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Emma Turkenburg @turkenburgemma.bsky.social · Aug 29

New blogpost (in Dutch) @stukroodvlees.bsky.social about this study with @lisajanssen.bsky.social!
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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · Aug 21

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Is #AffectivePolarization harming democratic support? 💭

@lisajanssen.bsky.social & @turkenburgemma.bsky.social instead suggest an inverted U-shape pattern of #ModeratrePolarization & #ExtremePolarization using data from 🇩🇪🇬🇧 & 🇺🇸

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Breaking free from linear assumptions: Unravelling the relationship between affective polarization and democratic support

LISA JANSSEN, EMMA TURKENBURG

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Jul 1

Only a few days left to register to the Amsterdam Replication Games on July 19. Virtual participation is possible and coauthorship to a meta paper is granted.

Register: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/Replicatio...

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · Jun 25

Gefeliciteerd Silke!! Ik hoop dat alles goed met jullie gaat :) er bestaat geen betere reden om EPSA voor te missen 😉

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Bram Wauters @bramwauters.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨 We have two vacancies for PhD fellows:

- on ideological stereotypes supervised by me and
@robindevroe.bsky.social www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

- on losers' consent supervised by @annakern.bsky.social
www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...

Join research group @gasparugent.bsky.social in beautiful Ghent

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Amélie Godefroidt @ameliegodefroidt.bsky.social · Jun 3

🚀 Kicked off Day 1 of our #OpenScience Summer School at @gasparugent.bsky.social !

We explored what triggered the replication crisis & how it reshaped research across the social sciences. 🧪🔍

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#PhDlife #OpenScience
#Reproducibility

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · May 24

@jmvanlit.bsky.social @takesipma.bsky.social @boralexander.bsky.social

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · May 24

@annakern.bsky.social @suthank.bsky.social @powercleanpolitics.bsky.social @jochemvanagt.bsky.social @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social @markuskollberg.bsky.social @danbischof.bsky.social @ayakter.bsky.social @sergiferrer.bsky.social @skaaning.bsky.social @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social

Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · May 24

What a pleasure to direct this amazing @ecpr.bsky.social Joint sessions workshop on citizens democratic commitment with Hannah Werner - thanks to all participants for the exciting papers and stimulating discussions!

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Luana Russo @luanarusso.bsky.social · May 23

What an amazing @ecpr.bsky.social joint sessions edition! Many thanks to the directors @lisajanssen.bsky.social and Hanna Werner, for a wonderfully organised workshop, and to all participants for great papers followed by even greater discussions! 🍒 on top of the 🍰: all of this in beautiful Prague 🇨🇿

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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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Alexander Wuttke @kunkakom.bsky.social · May 8

🚨 We're hiring! Join us at @LMU_Muenchen for the DFG-funded project "Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy."

Interested in making scholarly & societal impact?

We’re looking for:
🔹 1 Postdoc (100%)
🔹 1 PhD researcher (70%)
Starting: Oct 2025 | Apply by: July 8
More info ⬇️ (1/7)

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Tom van der Meer @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social · May 8

New publication with @lisajanssen.bsky.social in PolBeh:
Political distrust pushes people away from the status quo, representative democracy. But distrusters are mostly critical citizens: Rather than technocracy or authoritarianism they pull towards direct democracy
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pushing and Pulling: The Static and Dynamic Effects of Political Distrust on Support for Representative Democracy and its Rivals - Political Behavior

Distrust is widely argued to stimulate support for political and institutional change. Yet, there is little agreement among scholars whether distrust pulls people towards rivaling decision-making mode...

link.springer.com

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · May 7

Congrats on this amazing paper! Happy to see it out at EJPR :)

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Jakob Kasper @jakobkas.bsky.social · May 7

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First paper of my dissertation now out in EJPR with @bnbakker.bsky.social & @gijsschumacher.bsky.social

Can we measure affective polarization in systems with 6, 10, or even more parties without overburdening respondents or compromising validity? We show how.

Paper: doi.org/10.1111/1475...

Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization

Measuring affective polarization, defined as the liking for one's political ingroup and the dislike for political outgroups, poses methodological challenges in multiparty systems: evaluations of seve...

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Jochem Vanagt @jochemvanagt.bsky.social · Apr 3

🚨 New open-access publication out in the European Journal of Political Research!

@markuskollberg.bsky.social and I examine how coalition government performance shapes affective polarization between coalition partners—and find that it matters.

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ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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GASPAR UGent @gasparugent.bsky.social · Feb 18

❗️Short notice❗️

This Friday, Joep van Lit (Radboud University) will present key insights on democratic decay and the difficulties of democratic defence in our times.

Everyone's welcome - no registration required!

➡️John Vincke room, T1 (Ghent)
🕒 11:00 - 12:00

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Feb 7

‼️ New paper out in EJPR!

With @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social, we use a new survey item that we fielded in surveys in five countries to examine who accepts party policy change. Check out the 🧵 by Maurits below for an overview of our findings!

Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social · Feb 7

Parties often change their policy positions, but what do citizens actually think about party policy change? In our new EJPRjournal article, @rdassonneville.bsky.social and I study party policy change acceptance among citizens in 5 countries (🇩🇪🇳🇱🇵🇱🇪🇸🇬🇧)
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Who accepts party policy change? The individual‐level drivers of attitudes towards party repositioning

Experimental research has shown that political parties often, but not always, suffer reputational costs when they change their policy positions. Yet, it is not clear who accepts and who rejects party....

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Bram Wauters @bramwauters.bsky.social · Dec 13

Excited and grateful that FWO (Flemish Research Fund) has awarded us (me, @robindevroe.bsky.social and C. Devos) a 4year-research project grant to study ideological stereotypes on the basis of gender, age and ethnic origin of politicians 🥳

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · Nov 24

Amazing people, great discussions, and even better scenery! Really grateful to have joined this wonderful workshop at Villa Vigoni 🏞️

Claudia Landwehr @clandwehr.bsky.social · Nov 23

On my way back from our workshop "Contesting the rules of the game? Political conflict, polarization and procedural consensus" at the beautiful Villa Vigoni with wonderful colleagues! @arminschaefer.bsky.social @pcmagalhaes.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social @kwalz.bsky.social @damienbol.bsky.social

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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here is the second starter pack on researchers working on Political Behavior.

The first pack filled up quickly.

If you requested to be included and don’t see your name here, please reach out again—I might have missed your message

go.bsky.app/CAMXbym

Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · Nov 20

I haven't come across one yet, so I ended up creating a political behavior starter pack.

Let me know if you want to be added

go.bsky.app/MUYzY5P

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · Nov 21

I would love to be added!

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Sarah de Lange @sldelange.bsky.social · Nov 21

Gisteren besteedde Eva Jinek een hele uitzending aan polarisatie in politiek en samenleving. Dankbaar dat ik een wetenschappelijke bijdrage mocht leveren. Oa over affectieve polarisatie en de rol van politieke elites. Aflevering hier terug te kijken eva.avrotros.nl/artikel/de-u...

De uitzending van 20 november

Met Natascha van Weezel, Özcan Akyol, Sarah de Lange, Laila Frank, Huib Modderkolk, Kustaw Bessems & Henri Bontenbal

eva.avrotros.nl

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · Nov 20

Sorry for the people who previously saw this thread on Twitter and are now bothered with it once more 🙆

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Lisa Janssen @lisajanssen.bsky.social · Nov 20

And most importantly, we hope everyone likes the High School Musical reference in our title:

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