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Nadja Wehl @na-wehl.bsky.social · 7h

Sry, @rdassonneville.bsky.social @svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social sth. went wrong in the first post

Nadja Wehl @na-wehl.bsky.social · 7h

@breunig.bsky.social @mbusemeyer.bsky.social @aureliabardon.bsky.social @tobiastober.bsky.social @leuffen.bsky.social @giadapasquettaz.bsky.social

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Nadja Wehl @na-wehl.bsky.social · 7h

Very excited about the lineup for our #ComparativePolitics & #PoliticalEconomy colloquium in the winter @uni-konstanz.de !!

▶️Hannah Werner @ipz.bsky.social
▶️Fabio Franchino
▶️ @ashelshehawy.bsky.social
▶️Kevin Munger @eui-sps.bsky.social
▶️@rdassonneville.bsky.social
▶️@svenjaahlhaus.bsky.social

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Tiago Ventura @tiagoventura.bsky.social · 1d

How common are “survey professionals” - people who take dozens of online surveys for pay - across online panels, and do they harm data quality?

Our paper, FirstView at @politicalanalysis.bsky.social, tackles this question using browsing data from three U.S. samples (Facebook, YouGov, and Lucid):

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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 1d

2/@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I set out 3 puzzles: How does a new cleavage work without strong intermediary orgs? How to reconcile cleavage theory w fragmented party systems? How are structural divides (e.g. ed) mobilized indirectly in political conflict today?

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

Updating cleavage theory for the twenty-first century

Contemporary cleavage research has linked ‘socio-cultural’ conflicts mobilised by new left and far right parties to structural divides in post-industrial knowledge societies. Contributions in this ...

www.tandfonline.com

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David Attewell @davidattewell6.bsky.social · 1d

@dpzollinger.bsky.social and I are thrilled "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" is out as an SI at @wepsocial.bsky.social!

Its papers explore the foundations of the cleavage pitting new left against radical right parties, and how it compares to the classic cleavages of Lipset & Rokkan:

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WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · 1d

Structural unemployment drives support for income redistribution in Europe, while cyclical unemployment shows no general effect.

👉 Discover how welfare state size moderates the effect of cyclical unemployment in the latest study by Ivan Petrúšek & Kristyna Basna

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

Abstract of the article "Structural and cyclical unemployment and redistribution support in Europe: the moderating role of welfare state size" by Ivan Petrúšek and Kristyna Basna. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 3, displaying point estimates and confidence intervals for the effects of contextual variables.

Figure 4, displaying marginal effects of cyclical unemploymemt at different levels of average public social expenditure.

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · 2d

ISV’s Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social receives 12 million NOK from the RCN program 'Welfare and Education' for the research project 'Struggling Women and Men: Political-Democratic Gender Gaps in a High-Trust Welfare State.'🌟👏Congratulations!
www.sv.uio.no/isv/om/aktue...

Staffan Kumlin får Forskingsrådsmidler for å se på politiske og demokratiske kjønnsforskjeller - Institutt for statsvitenskap (ISV)

Med 12 millioner kroner fra Forskningsrådet vil Staffan Kumlin på Institutt for statsvitenskap forske på politiske og demokratiske kjønnsforskjeller. Han vil blant annet ta for seg hvordan utdanning, ...

www.sv.uio.no

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Nadja Wehl @na-wehl.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe one of the more recent (2024, 2025) publications by different coauthor teams including @breunig.bsky.social ?

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Álvaro Canalejo-Molero @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social · 5d

🎓 Excited to share this term’s PoliSci Brown Bag seminar @uniluzern.bsky.social !

✨ Small dept = lively discussions

🙌 Thanks to this great line-up (80% women!): @erendiraleonsa.bsky.social @denisetraber.bsky.social @elivolpi.bsky.social @silviaporciuleanu.bsky.social

📍 Around Lucerne? Join us!

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Job Opportunity!

RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, seeks applications for a professorship of Political Psychology (W2, tenure).

International applications are very welcome.

More details:

jobs.rptu.de/jobposting/3...

W 2-Professur für Politische Psychologie (m/w/d)

jobs.rptu.de

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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…

www.sciencedirect.com

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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

#OA

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Poor choices? Examining the electoral connection behind unequal policy representation

JESPER LINDQVIST, MIKAEL PERSSON, WOUTER SCHAKEL, ANDERS SUNDELL

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Vlad Surdea-Hernea @vladsurdea.bsky.social · 11d

🚨 Why do people protest against authoritarian regimes even when facing extreme danger? 🚨

In our new paper on Romania's 1989 Revolution, we find that communities exposed to the communist Gulag showed 5x higher dissent levels.

doi.org/10.1177/0010...

