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Timea Balogh

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PhD | Research Associate @ University of Strathclyde @parliview.bsky.social| 👩🏼‍💻📝 political behavior, parties, & representation, mostly in Europe | Hungarian-American 🇭🇺 www.timea-balogh.com

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Timea Balogh @tbalogh.bsky.social · Mar 13

🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP

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

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Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?

Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...

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Stefanie Walter @stefwalter.bsky.social · 27d

Undecided which section to submit your paper to for the 2026 EPSS conference?

Look here for short explainers by our stellar set of section chairs:

EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · 27d

📢 Call for Papers for EPSS 2026 conference in Belfast is out: epssnet.org/belfast-2026...

Starting today, we'll feature two sections each week to provide more information about the conference.

🔝 This week: Comparative Politics & International Relations

Call for Papers | EPSS Belfast 2026 Conference

Submit your abstract or full paper for EPSS Belfast 2026. Share cutting‑edge political science research, network with peers & contribute to academic impact.

epssnet.org

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Aug 7

EPSA have announced that they will hold a conference in July 2026.

😵‍💫 We understand that there might be some confusion about EPSS and EPSA.

👉🏽 So we thought we would clarify some things.

A short 🧵

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Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social · Aug 12

Vicente Valentim, Elias Dinas, & I came together to do this paper because we have all long shared an intution: mainstream center-right rhetoric shapes democratic norms. The hard part? Showing it empirically. We make some headway in this new paper. Grateful to @bjpols.bsky.social for publishing.

British Journal of Political Science @bjpols.bsky.social · Aug 11

NEW -

How Mainstream Politicians Erode Norms - cup.org/4lfeHvD

"we find that statements by mainstream politicians lead to more norm erosion than similar statements by radical-right politicians"

- @valentimvicente.bsky.social, Elias Dinas & @dziblatt.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract discussing the dynamics of mainstream and radical political rhetoric regarding anti-immigrant policies, highlighting differences in societal responses and enforcement norms based on the source of the rhetoric.

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Timea Balogh @tbalogh.bsky.social · Jul 29

Our paper (w/ wonderful co-authors @rwillh11.bsky.social, @simonweschle.bsky.social, @cbwlezien.bsky.social, and Jim Adams) is now out in print! 🎉 May be of interest to those studying electoral behavior, party strategy, or how citizens use information!

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

Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties?

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · Jul 20

💥Viktor Orbán’s demographic strategy is a disaster. Over the past decade, 37.8% of Hungary’s population decline was due to emigration to other EU countries. Hungary is losing the competition to retain its own citizens while birth rates tank. Read Direkt36's in-depth article on @vsquare.bsky.social👇

Inside Viktor Orbán’s Failure to Achieve His Demographic Goal - VSquare.org

The Prime Minister has long said that he would like to grow the population of Hungary without bringing in immigrants. Recently, births have fallen, but the number of people leaving the country has als...

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Louise Luxton @louiseluxton.bsky.social · Jul 8

What do women’s parties want? And how do their platforms differ?

Very happy to share the first paper from my PhD out now in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social! In it, I present a comparative empirical analysis of European women’s parties’ issue concerns in 30yrs of party manifestos. 🧵⬇️

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.

🔗 epssnet.org

Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · May 27

Exciting times for research looking *inside* populist radical right parties 😎

Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · May 27

"Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right", now under contract with Oxford University Press.

We've already got a full draft and the reviews were really positive, so this should be out in 2026!

@ammassarisofia.bsky.social; @casmudde.bsky.social; @arjupskas.bsky.social

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · May 27

Once again, not only an assault on higher education, but also an unprecedented authoritarian attack on property rights, the sanctity of legal contracts, & the rule of law. Even if you hate everything about academia & professors, you should be terrified & furious about this.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · May 27

The Trump administration is moving to cancel all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University, worth an estimated $100 million, in the latest escalation of its battle against the Ivy League institution

Trump to End Federal Contracts With Harvard University

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to cancel all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University, worth an estimated $100 million, in the latest escalation of its battle against the Ivy League institution.

bloom.bg

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Timea Balogh @tbalogh.bsky.social · May 23

Have loved seeing the evolution of this project by the wonderful @rgpark.bsky.social! If you study trade +/or the environment, give it a read 📖

Rio Park @rgpark.bsky.social · May 23

How does a sudden BIG increase in imports affect support for environment? Is trade really the enemy of environment?

