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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to visiting @ipp-csic.bsky.social and presenting joint work with @siennanordquist.bsky.social @mattiacecchi2000.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social!

Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos @ipp-csic.bsky.social · 5d

El próximo miércoles recibimos a Simone Cremaschi (@simonecremaschi.bsky.social) de la Bocconi University.

👉 Acceso libre hasta completar aforo.

Vente al @cchscsic.bsky.social, tómate un café ☕ y escucha, comparte e intercambia ideas con otros investigadores y estudiantes.

¡Te esperamos!

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Sven Hegewald @svenhegewald.bsky.social · 7d

Just out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 🚨
Together with @dschraff.bsky.social, I ask: Is the urban–rural divide in Europe affectively polarised?
👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Is the Urban-Rural Divide Affectively Polarised? Comparative Evidence from Nine European Countries - Sven Hegewald, Dominik Schraff, 2025

Recent studies in the United States and Europe have documented a growing divergence in voting behaviour and political attitudes between cities and the countrysi...

journals.sagepub.com

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 8d

Good report by @thinktankeuropa.bsky.social on the state of climate and energy policies in Italy.

Il Bel Paese is powered by dirty fuels, despite all the EU state aid meant to foster the energy transition (plus another hundred reasons to do the transition)

thinkeuropa.dk/files/media/...

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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 13d

"Do Integration Courses Influence Refugees’ Integration Trajectories? Evidence from Norway" by Jeremy Ferwerda and Henning Finseraas.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 13d

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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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 14d

Grande Reto, evviva! 🥳

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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 20d

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Research Fellowships

Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

www.iast.fr

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Linus Westheuser @lwestheuser.bsky.social · Aug 4

Proper thread after the summer break– but if you were looking for a beach read about political reasoning in today's working class, look no further: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Ala Alrababah @aalrababah.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 26d

I wrote a longer essay on how social status matters for far-right support. Many still wrongly associate the far right with the economically left behind. Taking social status seriously also cautions against the idea that deliverism will win back far-right voters.

equitablegrowth.org/threats-to-s...

Threats to social status and support for far-right political parties

How economic threats to social status in the form of unemployment risk and rental market risk affects support for the far right in Europe.

equitablegrowth.org

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Burak Sonmez @buraksonmez.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 New pre-print with @sergioloiacono.bsky.social

We ran 3 large-scale experiments in 🇬🇧to investigate how perceived asylum-seeking legality, public preferences for refugee relocation, and inclusionary attitudes are shaped by symbolic and strategic boundaries

doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 27d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 29d

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How do welfare systems shape views on immigration?

A 🇪🇺 study from @alinavranceanu.bsky.social
& @bpetrova.bsky.social finds:
Generous welfare → more positive attitudes toward immigrants
Welfare cuts → increased hostility (evidence from 🇩🇰)

Read more:

Welfare policy and immigration attitudes in Western Europe

ALINA VRÂNCEANU, BILYANA PETROVA

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tarek Jaziri-Arjona @tarekjaziri.bsky.social · Sep 8

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized?

In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · Sep 5

We show that social democratic parties receive more support when they don't move right here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
And here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
And a whole book where this is a main point:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

Project MUSE - Trade-Offs of Social Democratic Party Strategies in a Pluralized Issue Space: A Conjoint Analysis

muse.jhu.edu

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have a paper on how Labour's strategy is disastrous.

There's an exclusive coverage in @newstatesman.com

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Of course!! Looking forward!

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Diane Bolet @dianebolet.bsky.social · Sep 4

Delighted to share that I have been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for my project “Lost in the Green Transition: Local Collective Greenloss Identity, Anti-Climate Attitudes and Radical Right Support.” #ERCStG
More soon on #GREENLOSS.
A huge thank you to friends and colleagues who made this possible!

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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · Sep 4

Amazing news!!! Congrats Diane, this is so well deserved!! 🥳

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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · Sep 4

This looks extremely interesting! Congrats!!

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · Sep 2

It's very human to only double check that a process is working when you get a weird result. It's also very bad practice, because sometimes your "right" result is due to a bad process and you will be misled. Social scientists (economists) do this kind of asymmetric checking.
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20069

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American Journal of Sociology @amjsoc.bsky.social · Aug 26

Read our Gould prize winning article, "The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies." Available for free for the next 30 days. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731603

The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies1 | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 130, No 2

Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is...

www.journals.uchicago.edu

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Sam D. Schmid @samdschmid.bsky.social · Aug 23

🚨New Peer-Reviewed Working Paper @mpimmg.bsky.social

I introduce quantitative political science data and methods to compare immigration law. A revised version will appear as a Chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law.

www.samdschmid.com/publications...

Samuel D. Schmid - Quantitative Methods for Comparative Immigration

Abstract Over the past years and decades, numerous large-scale quantitative datasets to measure various attributes of immigration law have been generated an...

www.samdschmid.com

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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....

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