🆕 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...

Very excited about this today.

You think your elections are nail biters? In the last poll of the polls, the @peilingwijzer.bsky.social produced by @tomlouwerse.nl, before election day in the Netherlands tomorrow, three parties are tied for first place peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

This was so much fun! Such a riveting audience! Thanks so much to @florianfoos.bsky.social and @bogatyrev.bsky.social for making it possible, @sarahobolt.bsky.social for the funniest anecdote on dating, and the audience for great questions! Shout out to the one and only @bertous.bsky.social!

Very excited about this project with @lalamur.bsky.social.

The Political Behavior Seminar at @lsegovernment.bsky.social is back at 4pm UK time today with @lalamur.bsky.social presenting her new book project, co-authored with @bertous.bsky.social. Join us in London or on Zoom 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/government/r...

Tariffs might be the word of 2025. Given the state of *looks around* we asked: is there demand for tariffs in Europe? @grahn.bsky.social @katharinalawall.bsky.social @sophiemainz.bsky.social Maria Nordbrandt & I show the answer is a resolute no @jeppjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Today I woke up thinking about this highlight of my life.

Short-term rentals can disrupt urban life & influence the ballot box - @tonirodon.bsky.social, Raya & Llaneza link high Airbnb density in Barcelona to increased support for parties targeting home-sharing regulation: buff.ly/gPwEQxf @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

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🌈 Hi everyone! 😯 We want to star this new academic year by announcing our lineup for the coming months. 👉 On October 2, we will start our programme with @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social! 👉 On November 6, we will have @frammaturo.bsky.social! 👉 And on December 4 with @payoub.bsky.social and Samuel Whitt!

Today is the day. 🌈 We're SO back with the Queer Politics Webinar. Y por la puerta grande: We have @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social presenting their outstanding work on Transgender Norm Diffusion. Join us at 6 pm (CET)!

Why do we see far fewer bisexual men than bi women in surveys? One possible reason is the added prejudice bi men face in the dating market. Check out this paper by Stu!

Happy to publish today in the @ejprjournal.bsky.social Pop culture (think Netflix's Sex Education) make us think that emerging cohorts are happy to socially incorporate partners with sexually modern backgrounds and experiences 🏳️‍🌈 But is this really the case? doi.org/10.1017/S147...

🚨 New article out today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social ! 📄 “Strategic Inclusion Without Transformation: How Populist Radical Right Parties Engage With Women’s Interests” With Bonnie Meguid, @hildecoffe.bsky.social & Miki Kittilson 🔗 doi.org/10.1177/0010...

2025/2026 here we go... 🚀 Check out our Permanent Seminar Series line-up for the fall! 🍂✨ This year is going to be full of exciting news—stay tuned!

😯 Our first webinar of the 2025 Autumn programme is coming this Thursday! 📆 Be sure to join us for an awesome presentation by @alsogwendolyn.bsky.social

🚨 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...

Now out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social. In our new article, @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I show that where local rent prices increase more, residents with lower incomes become more likely to support the radical right AfD. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In a moment when the narrative has swung so far to the other end, this book by Volha Charnysh is more important than ever. It shows the displacement of people historically fostered state capacity, private entrepreneurship, and long-term economic performance. www.cambridge.org/core/books/u...

w/ @massimoprearo.bsky.social on @qoe-ijes.bsky.social, we introduce our 2024 Italian LGBTIQ+ Electoral Survey: the first large-N evidence on the political behaviour & attitudes of Italian LGBTIQ+ citizens. We discuss data, methodological challenges & relevance here: oaj.fupress.net/index.php/qo...

What do citizens imagine their political opponents to be like? Polarization is real, but it also lives in our heads, fueled by stereotypes. We asked people in 🇧🇷, 🇬🇧, 🇩🇪 & 🇵🇱 to describe opponents in their own words. With @jnareal.bsky.social, @markuswagner.bsky.social & @piotrmarczynski.bsky.social 👇

🚨📢 New paper out in @psrm.bsky.social with Yara Sleiman & Paul Dolan: “Sleeping with the enemy: partisanship and tolerance in online dating”. How much do politics shape who we swipe?

