Progressief Nederland - new name & I like it. It has Big Tent Energy 🤓

Ethnic minority presence in the boardroom. FTSE 100: 98/100 firms, from 52% in 2019 56% > 1 person 20% of board roles in FTSE100 FTSE 250: 205/350 firms (82%), from 22% in 2019 Parker Review 2026

It was great to present, w/ @stefaniesprong.bsky.social, fresh findings from the @equalstrength.bsky.social project at @compasoxford.bsky.social in Oxford. Our team can't wait to present the first comparative, cross-domain field experiment on ethnic discrimination in Europe at the next conferences!

This Thursday @stefaniesprong.bsky.social and @distasioval.bsky.social will present research findings from the @equalstrength.bsky.social-consortium. I'm really looking forward to seeing all of the team's hard work be presented. Join in Oxford or online at 3h45 on Thursday March 5th.

🤓Thursday February 19th at 15h45 @ Oxford and online: Katharina Lawall will discuss how disinformation instrumentalising gender equality to further radical right ideologies can be set straight. Join us in this hybrid seminar by @katharinalawall.bsky.social about femonationalism

✨✨ Solo-authored article accepted for publication in the European Political Science Review (EPSR) Affinity voting in Europe: The impact of religion, migration background and gender on preferences for in-group politicians Pre-print of accepted version available here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Really looking forward to this talk by @profsob.bsky.social tomorrow in Oxford and online. Join online or in Oxford!

How do attitudes towards race and ethnicity shape political views in Britain? Join us on 05 Feb at 15.45 (GMT) as @profsob.bsky.social explores this topic, with a focus on racial colour blindness in post-Brexit Britain. Attendance is free and open to all 🔗 www.compas.ox.ac.uk/event/the-po...

Really looking forward to this seminar by @turnbulldugarte.com on Thursday. Drop by if you are in Oxford (+ for drinks after) or join online. Stuart is an amazing speaker and this research is as timely as ever.

Across Europe, social democratic parties are increasingly adopting restrictive immigration rhetoric in response to the electoral success of radical right parties. Join Dr Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte this Thursday, 22 January, to learn more about this trend. The seminar is free and open to all. ⬇️

“Flood the zone with shit” - zei Trump ooit. In zijn tweede termijn doet hij precies dat: een constante stroom aan decreten, tweets en controverse. Feiten vervagen en kritiek wordt bijna onmogelijk. ➡️ Hoe doorbreek je die chaos? 🌪️ We onderzoeken het op 20 januari, meld je gratis aan: buff.ly/6Ihtjuv

🥳 New year, new publication 📑"Contested memories: the political effects of de-commemoration proposals" @jeppjournal.bsky.social With Francesco Colombo, we study a street renaming proposal in Berlin and find -contrary to conventional wisdom- no political backlash, but a positive feedback effect.

We are happy to release the Paths to Power Dashboard. It is the perfect tool for politics nerds! You can find it here: ptp.isv.sv.uio.no/ptp/ It allows you to explore governments from 1966-2021 using the PtP and WhoGov datasets. See examples below. The app has been programmed by Stuart Bramwell.

Survey experiments' popularity in political science is getting attention. What is good and bad about them? How can one maximize their benefits and mitigate their downsides? Greg Huber and I wrote up our thoughts: Paywalled: doi.org/10.1016/bs.h... Free: m-graham.com/papers/Huber...

Populists and socialists are more likely than other politicians to come from lower-class families, and social democrats to have less educated parents. Yet both groups are just as likely to have highly educated and higher class friends and partners journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Given that only a third of the hypotheses were supported, one takeaway is that our theories are crap.

Another great @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper I'm happy to have edited is out here, on workers' descriptive representation, by @manuelwagner.bsky.social and @laurenzennser.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism. What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections? My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social! 1/7

New article out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Tabea Palmtag and @dpzollinger.bsky.social 📝 We use open-ended survey questions (in Germany) to assess how and among whom social status shifts are perceived. This tests cultural backlash narratives in voters' perceptions. 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

My latest for the Observer on the growing Green threat to Labour and why London’s “all up” local elections could provide some of the biggest drama in this May’s local and devolved elections observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

On my way to Florence, where I will be presenting at the EUI's PBC @behaviour-eui.bsky.social a project co-authored w/ @leonardocarella.bsky.social We show that (anti-immigration) 🇬🇧🇮🇹 people 'update' their social identity when primed with narratives pitting immigrants against other social groups

I've had the honour to convene this seminar series about the politics of immigration and exclusion. Looking forward to learning more about the research by @turnbulldugarte.com @profsob.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @distasioval.bsky.social and @stefaniesprong.bsky.social + drinks after!

My husband is a romantic guy. He told me to take my passport and come with him for a surprise and said it would be a bit... nerdy? We went by train to Rotterdam to the Fenix Art Museum About Migration. A phenomenal museum, especially if you're a migration scholar nerd like me 😅 fenix.nl/en/

Survey researchers, have you thought about the political consequences of miscategorizing respondents' identities? Raymundo Lopez (ABD, raymundolopez.com/index.html) has written a wonderful summary of my APSR on PS Now (@apsa.bsky.social). Read it here! politicalsciencenow.com/the-politics...

