I’m lucky to teach a wonderful group of postgrads studying gender & politics at Bath 💫 Send your excellent gender & politics students our way 😊 They can find out more about our MSc in International Relations with Gender Politics at the Virtual Open Day on 12 Nov 👇 www.bath.ac.uk/campaigns/ex...

School lunches get a bad rap, but they're healthier than the average packed lunch. And making them free for all amplifies academic and health benefits for low-income kids by removing stigma/shame. So I'm glad Colorado voted to raise taxes on high-income households to make school meals free for all.

Crazy support numbers for Zohran Mamdani among young women: 84% (!) of women aged 18-29 voted for Mamdani in the NYC Mayoral Election. But also important: young men voted MUCH MORE STRONGLY (67%) for Mamdani than old men (37%).

An inconvenient truth. @turnbulldugarte.com and @emiliabelknap.bsky.social puncture a pervasive myth. ‬ "Among young respondents aged 18-25, a very comfortable majority of women reject Reform UK (75%), and a similarly large majority of men in the same age group share the same view (71%)."

❗️Please share widely: TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... Deadline: 10 Dec 2025

🧵 / YouGov's new study finds Britain's ethnic minority communities now tend to have a negative view of the Labour party Greens: +17 net favourable Lib Dems: +1 Labour: -19 Conservatives: -44 Reform UK: -62 Breakdowns by individual ethnic group in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Pleased to share that the Kennedy School has been authorized to conduct a faculty search in American politics This is as an extraordinary opportunity for us - please share widely with your networks and consider applying academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15418

Your regular reminder that scrapping ILR for people who have come here and played by the rules, which is what Lam proposes here, is a position supported by 3% of the public

🚨New Article Out! “The Scottish Road to Net Zero: Corporate Welfare and Assetization Cascades” The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.

Some very useful stuff here on a topic where there’s a lot of froth and bad research. Basic truth is Gen Z men in the UK are simply not more right wing - in attitudes or voting behaviour - than older generations. They are less. Most of the intra-gen divide is young women getting more progressive.

If you liked this thread / Substack please read @profjanegreen.bsky.social’s brilliant recent piece on Labour and Reform. politicscentre.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'On the Decline of Elite-Educated Republicans in Congress' by Craig Volden, Jonathan Wai & Alan E. Wiseman was the most-downloaded @poppublicsphere.bsky.social paper in August 2025. You can read it #OpenAccess here - cup.org/47ZVCe3

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Incredible parallels in this Berinsky & @gabelenz.bsky.social paper. Politicians didn't stand up to Joe McCarthy in large part because they incorrectly inferred McCarthy/ism was extremely popular. Not standing up to McCarthy was a kind of 1950s Popularism gated academic.oup.com/poq/article/...

*** NEW RESEARCH ALERT *** How do firms respond in the face of increased restrictions to hiring skilled immigrant workers? [THREAD]

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

Blog post: github.com/sophieehill/... TL;DR: There are a LOT of errors/inconsistencies in the results reported in this paper (estimates outside CIs, sign errors, duplicates, asymmetric CIs). Even in the abstract itself! This suggests manual editing of results tables. Which is not good... 🧵

Abysmal idea:In times of increasing extremism in Germany & abroad, we need to strengthen the study of politics, not weaken it beyond recognition. Cologne is one of the best departments in Germany with colleagues doing world-class research on relevant topics. Hope the NRW government will think again!

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...

Some of the very best and most internationally renowned political scientists in Germany are at Cologne. This is a very real threat to a globally strong group.