Three weeks left to apply 👇

I've been thinking about what to say about this news. It is a strange and humbling thing to learn you've received a grant like this. I want to say this: that this is your idea. 🧵

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. 🧵👇

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) ⤵️

In many countries, mainstream politicians are adopting rhetoric and policies that typical of the far-right. Our new paper (w/ @dziblatt.bsky.social and E Dinas), out now in the @bjpols.bsky.social, finds that doing so erodes norms more than when far-right politicians make similar statements. 1/3

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Another fantastic piece out in our "Cleavage Politics in Western Democracies" special issue! (co-edited with @davidattewell6.bsky.social ) @mierkezat.bsky.social et al investigate the role of civil society in contemporary cleavage formation.  There are a few more SI contributions still to come!

No access ⛔ New report documents the difficulty for researchers to get access to social media data. The access challenge has multiple effects, such as turning away from studying some platforms, redesigning studies, and fears of violating terms of service. www.digmin.dk/Media/638923...

Using a triple-differences model, we show that the biggest negative effect of turning right was among the party’s own supporters

It’s official - “Nigel Farage is right, don’t vote for him” is a demonstrably awful strategy for Labour. Boosts salience of immigration, costs votes on the left, doesn’t persuade any voters on right (why would they accept a crap knock-off when they can have the original?)

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...

I feel overwhelmed and incredibly honoured to announce that I have been awarded an @erc.europa.eu Starting Grant for my project “VisibleQueers”, fully titled as “Making the Queers Visible: Partisanship and Support among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Eastern and Western Europe”. #ERCStG

I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in ‪@wepsocial.bsky.social‬ (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social‬!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My Substack on writing, Respect the Marble is back! 🎉 I’ll be launching several new things this autumn, outlined here: catherineeunicedevries.substack.com/p/a-new-seas... A quick preview 👇 🧵

🚨 New in Journal of Politics! 🚨 Do radical right parties need to cut ties with old dictatorships to succeed? 👉 @sergipardos.bsky.social and my study of Spain’s VOX says: ❌ Not necessarily.

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

Too often, I see people talk about a replication as if the first study has established something, and the replication study is a double-check. What people often fail to understand is that we do not do replication studies to *check* a finding, but to *establish* a finding. 1/x

🎉 Delighted to share new research out today: The Political Consequences of the Mental Load 📄 European Sociological Review doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019 @europeansocreview.bsky.social What happens to political engagement when the “mental load” of running a household gets too heavy? 🧵

🚨New article w/ @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter Protest and the rise of left-nationalist challengers: evidence from Germany 📔 Social Movement Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1474... In 2022, Germany faced a cost-of-living crisis. Many expected a “Hot Autumn” of mass protest—but it never happened. Why?

Equal representation does not affect men’s expectations regarding policy output. However, if men are under-represented, most men across various sub-groups believe institutions are less likely to cater to their interests journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this Elgar Encyclopedia entry on Political behavior of LGBT+ people penned by @wurthmann.bsky.social and myself. The piece summarizes what we know about queer political behavior and identifies some the remaining gaps. 🏳️‍🌈 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Look at the distribution of wealth among politicians around the world relative to the people they represent! The median politician in South Africa's has 200x the wealth of the typical household in that country.

I have a new article out at @polstudies.bsky.social. In "Electoral Hope", I make the case that supposedly irrational "wishful thinking" is actually a crucial part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies. OA link: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Scientific papers are like kids: you pretend to love them all equally, but deep down, you have a favorite. And this one is mine. Born from the brilliant MA thesis of Kathina Mehring, it's a reminder that co-writing with young scholars is the best part of this job. 💙📄 Link to the paper ⬇️