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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 7h

19. eventually, someone will cry.
20. it helps to go for a walk

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Teresa Völker @tevoelker.bsky.social · 2d

New paper out with @dasalgon.bsky.social: “Far-Right Agenda Setting: How the Far Right influences the Political Mainstream” doi.org/10.1017/S1475676525100066 #openaccess in @ejprjournal.bsky.social🧵

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 6d

There are many parallels between publishing papers and putting a baby asleep. An endless 🧵

1. it takes longer than you think.
2. there are strategies, but it‘s essentially trial + error.
3. don‘t let them out of your hands too early, it‘ll fail
4. you usually hear back from them sooner than hoped

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Bart Maes @bart-maes.bsky.social · 6d

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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Kathrin Kühn @kathrinkuehn.bsky.social · 6d

Hörtipp für den Feiertag / langes Wochenende also - Deutschlandfunk Systemfragen: Was sich an dem Streit über die nicht mehr veröffentlichten Armutszahlen übers Arm sein und über Forschung selbst lernen lässt. www.deutschlandfunk.de/arm-sein-war... 5/5

Hinter der Statistik - Was arm sein bedeutet

Armutsforscher kritisieren das Statistische Bundesamt: Es veröffentlicht nur noch Zahlen zur Armutsgefährdung, die auf bestimmte Weise berechnet wurden.

www.deutschlandfunk.de

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 6d

11. it keeps you awake at 1, 3, 5, and 5.30 in the morning
12. vacuum cleaning helps, clearing the brain
13. it‘s underpaid
14. do the substance BEFORE the editing
15. do the framing early
16. tell a story
17. „novelty“ is more appreciated than replication
18. but what’s the mechanism?

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 6d

5. you try to remain anonymous to avoid rude comments
6. frustration doesn‘t help
7. chocolate does help
8. once successful, you feel proud and accomplished
9. once successful, it starts all over again
10. your wife can do it better

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 6d

There are many parallels between publishing papers and putting a baby asleep. An endless 🧵

1. it takes longer than you think.
2. there are strategies, but it‘s essentially trial + error.
3. don‘t let them out of your hands too early, it‘ll fail
4. you usually hear back from them sooner than hoped

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Daniel Devine @danjdevine.bsky.social · 10d

Are you, or do you know, someone who wants to do a PhD?

Applications are open for full funding (scholarship + maintenance) @sotonpolitics.bsky.social through the @scdtp.bsky.social

Get in touch if you're interested

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European Journal of Political Research @ejprjournal.bsky.social · 10d

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@jakobkas.bsky.social @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & B.Bakker questions whether when voters are deeply polarized, ddo they tend to rate democratic performance lower regarding fairness and other important qualities?

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Establishing the construct and predictive validity of brief measures of affective polarization

JAKOB KASPER, GIJS SCHUMACHER, BERT N. BAKKER

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Anne Rasmussen @annerasmussen.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 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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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 13d

“We argue that previous moralization explains focus groups’ perception of division as persistent and insuperable”

Sounds like a great paper ⬇️ Important to move beyond elite and media causes to collective sense-making. How ppl see “the other side” is sticky- it stays and spreads

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 13d

How can we understand the forces that keep political conflict alive in social life, even when its political salience has waned? In my and Anna van Vree's new working paper, we analyse 27 focus groups on immigration to show how moral boundaries make division sticky & potent: osf.io/preprints/so...

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 14d

New publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social :
“Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?”
@polstudies.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/0032...

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Eva Anduiza @evaanduiza.bsky.social · 14d

We have a new paper out with @gricoc.bsky.social in @jwpp.bsky.social (this time I swear I am going to post the right link): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Sexism and the Gender Gap in Support for the Radical Right

Using survey data from Spain we show that the gender gap in the probability of voting for the radical-right party Vox is mainly due to men having higher levels of modern sexism than women. We find ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social · 14d

"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 · 14d

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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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15d

Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Mehmet Yavuz @yavuzmehmet.bsky.social · Sep 8

Excited to announce the publication of my article in Comparative Political Studies on how crises shape the ideological legitimation strategies of authoritarian regimes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 21d

🚨New pre-print🚨

"Do citizens’ views of democracy and its actors vary with how they feel?”, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social and I ask in a new paper.
Why would they? While citizens widely endorse democracy in principle, temporary factors often shape their views. Also, work on “irrelevant events"

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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 21d

In a moment when the narrative has swung so far to the other end, this book by Volha Charnysh is more important than ever.

It shows the displacement of people historically fostered state capacity, private entrepreneurship, and long-term economic performance.

www.cambridge.org/core/books/u...

Uprooted

Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Uprooted

www.cambridge.org

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 21d

Our findings have implications for survey research. And we hope the review of affective states help polsci study affect.

Full paper here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

For this paper, I am particularly thankful for the great input + support of so many! You made this project better & more fun!
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 21d

What does that mean?
Bad news: democratic views are even more fluid than recently shown. In times when we feel poorly, we evaluate opponents + institutions more harshly.
Good news: there are limits to this. Short-term changes in affect (eg traffic jam) won’t shift views or prompt intolerance
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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 21d

Indeed, when inducing immediate affect in an experiment in the 🇺🇸, we find correlations as hypothesized for self-reported (i.e., relatively stable) mood, but null effects for induced short-term affect.

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 21d

around lunch time does not shift democratic views systematically. This suggests that relatively durable moods (i.e., annual changes) may shape people’s democratic views, but changes in short-term affect don’t matter.

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Peter Luca Versteegen @versteegenluca.bsky.social · 21d

Our first test uses 16 waves of 🇳🇱 panel data, testing effects of within-subject changes in mood on very broad measures of democratic views.

We find that within-subject increases in positive mood predict more satisfaction with and trust in democracy.

However, diurnal variation in affect
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