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!)

📢 New working paper! Does losing an election make politicians less committed to democracy? 🗳️ With @canalejoalvaro.bsky.social we show that even mainstream politicians' democratic attitudes resent after defeat—especially when their party loses. ⚖️📉 Link: osf.io/preprints/os...

🧑‍🎓In November we will be hosting the VII International Doctoral Workshop on "The pressing challenges to inequality in contemporary society" 📅Apply by June 9 Find all relevant information on our website: sites.google.com/view/ublawco...

If you're interested, don't hesitate to submit your paper! It’s a great opportunity to share your work and receive academic feedback in an international environment. Please share this call with colleagues and other young researchers. And feel free to DM me in case you have any questions!

📢 Publication alert: Not just about the ruling: when does the opposition challenge a law in the Spanish Constitutional Court? 📄 [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13608746.2025.2475019]

🎉🎉 Excited to share that our paper "The Value of Liberal Democracy: Assessing Citizens’ Commitment to Democratic Principles", co-authored with @ehernandez.bsky.social, Enrique Prada and Damjan Tomic, is now published in the European Journal of Political Research!🎉

Among all the democratic principles, free elections are the principle that individuals value the most. Citizens are firmly committed to elections, as they are not willing to forgo this principle even when compensated with high increases in income ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

'Vargas Llosa, un cruce entre Gustave Flaubert y Victor Hugo', por Javier Cercas dozz.es/n2mhq5

Great article over here: Rising local rent levels increase support for radical right parties among long-term residents with lower household incomes. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

NEW - Mobile Internet and the Quality of Elections in Low-Income Democracies - cup.org/4bCpDAo - @alexyeandle.bsky.social "The paper contributes to the literature on information technology, party strategy, and election administration in low-income settings." #OpenAccess

NEW - The Demand Side of Democratic Backsliding: How Divergent Understandings of Democracy Shape Political Choice - cup.org/4hy5Nrf - Natasha Wunsch, @marcjacob.bsky.social & Laurenz Derksen #OpenAccess

📢Difusión pls! 🧑‍🎓Investigación UAB Si eres padre (♂️) de niños menores de 5 años, queremos conocer tu experiencia sobre conciliación laboral y familiar. 🗓️ 1 hora | 🌐 Virtual | 🤝 Voluntario 💬 Grupos de discusión 👉 Inscríbete: forms.office.com/e/gNUEF0aFRC ¡Gracias! 🙌

Another success in the second seminar of the BJ-REPS 🧑‍💻! Last Friday we had @klaramueller.bsky.social presenting an awesome joint work with @aleferna.bsky.social on snap elections. Many thanks to the participants and next month more!

Yesterday I had the opportunity to present most recent work joint with @aleferna.bsky.social on the effect of snap election calls on vote intention (un)certainty at BJ REPS 🎓 🗳️ Great atmosphere and lovely to see such an engaged crowd of PhDs from Barcelona‘s different universities! #polisky

Very happy that our paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social & E Dinas) has been accepted @bjpols.bsky.social . We've seen the center right increasingly adopt far-right rhetoric. Our experiment in 🇩🇪 finds that this erodes anti-prejudice norms *more* than when the far-right employs similar rhetoric. 1/3

🗓️ Submission deadline: February 28 🗓️ Join us to the workshop "The Politics of AI: Actors, Policy, Geopolitics, and Resistances" (Barcelona 2-3 October 2025). Submission form: forms.gle/daA2S1qcSnxc... Call for papers: www.ibei.org/en/call-for-...

Very glad to have participated in #KOMEX2025. Great atmosphere, great supervisors and above all great company. Thank to all of you for this great experience! @erickpadilla.bsky.social @florencia-olivares.bsky.social @ginaaniano.bsky.social @komex.bsky.social

#Callforpapers 👇 The Politics of #AI: Actors, Policy, #Geopolitics & Resistances. We look forward to your submissions and to a lively and thought-provoking discussion in #Barcelona! ⏰Deadline for abstract submissions: February 28 🔎All the information: t.ly/RMrvb

Full room of young political scientists yesterday in the first session of the BJ-REPS 🧑‍💻 at the UB. Thanks a lot to @ruizhdezmaria.bsky.social for presenting an awesome project! Also many thanks to Damjan Tomic for this amazing idea and to all the participants. Next month more!

📢 Our new paper in Political Analysis explains how to use LLMs like GPT-4o, Llama or Mistral to estimate the ideological and policy position of political texts. Our approach is fast, reliable, cost-effective and reproducible and works with texts written in different languages 1/7 cup.org/4axBEXo