📢 BJREPS Seminar | Apr 10, 16:30–17:30 🎤 Clara Brügge (ETH) presents 📄 Opportunity or Constraint for Viable Climate Policy? Support for Green Protectionism amid Trade offs between Energy Sovereignty and Climate Ambition 📍 Campus de la Ciutadella, UPF (Room 13.004) www.banps.cat/bj-reps

🧵1/ Our first meta-science paper (with 350+ coauthors) is published today in Nature. It presents one of the largest-ever reproducibility projects in economics & political science. Here’s what we found 👇

EPSS Travel Grants for 2026 Belfast conference: PhD students & junior scholars @ institutions in European countries that are often underrepresented, can apply for full fee waiver & £500 stipend Apply: lnkd.in/ehXjhCgf Deadline: March 8, 11:59pm GMT. More details: lnkd.in/eZTP5sWR

📢 New BJREPS tomorrow! 🎤 Jelle Willem Van Der Wal @politiquesuab.bsky.social presents 📄 Micro Foundations of Street Level Policy Entrepreneurship in Migration Policy 🗓 Fri, March 6 | ⏰ 17:00–18:30 📍 Can Jaumandreu Building, Room U1.4 @uocuniversitat.bsky.social www.banps.cat/bj-reps

🏅 Premi al Millor Article de Recerca Junior a la 8a JCPOP Erick Padilla (UAB) ha estat guardonat pel millor article a l’JCPOP 2025, celebrat el 10 de novembre a l’IBEI. El workshop continua sent un espai destacat per a investigadors en comportament polític i opinió pública.

🚨 New WP w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social on OSF doi.org/10.31235/osf... We usually think that social identities precede preferences We show the reverse is also true: people update their social identities to match their immigration preferences Focus: class identity in 🇬🇧 + Christian identity in 🇮🇹

🎉 Congratulations to Erick Padilla @erickpadilla.bsky.social (UB) @cpoliticaub.bsky.social 🏆🥇Winner of the 1st Edition of the Best JCPOP Junior Paper Award for his paper "Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation" 📜✒️ 👏🏻 Well deserved!

📢 Busquem Assistent de Recerca! Projecte comparat sobre discurs polític, nacionalisme i immigració (@autogoverncat.bsky.social ) Tasques: recopilació de dades digitals, codificació i anàlisi de textos, visualització de resultats. 20h/setmana · 10 mesos Més info: seu.ub.edu/ofertaPublic...

🚨New publication! Thrilled to finally see this paper out in @psrm.bsky.social 🎉 📊I study how gender shapes coalition preferences among politicians. Turns out mayors prefer forming governments with women-led parties, perceiving them as better communicators and more competent governors.

📢 BJREPS 🎤 @arnaubteros.bsky.social presents 📄 Is Social Policy Generosity Associated with the Disability Turnout Gap? 🗓 Fri, Feb 6, 2026 | ⏰ 16:30–17:30 📍 Faculty of Law, @cpoliticaub.bsky.social www.banps.cat/bj-reps

🎉 Really happy to see my first single-authored article published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social ! It analyses how inequalities in access to basic services (healthcare, education, roads, and internet coverage) affect levels of rural resentment 👇 [1/5] www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 Publication alert: Governments are investing in digitalization intensively, but we know little about who supports this policy. We investigate this question in this new article with Alex Kuo, @retobuergisser.bsky.social, and @siljahausermann.bsky.social published at JEPP doi.org/10.1080/1350... 🧵

🔥🎉 very happy to see this paper finally out at @cpsjournal.bsky.social! Together with @damjantomic.bsky.social, Enrique Prada, and @ehernandez.bsky.social, we analyze how winner-loser dynamics may shape citizens' support for norms of restraint and consent!

🎉 We're excited to share that "Winners’ Restraint or Affective Majoritarianism? Elections, Polarization and Political Support," co-authored with @sergiferrer.bsky.social, Enrique Prada and @ehernandez.bsky.social, is now published in CPS! You can access it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨Happy to finally see this out in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social (with @leonardocarella.bsky.social) ⁉️ Does growing up when immigration is salient make people vote for parties they agree with on immigration *for the rest of their lives*? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

🎉 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)

📢 BJREPS 🎤 @erickpadilla.bsky.social (@cpoliticaub.bsky.social) presents “Working Alone? Working from Home and Political Participation” 🗓 Fri, Jan 16, 2026 | ⏰ 16:30–17:30 📍 Room 20.283 An interuniversity space for PhD students to share work, get feedback & connect www.banps.cat/bj-reps

📰 Escribimos en @agendapublica.es sobre los efectos de la equiparación del permiso del permiso de paternidad sobre la penalización por maternidad. “La ampliación del permiso funciona especialmente bien en hogares donde ya existía una cierta igualdad previa” ⬇️⬇️⬇️ agendapublica.es/noticia/2048...

Amb les piles carregades després de l'esmorzar🔋🥐 📢 Comencen les següents presentacions! Consulta el programa 👉🏻 sites.google.com/view/barcelo...

Very happy to receive the prize for the best federalism article, awarded by @autogoverncat.bsky.social . Sharing it with great friends Sergi Morales and Jorge Fernandes makes it even better. Our @jeppjournal.bsky.social article highlights the key gap between legal decentralization and resources.

