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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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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 15d

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sooo happy for you! Huge congratulations 🥳🥳🥳

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Florence So @floriso.bsky.social · Sep 4

New ERC StG. Eternal thanks to my husband @samkschi.bsky.social, my academic friends and colleagues @comppollu.bsky.social and Gothenburg, & @lunduniversity.bsky.social research services - John Philips, Kerstin Gidlöf, and Carl Lagerqvist!

This would be impossible without supportive colleagues 👇

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Emily Elia @emilyelia.bsky.social · Jun 3

I show the feminization strategy doesn’t always work to reduce voter punishment for corruption in LatAm. But in Guatemala where women’s rep is low & “fairer sex” stereotypes more prevalent amongst survey respondents, voters punish a party less post-scandal when new candidate is a woman. Read more👇🏻📑:

Political Behavior @polbehavior.bsky.social · Jun 3

In “Can the Fairer Sex Save the Day? Voting for Women After Corruption Scandals in Latin America”, @emilyelia.bsky.social shows that voters’ perceptions about female candidates being less corrupt is context-dependent. Read here:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Can the Fairer Sex Save the Day? Voting for Women After Corruption Scandals in Latin America - Political Behavior

Voters often perceive female politicians to be less corrupt than male politicians, and recent work posits that political parties use this perception to their advantage by running more female candidate...

link.springer.com

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · Sep 4

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”.
#ERCStG

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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · Sep 4

Very happy for you! This is so great and well-deserved! Congratulations 🥳🥳🥳

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Constantin Wurthmann @wurthmann.bsky.social · Aug 13

📢 New Publication Alert!
Our (@msaeltzer.bsky.social)
latest article, "Issue congruence between candidates' Twitter communication and constituencies in an MMES: Migration as an exemplary case", has just been published in Parliamentary Affairs.
academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

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Verena Reidinger @reidingerve.bsky.social · Aug 14

Do men see gender parity in representation as detrimental to their interests? What about when women’s representation exceeds parity? And how do such shifts affect men’s fairness perceptions? I address these questions in my article, now published in PRQ. 1/9

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Elin Bjarnegård @elinbja.bsky.social · Aug 7

Idag skriver vi om sexuell korruption i Sverige på DN Debatt.

@dagensnyheter.bsky.social @uu-polisci.bsky.social @uppgap.bsky.social @qoginstitute.bsky.social

www.dn.se/debatt/sexue...

DN Debatt. ”Sexuell korruption är inte som andra mutbrott”

DN Debatt. Nya förslag kan få motsatt effekt och skapa fler risker för de utsatta, skriver fyra forskare.

www.dn.se

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Felix Lehmann @felixlehmann.bsky.social · Aug 1

Why do parties do what they do? Excited to share my 2nd dissertation paper, just published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social
In the paper, I argue that parties seek internal unity and try to keep the team together: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Elias Koch @eliaskoch.bsky.social · Aug 1

New paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social!

🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result.

Read full 🧵 below:

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ECPR Parliaments Standing Group @sgparliaments.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you to everybody that attended our #sgop25 conference last week - here are some of the highlights:

Conference presentation with rows in the foreground with people listening to a presenter towards the back of the picture

A group of political scientists are standing under the cover of trees at a wine reception on a concrete concourse

A presenter is pointing at slides while giving an overview of her research, with lots of people in the audience sitting in rows to listen and make notes

An auditorium with lots of people in the audience listening to a panel at the front of the room talking

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Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social · Jul 9

📣 Call for Applications 📣

3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀

Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social

Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us!

🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025

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Gefjon Off @gefjonoff.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our Element is out! 🎉

Why do authoritarian-leaning leaders target women’s and LGBTQ+ rights? Is there a systematic pattern that reaches beyond individual country cases, and how is this reflected in people’s attitudes and societal norms?

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Attitudes toward Political Authoritarianism in Economically Advanced Democracies

www.cambridge.org

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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · Jul 3

Pic credits: @lukashetzer.bsky.social - who only slightly thought I was embarrassing...

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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · Jul 3

It always feels like a great class reunion to attend the lovely ECPR Parliaments Conference @sgparliaments.bsky.social

This year in - super hot - Barcelona, I presented joint work with THE one and only @martigso.bsky.social on cross-partisan co-sponsorship in parliamentary systems

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Or Tuttnauer @ortuttnauer.com · Jul 2

Two trains and a bus cancelled, but no one can stop me from boarding a flight for @sgparliaments.bsky.social #sgop2025 💪
Barcelona here I come!

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

Now out with volume number!
“Selecting and Ranking Female Candidates under PR” (with Michael Jankowski @cerpintaxt.bsky.social) in European Journal of Political Research (doi.org/10.1111/1475...)

Selecting and ranking female candidates under PR: Evidence from a two‐stage conjoint experiment with party elites

Does gender affect candidate selection and list placement under proportional representation (PR)? Existing research argues that PR systems have a positive effect on women's representation due to a mo...

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Jochen Rehmert @jochenrehmert.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another piece on candidate selection of mine is forthcoming in @thejop.bsky.social : Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR” (doi.org/10.1086/734244)

Intra-party Competition, Geographic Responsiveness and Incumbent Deselection in Closed-List PR | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · Jun 26

Happy to see how many Swedes find their way to EPSA - as soon as it doesn’t take place at the same time as Midsummer!

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

I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸

@epsanet.bsky.social‬

A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵

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Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social · Jun 7

Super happy to see this paper now in print! We show that parties which do not enter coalitions, but have formal (written) support agreements with minority cabinets- such as Tidö Agreement in Sweden - are likely to be punished at the next elections, similarly to junior coalition partners.

Comparative Political Studies @cpsjournal.bsky.social · Jun 6

New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "Hitting the Sweet Spot? The Electoral Consequences of Supporting Minority Governments" by Maria Thürk @mariathurk.bsky.social and Heike Klüver @heikekluever.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

#polisky #socialscience #academicsky

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Michal Grahn @grahn.bsky.social · Jun 6

🧵1/ Are primaries bad for political diversity? Conventional wisdom says yes—but our article in @wepsocial.bsky.social shows that candidate selection modes are not necessarily a bottleneck for representation, at least when it comes to demand. 🗳️👥 @sandrahkansson.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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Marc Debus @marcdebus.bsky.social · Jun 4

To be published this autumn 👇

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