🆕 Voters at cross swords ⚔️ @walderm.bsky.social & @nathaliegiger.bsky.social analyse situations where the average voter and the party electorate don't align, using Swiss context to highlight how parties responses toward party #VoterPreferences compares to the median voter 🗳️ buff.ly/v4Ugd7E

Really happy to share this new open-access paper (with @nathaliegiger.bsky.social ) in the European Journal of Political Research: We revisit a core question in the study of party competition: Who do parties respond to when they take positions?

In einem weiteren spannenden Beitrag in DeFacto zeigen Maxime Walder, Gaia Fieramosca, Nathalie Giger und Denise Traber, dass sich Wählende vor Abstimmungen selektiv informieren 🗳️🤳 Lies den Beitrag hier! 😊👇 www.defacto.expert/2025/08/04/s...

🚨 New paper out! Using data on direct democracy, the paper proposes an alternative estimation strategy of the ideological positions of Swiss municipalities in the party competition space. It’s open access in @spsr.bsky.social . Check it out 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This article now has page numbers! 🤩 Using data from 28 countries between 1980 and 2021 I find that parties polarize during economic downturns. Further exploring the mechanisms, I show that they do so in reaction to changing voter priorities and grievances. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....