FOUR GRAPHS ABOUT 🇩🇰'S GENERAL ELECTION My read of the election in four graphs. First: big urban-rural divide. The two big mainstream parties, Social Democrats and Liberals, are now mainly rural/suburban, with niche parties dominating in cities. (1/4) #polisky

Our article “Unsuccessful Candidates Are More Concerned About Electoral Fairness than Election Winners” is now online @thejop.bsky.social Using RDD and elite survey data from Denmark, we show that losing candidates express greater concern about electoral fairness. 🔗 doi.org/10.1086/734240

"Experiences of Administrative Burden in Context: Exploring Differences Across Countries, Policy Domains, and Socio-Demography" by @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social, Lucie Martin, & Niels Bjørn Petersen finds that citizens associate administrative tasks positively. doi.org/10.1111/padm...

If you are preparing your bachelor statistics course and would like to add optional material for students to better understand statistics on a conceptual level (see topics in the screenshot) my free textbook provides a state of the art overview. lakens.github.io/statistical_...

Open access: @mjinpedersen.bsky.social, Niels Bjørn Grund Petersen, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social & Jonas Krogh Madsen consider how priming of caseworkers’ agency orientation (citizen-agent vs state-agent) influences their conduct towards clients www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 New book alert! Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission is out with OUP @oxfordacademic.bsky.social It’s about the behind-the-scenes stage of EU policymaking that shapes everything—yet rarely gets the spotlight: how the Commission prepares its proposals. Link: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

The super election year is ending, with many winners and losers. Our new @thejop.bsky.social paper, (@henrikseeberg.bsky.social, @martinbaekgaard.bsky.social ) asks: How do winning and losing candidates see elections? Spoiler: Losers are more concerned about fairness. Link: doi.org/10.1086/734240

In a new article out in @pnas.org w @michaelsvarer.bsky.social @albecknielsen.bsky.social Michael Rosholm. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/..., we explore the long-term unemployment and mental health effects of active labor market programs.

A perfect day to share that our book, Policy Preparation Inside the European Commission, is coming soon with Oxford University Press! It shows why the European Commission is so vital to EU policymaking. 🇪🇺 #eusky #eursky

New open access article forthcoming in PAR w @askehalling @donmoyn.bsky.social. We develop a 4-item scale to measure burden tolerance – peoples’ acceptance of state actions that impose administrative burdens on citizens – using data from several countries papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Survey researchers of Blue Sky, this is a new initiative of mine, and right now the queue is wide open meaning any new submissions have a high likelihood of acceptance: docs.google.com/document/d/1... #polisci #polisky

I am really, really happy to share that our (w. Martin Bækgaard) administrative burden lit. review is out in JPART. It's #openaccess, so it is free for anyone to read. For those looking for a brief version, I will share a few key insights below academic.oup.com/jpart/advanc...