The University of Cologne plans drastic cuts to its Political Science department, potentially abolishing the MSc in Political Science and eliminating the professorships in IR and Comparative Politics. This would severely weaken the social sciences at @unicologne.bsky.social. Petition (de/en) ⤵️

Noah Smith blog today is about the moderation stuff www.noahpinion.blog/p/moderation... It's pretty reasonable (he's an econ phd so he knows correlation ≠ causation). Prompted me to more formally write the plausible mechanisms that explain null effects of candidate ideology in the Trump era

Please share: @pavisuri.bsky.social and I are delighted to share details for the political economy of development section of @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026 We welcome great work and fresh ideas! Please spread the word among interested colleagues not on here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A bit behind schedule, but how voters moved in the year since the 2024 election. Labour facing same splintering of the last govt: a significant bloc crossing floor to primary electoral opposition, with a numerically larger chunk moving to opponents on same side of spectrum, plus many 'don't knows'.

The European Political Science Society is now accepting paper & panel proposals for its annual conference! 📢 Call for Papers: EPSS 2026 – Belfast
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1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

I decided to make a long blog post combining general sociological things I am aware of with personal observations of cultural and lifestyle differences between the UK and USA. sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2025/07/comp...

Which Republicans support restrictive abortion laws? The most extreme abortion policies aren't popular with GOP donors, voters, or rich individuals – but are pushed by a small and influential group within the party. Read more from Barber et al. in POQ now: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

The Portuguese far right party CH has been growing spectacularly, shattering views of the country as immune to this phenomenon. This has prompted a discussion about where their votes come from. Some thoughts on this, prompted by newly released survey data:

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📣 Postdoc (75 %, 3 yrs) at @unigreifswald.bsky.social — start autumn 2025 on perhaps Germany’s most beautiful campus. Know someone with a PhD (or nearly done) in Political Science? ⬇️ #PolSci #Postdoc

Great piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on why Europe needs to get serious about air-con www.ft.com/content/50f6...

New paper alert! 📣 @chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth. TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies. Details👇 1/X

Online first: "School subject choices in adolescence affect political party support" by @nspmartin.bsky.social @ralphscott.bsky.social & @rolandkappe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0140... Part of the Special Issue "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies"

Can banning political ideologies protect democracy? 🛡️🆚🗣️ Our (w. @valentimvicente.bsky.social) paper finds: punishing individuals might backfire. We study a West German policy banning "extreme left" individuals from working for the state. #Democracy #PoliticalScience 🧵 url: osf.io/usqdb_v2

#jobs #stellenangebote #GESISjobs #jobfairy #PhDJobs #SurveyResearch #SocialSciences #AcademicJobs #DataPreparation GESIS is hiring a PhD candidate in Data Preparation to join the #FReDA family panel team in Cologne or Mannheim! 👉 Start: Sept 2025 👉 Apply by July 24 🔗 gesis.org/en/institu...#jobs#stellenangebote

New article out in World Politcs. We analyze how different groups react to varying programs of social democratic parties. We find less trade-offs than often assumed. Generally, more left-progressive programs increase support among social democratic potentials muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

My column in the latest edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social is on the myth of Morgan McSweeney's strategic mastery subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/75/t...

If you're looking for a weekend read, I think our study on who is turning their backs on Labour and why is quite interesting: yougov.co.uk/politics/art... But to add some extra notes...🧵

@wzb.bsky.social is searching for new director for the study of democracy These are extraordinary senior positions; tenured wth funding to establish a new dept & pursue big agendas www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/dire... 🚨Please share widely! #Polisky @epssnet.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social

Yesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/

NYC percentage foreign born from census data. You can see the effect of the 1924 Immigration and Nationality Act which was an explicitly white supremacist restriction on immigration. Then in 1964, immigration was opened again with family migration at the core.

How Britain would vote, a year since the 2024 election: Our new study of 17,000 Britons breaks down current voting intention by factors such as age, gender, education, past vote, and more 👇 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Counterpoint: new Public First research shows every UK resident working adult (on a full time equivalent basis) is £466 a year better off on average as a result of international students. So let’s just publicise that instead of levying them www.publicfirst.co.uk/calculating-...

The immigration system in a nutshell - a Brazilian sex offender allowed to stay here, but the small children of a professor and a nurse who are here legally are ordered to be deported without their parents

A definition of White British which, aside from everything else, includes Gerry Adams but excludes King Charles.