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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · 14d

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…

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · 14d

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 · 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

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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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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!
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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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Elena Leuschner @elenaleuschner.bsky.social · Jun 24

I'm presenting work w the amazing @jenny-oser.bsky.social and @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social at #EPSA2025 on Thursday.

We combine 40 years of parallel surveys among citizens/MPs + a survey experiment w Swedish politicians on participation and public opinion

Come and say hi - always happy to meet!

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · May 19

Very interesting paper about the left-right dimension!

Simon Otjes @simonotjes.bsky.social · May 15

So proud of this article "Between class conflict and culture war How left-right self-positioning reflects elite conflict and social-economic context" Slaven Zivkovic, @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social & I study when left & right have an economic or cultural meaning 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · May 2

Skrev en debattartikel i SvD om vänster-höger-skalan: www.svd.se/a/lwjdXM/syn...

”Syn på ojämlikhet är kärnfrågan”

DEBATT. Vänster eller höger är fortsatt den viktigaste politiska dimensionen i svensk politik. Men den har kommit att få en delvis ny innebörd, framför allt för yngre personer, skriver statsvetare Jes...

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Apr 11

Great to see this finally out! It's an interesting paper because we examine whether unequal representation is caused by how low- and high-income people vote (for example ideological voting). Our findings goes against this idea, meaning that unequal representation must be caused by something else!

Mikael Persson @professormpersson.bsky.social · Apr 10

Just published in EJPR "Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation" with @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social , Anders Sundell and Wouter Schakel. (1) ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation

Research on representation consistently shows that high-income voters see more of their preferred policies implemented than less affluent citizens. However, the mechanisms behind this unequal policy ...

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Elena Leuschner @elenaleuschner.bsky.social · Dec 18

New working paper!

How do protesters' demographics and policy preferences affect politicians' responsiveness to their demands? I find no effects of shared demographics btw. protesters and politicians, but asymmetric responsiveness to left-right policy preferences: gupea.ub.gu.se/handle/2077/...

Asymmetric Responsiveness: The Effects of Protesters’ Demographics and Policy Preferences on the Political Agenda

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 29

No worries, thank you for sharing yours! :)

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 29

I agree!

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 25

I should say that this seems likely to be the case. Unfortunately, it is not really possible to control for everything, and I don’t think that an experimental setting can solve this problem.

Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 25

I think that you are correct to point out that the relationship between variables at the individual level is never one-to-one. In that sense, it is possible that if we could control for every other possible factor, then left-wing individuals would always be at least slightly more egalitarian.

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 25

The example you bring up is exactly what I am talking about. It’s important to consider because when individuals vote for the Left, they often take on the left-wing label, no matter the reason for why they voted for the Left.

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

… whether egalitarian arguments in favour of vegetarianism has a larger effect on left-wing individuals than right-wing individuals. Feel free to email me about any of this if you would like to discuss it more in detail! Very interesting indeed.

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

If you want to study this (which I think that you should because it sounds fascinating!) then how about using an experiment for very politically interested individuals to see …

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

So inducing salience for individuals at the individual level does not really create a new left-right scale for them and therefore does not solve the issue in my opinion (if I understand you correctly).

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

People learn about the left-right dimension and take side depending on the salience at the national level, i.e., what divides the Left and the Right in parliament (or between parties, or between elite members).

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

Regarding experimentally inducing salience, I don’t know if you can in the way that you are describing it, but that does not matter (I think) because I’m thinking of salience in a different way. The most important part of salience is at the national level, where the left-right scale is “created”.

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

This is most likely in cases where there is less ideological conflict (such as in new democracies).

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

and we know that they are not consistently egalitarian (see Malka el al. 2019, BJPS). That means that at the voter level (general population), you could see instances where left-wing individuals are not more egalitarian than right-wing ones.

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

… (we need more research in more cases but it seems to be true). At this level they are also more likely to be consistently egalitarian. However, at the voter level I’m not sure that this is necessarily true because a lot of voters choose their L-R position for some other reason than egalitarianism,

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

When it comes to being left- or right-wing, it seems likely that for very politically interested individuals and political activists, your idea holds and there is no need for salience really. Left-wing individuals at this level are probably more egalitarian in all contexts …

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 24

I must say that all of this is incredibly interesting! You are getting into the causal mechanisms, where I have some educated guesses (of which only some are core parts of the theory) as to how this works. I agree that egalitarianism often motivates vegetarianism.

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Jesper Lindqvist @jesperlindqvist.bsky.social · Mar 23

In such a case, being right-wing would still not “cause” a person to be more vegetarian (and vice versa), but people on the right would be more likely to be vegetarian (a simple spurious correlation).

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