Just in time for Christmas: a great interview with an absolute legend. Theda Skocpol and Edwin Amenta on her career, US politics, the erosion of democracy, and most of all, what to do about it. sociologica.unibo.it/article/view...

In our first paper on instrumental inclusion we showed that people update their views on LGBTQ+ rights in response to out-group threat. Here we extend the theory to test diverse cases of selective inclusion doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

New publication with @turnbulldugarte.com in @psrm.bsky.social! 🧵 We study whether citizens’ liberal values are selective: do people support policies based on who promotes them? Short answer: Yes, and it's driven by ethnic out-group disidentification. (1/11) 👇 doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Check out the very first EqualStrength publication, led by Abel Ghekiere and @billiemartiniello.bsky.social

So proud of the @equalstrength.bsky.social team! 👏🏻 Over two years ago, we started this project and soon decided we did not want to just select names for our experiments but carefully pretest them first. [1/2]

Awesome project with wonderful people and amazing research! What more could you ask for ?!?! Now check out our first @equalstrength.bsky.social publication!

For everyone using names in experimental research, check out this first publication in Nature's Scientific Data from our @equalstrength.bsky.social project on perceptions of names in Europe Lead by Abel Ghekiere and @billiemartiniello.bsky.social; great summary by @sbvanoosten.bsky.social below ⬇️

Every year it becomes clearer that names carry a multitude of signals, but often they are used as a clear signal of for example race or ethnicity. Untangling this interplay of gender, class, race, and ethnicity will be easier with this extensive dataset!

New paper out w/ @tomwgvdmeer.bsky.social & @hakhverdian.bsky.social in @epsrjournal.bsky.social. We show that political trust dynamics matter for electoral behavior. While stable and variable distrusters behave similarly, declining trust boosts both abstention and anti-establishment voting. 🧵

⁉️What do people read into names? ⁉️ ✨New publication in Nature’s Scientific Data ✨ When people see an ethnic minority-sounding name, do they infer race, religion, gender, or social background? 🤓First @equalstrength.bsky.social publication 😅 Check it out here: 🧵

Enjoyed a fascinating seminar and dinner with @cdiehl.bsky.social yesterday. She presented research on expressing experiences of discrimination and perceptions of structural inequalities. Long story short: it ain't what it seems. And after that we had A LOT OF (very delicious) food 😋

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant! I’m extremely grateful to my colleagues and collaborators for their support and help, and very excited to start this new adventure. Looking forward to all the collaborations ahead! #ERCCoG 1/2

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

On Thursday we host Claudia Diehl for the year's last AMCIS Seminar: "Explaining Perceptions of Unfair Treatment: Theoretical Arguments & Empirical Evidence from Ethnic Minorities, Women & Students" Info & registration: amcis.uva.nl/content/even... @codyhochstenbach.bsky.social @aissr.bsky.social

Is Christian religiosity driving backlash against Muslims in Western Europe? 📺 Watch the video, or read the full paper (open access) here 🔗 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“Circumstantial liberals” concluded their book tour across 10 countries, Prague to Vancouver, Lisbon to Gothenburg. It ended appropriately in Washington D.C., where Martin Luther King once had a dream. The dream of the book is that we stop thinking of ethnicity as a problem, but as an opportunity.

Instrumentally inclusive: Does support for LGBT+ rights grow when people are reminded of Muslim opposition to it? Yes and the results of this paper still stand. The paper speaks a truth to power in a way our society needs. If anything, we need more research on justifications of Islamophobia 🙏

A critique of our (w/ @bertous.bsky.social) paper “Instrumentally inclusive” has just been published. Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response. osf.io/rn6h3/files/...

Friday’s workshop was a joy to host. ☺️ We brought together researchers and activists to talk about LGBTQ+ criminalization, discrimination at work and in parenting, dating bias, and how the far right weaponizes LGBTQ issues. Grateful to everyone involved and to VU's VICES for the support. 🏳️‍🌈

This week in Lausanne for workshops with the @equalstrength.bsky.social and the LIVES centre. Weather does not disappoint.

This project has been an incredible experience for all of us. The data collection is almost finished, so hopefully you’ll start seeing results from this amazing team effort in 2026. Big thanks to the organising team @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social, Stephanie Steinmetz and Vasilena Lachkovska!

After so many months of fieldwork, it was great to present findings from our @equalstrength.bsky.social's project at the LIVES centre in beautiful Lausanne! Stay tuned for more in the coming months!

🆕 Latest article out @electoralstudies.bsky.social! Left parties' higher salience on cultural issues associated w/ higher support from working-class voters. Social democrats much more sensitive to different strategies, should pursue more left/salient economics www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was so good to meet with @equalstrength.bsky.social -researchers to discuss structural discrimination against Black, Muslim, and Roma people, funded by Horizon Europe. Thank you @stephsteinmetz.bsky.social, @jeremykuhnle.bsky.social and Vasilena Lachkovska for hosting us at UNIL in Lausanne.

The saga continues... After two years of journalists asking me whether whether Muslims vote for PVV. Now the new question is: 💥do Muslim vote for D66? 💥 With comments from yours truly, Fred van Lieburg, Martijn de Koning and Judith de Jong. www.trouw.nl/religie-filo...