New article on Immigrant Attitudes toward Immigration in 🇫🇷 (w @haleymcavay.bsky.social & Justin Robinson) just accepted @ersjournal.com We find that one's ethnoracial background trumps migration status and other key individual-level factors in shaping support for immigration

New article on Immigrant Attitudes toward Immigration in 🇫🇷 (w @haleymcavay.bsky.social & Justin Robinson) just accepted @ersjournal.com We find that one's ethnoracial background trumps migration status and other key individual-level factors in shaping support for immigration

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

As this thread shows, the far right ideology hasn't become milder- it's as extreme and dangerous as ever. What has changed is that mainstream parties are now trying to appease far-right supporters with anti-immigrant rhetoric. This is why there were more than 100k people in London today.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

As this thread shows, the far right ideology hasn't become milder- it's as extreme and dangerous as ever. What has changed is that mainstream parties are now trying to appease far-right supporters with anti-immigrant rhetoric. This is why there were more than 100k people in London today.

"I am ALSO going to deport the men!" "Yes but we are also deporting the women" "We'll deport the children, then!" "Yes, but we are shooting them within two weeks of gaining power..."

This is what happens when mainstream parties break anti-racism norms by demonising asylum seekers for political gains and by pampering the "anxieties" of racist thugs. www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2544432...

This is what happens when mainstream parties break anti-racism norms by demonising asylum seekers for political gains and by pampering the "anxieties" of racist thugs. www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/2544432...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

The UK discourse on immigration has turned into a competition of cruelty www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Deprived places like Hull are deliberately pushed into further economic decline for what? So that Labour can point to a graph showing reduced net migration? And they expect that this will weaken Farage? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Deprived places like Hull are deliberately pushed into further economic decline for what? So that Labour can point to a graph showing reduced net migration? And they expect that this will weaken Farage? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

🚨New Research 🚨 Ahead of the release of Wave 30 of the BES Internet Panel, the team has examined Labour's decline since the 2024 GE. Labour's support has splintered into mostly indecision or left-liberal parties, but they've also lost their few right-wing voters. 🧵⬇️ tinyurl.com/3m62exph

I do think X is seriously damaging the brains of the UK political class. It's wildly unrepresentative of actual public opinion but is still being treated as such. (Bluesky isn't representative either obviously but no one treats it as such).

When major parties and the media focus on an issue over a significant amount of time, the public will follow suit. It's clear why Reform is trying to increase the salience of immigration. Less clear what the Tories and -especially- Labour think they can achieve by trying to imitate Reform.

I increasingly find myself to be the only Greek -save for staff- in places that a few years ago were full of Greek families. Prices are shocking, tavernas are turning into pseudo posh restaurants serving ceviche, and monstrous hotels pop up like mushrooms. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Yay! Super enthusiastic about this project, and can't wait to work with @pavlosvas1.bsky.social, @annasanders.bsky.social and all contributors to put together this Introduction to Voting Behaviour!

If you're attending #ecprgc25 in Thessaloniki next week, join us for panels on nationalism and the far-right in Europe and Latin America.

Want to know more about the #RN? P. Vasilopoulos, H. McAvay, and S. Brouard. “Residential Context and Voting for the Far Right. The Impact of Immigration and Unemployment on the 2017 French Presidential Election”. In: Political Behavior (2021).

Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.

Excited to have signed an editor contract with Oxford University Press for a volume on Voting Behaviour planned to come out in December 2027! We really hope this book will spark social science student interest in the discipline, especially at a time when democracy faces major challenges.

The small pleasures of working mid-August: I sent a group email to 30 colleagues and was immediately rewarded with a rich collection of out-of-the-office message samples!

NEW - Field Experiments Invoking Gloating Villains to Increase Voter Participation: Anger, Anticipated Emotions, and Voting Turnout - cup.org/45KpoSo - Gregory A. Huber, Alan S. Gerber, Albert H. Fang & John J. Cho #OpenAccess

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

France: P. Vasilopoulos, H. McAvay, and S. Brouard. “Residential Context and Voting for the Far Right. The Impact of Immigration and Unemployment on the 2017 French Presidential Election”. In: Political Behavior (2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11109-021-09676-z.

