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Mohamed Nasr

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Pol Sci at ETH Zürich || Previously EUI & Oxford

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Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 19

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

The Prophet in the Minister's Office: Do Green Parties Tone Down Moral Rhetoric When They Govern? (1/n) 🧵

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Full preprint here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Jochem Vanagt @jochemvanagt.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New publication out @jeppjournal.bsky.social w/ Katrin Praprotnik @luanarusso.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social

We show that coalition signals from the mainstream right to the radical right shift, rather than reduce, existing political divisions.

Open-access article: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 21d

Mark your calendars: the next Politicologenetmaal will take place on 11-12 June 2026 at Ghent University! 👇

vpw-politicologie.bsky.social @vpw-politicologie.bsky.social · Sep 3

📅 Politicologenetmaal 2026 — the Annual Political Science Workshops of the Low Countries — will be hosted by Ghent University, 11–12 June 2026. More info soon!

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Maurits Meijers @mauritsmeijers.bsky.social · 29d

🚨📢 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

www.uantwerpen.be

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Sep 2

This study advances our understanding of voter behavior in the digital era and underscores the importance of online search as a critical channel for political learning.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Sep 2

✅ However, this informational gap narrows when the two major parties form a grand coalition.

Together, these results suggest voters act as “cognitive misers,” strategically focusing their attention on parties with the greatest informational deficits.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Sep 2

✅ Programmatic change (e.g., ideological rebranding) further increases information-seeking, especially for major, established opposition parties.
✅ Voters also seek more information about established opposition parties the longer those parties have been out of power.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Sep 2

🔍 Key findings:
✅ Voters search significantly more for political information in proximity to national election campaigns. But their behavior is more nuanced than just timing:
✅ Opposition parties attract more search interest than governing parties.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Sep 2

Using two decades of Google search data from major parties across 11 democracies, I investigate how voters actively seek out political information, and how a party’s incumbency status and programmatic shifts shape this behavior.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Sep 2

🎯 New Paper Alert! 🎯

I’m thrilled to announce that my latest article, “How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns?”, has been published in Party Politics.

Access the full paper here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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How do voters seek political information during real-world election campaigns? - Mohamed Nasr, 2025

This paper examines the dynamics of voter information seeking during real-world election campaigns, a crucial yet relatively underexplored area of political beh...

journals.sagepub.com

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Ronja Sczepanski @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Sep 1

NEW -

Detecting Group Mentions in Political Rhetoric A Supervised Learning Approach - cup.org/45WZppQ

- @haukelicht.bsky.social & @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS Abstract discussing a social science research method that uses text analysis for understanding group language patterns and political leanings, mentioning the use of British articles and generating new empirical insights.

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Linda Bos 🟥 @lindabos.bsky.social · Aug 30

📣 OA Publication alert! 📣

"Says who? The role of party cues in explaning the positive and negative consequences of political moral appeals in Europe"

In Party Politics

#thread

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

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Daniel Kovarek @kovarek.bsky.social · Aug 30

no better way to depart from #ecprgc25 than 👀 my paper just published in @eupthejournal.bsky.social! I find localism in an unlikely place & show that people feel more represented when they live in incumbent MEPs' hometowns, using survey data from 🇷🇴🇭🇺🇮🇹🇧🇪 doi.org/10.1177/1465... #Polisky

The effect of MEPs' local ties on perceived representation: Evidence from four EU member states - Daniel Kovarek, 2025

Concerned with the electoral and attitudinal effects of localness, a large literature studies how candidates’ and elected deputies’ local ties shape perceived r...

journals.sagepub.com

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · Aug 28

My Substack on writing, Respect the Marble is back! 🎉

I’ll be launching several new things this autumn, outlined here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/a-new-seas...

A quick preview 👇

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A New Season for Respect the Marble

Introducing "Etched in Marble: Conversations with Writers" & "Sunday Writer's Digest"

catherineeunicedevries.substack.com

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 26

(5/5)
This work contributes to ongoing debates about gender, voter behavior, and political representation.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 26

(4/n)
💡 Our findings highlight yet another barrier for women in politics: while flexibility is often necessary in volatile electoral environments, women are held to stricter standards of consistency than men.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 26

(3/n)
✅ Men face limited penalty for similar position changes—and may even be rewarded in some cases.
✅ Interestingly, liberal respondents punish women more than conservatives do, suggesting gendered double standards cut across ideology.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 26

(2/n)
✅ Women candidates face greater backlash than men for repositioning.
✅ The penalties are strongest when women shift in anti-women directions (e.g., on abortion or childcare).

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 26

(1/n) 🔑 Our central question: Are women punished more than men when they change their policy positions?

Using a conjoint survey experiment in the U.S., we find that:

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨

I’m excited to share a new working paper, co-authored with
@bethsimas.bsky.social and @zeynsom.bsky.social :

“Candidate Gender and Position Switching”

Full paper here 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Francesco Raffaelli @fraraffaelli.bsky.social · Aug 21

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social !

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

1/8 🧵

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · Aug 20

Yay! Super enthusiastic about this project, and can't wait to work with @pavlosvas1.bsky.social, @annasanders.bsky.social and all contributors to put together this Introduction to Voting Behaviour!

Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · Aug 20

Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 19

(7/7) This is still work in progress. Feedback is more than welcome!

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 19

(6/n) This reveals a strategic recalibration: tempering moral appeals to govern effectively, while maintaining loyalty from their base through stronger issue focus.

The broader implication: parties can moderate how they speak without abandoning what they stand for.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 19

(4/n) Findings:
✅ Green parties are systematic “moralizers” of the environment in their manifestos, especially compared to right-wing parties.
✅ After joining government in 2021, the German Greens significantly reduced moral rhetoric on environmental issues.

Mohamed Nasr @monasr.bsky.social · Aug 19

They rely on moral appeals to mobilize, but once in government, such language risks alienating coalition partners.

In my new paper, I examine this tension by combining: Manifesto data from 21 Western democracies and a novel dataset of German party press releases (2010–2024) (3/n)