👥 Do we back our class — or where we think it stands? In a UK experiment, @ronjasczepanski.bsky.social & Geoffrey Evans find working-class Britons feel closer to an immigration or environment camp — pro or anti — once told their class is the majority there. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0140...

„Working class support for X is up by Y%“. What does this information do to polarization between groups? In a new paper w/ Geoffrey Evans: Perceived working-class alignment with pro/anti camps on immigration & environment shifts identification and sympathy doi.org/10.1080/0140...

🎉 NEW PUBLICATION🎉 Our paper on "the effect of symbolic policies on climate policy support" has just been published in the APSR ! @apsrjournal.bsky.social (open access) The end of a long and rewarding journey with the best co-authors @malojan.bsky.social @luissattelmayer.bsky.social (1/6)

With the Progressive Politics Research Network, we have published 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. What does a progressive agenda on housing look like? Which elements are important? What the hurdles are and how can they be overcome? politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/progressive-...

How are contemporary cleavage structures stabilized in times of declining mass social and political organizations? In this new paper with @davidattewell6.bsky.social @bjpols.bsky.social, we suggest that homogeneous social (educational) networks provide part of the answer. tinyurl.com/49cs8jwp

🚨 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...

1/ How does migration affect political attitudes? Using 380k obs from 104 sending & 28 receiving countries, @filipkostelka.bsky.social, Nicolas Sauger & I find some migrants’ attitudes align with locals, while others exceed origin-host context, reshaping ideological space. 👉 doi.org/10.1111/ajps...

We're hiring an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science ❗ 📚 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Apply before 26 October and join an internationally outstanding group of social science methodologists 🌎

Ever asked yourself how to detect and extract social groups from texts with computational social science? @haukelicht.bsky.social and me have a solution for you out at @bjpols.bsky.social. You can also find the pre-trained models on huggingface!

New publication, out in Political Analysis: There is an increasing array of tools to measure facets of morality in political language. But while they ostensibly measure the same concept, do they actually? I and @fhopp.bsky.social set out to see what happens.

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 🧵

🚨New article🔥 Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes, at @electoralstudies.bsky.social with @sofiabrei.bsky.social @griambau.bsky.social @arodilla.bsky.social 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social (1/n)

How are the classic social identities (urban-rural, education, etc. ) and perceptions about those groups related to a persons own European and national identity? Read it here (in fantastic company) in print

For the first time ever I gave a - very short - TV interview about EU identity. Have a look

I cannot recommend this summer school enough!

Do referendums lead citizens to know more about the issue of the referendum after it was shockingly defeated by the public? I answer this question based on the EU Constitution referendum here: doi.org/10.1080/0703... a short thread below

New working paper! In this research note, @bogatyrev.bsky.social, @tabouchadi.bsky.social, @heikekluever.bsky.social, @lstoetze.bsky.social, and I present the first systematic test that causally identifies the electoral consequences of state-sponsored homophobia: osf.io/preprints/os... 🧵Thread

Who does Spiderman vote for? Who you vote for. In a new paper w/ @markuswagner.bsky.social we show that people engage in motivated projection of political identities. In the absence of explicit info on politics, individuals rely on valence to infer the politics of others doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC ✅ 3 years 📊 Mixed methods 💰 Resources for data & conferences 👥 Good group of people working on similar things www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...

Call for scholars in political behavior (broadly understood) studying Central & Eastern Europe: workshop hosted by @eui-eu.bsky.social, June 19-20. 2nd edition. Participants from the region can have their travel & accommodation fully covered. Apply by 28/3. More info: www.eui.eu/en/projects/...

Grateful for lots of great feedback today at the @ethzurich.bsky.social European Politics Colloquium!

A majority of citizens stereotype Muslims as inherently homophobic. Our new paper (w/ @turnbulldugarte.com & @michaelhunklinger.bsky.social) shows this across four countries 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇳🇱, published in @bjpols.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

With the amazing Jana Lipps and @giorgiomalet.bsky.social we have a new publication in ISQ! We explore and theorize citizens’ preferences for border securing policies using open-ended survey responses and a conjoint experiment academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

An amazing article by @valentindaur.bsky.social about how mainstream parties can (de-) legitimize pariah parties! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In Merz‘ lautesten Forderungen der letzten Monate zeigt sich eine fatale Linie: Eine (un)gewollte Zerstörung der europäischen Integration. Wer Grenzkontrollen & -Schließungen fordert, Regierungsparteien zum Europarechtsbruch aufruft & Vorrang von EU-Recht gg. nationalem Recht einreißen will 🧵 1/6

It is a great honor to receive the prestigious 2025 Portuguese Political Science Association Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation, especially given the excellence of this year’s jury. I deeply appreciate the trust placed in my work!

