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Maarja Lühiste

@maarja.bsky.social

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Reader in Comparative Politics & Gender, Newcastle Uni Politics Co-Head, skiing, (conference) running, hiking, mushroom foraging, cooking & eating

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · 12d

Celebrating 10 years in @nclpolitics.bsky.social (Newcastle) with a new staff card. Still can't believe I didn't lose it in all those years 😅

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Feministeerium @feministeerium.bsky.social · Aug 27

Politoloog @maarja.bsky.social kirjutab, et Eesti naiste vähene esindatus poliitikas ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade pakutud menüüvalikutest. Sest nagu restoranis ei saa tellida rooga, mida menüüs pole, nii ei saa ka valida kandidaati, keda nimekirjas ei ole.

Naisi pelgavad erakonnad, mitte Eesti valijad - Feministeerium

Politoloog Maarja Lühiste kirjutab, et Eesti naiste vähene esindatus poliitikas ei tulene valijate eelistustest, vaid erakondade pakutud menüüvalikutest

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · Aug 11

📣Out on #FirstView 📣

In "When Does Fame Not Matter?" @maarja.bsky.social, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, Pablo Barberá, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social & @jatucker.bsky.social conduct a cross-national study on online incivility.

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Research article "When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences" by Maarja Lühiste, Stiene Praet, Sebastian Adrian Popa, Yannis Theocharis, Pablo Barberá, Zoltán Fazekas and Joshua A. Tucker,
Abstract begins: Past research alerts to the increasingly unpleasant climate surrounding public debate on social media. Female politicians, in particular, are reporting serious attacks targeted at them. Yet, research offers inconclusive insights regarding the gender gap in online incivility. This paper aims to address this gap by comparing politicians with varying levels of prominence and public status in different institutional contexts. Using a machine learning approach for analyzing over 23 million tweets addressed to politicians in Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we find little consistent evidence of a gender gap in the proportion of incivility.

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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Newcastle Uni @hassfacultyncl.bsky.social · Jul 31

Research led by @nclpolitics.bsky.social's @maarja.bsky.social reveals female politicians receive more identity-based attacks on social media than others in the profession.

Read the full article article here >> bit.ly/3GOr97K

Women politicians receive more identity-based attacks on social media

Women politicians in Europe receive uncivil tweets regardless of how known they are, new research led by Newcastle University has found.

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Mariia Tepliakova @mtplk.bsky.social · Jul 31

We (@matildecer.bsky.social @nzwiener-collins.bsky.social and I) pulled off our small but mighty workshop, bridging boundaries between gender x politics subfield and quantitative methods 👧🏻📊

So grateful to @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and Fritz Thyssen Stiftung for making it possible 🤓

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Julian Garritzmann @garritzmannj.bsky.social · Jul 25

I'm hiring another postdoc (research-focused, for almost 5 years) for my @erc.europa.eu project on the educational cleavage!
I'm looking for someone with strong quantitative text-analysis skills (e.g. #NLP, #LLM, etc.) to study the role of political actors in cleavage formation.

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Jul 30

This paper tested my resilience in ways I can't quite remember (or I have given up). Massive thanks to the amazing co-authors Stiene Praet, Sebastian Popa, @yannistheocharis.bsky.social, @zoltanfazekas.bsky.social, Pablo Barbera, @jatucker.bsky.social and to the many dedicated reviewers!!

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Jul 30

Political culture and electoral rules may matter, too: German & Spanish politicians in our sample receive less incivility than their UK and US counterparts. And the incivility in less personalised systems - especially in Germany - is relatively 'polite' compared to the other countries in our sample.

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Jul 30

We also find that women receive more identity-based attacks than male politicians.

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Jul 30

Super excited (and relieved!) to see this paper finally published.
Both men and women politicians experience incivility and, overall, the more famous they are, the more abuse they receive. BUT women in Europe receive uncivil tweets even when they're not well known
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core

When Does Fame Not Matter? Examining Gender Differences in Politicians’ Social Media Experiences

www.cambridge.org

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Jun 17

“Democratic Resilience in Challenging Times” workshop -
connecting Northern UK scholars of Elections, Parties and
Public Opinion (EPOP) and hosted by the Governance and Political Organisations research cluster in Newcastle University - is in full swing @nclpolitics.bsky.social

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Mar 6

@nclpolitics.bsky.social Research Seminar series had the great pleasure to host the amazing @anjaneundorf.bsky.social yesterday with an extremely timely talk about how we can "sell" democracy better

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Mar 1

My favourite part of the job also happened this week. Huge congratulations to @jihedncib.bsky.social for an outstanding viva and excellent thesis!!! Very much looking forward to the publication that will follow ☺️

Jihed Ncib @jihedncib.bsky.social · Mar 1

Happy to share that I successfully defended my Ph.D. dissertation! Very grateful to @stefanmueller.bsky.social for being a great mentor and friend. Huge thanks to my examination committee @jamespcross.bsky.social, @maarja.bsky.social, and Caitriona Dowd.

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Feb 24

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Feb 24

When we distinguish between parties with different ideological positions, the data do not support our expectation that centrist parties should be more responsive. Traditionalist parties seem to nominate fewer women when attitudes become more progressive. Yet, the placebo tests point to problems.

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Feb 24

For countries with some form of candidate voting (flexible lists, fully open lists, or Single Transferable Vote), the effects are positive (11 percentage points) but estimated with a large degree of uncertainty. So, hard to say that change in public attitudes towards gender equality changes much.

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Feb 24

🎉🎉🎉 Super excited that our paper -- on how changing public attitudes on gender equality don't seem to affect parties' candidate selection strategies -- with the amazing @ThomasDäubler and @mihailchiru.bsky.social is now accessible OnlineFirst at the EUP: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Feb 19

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Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Feb 19

A quick interview at Estonian Public Broadcasting Service's breakfast program early morning yesterday on the (potential) reaction of UK parties and public on Starmer's statement of potentially sending British troops to Ukraine jupiter.err.ee/1609609172/b...

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Feb 17

This is probably my most preferred way to get back to work from a holiday. Thank you so much @clint0475.bsky.social & @unibas.ch for hosting us and for all the insightful comments and questions. @nclpolitics.bsky.social

Clint Claessen @clint0475.bsky.social · Feb 17

Today, we had the distinct pleasure of kicking off our political science colloquium with the fabulous @maarja.bsky.social and amazing @zacdgreene.bsky.social presenting: Bringing Diversity to Parliament? How gender and candidate quotas impact the content of parliamentary speech @unibas.ch

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Nov 21

If you're looking for more morale-boosting and inspiring posts, make sure to follow us @nclpolitics.bsky.social

Newcastle University Politics @nclpolitics.bsky.social · Nov 21

Here's our new departmental morale officer, helping everyone through the remainder of Semester 1 🌈🦄

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Nov 21

Can you please add @nclpolitics.bsky.social?

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi! Can I please be added?

Maarja Lühiste @maarja.bsky.social · Nov 20

What a start to the week! Huge congratulations to Rob for a great thesis and an excellent viva! @nclpolitics.bsky.social

Paul Taggart @paultaggart.bsky.social · Nov 19

One of the very best parts of my job is being part of the PhD journey of others and yesterday I was part of @robcronin.bsky.social’s viva on populism in the 2019 UK general election with @maarja.bsky.social at the University of Newcastle. Many congratulations to Rob.