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Toni Rodon @tonirodon.bsky.social · 5d

Workers on temporary contracts are more likely to strongly support redistribution. But in times of economic uncertainty, preferences converge as permanent workers also demand more government intervention www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Labor Market Institutions and Preferences for Redistribution

In highly segmented labor markets uneven distributions of risk across worker groups can lead to varying demands for redistribution. We study the impac…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Frederik Thieme @frederikthieme.bsky.social · 5d

In-depth workshop with a wonderful group of people at a beautiful location 🇳🇴
Salma and I got to present the current iteration of our historical paper on how the German occupation impacted membership in the Danish Nazi party.
Thanks to the organizing team and for the super productive feedback!

Mikael Persson @professormpersson.bsky.social · 5d

The 5th Nordic Political Behavior Workshop in Trondheim! @lchristensen.bsky.social @rdassonneville.bsky.social @finseraas.bsky.social et al!

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · 6d

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but as campaigns unfold, you can fool fewer of the people.

New paper w/ Derek Beach and Jannik Fenger on framing effects out in @ejprjournal.bsky.social

Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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Nadja Wehl @na-wehl.bsky.social · 5d

"However, more advantageous social origins influence the likelihood of employment at more prestigious institutions and higher earnings among faculty members, indicating that socioeconomic origins impact academic careers beyond their effects on entering academia."

Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New paper: Who climbs the Ivory Tower? 🏛️ Together with Nicolai Borgen and Astrid Sandsør (@astridsandsor.bsky.social), we find that the chances of becoming a professor differ enormously by family background. Here’s what we find 👇

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

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Political Science Research and Methods @psrm.bsky.social · 6d

🏭 How can we measure firms' political influence across countries?

➡️Using surveys of 27,000+ firms in 41 countries and a Bayesian IRT model, D C. Francis & @rmkubinec.bsky.social estimate firm-level influence scores and show how they vary across regimes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

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John Kenny @johnkenny.bsky.social · 6d

New paper with @lucasgeese.bsky.social at @commsearth.nature.com

UK MPs + publics in Britain, Canada, Chile & Germany underestimated the urgency of peaking global GHG emissions when surveyed in 2023.

@tyndallcentre.bsky.social @cast-centre.bsky.social
@climateuea.bsky.social

rdcu.be/eI4J3

Publics and UK parliamentarians underestimate the urgency of peaking global greenhouse gas emissions

Communications Earth & Environment - UK members of parliament overestimate the time available to mitigate climate change, with notable partisan differences, and a similar lack of knowledge is...

rdcu.be

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Christian Breunig @breunig.bsky.social · 6d

The @zeit.de has 3 pages on one of our PolPop articles, led by @jacklucas.bsky.social, where politicians reflect on our finding that they perceive voters differently than voters perceive themselves. Would love to see this more often, where the subjects get a chance to reflect on the findings.

Meinung über Wähler: Verachten Politiker uns? Womöglich gar: zu Recht?

Egoistisch, schlecht informiert, unsozial: So sehen Politiker laut einer Studie ihre Wähler.

www.zeit.de

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Sabrina J. Mayer @sabrinajmayer.bsky.social · 7d

Me & my very able former colleague and now doctoral candidate Lisa Walter (not on Bluesky yet) just published a new article in @ersjournal.com
We examine how discrimination shapes immigrants and their descendants’ trust in the police in Germany.
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Beyond police encounters: everyday racism and trust in the police

Trust in the police is essential for democratic legitimacy, yet it is declining across Western Europe. Immigrants and their descendants, who face disproportionate levels of discrimination, report p...

www.tandfonline.com

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Francesc Amat @cescamat.bsky.social · 7d

Happy to announce the IPERG Seminar Series at @ub.edu for this academic year!

A great lineup of seminars and events is coming up — don’t miss it.

📅 Full schedule here: www.ub.edu/iperg/activi...

@ubeconomics.bsky.social @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @economiaempresaub.bsky.social @ubmipe.bsky.social

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Claudia Diehl @cdiehl.bsky.social · 9d

Jetzt auch Open Access!

Katja Pomianowicz @kpomi.bsky.social · 9d

✨ For those who missed it: Our Article on Perceived Track Mismatch among Minority and Majority Students in the German Education System is published in RSSM ❗️🥳❗️

Free copies until Oct 1 under this link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbJn~uWr6...

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Katja Pomianowicz @kpomi.bsky.social · 9d

✨ For those who missed it: Our Article on Perceived Track Mismatch among Minority and Majority Students in the German Education System is published in RSSM ❗️🥳❗️

Free copies until Oct 1 under this link:
authors.elsevier.com/c/1lbJn~uWr6...

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