In this article published in @intlinteractions.bsky.social, I leverage a sudden increase in Chinese imports to explore effects of trade on env. support in US.

Is trade the enemy of environment?: Congressional voting on environmental policies after the China shock

How does trade competition affect support for environmental protection? On the one hand, import shocks can dampen support for environmental protection, as international trade can lead to a race to ...

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · May 20

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab.

In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before.
www.epi.org/blog/america...

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Danbischof @danbischof.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar.

We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads.

What we find is disturbing:

osf.io/preprints/os...

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Lucas Paulo da Silva @lucas-p-dasilva.bsky.social · Mar 18

Thrilled that my paper is now published by @polbehavior.bsky.social! Using a natural experiment—the Sun boycott—I show how media may shape our voting mostly by changing our perceptions of party positions. Media matters! 🗳️

Read here: doi.org/10.1007/s111...

@tcddublin.bsky.social #mediabias #vote

Research article about media influence and voting in the journal Political Behavior

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Alona O. Dolinsky @alonadolinsky.com · May 14

🚨Publication Alert🚨

New update to the ManifestoVault repository is available!

Included: cleaned, content-verified manifesto texts at the natural-sentence level of the 2025 German general election.

Full coverage: Ireland, UK, Germany 1970-2025

@rwillh11.bsky.social, @lenamariahuber.bsky.social

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Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com · May 2

Which would be a mistake.
Exhibit A:
doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Exhibit B: doi.org/10.1080/1350...

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Alexander Kustov @akoustov.bsky.social · Apr 29

🚨 My book "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" is finally out today with
@ColumbiaUP! 🚨

It tackles one of the biggest challenges today: How can we make freer human mobility between countries more politically sustainable? 🧵

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Matthias Enggist @matthiasenggist.bsky.social · Mar 4

New publication in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @retobuergisser.bsky.social, @siljahausermann.bsky.social, and Michael Pinggera. We map the welfare preferences of voters at the poles of the second, GALTAN dimension of political conflict. 🧵

WEP Journal @wepsocial.bsky.social · Mar 3

Online first & open access:

"The welfare preferences of socially liberal and socially conservative voters"

by @matthiasenggist.bsky.social @retobuergisser.bsky.social @siljahausermann.bsky.social & Michael Pinggera

doi.org/10.1080/0140...

#Polisky #Academicsky

Abstract of the article "The welfare preferences of socially liberal and socially conservative voters" by Matthias Enggist, Reto Bürgisser, Silja Häusermann and Michael Pinggera. Published online first in West European Politics.

Figure 3, displaying AMCEs from conjoint experiment for people at the poles of the GALTAN dimension.

Figure 4, displaying the relationship of GALTAN attitudes with unconstrained importance attributed to social policies by age.

Figure 5, displaying AMCEs from conjoint experiment for people aged 70 (top panel) and people aged 30 (bottom panel), shown for the people at the poles of the GALTAN dimension.

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alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics.bsky.social · Apr 17

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Apr 17

Topics that have grown in the top 20 political science journals 2003-2023: Civil war and intergroup conflict, gender & LGBT+, indigenous politics, political communication, political culture, public opinion & political psychology, race & immigration.

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Figure 7: Figure shows the mean topic proportion and 95% confidence intervals for all papers
published in the top 20 political science outlets each year (blue) and all other outlets (red).
Topics are estimated using Structure Topic Modeling and were labeled manually.

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Research & Politics @respol.bsky.social · Apr 8

@hjghassell.bsky.social & @cbwlezien.bsky.social examine the effects of providing public opinion information to journalists on their perceptions of the newsworthiness of different topics. Public opinion has some effect on journalists' perceptions, especially for low salience issues.

Read more:

Public opinion and the news: Polls and journalists’ perceptions of issue importance - Hans J.G. Hassell, Christopher Wlezien, 2025

Most work on the media and the public starts from the premise that coverage influences opinion and behavior. We report results of a field experiment attempting ...

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · Apr 9

In retrospect should have created a legislature and given them power of the purse, but alas, I checked, article I very clearly says taxation is to be set by tweet

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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · Apr 9

Everybody tweeting about the penguins... I have bad news, their tariff rate is still the same.

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Roman Senninger @rsenninger.bsky.social · Apr 8

New preprint 📄

Voters navigating complex, multilevel systems are exposed to many kinds of political information. But what kind do they actually seek — and use?

We find voters prefer policy over principles and they update their vote intention accordingly.

osf.io/preprints/os...

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