Fins aquí el JCPOP 2025! 🎉 Moltes gràcies als presentadors, discussants i chairs per una gran jornada, a @evaanduiza.bsky.social per una gran keynote, i a @politiquesupf.bsky.social i @ibei.org per organitzar-ho. Atents a les xarxes per futures novetats de BaNPS! 👀 Fina l'any que ve! 👋🏻🎆

L'aula plena per la presentació de la Barcelona Network of Political Science (BaNPS) per part de Jordi Muñoz @jordimunoz.bsky.social i Marc Guinjoan @mguinjoan.bsky.social 👉🏻 www.banps.cat

💡 How does moving to opportunity reshape political behavior? 🗞️ In our new BJPolS paper, @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that residential relocations that increase access to opportunity foster political integration and shift political preferences to the left. 👉 tinyurl.com/46utjj65

NEW - Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics? - https://cup.org/3LgxVos "moving to opportunity results in... more left-leaning self-identification, and lower support for far-right parties" - @valentinaconsiglio.bsky.social & @thmskrr.bsky.social #OpenAccess

NEW - Globalization, Higher Education, and Neoliberal Values: Evidence from the Bologna Process - https://cup.org/3LG3lVj - @mgiani.bsky.social #OpenAccess

I'm excited to teach my course on longitudinal data & analysis in the context of #KOMEX2026 again. For me, the first iteration of this earlier this year was a lot of nerdy 🤓 fun, and the participants agreed - even anonymously in the evals 😜 Let me know if you have any questions! More info ⬇️

"Public Perceptions of Corporate Position-Taking on Abortion and Transgender Rights" by Wayde Z. C. Marsh and Jordan Carr Peterson. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We are hiring! We are looking for a prospective PhD student to work at the Department of Political Science of the University of Barcelona and the Institutions, Politics and Economics Research Center in connection to a research project on Backlash. More details here: sites.google.com/view/jordi-m...

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...

💥Online first: "The sound of party competition: how applause reflects unity, disagreement, and the electoral cycle in parliaments" by @ankuepfer.bsky.social @jocmuel.bsky.social & @pluggedchris.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140...

🚨Very excited to see our new paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social! We looked at how working with AI shapes people's risk perceptions and social policy preferences, with some surprising results ⬇️

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

Radical-right parties are often linked to the “left-behind”. But supporting them when stigma is strong is costly. So who is willing to pay that cost early on, before it’s normalized? In my new WP, I argue that breaking political norms is socially stratified. 🧵👇

🚨My first published article together with @galais.bsky.social is out: “Beyond fear and anger: the demobilizing role of sadness in far right voting in Spain” In this article we address the emotional dynamics behind support for Vox in Spain. 🧵What do we find? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My paper on the electoral consequences of the coal phase-out in Germany is now out in print! ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

✨Very happy to see my paper "Attitudinal ambivalence toward multiculturalism" out on @jeppjournal.bsky.social ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/8 🧵

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 paper out @wepsocial.bsky.social! 🥡 Key Take-Away: Opposition parties seek more conflict with the government when performing poorly in the polls – especially when falling below their previous election result. Read full 🧵 below:

🧪How did COVID-19 affect citizens’ democratic preferences? ➡️ @cescamat.bsky.social A.Arenas A.Falcó & @jordimunoz.bsky.social find a lasting rise in technocratic preferences and a temporary bump in the willingness to sacrifice civil rights and freedoms www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

People are more likely to accept gender inequality if it is men who are worse off. A new paper with experiments on 35k Americans shows that when men are worse off people are: - more likely to attribute the inequality to a difference in effort - less likely to support pro-equality policies.

📢 Publication alert: Our paper "Unpacking the rural–urban divide: Identities and stereotypes" - with @tonirodon.bsky.social, @griambau.bsky.social, ‬ and Andreu Rodilla - is now out in @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

New WP w/ @riazsascha.bsky.social: via >42 million placebo tests, we show type I error inflation in Unexpected Event during Survey Designs (UESD), propose an adjustment, implement via new R package uesdRobust, and demonstrate utility by replicating two top UESD studies. osf.io/preprints/os... 1/9

I took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸 @epsanet.bsky.social‬ A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵

🚨 Excited to see my first solo-authored paper now published in IJPOR! 🚨 Do election outcomes affect participation in post-election surveys? And specifically, do election winners respond more than losers? The short answer: not really. The slightly longer answer: 🧵👇 academic.oup.com/ijpor/articl...

🚨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

🚀 Just published! Our study in Party Politics investigates what drives political parties to digitalise internally (member engagement) & externally (campaigning) ✅ Bigger parties digitalise participation more ✅ Competition boosts digitalisation 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #DigitalPolitics

Immigrants increase innovation and economic growth [full stop]

Absolutely delighted that my paper “The political consequences of Africa’s mobile revolution” is now Early View at @ajpseditor.bsky.social ! Quick thread (1/n) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Avui, i fins al 15 de juny, hem obert les inscripcions per la novena edició del postgrau d'analista de dades per l'anàlisi política i la gestió pública que fem a @cpoliticaub.bsky.social @ub.edu www.ub.edu/analista-de-...

New working paper with @erickpadilla.bsky.social - We find that politicians' democratic attitudes and preferences are malleable to electoral losses! - It resembles voters' BUT the interaction between candidate and party-level results (which we theorize) adds interesting nuances (we believe!)