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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · 16d

Our study thus speaks against the "electoral explanation" of unequal opinion-policy congruence. @annakurella.bsky.social @nathaliegiger.bsky.social and @janrosset.bsky.social found evidence pointing in a similar direction in an interesting study last year: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Is unequal representation the consequence of different voting behavior across income groups?

Extant literature documents the unequal representation of the interests of low- and high-income groups in democracies. One potential explanation for t…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · 16d

Happy to see our study out! Our main takeaway is that while poor voters vote less often, are less ideologically aligned with their preferred party, and see their preferred party less often in government - voting still does not seem to explain unequal representation.

European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 16d

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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

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Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation

JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social

Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are?

@simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions

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Silja Häusermann @siljahausermann.bsky.social · 19d

The call for papers for the first ever EPSS conference 2026 in Belfast is open until November 7th 2025.

epssnet.org/belfast-2026/

@rdassonneville.bsky.social and I will be chairing the section on Electoral and Voting Behavior. We look forward to your submissions and to a fantastic conference!

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · 24d

Just out at JOP (www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....) : Why do so few working-class people hold office? It's not lack of interest. Noam Lupu and I ran 10 surveys in 8 countries and found no evidence of a social class gap in how often qualified people consider running.

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Mikael Persson @professormpersson.bsky.social · Sep 3

New paper with Anders Sundell published in West European Politics: Ideological bias in policy implementation: public opinion and policy outcomes in 43 democracies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ideological bias in policy implementation: public opinion and policy outcomes in 43 democracies

Previous research has documented a conservative bias in politicians’ perceptions of public opinion. Do similar biases also exist in policy implementation, relative to public opinion? In this articl...

www.tandfonline.com

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 28d

#APSA2025

The deadline has been extended until October 1, 2025.

Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · Aug 7

Just to reiterate, if you weren't able to make our August 1st deadline, please email us at [email protected] so we can work with you on an extended deadline.

General information about the Call for Papers is available here: apsanet.org/publications...

Cheers,
Perspectives on Politics

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Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social · Sep 9

🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp!

💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis
🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies)
🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪
📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025

www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Postdoctoral scholarship holder in computational political science | University of Antwerp

YUFE vacancies

www.uantwerpen.be

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Jennifer Oser @jenny-oser.bsky.social · 29d

⬇️#APSA2025 colleagues interested in political participation & representation! ‪@elenaleuschner.bsky.social ✨will present Fri 2pm tinyurl.com/ylpnhh9w our paper, structured as a Registered Report, with a survey to Swedish politicians planned for spring 2026 - happy to share the paper for comments!

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Elena Leuschner @elenaleuschner.bsky.social · Sep 8

Somehow, it's already time for #APSA2025! Presenting the newest version of my paper w @jenny-oser.bsky.social + @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social on political participation and politicians' perceptions of public opinion.

Happy to meet during the conference, so please reach out!
@apsa.bsky.social

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Lala Muradova @lalamur.bsky.social · Sep 10

The link is to a different article! :-) Ours is: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Opening Up? Adoption of Open Science Practices in Democratic Innovation Research | PS: Political Science & Politics | Cambridge Core

Opening Up? Adoption of Open Science Practices in Democratic Innovation Research

www.cambridge.org

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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨
Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed?
👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

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Anja Neundorf @anjaneundorf.bsky.social · Sep 1

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨
Why do some people keep voting throughout their lives while others drop out? And how do authoritarian elections - even uncompetitive ones- shape citizens’ habits?
Ksenia Northmore-Ball and I tackle these questions in my new paper, now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

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JEPP Journal @jeppjournal.bsky.social · Jul 22

📫 Latest special issue: Europe's Changing Protest Landscape, edited by ‪@sophiahunger.bsky.social and Swen Hutter.

In their introductory article, they sketch Europe's ‘new contentious politics’ landscape and preview the issue's articles 👇

🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Lennart Schürmann @lennartschuermann.bsky.social · Jul 17

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter
Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany
📔 Social Movement Studies
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474...
In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis.
Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

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Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Endre Borbáth @eborbath.bsky.social · Aug 28

🔔 Very happy to see our paper published open access on cleavage theory and civil society! 📖

We have tried to sketch a new research agenda, that I think has a lot of potential.

I very much enjoyed working on this!

Check Alex's thread below 👇 & read the paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social · Aug 29

Highly recommend giving it a read! What a fun and insightful writing journey. Also, I’m new here on Bluesky, excited to connect!

Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki @mierkezat.bsky.social · Aug 28

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Pavithra Suryanarayan @pavisuri.bsky.social · Aug 11

Please share! We look forward to your submissions to EPSS in Belfast next year. We hope the below will be useful as you plan your panels/paper. Do reach out if you have any queries!

Macartan Humphreys @macartan.bsky.social · Aug 11

Please share:

@pavisuri.bsky.social and I are delighted to share details for the political economy of development section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026

We welcome great work and fresh ideas! Please spread the word among interested colleagues not on here

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for Papers

Call for Papers: Political Economy of Development (PED) Section – EPSS 2026, Belfast We invite submissions of high-quality work on any topic in the political economy of development or comparative pol...

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Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Aug 7

Please share this thread. It is important that political scientists, in Europe and across the world, understand why EPSS exists and why we are encouraging people to attend our inaugural conference, in Belfast next June.

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 7

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

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Nathalie Giger @nathaliegiger.bsky.social · Aug 11

I am very happy to serve as section co-chair for #EPSS Belfast next June, please consider submitting your most excellent work!

Simon Hix @simonhix.bsky.social · Aug 1

And we have an incredible list of section co-chairs for Belfast 2026, from 18 countries and every part of Europe. We are really grateful to these dedicated colleagues for taking on this role and helping us shape the future of political science in our continent.
epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Aug 11

📢 New Publication 📢

📄 Review article in Nature Climate Change

It examines how resistance to climate policy is reshaping politics & why populist right parties are the main beneficiaries?

(with Valentina Bosseti, Italo Colantone & Giorgio Musto)

Short 🧵

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Green backlash and right-wing populism - Nature Climate Change

This Review considers research on the politics of climate policies. Climate policies, through their economic and cultural repercussions, impact public climate attitudes and voting behaviour, which in ...

www.nature.com

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · Aug 4

🎓📢 We’re hiring!

Come join us @uni-muenster.de 🇩🇪 as a W3 Professor in Political Science (🌍 IR & ♻️ Sustainability)

💼 Permanent position
📍 Münster, Germany
🕒 Deadline: Sept 26, 2025

jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w3-prof...

W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" - Universität Münster

Universität Münster bietet Stelle als W3 Professorship in "Political Science with a Focus on International Sustainability" in Münster - jetzt bewerben!

jobs.zeit.de

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Aug 4

So great to see Voters Under Pressure featured in this @comppol.bsky.social review article by @klingelt.bsky.social!

Reviewing the book alongside work of Bartels and Tillman, Tristan's reading is the mandate function of elections is being challenged👇

www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cuny...

Recasting the Meaning of Election...Mandate Interpretation in Europe: Ingenta Connect Fast Track Article

www.ingentaconnect.com

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Nick Carnes @carnes.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚨New forthcoming paper at JOP: @noamlupu.bsky.social and I use data from 10 surveys in N&S America to see whether lower-income, lower-wealth, and working-class people are less interested in running for office. Interest in running (nascent ambition) can lead to representation gaps. However, ...(1/2)

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