Inflation was a big issue--maybe even *the* issue--in 2024. But do citizens understand how to interpret inflation rates? Using some new data from @verasight.bsky.social, the answer seems to be largely: no. On top of that, Republicans show significantly less understanding than Democrats.

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - Ecological Personhood: A Bridging Approach - cup.org/40vPwxB "Aotearoa New Zealand’s recognition of the Whanganui River as a legal person in 2017 has generated a lively debate..." - MONICA BRITO VIEIRA & @seanflemingpt.bsky.social #FirstView

New findings from Pavlos Vasilopoulos & Justin Robinson finds that authoritarianism in Britain is closely tied to anti-immigration views, but not to vote choice or economic attitudes after accounting for individual traits. #BritishPolitics Read more: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

📣 NEW PAPER ALERT! 🚨 "School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support" Just published in @wepsocial.bsky.social with @nspmartin.bsky.social and @rolandkappe.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1080/0140... 🧵👇

The deadline for the Toronto political behaviour workshop is July 11. Get your paper in! Details 👇🏼

🆕 We're now on Bluesky! 🦋 Follow us here @epsrjournal.bsky.social for cutting-edge research in political science—engaging with key debates and setting the standard in theory, concepts, and methodology in a #OA journal for all! #PoliticalScience #EPSR #Polisky

🆕 EJPR NEWS 📰 Find us here on Bluesky 🦋 @ejprjournal.bsky.social for original, peer-reviewed research on comparative European politics. Stay informed, stay connected. #PoliticalScience #EJPR #PoliSky

Job alert! We are recruiting at the Centre for the Politics of Feelings (www.politics-of-feelings.com) for a post-doc interested in emotions & politics. A focus on the relation between health & politics is highly desirable. Info: jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Deadline 11th July. Please share!

. @polbehavior.bsky.social sends a signed card and sticker to every author and reviewer eaxh year and it made my day receiving them!!

While gutted to be missing #EPSA2025 Justin Robinson will be presenting our work on the relationship between adolescent economic hardship and political participation later in life in 🇬🇧 today at 13:10 in Room 0A.06. coms.events/epsa2025/dat...

While gutted to be missing #EPSA2025 Justin Robinson will be presenting our work on the relationship between adolescent economic hardship and political participation later in life in 🇬🇧 today at 13:10 in Room 0A.06. coms.events/epsa2025/dat...

Not the most productive day at work, so here’s my list of the best movies of the 21st century www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

People tend to underestimate just how much public opinion is shaped by elite cue following. #Zaller

Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social

This conclusion is very interesting as it runs counter to the Thatcher era idea that encouraging home and share ownership would move people rightwards.

Do changes in wealth shape voting preferences? We tried to answer this question using an 11-year panel study in 🇬🇧. We find no evidence that an increase in assets boosts support for the Conservatives

Do changes in wealth shape voting preferences? We tried to answer this question using an 11-year panel study in 🇬🇧. We find no evidence that an increase in assets boosts support for the Conservatives

🚨New article🔥 🏠UnfAirbnb! The Effect of Short-Term Letting on Electoral Behaviour, with JM Raya & C Llaneza at @polstudies.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... What do we study? (1/n) @upf.edu @politiquesupf.bsky.social

TWO DAYS LEFT TO APPLY! Come work with us ✅ hot topic ✅ cool project ✅ cool and empathetic team ✅ cool department ✅ cool city 👇👇👇👇

Labour's inexplicable reluctance to address the university crisis will soon translate into a shortage of skilled workers www.ft.com/content/f1c7...

My most personal post yet, a response to so many messages after launching Respect the Marble “Breaking the Intellectual Doom Loop: How to Write While the World Burns” ft. anxiety, a doom-containment protocol & heroic attempts to write offline 🧵 catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

“If universities start to fail, it will be disastrous for Labour MPs and their constituents. It would be the modern equivalent of the factory closure, or the end of the pit. “And despite how some Labour MPs seem to imagine their voters, it would be Labour’s core supporters who were most affected.”

The Greek Coast Guard has long been known to systematically enact reckless & deadly push-backs of migrant boats in the Mediterranean. For once there may be some small measure of accountability after they apparently caused the death of 650 men, women & children in the Pylos tragedy #r4today