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Ana Catalano Weeks @anacweeks.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social !

📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests”

With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson

🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests - Bonnie M. Meguid, Hilde Coffé, Ana Catalano Weeks, Miki Caul Kittilson, 2025

Despite their Männerparteien reputation, populist radical right (PRR) parties have recently expanded their agendas to include women’s interests. When do they em...

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EUI Department of Political and Social Sciences @eui-sps.bsky.social · 14d

✨ SPS Welcome 2025 ✨

Yesterday evening, we welcomed our new cohort of #SPS researchers.

Head of Department @arnoutvanderijt.bsky.social, together with our academic faculty, greeted the first-year researchers and celebrated the start of a new academic journey.

Cheers to a fruitful year ahead! 🥂📚

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Aug 11

Over the last decades, tertiary education has expanded rapidly - especially for women. They have overtaken men in all EU countries and the gaps keep growing in many of them.

In four countries, the gender gap is larger than 20 percentage points.

Are we ready for any egalitarian policies?

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Aug 6

This headline is incredibly satisfying:
"The Ministry of Education wants to improve boys' education. It will appoint a representative."

After four years of my academic and public activity, the Ministry of Education now acknowledges a problem they denied as recently as 16 months ago.

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António Valentim @antvalentim.bsky.social · Jul 25

1/ New paper out in Electoral Studies with @heikekluever.bsky.social and @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social
We show that nuclear power plants reduce electoral support for Green parties in Germany.
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A thread on the paper:

How nuclear power hurts the Greens: Evidence from German nuclear power plants

What are the electoral consequences of nuclear energy for Green parties? Despite the centrality of nuclear opposition to Green party platforms, and th…

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jul 25

90% of unaccompanied minors applying for asylum in the EU are boys.

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jul 8

Link: ( @ranveigfalch.bsky.social )
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Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind

Abstract. In recent decades, there has been an increase in the share of males struggling in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jul 8

Link:
doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

Experimental Evidence on the Acceptance of Males Falling Behind

Abstract. In recent decades, there has been an increase in the share of males struggling in the labor market and education. We show in a set of large-scale

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jul 8

People are more likely to accept gender inequality if it is men who are worse off.

A new paper with experiments on 35k Americans shows that when men are worse off people are:
- more likely to attribute the inequality to a difference in effort
- less likely to support pro-equality policies.

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Jul 7

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · Jul 7

❗Among their electoral potential, social democratic parties face very few strategic dilemmas. Left-progressive appeals resonate most strongly.

New study in @worldpolitics.bsky.social
with @tabouchadi.bsky.social , @indubioproreto.bsky.social, Nadja Mosimann, and @markuswagner.bsky.social

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Jul 7

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social · Jul 7

Are more women elected in proportional elections than in majoritarian ones? @gulczynski.bsky.social, @monikaturyna.bsky.social & @jkantorowicz.bsky.social examine local Polish elections and find little evidence of that. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/UH5PdOR

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 27

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions.

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1. Who formed EPSS?

EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members.

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · Jun 26

And here it is: introducing the European Political Science Society EPSS!

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Follow @epssnet.bsky.social on bsky, visit its website www.epssnet.org, and become a member!

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jun 26

As always, only a few scholars from Central and Eastern Europe come to the European Political Science Association conference.

@epsanet.bsky.social
#EPSA2025

Cornelius Erfort @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social · Jun 26

And a closer look at Europe

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Cornelius Erfort @cornelius-erfort.bsky.social · Apr 3

How do parties tailor their campaign ads to women? 🗳️👩

Excited to share that my paper on how parties adapt their ads is out now at @thejop.bsky.social!

📖 Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

A quick breakdown of the findings ⬇️🧵

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jun 25

I recently spoke at the Women in Tech summit in Warsaw, reportedly attended by 14k people.

We discussed men's issues in front of over 100 women. I am grateful to the organizers for the opportunity.

You can now watch watch the debate:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_C-...
(Foto: Marcin Runowski)

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jun 11

What a suitable place for a lecture on the Church and state formation by @annagbusse.bsky.social!

Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jun 8

It's nice to be cited in a World Bank report.

Stowarzyszenie na rzecz Chłopców i Mężczyzn @schmorgpl.bsky.social · Jun 8

Na stronie Banku Światowego pojawił się raport o nierównościach płci w Polsce z odwołaniami do artykułów @gulczynski.bsky.social o nierównościach płci w edukacji.

Wśród rekomendacji pojawiają się działania na rzecz chłopców i mężczyzn.

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Stowarzyszenie na rzecz Chłopców i Mężczyzn @schmorgpl.bsky.social · Jun 8

Much of the gender gap in life expectancy isn’t natural.

Men shouldn’t have to die 6, 8, or 10 years earlier than women. In many countries, the gender gap is only 3-4 years.

We could have more grandpas and fewer widows if we start taking men’s health seriously.

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jun 2

The government talks a lot about gender equality. But it has not addressed any men's disadvantage and created new ones. It has not mobilized enough women and is not credible to men.

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jun 2

Trzaskowski's electorate is heavily feminised, with 40% more women than men (~58% of his voters are women).
Nawrocki won among men. But a similar number of women and men supported him.
Why? Because far more women voted than men - due to differences in longevity and turnout.

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jun 2

Interestingly, the support for both candidates was close to 50-50 in all age groups. But the gender polarization is notable. Nonetheless, the deputy editor-in-chief of the main liberal newspaper Wyborcza says: "what I missed in Trzaskowski's campaign was a message to women".

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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · Jun 2

Trzaskowski lost by 370k votes. About 680k were up for grabs. These were men who didn’t want to vote for Nawrocki, but also didn’t vote for Trzaskowski.

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