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Consortium of National Election Studies @nesconsortium.bsky.social · 9d

#CNES took the floor at the 3rd #MEDemConference at @gesis.org as Olga Gyarfasova presented our activities to the #DemocracyResearch community 💡 #CNES is a proud partner of @medem.bsky.social and we look forward to a continued collaboration with this emerging European #ResearchInfrastructure 🚀

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 9d

Next at the #MEDemConference – @LorenzoDeSio presents his vision for the #MEDemServiceGatewayHub 🌐 – featuring #ATLAS, our living encyclopedia designed to make democracy data findable, comparable, reusable, and linkable. Discover more about our #MEDemTools 👉 link in bio!

Lorenzo De Sio presents at the 3rd MEDem Conference 2025, standing beside a projection of the MEDem Service Gateway Hub. The slide shows tools including MEDem ATLAS, METEOR, AmCAT, and HarDIS, which support comparative democracy research.

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MEDem @medem.bsky.social · 9d

🚀 Kicking off day 1 of the 3rd #MEDemConference at @gesis.org! From @sldelange.bsky.social discussing radical-right normalization 🗳️ to calls to consolidate democracy data by @simonsaysnothin.bsky.social 📊 — keynotes spotlight why #MEDem matters for democracy.

Sarah de Lange presents at the 3rd MEDem Conference 2025. Behind her, a slide shows the book “The Normalization of the Radical Right” and a quote on how radical-right behavior grows when previously hidden views become socially acceptable.

Simon Munzert speaks at the 3rd MEDem Conference 2025 on the past, present, and future of democracy research.

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Emilie van Haute @emilievh.bsky.social · Sep 3

📊 New Dataset Release: Belgian Electoral Panel Survey 2024 🇧🇪

We’re excited to announce the release of a new dataset from a 4-wave panel survey conducted during the 2024 Belgian elections!

📥 Download the dataset now:
www.sodha.be/dataset.xhtm...

www.sodha.be

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Antoher thorough demonstration that geography can mirror politics - but does not produce political preferences in itself!

Dr. Jan Philipp Thomeczek @drphilphil.bsky.social · Aug 28

New Publication 📖 with @aikowagner.bsky.social in @electoralstudies.bsky.social
"Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany"
Full paper (open access)👉
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
What did we find? 🧵

Issue congruence outweighs geography: Understanding the appeal of Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) in east and west Germany

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · Aug 27

Important roundtable on academic freedom at #ecprgc25.

Insightful (but grim) presentation by @isaliba.bsky.social on attacks on academic freedom globally and also in Europe.

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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 We're hiring!
Join our CSES Team @gesis.org Cologne as a Senior Researcher. If you’re into comparative electoral research and love diving into data, this is your moment.
Come shape global democracy with us! 🌍📊
www.gesis.org/en/institute...

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Philip Rathgeb @philiprathgeb.bsky.social · Jul 15

Glad to share a symposium on my book "How the Radical Right Has Changed Capitalism and Welfare" with SER: academic.oup.com/ser/advance-....

Featuring @alexandreafonso.bsky.social, @vapunkt.bsky.social, @ankehassel.bsky.social, @danielk24.bsky.social, @gscheiring.bsky.social, & rejoinder by myself 👇

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · Jun 2

New publication with @bjarneck.bsky.social on public opinion toward supporting Ukraine in Europe out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social

@forsresearch.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social

Bjarn Eck @bjarneck.bsky.social · Jun 2

New publication in the Journal of European Public Policy together with @eliemichel.bsky.social.

We study public opinion toward supporting Ukraine in 6 European countries and ask whether citizens want to increase, sustain, or decrease support. 1/4

Paper (OA): doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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CEVIPOF - Sciences Po @cevipof.bsky.social · May 23

#VendrediLecture
New paper out @eliemichel.bsky.social & Sylvain Brouard @cevipof.bsky.social on the effect of crises on electoral behavior: "Retrospective voting in times of pandemic: comparative evidence from panel data" in Political Science.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Retrospective voting in times of pandemic: comparative evidence from panel data

Existing studies on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on elections provide incongruent results. For governments’ handling of the pandemic to be a competence signal, voters should believe that inc...

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · May 19

Particularly, negative and positive (updates of) evaluations of health policy are associated, respectively, with electoral punishment and reward for incumbents, unlike economic policy evaluation.
In short, Trump's defeat in 2020 is due to his mismanagement of the covid-19 pandemic...