Welche Bedeutung haben Versprechen im Wahlkampf? Darüber durfte ich heute mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur sprechen 🎧 👉🏻 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/versprechen-...

Do you want to translate texts for a quantitative analysis, but using Google Translate & Co. is too expensive? Then use an open-source translation model instead – @haukelicht.bsky.social , Moritz Laurer, Ayjeren Bekmuratovna, and I show that they are a good alternatives: doi.org/10.31219/osf...

🚨🚨Two tenure-track positions in the European Institute @LSE: 1. European Politics and Policy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... 2. Political Economy jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... It's a really great place to work. Consider applying! I won't be in the search committee but happy to chat. 1/2 polisky

I still have much trouble believing it but today I start at @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor, continuing my work on the EU. I am very humbled by and excited about this opportunity. I am looking forward to work together with amazing colleagues and students

Come and join us! @sciencespo-cee.bsky.social is hiring an assistant prof (tenure-track) with a specialization on political economy in/of Europe www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

Le Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée de Sciences Po (CEE/UMR8239) recrute un.e Professeur.e assistant.e FNSP (tenure-track) avec une spécialisation sur l’économie politique dans ou de l’Europe et l’Union européenne. www.sciencespo.fr/centre-etude...

You can still submit paper proposals for this workshop before 23 November! polisky

New paper with Aleksandra Sznajder Lee on the effect of EU integration on economic redistribution in post-communist Europe. Has EU accession affected the degree to which new CEE member states alleviate income differentials through taxes and transfers? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📢 Just published a solo in European Union Politics 🇪🇺 📝 👫As Europe sees rising dual leadership in politics, do they reduce voter discriminatory preferences? Through combined & visual conjoints, I found less bias, especially for ethnic minorities. Read #OA: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Call for Papers for my favourite political science conference #EPSA2024 is now open! EPSA, July 4-6 2024, Cologne epsanet.org/epsa2024-gen...

Excited that this workshop on cleavage politics is happening at the ECPR Joint Sessions 2024 in Lüneburg. Find all the information here: ecpr.eu/Events/Event... You can propose papers until 23 November. We look forward to your submissions! Feel free to get in touch with any questions. polisky

Three tentative patterns emerged in last Sunday’s Polish elections at the regional (powiaty) level:

🚨New publication @Electoral Studies   Interested in party message perception in multiparty systems? Have a look: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvp2xRaZg...   Main finding: Party effects are more nuanced than a pure in/out-group divide and trust in the medium matters for perceived credibility.   🧵 1/7

📣I am writing a proposal to make an AI-powered tool to allow conversational querying of UK census data. We want feedback from people who use/might use census data in their work. Complete + share this *short* survey to help! cssky polisky mlsky 🙏 edinburgh.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Dear @profmusgrave.bsky.social, could you add me to polisky?

Come work @dovilerimkute.bsky.social, Caelesta Braun and me! PhD Position at the Institute of Public Admin, Leiden University on interest representation and political attitudes. Inspiring + friendly working environment, opportunity + resources to develop research. Deadline 10/11 tinyurl.com/mrbeps77

Excited to share on 🟦 as well: My project on Multidimensional Polarization received a 4-year grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation 🎉 🚨 Please help me share the ad for the PhD position on the project! jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell... polisky PSJMinfo

Come and work as a Post-Doc at the European Politics Group in beautiful Zurich Polisky EUsky jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

Are you a researcher in public opinion, parties, & elections? (V broadly construed!)? 🌐 We are providing a mentorship scheme for marginalised and under-represented scholars. If this interests you as mentor, mentee, or both, you can fill out a survey: southampton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Excited to share that our (@bcastanho.bsky.social & @jwaeckerle.bsky.social) paper will be out soon in AJPS! We investigate how women MPs adapt to their environment, finding that over time women speak in more masculine ways, particularly women in progressive parties.  s.gwdg.de/ecTNEN

For an unpublished manuscript, Claudia Landwehr and I surveyed German MPs to find out which groups they felt deserved to be represented. The differences between the parties are quite stark. From left to right, MPs become less supportive. 1/2