIJERS, ROBERT A. HUBER, ANDREJ ZASLOVE
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 9d
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@jakobkas.bsky.social @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & B.Bakker questions whether when voters are deeply polarized, ddo they tend to rate democratic performance lower regarding fairness and other important qualities?

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Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization
JAKOB KASPER, GIJS SCHUMACHER, BERT N. BAKKER
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 12d
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These authors look at 🔍 candidate-level VAAs (Voting Advice Apps) and how they can lead to better match between what voters care about and who they pick, compared to party-level VAAs.

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Improving issue representation with candidate-level voting advice applications
MICHA GERMANN, FERNANDO MENDEZ, JONATHAN WHEATLEY, CONSTANTINOS DJOUVAS, ROULA NEZI, MATTHEW WALL
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 13d
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📊 Kyung Joon Han looks as women in Western Europe how show higher #AffectivePolarization largely due to stronger disapproval of opposing party supporters.

#OA #Polisky

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Gender and affective polarization
KYUNG JOON HAN
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 13d
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🔍 Evidence from Germany 🇩🇪 shows that higher levels of political violence are associated with lower political ambition among women and weaker descriptive representation. @jeyalizade.bsky.social @fabioellger.bsky.social @mgruenewald.bsky.social @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social

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Does political violence undermine descriptive representation? The case of women in politics
JEYHUN ALIZADE, FABIO ELLGER, MARIUS GRÜNEWALD, THOMAS TICHELBAECKER
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 14d
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@jesperlindqvist.bsky.social, @professormpersson.bsky.social, W.Schakel & A.Sundell look at 🗳️ voters’ policy preferences often misalign with what they get in practice with the study showing how this “electoral connection” gap contributes to unequal outcomes

#OA

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Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation
JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 15d
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✅ Coalition governments reduce affective #polarization when perceived as successful; ❌ when seen as failing, they increase polarization says @jochemvanagt.bsky.social & @markuskollberg.bsky.social

#OA #PoliSky

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United in success, fragmented in failure: The moderating effect of perceived government performance on affective polarization between coalition partners
JOCHEM VANAGT, MARKUS KOLLBERG
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 15d
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🗳️ Survey data from Poland’s 2023 election show that simply exposing PiS’s anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric didn’t shift voter support but when that rhetoric was tied to Putin’s anti-LGBTQ justifications for war, support swung significantly toward the opposition.
Anti-LGBTIQ rhetoric and electoral outcomes under the shadow of war: Evidence from Poland's 2023 parliamentary election
PHILLIP M. AYOUB, DOUGLAS PAGE, SAMUEL WHITT
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 16d
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@legalmusings.bsky.social, @klueserthan.bsky.social & M.Haselmayer address how left‑wing parties have prioritised social progress over economic equality 💱 in recent decades.

#PoliSky #OA
Social progress at the expense of economic equality? New data on left parties' equality preferences
ALEXANDER HORN, K. JONATHAN KLÜSER, MARTIN HASELMAYER
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 20d
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@aslunn.bsky.social @heikekluever.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social & @tonirodon.bsky.social look at Merkel’s 2020 COVID‑19 🦠 address and its impact on public trust and support for government measures showing the power of #CrisisComms.

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Closed borders, closed minds? COVID-related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants
ISA HERBIG, ASLI UNAN, THERESA KUHN, IRENE RODRÍGUEZ, TONI RODON, HEIKE KLÜVER
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 20d
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📊 Citizens strongly resist trading off free elections for income, but show more willingness to compromise on other liberal norms according to @sergiferrer.bsky.social @ehernandez.bsky.social @enprava.bsky.social @damjantomic.bsky.social

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The value of liberal democracy: Assessing citizens' commitment to democratic principles
SERGI FERRER, ENRIQUE HERNÁNDEZ, ENRIQUE PRADA, DAMJAN TOMIC
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 21d
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These authors look at German 🇩🇪 city councils, MPs’ parliamentary questions ❓ show uneven attention across neighbourhoods: some areas are well represented, others systematically neglected. 👨‍👨‍👧‍👧

#OA #PoliSky #Representation
Geographic representation in local politics: Evidence from parliamentary questions in German city councils
MORTEN HARMENING, JONA-FREDERIK BAUMERT, SEBASTIAN BLOCK, MARTIN GROSS, DOMINIC NYHUIS, JAN VELIMSKY
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 22d
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🔥 MPs often invoke local cues in Tweets, especially during campaign periods, but these authors study finds no clear electoral reward. Local references don’t boost voters’ support or preference votes. 📊

#PoliSky #VotingBehaviour #OA
Constituency references in social media: MPs' usage and voters' reaction
OLIVER HUWYLER, NATHALIE GIGER, STEFANIE BAILER, TOMAS TURNER-ZWINKELS, SILVAN HELLER
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 22d
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@celytadeas.bsky.social looks to 🧭 left-wing partisans in Europe and their alignment across cultural & economic dimensions; the right’s views are more diverse? Implications for polarization are wide-ranging.

#OA #PoliticalScience
One more constrained than the other: Asymmetrical ideological alignment and its implications for polarization
TADEAS CELY
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 23d
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🚧 Do COVID-border closures shape political attitudes?

Herbig, Unan, Kuhn et al. find that sudden intra-EU border closures reduced support for the EU and increased hostility towards immigrants — though effects were short-lived.

#PoliSky #OA
Closed borders, closed minds? COVID-related border closures, EU support and hostility towards immigrants
LISA HERBIG, ASLI UNAN, THERESA KUHN, IRENE RODRÍGUEZ, TONI RODON, HEIKE KLÜVER
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 26d
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Using a 🇩🇪 dataset of attempted and successful exchanges in the German Bundestag 🏛️ (1990–2020), @eliaskoch.bsky.social & @ankuepfer.bsky.social finds MPs with opposing views seek debate more often, but there is rarely action😱

#Politics #Parliament

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The politics of seeking and avoiding discourse in parliament
ELIAS KOCH, ANDREAS KÜPFER
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 26d
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@adrianabuneauib.bsky.social & @norbidunn.bsky.social use 🇳🇴 datasets 📊 to make claim that government invitations boost participation in online public consultations, increasing both the number and diversity of stakeholders.

#Governance #PublicPolicy

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Do government invitations to consultations shape stakeholder participation in public policymaking?
ADRIANA BUNEA, IDUNN NØRBECH
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 27d
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Why all these promises?

M.VESTERGAARD claims parties make bold promises to boost credibility with mainstream parties and hot issues see the most commitments, but more competition can curb this strategy.

#Politics #Elections #PartyStrategy

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Why all these promises? How parties strategically use commitments to gain credibility in an increasingly competitive political landscape
MATHIAS BUKH VESTERGAARD
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 28d
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These authors find that urban Canadians 🇨🇦 lean left, rural 🌳 residents lean right, especially on cultural issues, but these policy gaps haven’t grown since the ’90s, so they don’t explain widening electoral divides. ↔️

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Urban–rural policy disagreement
SOPHIE BORWEIN, JACK LUCAS, TYLER ROMUALDI, ZACK TAYLOR, DAVID A. ARMSTRONG II, KATHARINE MCCOY
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