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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 4h

🆕 Deservingness perceptions & candidate support 👥

#GroupAppeals help connect #VoterIdentity 🧩 to voting choices 🗳️ – @rdassonneville.bsky.social, Rune Stubager & Mads Thau want to know if this appeals to other social groups 📣

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How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 1d

What a fantastic collection of papers! 👀

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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Alexia Katsanidou @alexiakatsanidou.bsky.social · 1d

Great paper on the state of political science osf.io/preprints/os... by @guygrossman.bsky.social et. al. We have become more diverse, more quantitative, and more collaborative.

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Steven Van de Walle @stevenvdwalle.bsky.social · 2d

We zoeken een praktijkassistent Politieke Wetenschappen www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

Nogmaals gefeliciteerd Daan, en wat een geweldige foto :D

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

🥹 Finally, we presented this paper, in different stages, at *lots* of different places. Thanks so much for everyone who gave us comments and suggestions!

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

👉 In sum, citizens react to a wide variety of group appeals, but there is much heterogeneity in their responses. Our results indicate that social identity, and especially deservingness perceptions, are key to explaining this variation!

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

‼️We find stronger effects for deservingness. Among in- & out-groups, those who think the group is more deserving strongly reward a candidate appealing to that group. Those who think the group already gets more than it deserves, in contrast, evaluate candidates appealing to the group more negatively.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

❗We do find that the positive effects of exposure to out-group appeals is significantly reduced among strong identifiers, but even they do not punish candidates using group appeals.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

In terms of the moderation effects, we find weak evidence for the idea that stronger identifiers respond more positively to group appeals.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

🔍 We further expanded the N of groups we considered in Study 2, and across groups find that group appeals consistently polarize individuals across group lines.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

We also postulated that respondents would respond more positively to appeals to groups they think are more deserving.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

🤔 We then theorized what might explain variation in reactions to group appeals, and collected more data in Study 2. First, we hypothesized that in- and out-group reactions would be stronger among those identifying more strongly with the group.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

🤯 Things were different for an appeal to young people, which young people did not respond positively to and older respondents reacted *negatively* to.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

🔍 Replicating and expanding their design, in Study 1 we find that appeals to working class, rural areas and the lower educated all increase support among in-group, with limited backlash among the out-group.

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

💾 We use survey experimental data from the UK to improve our understanding of responses to group appeals. In Study 1, we build on earlier work on responses to working class appeals by Robison et al. (that paper is here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....).

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 2d

Really excited that after several years of working on it, revising, and getting lots of rejections, our paper (w/ Rune Stubager & Mads Thau) on citizens’ responses to group appeals is *finally* out @ejprjournal.bsky.social

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A 🧵 on our findings...

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions | European Journal of Political Research | Cambridge Core

How group appeals shape candidate support: The role of group membership, identity strength, and deservingness perceptions

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 4d

Guess there are worse places to get stuck due to storm Amy #trondheim

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Bart Maes @bart-maes.bsky.social · 5d

Politicians don’t just care how many people hold an opinion — they care how good that opinion is. In our new (open-access) article in West European Politics, based on survey data from 900+ politicians across 11 countries, we show: quality > quantity. Read more: doi.org/10.1080/0140...

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 5d

Gefeliciteerd Raf!

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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 5d

Had a *fantastic* time at the Nordic Political Behavior Workshop! Great papers, engaging discussions, and super constructive feedback. Thanks so much for organizing @finseraas.bsky.social @lchristensen.bsky.social @professormpersson.bsky.social & Peter Dinesen!

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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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 8d

With the start of the new academic year, we're planning more talks at @vd-researchgroup.bsky.social!

Looking forward to welcoming @bjornhoyland.bsky.social in Leuven on Monday 20 October. If you're around and would like to attend, more info is here 👇

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 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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Ruth Dassonneville @rdassonneville.bsky.social · 11d

Had an amazing two days discussing challenges to democracy with a great group of researchers! Thanks so much for organizing!

CERiM @umcerim.bsky.social · 11d

Great event co-hosted with BrIAS on Challenges to Democracy. Grateful to all panelists for their insights and to everyone who joined us for the lively and inspiring discussions! @dfuturevub.bsky.social @sciencepoulb.bsky.social

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Gilles Pittoors @gillespittoors.bsky.social · 15d

🌍📢 Exciting news: @lucykinski.bsky.social, @wouterwolfs.bsky.social and myself have launched the ECPR Research Network on Democracy and Representation in a Transnational Space!

We aim to connect scholars studying transnational politics, democracy & representation in Europe.

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Democracy and Representation in a Transnational Space

European Consortium for Political Research

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