Taking a stand ✋️🧍 These authors 🧵 use survey data across 9 countries to assess the downstreams consequences of #AffectivePolarization & intervene to successfully reduce participants #AffectivePolarization in 6 of the 9, improving interpersonal relations and social norms buff.ly/tHRWa65

Had a very similar experience a few years ago with Frontiers in Pol Sci: - reviewers automatically invited, incl over Xmas, in mass - very aggressive policy of fast turnaround - unrealistic & damaging quality - absurd amount of reminders - quantity over quality mindset I now refuse to review for F

Great opportunity: Two open PhD positions available at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

#OpenAccess from @ejprjournal.bsky.social - The (alleged) consequences of affective polarization: A survey experiment in nine democracies - https://cup.org/43vEJV0 - @eelcoharteveld.bsky.social, @leberntzen.bsky.social, @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social, @hayleekelsall.bsky.social#OpenAccess et al #FirstView

Nice to finally see this paper published.

Skriver med @andrejkokkonen.bsky.social på DN Kulturdebatt: www.dn.se/kultur/profe...

Massive interest in Norwegian political-institutional trust right now. Here is the overview @jonaslinde.bsky.social and I published recently on what we know, and don't know, about this topic.

Nice to see "Democratic discontent in old and new democracies" (Dahlberg, Linde & Holmberg) is among the 20 most cited articles on both "Democracy" and "Government" in the last 10 years. At least according to the new IPSA Companion to Political Science (open access) link.springer.com/referencewor...

🚨We have a set of very nice PhD scholarships available at King’s College London’s Department of Political Economy 👨‍🎓 👩‍🏫 Candidates free to develop their own proposal within political science, communication, Econ etc. ⁉️Questions welcome Happy if you have the option to share the call 🙏

📢 New book chapter 👥 Staffan Kumlin @staffankumlin.bsky.social (ISV) & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social 🔎 Political Trust in Norway; A Large But Lopsided Research Field 📖 Published in Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

In this "new" article published in @jeppjournal.bsky.social, Atle Haugsgjerd, @rubenmathisen.bsky.social and I examine how political representation of the populist radical right (PRR) in Europe affects citizens’ satisfaction with democracy.

‼️ Two weeks left to apply for the postdoc in Political Text Analysis in the MULTIREP project 👇.

New article with @draege.bsky.social out in Scandinavian Political Studies: “Asymmetric Influence: Politicians Can Fuel but Not Dampen Conflict.” We test whether politicians in one of the world’s least polarized democracies, Norway, can calm conflict as effectively as they can inflame it. #polisky

Come join us at @statsvitenskap.bsky.social !

New chapter on political trust in Norway, co-authored with @staffankumlin.bsky.social.

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Interested in political trust, and participating in the ECPR GC 2025? Next week, the nascent network of political trust scholars will host 8 panels and nearly 40 papers at the #ecprgc25. Visit our panels in the section 'New venues in political trust research'. And join us for drinks on Wednesday!

Does cohabitation weaken presidents? Our global study (1850–2022), now out in International Political Science Review, finds it does – but only in semi-presidential systems and under a broader definition of cohabitation. P Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

New article with @ts-broderstad.bsky.social, @sveinunga.bsky.social and Mikael Johannesson in @scandpolstud.bsky.social. Open access.

Who supports free speech, and how consistent is the support? Together with @suthank.bsky.social, I’ve conducted a survey of citizens in 33 countries for The Future of Free Speech. A lot of interesting findings (see 🧵 + link): futurefreespeech.org/wp-content/u...

Enjoy your power pop weekend!

Do you want to know how anti-immigrant attitudes are related to different forms of participation and how this relationship is conditioned by the “traditional” economic conflict dimension?

📚 Do you know of an outstanding published work in comparative social sciences? 🌟 Nominations are now OPEN for the 2025 Stein Rokkan Prize! 🏆 Presented with @sciencecouncil.bsky.social & @sampol.bsky.social 💰 €5,000 prize fund ⏰ 24 April #AcademicSky #ComparativeSky #PolSci #ECPRPrizes

Great postdoc opportunity in very promising project!

Happy to see this research note published in EJPR. This has been a fun little project with great colleagues at the @sampol.bsky.social that took off in a hotel lobby in Rome 2022.

Happy holidays! The power of pop volume 104.

2024 has been a great year of music. Every year is a great music year. You just have to spend some time to find the nuggets of gold. Great albums from this year (1/2) Evening Standards - The Shining Reflectors - Going out of Fasion Gentlemen Rogues - Surface Noise The Second Summer - Undertow

Stockholm University's Political Science department is hiring two PhD students: one open position and one project position with an orientation towards International Relations and Comparative Politics. The deadline is February 6th! Join us! Open position: www.su.se/english/abou...