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · May 19

We adopt a constraining research design based on panel data to address issues of reverse causality and endogeneity in the study of vote choice.
We find that policy evaluation of the governments’ response to the pandemic has influenced vote choice for incumbents.

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · May 19

New paper out (with Sylvain Brouard) on the effect of crises on electoral behavior: "Retrospective voting in times of pandemic: comparative evidence from panel data" in Political Science.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@forsresearch.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social @cevipof.bsky.social

Retrospective voting in times of pandemic: comparative evidence from panel data

Existing studies on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on elections provide incongruent results. For governments’ handling of the pandemic to be a competence signal, voters should believe that inc...

www.tandfonline.com

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Bjarn Eck @bjarneck.bsky.social · May 16

New paper out in @bjpols.bsky.social, co-authored with Emilien Paulis.

Using survey data from 13 European democracies, we show that electoral winners are less supportive of referendums, especially when they are affectively polarized. 1/6

Paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000365

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · May 12

Fichier cumulatif de près de 50 ans d'une enquête électorale nationale de grande qualité !
@asso-afsp.bsky.social @spsr.bsky.social

FORS Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences @forsresearch.bsky.social · May 10

The cumulative Selects dataset (1971–2023) is now available! Explore over 50 years of Swiss election surveys in one place.
Download: doi.org/10.48573/2w7...

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · May 12

Very useful cumulative file of a benchmark national election study !
@nesconsortium.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social

FORS Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences @forsresearch.bsky.social · May 10

The cumulative Selects dataset (1971–2023) is now available! Explore over 50 years of Swiss election surveys in one place.
Download: doi.org/10.48573/2w7...

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Line Rennwald @linerenn.bsky.social · May 2

Great afternoon at the GREC workshop in Lausanne @forsresearch.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social with @lacic.bsky.social @matthiasenggist.bsky.social @eliemichel.bsky.social @lukaslauener.bsky.social @anketresch.bsky.social and many others

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · Apr 23

Steven Levitsky on why the U.S. is now a competitive authoritarian regime and can't be considered a democracy.

www.npr.org/2025/04/22/n...

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Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science @skytteprize.bsky.social · Apr 23

Herbert P. Kitschelt is the winner of the 2025 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. 🏆

He is awarded the prize for " having increased knowledge of the functioning of democratic party systems with exquisite theoretical acuity and impressive empirical breadth and depth."

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · Apr 14

Big news from ‪@medem.bsky.social‬ ! Congratulations !

MEDem @medem.bsky.social · Apr 10

🎉 Big step for #MEDem! We’ve officially applied for the #ESFRIroadmap2026— backed by 15 governments, 1,000+ researchers & 100+ institutions/associations.
One more milestone toward building Europe’s infrastructure for comparative #DemocracyResearch ✅
Read more on our #MEDemBlog 👉

MEDem has applied for ESFRI Roadmap 2026: Shaping the Future of European Democracy Research - Monitoring Electoral Democracy

MEDem has applied for inclusion on the ESFRI Roadmap 2026: Shaping the Future of European Democracy Research On April 8, 2025, MEDem (Monitoring Electoral Democracy) took a major next step toward shap...

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · Apr 8

Congratulations ! MEDem is an exciting project supported by more than 1000 researchers !

MEDem @medem.bsky.social · Mar 26

As we prepare to submit our #ESFRI application, #MEDem has reached an incredible milestone—over 1,000 personal endorsements! 🤩🎉
A heartfelt thank you to all democracy scholars from Europe and beyond for supporting us on our journey towards shaping the future of #data-driven #DemocracyResearch! 📊✨

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Politics of the Low Countries @plc-journal.bsky.social · Apr 7

"Towards a Polarised Electorate?"
By @bjarneck.bsky.social
@ulbruxelles.bsky.social
@eliemichel.bsky.social available in #OpenAccess at plc-journal.eu/article/view...

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Consortium of National Election Studies @nesconsortium.bsky.social · Apr 7

We are looking forward to this online seminar on #survey #sampling on May 13! 🤩 Sign up to attend: newsletter.forscenter.ch/newsletter/i... 👇

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Elie Michel @eliemichel.bsky.social · Apr 3

Exciting workshop on the 2023 Swiss Federal Elections - gathering researchers from so many universities. Look forward to our research output @spsr.bsky.social.

Thanks to the support of @forsresearch.bsky.social @ipz.bsky.social @sspunil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social

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