Hey everyone, I'm really happy that our paper w/ Elias & Sergi won the Joseph L Bernd award for best paper published in the JOP. This was one of the first projects I worked on during my PhD & one about which I feel v dearly. So this feels very special. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Beyond the ballot: Sveinung Arnesen, @jonaslinde.bsky.social, @ts-broderstad.bsky.social & Mikael P Johannesson examine the impact of turnout, majority size & outcome favorability on perceived ref legitimacy: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00323217241266025 (OPEN ACCESS)

I have updated the interactive dashboard of #asylum #migration statistics with the Eurostat data for 2023. anonyms.shinyapps.io/asylum/ You can use the dashboard to explore trends in asylum applications, decisions and recognition rates across the EU 🇪🇺 since 2011.

Great opportunity to do a PhD at the great Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg! www.gu.se/en/political...

Come and join us! We are recruiting a researcher (with PhD) for a three-year position as part of the EU-funded Horizon Europe Consortium "Sustainable Public Administration in Modern Democracies" (SUPA) - PI Yves Steinebach. The application deadline is 16 December 2024.

Are you interested in political trust but think 'actually, it's a bit more complicated than that'? You'd be right! In a draft paper, we use original data from 13 surveys across 11 countries & 52 focus groups w/ 311 participants in 8 countries, arguing that trust, mistrust, & distrust are distinct:

I’ve had many interesting conversations about the election & what the next Trump administration will bring. Is the US set to slide into authoritarianism? Will we wall ourselves off from the world? Is it a new dawn of American prosperity? Might Trump remake the whole political landscape? 🧵 1/N

Political Science Starter Pack Collection! Many have shared excellent starter packs lately, but finding the most relevant ones can be tricky. This 🧵 gathers many of them in one place 👇🏽 #PoliticalScience #StarterPack

I have been doing power pop playlists for quite a while. Here is the latest one.

🌟 New article 👥 Pierre Georges Van Wolleghem @piervanwoll.bsky.social & Hakan G. Sicakkan @hakangs.bsky.social 👉 Recognizing international protection how institutional arrangements affect asylum decisions 📗 Open access in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1369...

🇪🇺 Europeanists, rejoice! GESIS has just published the first version of the 2024 European Election Study. Big cheers to all the good people who have made this possible 🇪🇺 search.gesis.org/research_dat...

Jobs: 1 PhD student, 1 Post-doc to work with me on the project "Parliamentary Accountability and EU Action Against Democratic Backsliding". Both positions are for 3 years, starting 1.4.2025. Happy to answer questions. See below or here: www.hhu.de/die-hhu/kont.... PSJMInfo

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

🦉 Congrats to the Code Café team for the Soc Sci Faculty award for teaching! Helping bachelor students get a better grip on R. 👏👏👏 @berkayalica.bsky.social @marteskogen.bsky.social @welat.bsky.social @erickalva.bsky.social @norbidunn.bsky.social Alexander Verdoes, Julià Tudó et al.

❗ Don't forget to apply! 📆 #Demscore #Internship application deadline: Friday November 22. 🌐 www.demscore.se/about/intern... @ucdp.bsky.social @medem.bsky.social @digitalsocietyproject.org @sampol.bsky.social @magnusoberg.bsky.social @kailmarkvart.bsky.social @silindberg.bsky.social

📢🎓 PhD position in my new "The future of EUrope" project 💶 Good salary & project money for data collections, travels, etc. 📝 International supervision team 🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ DL 10.12. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Thanks for sharing and RT! polisky EUsky

If anyone's interested: the internal deadline is December, so not too long left. If you want a good chance at a fully-funded PhD, get in touch

🌟 New article 👥 Sveinung Arnesen, Troy Saghaug Broderstad, Mikael P Johannesson & Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social 👉 Beyond the Ballot: The Impact of Voting Margin and Turnout on the Legitimacy of Referendum Outcomes in Europe 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇸 🇳🇴 📗 Political Studies

Check out our new article where we find a participation gap between anti- and pro-immigrant citizens, and that the size of this gap is contingent on ideological views (left-right placement).

🔍 Full-time Post doc(s) on my ERC project on 'Advocacy, Social Media & Political Representation' @ Department of Political Economy, King's College Background in polsci, soc data/computer science, polcom, etc. 📅 March 6, start date negotiable Shares appreciated 👏 1/3 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/084546-...

Are people still supporting democracy? 👍🏾👍👍🏼 Professor Jonas Linde @jonaslinde.bsky.social , Department of Comparative Politics, at today's conference on Norway's foreign policy.